Earth Displacements: Draining the Swamp in Southeast Sulawesi
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
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You Got Kitty Bombed!
Below find the third of a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Barbara J. Risman, “Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure” (Oxford UP, 2018)
In Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure (Oxford University Press 2018), Barbara J. Risman uses her gender structure theory to…
The Virus And Fear: How Will We Deal With These Two Pandemics?
MARTA ABATEPAULO DE FARIA Considered the most severe respiratory syndrome since the Spanish flu (an H1N1 pandemic) in 1918, which killed between 20 and 50 million people worldwide[1],…
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DOOR VIVIAN MAC GILLAVRY De aarde moesten we verlaten. Na de exponentiële groei van de wereldbevolking in de jaren 80 van de 21e eeuw, de technologische crisis en…
‘RACE’: not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth
‘Race’ is many things. A social construction; a created concept for grouping people; a movement. And then there are many things ‘race’ is not; the fundamental being: ‘race' is not…
The Boas Circle vs. White Supremacy
Charles King. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. 448pp., notes, bibl., index. New York:…
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Statement on Racial Injustice
SAFN stands in support of Black Lives Matter. The global food system is replete with racial injustice and this has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The people…
Review: Burgundy: The Global Story of Terroir
Marion Demossier. Burgundy: The Global Story of Terroir. Berghahn. New York. 2018. 270 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78920-627-2 paperback. Richard Zimmer, (Sonoma State University) Marion Demossier’s engrossin…
Wording sociality and health: COVID-19’s lexicon revisited
Anthr{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Elena Burgos Martinez. It is all a matter of words. The recent emergence of a wealth of COVID-19-related material shows that we all narrate…
Can Protestors Humanize the Police?
Watch this video. In it, a group of young Black Lives Matter protestors in Charleston, South Carolina, take a knee, facing a line of police in riot gear.…
Entrepreneurship and E-Health: How Promises of Innovation are Transforming India’s Primary Care Sector by Sandra Bärnreuther
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Elizabeth Fox takes the page 99 test
I have been fascinated by Mongolia’s capital city since my first visit in 2012. Despite my familiarity with the anthropological literature, on arrival in Ulaanbaatar I was utterly…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Cultural Impact on Health
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
Book Review: What is Digital Sociology? by Neil Selwyn
In What is Digital Sociology?, Neil Selwyn offers a new overview of digital sociology, advocating for its mainstream acceptance as a valuable expansion of sociological inquiry, while dispelling…
A call to action
The protests around the world against racism, police violence and white supremacy spark much needed conversations. This blog calls to critically look at, and change, our own practices…
My Dad’s Shoes
The following is re-posted from my personal Facebook page (June 9, 2020). It was pecked out quickly with my thumbs on my mobile phone. Many friends and colleagues…
End of Season Message: June 2020
The Familiar Strange · End of Season Message: June 2020 Just like that, we have already made it through half of what can only be described as a…
More than arm’s length: reimagining rituals in a technologically mediated pandemic-centric era
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Dr. Caitlin E. McDonald, a digital anthropologist at Leading Edge Forum, a technology industry research organization, and a trustee for Ellpha Citizen, a charity…
Home, Work, Homework, and Fieldwork
by Yukun Zeng (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) China was the first country hit by COVID-19. Due to the government-enforced Wuhan lockdown and strict self-isolation, most…
IARC Native Artist Fellow Ian Kuali’i Interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine
Freehand, ephemeral cut-paper banner hung under the Dubin Studio portal, Ian Kuali’i. Story written by SAR editorial staff. Paper. …
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Hi all, This week’s journey takes us from the places of privilege & structural inequalities within aid organizations & academia to the ‘front lines’ in Congo, Bangladesh, Lebanon/Ethiopia,…
Insa Koch: The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain
Insa Koch, London School of Economics States’ claims that they are relieving human suffering have become a central element of their ongoing liberal legitimation amid their production of…
Police Violence and the Pandemic
[no-caption] Angus Greig SAPIENS host Jen Shannon interviews Laurence Ralph, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Ralph is also a co-director of Princeton’s Center on Tran…