Single Shot: Tractors on Kochi Beach
I was used to seeing the sand coated in washed up Styrofoam, thongs, coconut shells, and water hyacinth. However, on this day I was greeted with tractors, preparing…
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Americans Can Do Two Things at the Same Time
Surely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs has totally evaporated. What Trump promised…
A New Generation is Reviving Indigenous Tattooing
Nahaan, a Tlingit-Inupiaq-Paiute tattoo artist, inks a woman’s face. Nahaan To celebrate her graduation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Native Studies program in 2012, Mar…
The Abortion Green Scarf as a Boundary Object: Beyond the Curse of the Left by Mara Dicenta
Science and Technology Studies (STS) can engage with social movements in a variety of forms. STS scholarship has provided methods, theories, and concepts related to how information and…
How burying my father made me believe in anthropology
I was an American. In the United States, dead bodies are taboo. They are immediately separated from the living in funeral parlours where they are kept in refrigerators.…
How burying my father made me believe in anthropology
I was an American. In the United States, dead bodies are taboo. They are immediately separated from the living in funeral parlours where they are kept in refrigerators.…
Towards a Queer Art of Surveillance in South Korea
Editor’s Note: This post was co-written with Timothy Gitzen. When is a face not a face? With the launch of the iPhone X that boasts facial recognition capabilities,…
This Is Not a Goldmine: Capital, Conservation, and the Politics of Recruitment in the Deep Bismarck Sea
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
The Story of our Fashion Fast!
by Rebecca Prentice, Hannah Amey, Maeve Devers, Rifka Fehr, Olive Howland Milne, Alfred Lewis, Phoebe Marsh, Joana Pereira and Amelia Yates As eight first-year anthropology students and one lecturer a…
The Stories Continue by Annelieke Driessen
Much to our pleasure we got many positive responses following the publication of our series, ‘thinking with dementia’. Some of these responses suggested novel directions in which we…
Data Management in Qualitative Social Science: The Impact of the Leiden Statement
How do anthropologists go about data management? In the second contribution on our series on impact, Peter Pels reflects on the international uptake of the “Leiden statement”.
How Physical Exercise Can Benefit Your Internal System
By now, we all know the power that probiotic foods and probiotics in general have on our overall health. Digestive health is a hot topic in the wellness…
Birth as Ritual/Ritual as Birth
Cultural anthropologist, Robbie Davis-Floyd, is considered by many as the Queen of Childbirth Studies. A Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of…
Milk…It’s Good to Think
David McMurray Anthropology, emeritus Oregon State University I am a product of the Upper Midwest with its (waning) Scandinavian and German influences. I am entangled in “milk culture,”…
Disability in and through Rural Worlds by Vandana Chaudhry
The vast majority of disabled people in the Global South inhabit rural worlds and their experiences are shaped by material, relational, and social specificities of rurality, and yet…
Elise Berman on her new book, Talking Like Children
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982 Interview by Shannon Ward Shannon Ward: Most chapters of your book illustrated the enactment of “aged agency” t…
Antisemitismus und der Hass auf die „halbierte Aufklärung“ – ein Plädoyer für antimissionarischen Universalismus Eine Rezension zu Samuel Salzborns Globaler Antisemitismus. Von Mathias Beschorner
Der derzeitig am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der TU Berlin als Gastprofessor arbeitende Politikwissenschaftler Samuel Salzborn gilt als einer der renommiertesten Experten zum Antisemitismus. S…
Cambridge job offer, Russian Arctic Studies
Today we pass on the job advert of colleagues at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. They search for a new person responsible for the world’s top Russian…
Fluid Masculinity: The case of Krishna
As Rama becomes more and more the icon of “virile Hinduism” and the symbol of a new kind of hegemonic, patriarchal, masculinity, so Krishna is held up as…
Warum venezolanische Migrant*innen als Flüchtlinge zu betrachten sind
Wie wir Venezolaner*innen im Exil behandeln, wird den Entwicklungsverlauf ihres Landes und der umliegenden Region bestimmen. Rund 3,4 Millionen Venezolaner*innen sind bereits vor dem wirtschaftlichen…
What FoodAnthro is reading, March 8, 2019
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or hunterjo@gmail.c…
Breathing Room: Poetic Form as Resistance to Convention in the Ethnography of Suffering by Casey Golomski
Here I ruminate on recent writing experiments at the convergence of poetry and ethnography as a means to convey experiences of suffering. Recent ethnographies of suffering highlight innovative…
What Migrants Leave Behind
A child’s backpack abandoned on a migrant trail in the Tumacácori Mountains suffers the ravages of time. Gabriella Soto “Oh my God. Did you see this backpack?” a…
A Story of Us
For the past several years, the graduate students of the Ohio State Department of Anthropology have produced A Story of Us, a podcast that is sponsored by the…