“Cross-Disability” by Michele Friedner
We are interested in the ways that the concept of “cross-disability” has become an unquestioned value and goal in development and advocacy work: organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts…
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Writings on Money and Economy (2000-2018)
Compiled for a special part-issue on my work of the Revista Sociologia & Antropologia Rio de Janeiro, 2019. Published books and articles The Memory Bank: money in an…
Web Roundup: Who Counts? Who’s Counting? by Paula Martin
In March 2018, the Pew Research Center reported that the Justice department intended to include a new citizenship question on the 2020 US Census. This past November, a…
JA! aldus Nasrdin Dchar
Beeld: nasrdinspeelt.nl Door Matthias Teeuwen en Elisabeth IJmker JA! is de nieuwste theatervoorstelling van Nasrdin Dchar (met regie van Floris van Delft), wij bezochten het in Stadsschouw…
Eitan Wilf on his new book, Creativity on Demand
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo34094110.html Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: You describe how, when you explained your previous work on regimented jazz instructio…
Teilhabe geflüchteter Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt
Artikel zu Ausgangslagen, Hürden und Handlungsstrategien Autorin: Prof. Dr. Schahrzad Farrokhzad Der Beitrag von Prof. Dr. Schahrzad Farrokhzad gibt auf der Basis von Sekundäranalysen vorhandener Lit…
En påse med mull från gravar – Saknas
Ibland kan en vanlig arbetsdag förvandlas till början av en berättelse. Så gick det häromdagen när jag läste i Nationalmuseets gamla katalog. Katalognumret 537 innefattar föremål från S:t…
Ep. #32 ‘Hula Hoops not Bicycles’: Genevieve Bell talks Anthropology, Technology & Building the Future
“We were bringing the voices of people that didn’t get inside the building, inside the building and making them count. And I took that as an incredible responsibility,…
How bad is global inequality, really?
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data. The…
Review: Authentic Italian
Di Maio, Dina M. Authentic Italian. The Real Story of Italy’s Food and Its People. ISBN#13:978-0-9996255-0-7 Francesca Gobbo University of Turin With her book Authentic Italian (2018),…
Beyond the Insanity: An Open Letter to My Students
Bonberiko, hay kulu s’a ra. The owner of the swollen head has nothing inside –Songhay saying Dear Students: In these insane times you are surrounded by people with…
Unapologetically Inaccurate
Rami Malek claims “we’re longing for stories like” the one he won an Oscar for. Are we? On Sunday, Rami Malek won an Academy Award for portraying Freddy…
The NASA Ames Junk Tent
History matters when explaining why we should fund NASA’s science. A junk tent with broken exhibits doesn’t tell that story. If you ever need a NASA logo pattern to…
In the Journals, February 2019 by Anna Zogas
Here are some highlights from the journals in February 2019. Enjoy! Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Cultural Anthropology brings us multiple articles of interest, plus a collection of essays on…
First Confirmed Denisovan Skull Piece Found
Three researchers stand in Denisova Cave in Russia, home to the newly classified Denisovan skull fragments. IAET SB RAS/Sergei Zelensky/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology …
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Hi all, Welcome back to another week of #globaldev, well, craziness & serious stuff about our favorite industry! Development news: Comic Relief pulls another White Savior stunt; something…
Platform Cooperativism for alternative socio-economic models
By Jochem Kootstra We are most probably all familiar with internet-based platforms like AirBnB and Uber. Contemporary economies are increasingly mediated by and through such platforms, which gave…
Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Hans H. Reich
Der Rat für Migration trauert um Prof. Dr. Hans H. Reich. Der Rat verliert mit ihm einen Wissenschaftler, der in der Geschichte des Rat für Migration eine wichtige…
An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 2 by Keith Hart
As we approached the millennium, with the dotcom boom roaring away, I wanted to write a book that would sum up 30 years of teaching and…
We Settlers Face a Choice: Decolonization or White Supremacy
This is a guest post by Dr. Devin Zane Shaw, who teaches at Douglas College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We settlers face a choice: decolonization or white…
Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Dina Omar
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability Jasbir Puar Duke University Press, 2017. 296 pages. Jasbir Puar’s second book, The Right to Maim, examines the relationship between life,…
Word Shell by Janelle Taylor
I have never lost my childhood habit of beachcombing for special rocks and shells, and I think of ethnography as involving a similar process of collecting bits of…
What is Decrim? The many places of prostitution in law
Recently the short form decrim has appeared in the name of several groups campaigning for decriminalisation of prostitution: the removal of criminal penalties for selling and buying sex.…