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Tech Startup Culture: ‘I am machine’
By Vivienne Schröder For my master Anthropology at the VU Amsterdam, I am doing three months of fieldwork in San Francisco, where I am researching Tech Startup Culture.…
Anthropomorphizing Wine in Our Current Climate
What might a Basque wine tell us about current wine trends and broader human issues? My coworkers at the wine bar knew I had an interest in the…
Haidy Geismar on her new book, Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/museum-object-lessons-for-the-digital-age Interview by Joshua Bell Joshua Bell: Your book is a manifesto of sorts of what the digital – as a relatively ne…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Deutschland muss den Schalter umlegen
Die Bundesregierung sollte bei der Umsetzung des Globalen Migrationspakts Vorreiterin sein und Maßstäbe setzen. Vier Schritte, wie das gelingen kann. Kaum ein Prozess der Vereinten Nationen (VN) hat…
Zur Neuverortung des Politischen: Für eine Radikalisierung der Demokratie mit linkspopulistischen Instrumentarien – Rezension Chantal Mouffe
verfasst von Raffael Hiden Soziologie ist ein Kampfsport, wie Pierre Bourdieu einmal pointiert konstatierte. Ein Feld voll von Konflikten und Selbstvergewisserungsprozessen, die entlang diskursiver Fo…
Making an academic ‘coven’
Hierarchies persist, which is why factions, such as covens, coalesce in the first place. They emerge from a place of need. A need to counteract isolation, disparate power…
Timeline of Treaties and Removals in Western Oregon
1850 June, the First treaty in the North West Coast and West Coast, a Treaty of Peace negotiated with General Joseph Lane and the Takelma- Rogue River Tribes…
Fake Humanitarianism Fails its Big Test in Venezuela
There it is: Saturday, February 23, 2019, has now come and gone—and it’s not to say that “nothing has changed”. In fact, some important changes did occur, none…
Glorifying violence
This co-authored op-ed from a Sociology grad student and myself based on a three month study done by Mr Maraj under my supervision of the local newspapers and…
Glorifying violence
This co-authored op-ed from a Sociology grad student and myself based on a three month study done by Mr Maraj under my supervision of the local newspapers and…
Domestication revisited?
Domestication is by most used as a term for the biologically traceable subordination of animals under human control. But anthropologists have for long argued that there are also…
Vampires, Cannibals, and Sorcerers on the Loose by Warwick Anderson
On February 8, 2019, a symposium organized by Nancy Rose Hunt on the scholarship and career of Luise White was held at the University of Florida. In the…
Cultivating Peace in the Heart of the Balkans
[no-caption] Robin Albarano On November 28, 2016, Mile Milošević, president of the Serbian War Veterans’ Association, traveled to Sarajevo, where he met with Enver Krluć, president of the…
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Hi all, I attended Lisa Richey’s inaugural lecture yesterday, wrote a new book review & travelled to Germany this morning for a trip to see family and attend…
Das Gymi
Haben Sie auch ein Samstagmorgenritual? Meins besteht darin, Tee aus einer rosaroten Einhorntasse zu trinken, Marmeladenbrötchen zu essen und «Das Magazin» zu lesen. Doch vorletzten Samstag blieb mir…
Thirst (book review)
After I watched a quite terrible promotional video from charity: water and ended up buying its founder and CEO’s biography Thirst. A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a…
Author Interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy
In this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry…
Review: The Agency of Eating
Emma-Jayne Abbots The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food and the Body. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. ISBN #9781472598530 Molly Hilton (Wayne State University) The senses have been causing a major stir…
Welcome to The New Outrigger!
This is a new website initiative from ANU Pacific Studies PhD students Bianca Hennessy (who I met in 2017 when she visited Va’aomanū Pasifika at Victoria University of…
Is a More Generous Society Possible?
A group of women and children from the Ik tribe share a meal. Cathryn Townsend In January 2016, Cathryn Townsend set out to live among “the loveless people.”…
Heritage Survival Across Borders: Identity, Language and Migration
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration between the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association, and This Anthro Life Pod…