Does recycling actually conserve or preserve things?
By Samantha MacBride There are a series of assumptions behind the familiar assertion that recycling saves resources and energy, and in so doing, protects the environment. These assumptions…
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„ETHNOLOGIE IST EIN BROTLOSES STUDIUM“ HAT SICH FÜR MICH IN GEWISSER WEISE BESTÄTIGT
NAME: Mirjam L. STUDIENFÄCHER: Ethnologie (Hauptfach), Religionswissenschaften und Politologie (Nebenfächer) BERUF: Übersetzerin +++ Ich habe Ethnologie studiert, weil… … ich in einem Haus…
Digitized global mobilities’ The role of new media and digitization in the security approaches of the refugee crisis
3- 4 June, 2019, Utrecht University Digitization and the use of social media has dramatically changed most aspects of our everyday practices, perceptions and cause severe changes in…
Compassionate Cannibalism
Returning again to the ethnography by Conklin that started my thinking on this issue, the experience of compassionate cannibalism of the Wari spoke to the collective experiences of…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2019
Yet another great opportunity for the essayists among us! For further information, please visit the prize web site. Although the flyer (cited below) notes that Sophie Coe was…
What are the Prospects for a US War with China?
Was Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” the signal for a coming US war on China? Is the current clash between the US and China a confrontation between an…
The counter-revolution in Venezuela, by Saleh Mamon
https://salehmamon.com/2019/02/04/the-counter-revolution-in-venezuela/ The counter-revolution in Venezuela Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) The United States is putting in place its long planned intervention f…
ASFS Pedagogy Award
In a recent post, we reminded you of deadlines for various awards from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. It looks like we missed one…
Links & Contents I Liked 311
Hi all, This week’s review is a bit shorter-but I’m really pleased that it’s packed with great content written by women & featuring women plus a lot of…
Catherine Alexander: Indeterminate classifications
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1174/Catherine.mp3 Catherine Alexander gave a talk in our visiting seminar on 23rd November 2018 titled “I…
CFP: Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries
Call for Papers 2019: Volume 11, Issue 1 Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries The Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition Guest Editor: Dr. Tina…
What Does Diversity and Inclusion Mean?
We need an emic approach to creating more inclusive departments. In December 2018, I called the founder of a diversity management organization to ask about a meeting where…
Über Verbrecher und ihre Nationalitäten
Der Kommentar erschien am 6. 2. 2019 in der Wiener Zeitung. Die Ursache von Morden liegt nicht in der Herkunft der Täter, sondern in sozialen Faktoren – und…
The R-word and the G-word: On counting and accountability in the case of the Rohingya
Given the sensitivity of this issue, this article was previously published anonymously on the blog operated by the former AAA Committee for Human Rights. The author is currently writing…
The Gringo Policies and Addictions That Drove Jakelin Caal From Raxruha
Liza Grandia, Ph.D. (cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Native American Studies at University of California-Davis) is the author of Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among t…
The Time Travelers: Ambiguous Returns
By Elaine Gan, New York University § H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel introduced us to a modernist conception of a time machine, a humanmade device that renders time…
Call for Posts: Ecological Times
Søby Brunkulslejer, Danmark. Photo by Colin Hoag for the Brown Coal Research Team (AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene). Ecological processes unfold in unstable coordination. The phen…
Highly-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market
“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country.…
Highly-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market
“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country.…
Nytt och gammalt i bröllopstraditioner
I början av året fick jag en förfrågan från en redaktör på Vasabladet om hur bröllopstraditioner har förändrats; om det finns element som varit oföränderliga och vad som…
A response to Max Roser: how not to measure global poverty
Max Roser and Joe Hasell have written a post defending the methodology behind their long-term poverty graph. It is not addressed to me, but it was written…
Mentoring and advising in higher education: survey
An anthropology colleague of mine, Robert Connolly, created a brief survey to explore how former students perceive the advising they received … More
The Social Life of Robots, pt 1: Spoiler Alert
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbingers of impending societal collapse and bringers of…
The Social Life of Robots, pt 1: Spoiler Alert
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbingers of impending societal collapse and bringers of…