How Elders Make Us Human
[no-caption] Matthias Zomer/Pexels On March 23, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick sparked controversy and outrage by suggesting that older people in the United States might be willing to…
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Lives and Deaths with Dementia During Covid-19: Our Shameful (But Hopefully Transformative) Post-Pandemic Legacy
CRISTINA DOUGLAS “How do I escape from here?” The question took me by complete surprise. “This is a care home, Muriel. Your daughter brought you here because it’s…
Remembering Dr Abhay Xaxa, 1983-2020
“So I draw my own picture, and invent my own grammar, I make my own tools to fight my own battle, For me, my people, my world, and…
Upcoming Pilot Research
As of today I have submitted all of the required paperwork (IACUC, Occupational Health, Special Use Permit Application) . I will be collecting data on behavior and the…
Relationship-Making, Scaffolding, and a Pandemic in Istanbul
This piece was going to be mainly about relation-making as a method that facilitated my fieldwork, which in turn formed the backbone of my article, “Behind the Scaffolding.”…
CFP: Special Issue “Geographies of Responsibility for Just and Sustainable Food Systems”
Here is a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Sustainability that we recently received. Note that the deadline for submissions is near! Deadline: 30th June…
Why are Black and Latin people in the US more affected by Covid-19?
In the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has been racialised since its emergence. Leading political figures, including the President, have referred to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus”. With…
No, “Racial Genetics” Aren’t Affecting COVID-19 Deaths
In the U.K., people of black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds have been disproportionately hard hit by COVID-19. Tim Dennell/Flickr Around the world, there are reports that COVID-1…
The Social Meanings of Food in a COVID-19 World
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Rituparna Patgiri, a doctoral student in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is interested…
Lessons of Accountability
Below find the second 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…
The DecanoniZine
Authors: Andie Thompson, Ali Lape, Rene Burk, Mariana Ribeiro, Nadia English-Williams, Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, Erin Peiffer, and Makaela O’Rourke. [Footnotes is very pleased to present …
Wednesday Round Up #1
I’m starting the Wednesday round up back up. I didn’t post yesterday because of #shutdownstem. For more information on that, see shutdownstem.com. In the wake of the most…
MacHack VI: Computer chess and the roots of AI
On January 21, 1967, a mild winter Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a couple of computer researchers from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Statement and Resources
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) condemns the recent reprehensible killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Tony McDade, and so many other…
Cracking the Vault: A Celebration of Daniel Swan
Below find the first 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…
Mao Mollona: Fully Exterminated Communism, or Anthropology in the Time of Cholera
Mao Mollona, Goldsmiths College, London One thing is sure. If just briefly, the pandemic struck at the heart of capitalism. It paralysed the economy, broke the bureaucratic machine…
Connection and Inequality in the Remote Classroom
The switchover to remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 has prompted a flurry of conversation among academics regarding technology’s (in)capabilities in replicating the conventional in-person classr…
Trans people have been hit hard by Covid-19 disruptions – here is why
The Covid-19 pandemic is raging, and as an anthropologist who is also a transgender woman, I have been frequently reflecting on the situation in which we trans people…
Why Are There So Many Humans?
Savanna Pumé (hunter-gatherers in Venezuela) children, shown here building a house, learn to cooperate from a young age. Russell D. Greaves Something curious happened in human population …
Cattle, Fracking, and the Problem of Latent Control in American Settler Ecology
By Néstor L. Silva, Stanford University § In May of 2017, I visited a frack site along with a group of petroleum engineering students from the University of…
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 1: Man into Wolf
In this episode, we discuss how I discovered Robert Eisler’s Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy and unpack the book’s argument that modern…
Martina Cvajner, “Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration” (U Chicago, 2019)
Jana Byars talks with Martina Cvajner, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Trento, about her new book, Soviet…
It’s More Than A Juxtaposition: On Discussing Black Lives Matter Demonstrations in the ‘Land of the Free’ and the COVID-19 Pandemic
TIFFANY LOERA No te preocupes hija, estamos bien, my mom says reassuringly to me over the phone as we discuss the current state of the United States. As…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Classification During Quarantine
[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…