What Orangutans Taught Me About Motherhood
[no-caption] Sascha Wenninger/Flickr The first time I saw wild orangutans, in Borneo back in 2017, it was a mother-infant pair that caught my eye. The mother, Bibi, had…
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Reblog: AFS Rebooks Tulsa Annual Meeting for 2022 but Continues to Plan for a Smaller Fall Meeting
Here I am sharing this important announcement from the American Folklore Society. I will continue to be involved in work towards the 2020 and 2022 AFS Annual Meetings,…
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Hi all, Happy Friday & a joyful weekend! We have COVID-19 & #globaldev insights from Canada, Yemen, Australia, the military-industrial complex and Western anthropologists ‘stuck’ in Africa…a…
Den närvarande antisemitismen – iakttagelser under ett socialantropologiskt fältarbete i Stockholm
Anna Sarri Krantz: I samband med Förintelsens minnesdag råder en febril rapportering av de överlevandes vittnesmål, barnbarnens publika berättelser om deras far- och morföräldrars minnen och intervjue…
Limiting Life for an Unlimited Time – A Student’s Perspective (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Eva Steinberger “It feels like we are in a puzzle. But there are missing pieces, so there is no way to…
Why do we talk about Eurobonds? Or: The Big Division in the Euro Area
INGA AENNE FELDMANN The corona virus health crisis sent many countries of the world in a lock down to protect their elderly and vulnerable from severe illness and…
Maria Rashid, “Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army” (Stanford UP, 2020)
In her spellbindingly brilliant new book, Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army (Stanford University Press, 2020), Maria Rashid conducts an in……
Not on the Beach, or Death in Bondi? by Warwick Anderson
Sydney’s Bondi Beach in January 2012. Photo: Alex Proimos As sometimes happens in Sydney in late March, toward the end of summer, that particular Friday was brilliantly hot…
Research ethics, violated
Recently on a scholar’s email listserv dealing with Myanmar (Burma) issues, I learned that at some universities in Australia, Singapore, and beyond, scholars intent on doing work in…
Confronting the Colonial Legacies of Museum Collections
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum opened its doors to the public for a special event in 2019, even as construction on the building continued. David von Becker/SHF Art historian Bénédicte…
A Lesson In Composure: Learning From Migrants In Times Of Covid-19
CHRISTIAN UNGRUHE The Covid-19 pandemic teaches a number of painful lessons. Many people, persistently deprived from access to adequate health care, housing, education or jobs, pay a devastating…
The Temporal Politics of Ethnography, Heritability, and Contagion in Tanzania During Covid-19
Editor’s note: This post is the fourth in our five-part series “COVID-19: Views from the Field.” Click here to read an introduction written by series organizer Rebekah Ciribassi.…
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 1 by Eugene Raikhel
Covering mid-April – May 4 In an effort to highlight the vital perspectives of medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines, as well as to help manage the volume of…
Beyond the Prototype: Navigating that Fuzzy Area between Ideas and Outcomes with Douglas Ferguson
Today we talk with Voltage Control president Douglas Ferguson and we’re taking you beyond the prototype. If you ever run a design sprint, or even if you simply…
Google develops AI that designs better chips for AI
Covid-19 -> Skynet 2021. Their new approach is to use AI itself to speed up the process of chip design. And the results are impressive. Their machine learning…
Coronavirus Is Killing the Hope of Asylum
As orders to “stay at home” swept across the globe in March and April, some questioned what those mandates meant for people without a place to call home,…
The Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities of Patients With Rare Disorders in Poland During a Global Pandemic (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Małgorzata Rajtar The global race to find a vaccine and effective treatments for COVID-19 has already shown its side effects. In…
“Getting Closer” Through Art: Facebook and Turning to Art in The Time of Covid-19
MANUELA PELLEGRINO How to feel close when physically distant? This is, of course, not a new dilemma in itself; indeed, people who live far from their loved ones…
Waar is de Nederlandse antropologie heen?
DOOR MATTHIAS TEEUWEN Vergeleken met de heftige discussies over de staat van de Nederlandse antropologie die in de jaren ’80 gevoerd werden is het de afgelopen 20 jaar…
CfP: Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches
Call for Papers for Panel “Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches” at Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA), 28 Sept. – 1 Oct. 2020, Universit…
Sowei Mask Repairs in Focus: Material Interpretation and Object Itineraries (Lecture)
Sowei Mask Repairs in Focus: Material Interpretation and Object Itineraries A Material Culture Studies Lecture by Kristin Otto Thursday May 14, 2020 2–3 p.m. (EST) Email Jason Jackson…
Release G.N. Saibaba
Many times mentioned on this blog, it is now more relevant than ever to write and support comrade Sai Baba whose conditions, like so many prisoners, are inhumane.…
Covid-19: Lessons from the Yanomami [New York Times Op-Ed]
This essay, which I translated and edited from an original draft written in French by anthropologist Bruce Albert, was first published by the New York Times on April…