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Hi all, A good, rich, interesting #globaldev week is coming to its end! Development news: IMF doesn’t like global consultancies (no, really!); new humanitarians; DfID’s privatization; don’t believe…
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Mani Rao, “Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
What role does mantra play in the lives of Hindu practitioners? Mani Rao takes us on a journey to three sacred sites across India’s Andhra-Telangana region. The practitioners…
Mani Rao, “Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
What role does mantra play in the lives of Hindu practitioners? Mani Rao takes us on a journey to three sacred sites across India’s Andhra-Telangana region. The practitioners…
Seeing light in a different light
By Matthias Teeuwen Some time ago, I heard Tim Ingold deliver…
Marx Trot on again in 2019?
The Marx Trot is going to return in the summer 2019. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, some old reading (the original posts have comments but…
Using archaeology to understand the past, present, future of climate change
This article originally appeared on The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. A photo from the tragic “Camp Fire,” the most destructive wildfire in California history, shows a…
Business and design anthropology sessions at the March 2019 Society for Applied Anthropology conference
The preliminary program for the March 2019 Society for Applied Anthropology meetings is now available online. Here’s a list of … More
Would Our Early Ancestors Have Watched the Super Bowl?
[no-caption] Nigel Renny/Flickr “It’s not your fault you watch football all day—man has always been captivated by watching stuff,” states a Coke Zero commercial that aired during the…
Writing disability
Writing inequalities Writing disability through rewriting representations of inequality and vulnerability. Image: R. Cupitt 2018 When writing inequalities, the language we use and our writings betray …
Vrouw in Jemen
Door Marina de Regt In het Volkskrant magazine van afgelopen zaterdag 26 januari j.l. doet journaliste Ana van Es verslag van haar bezoek…
David J. Puglia, “Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore ‘Hon’: The Folk in the City” (Lexington Books, 2018)
Folklorist David J. Puglia is an assistant professor at the City University of New York and in his latest book – Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon”:…
David J. Puglia, “Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore ‘Hon’: The Folk in the City” (Lexington Books, 2018)
Folklorist David J. Puglia is an assistant professor at the City University of New York and in his latest book – Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon”:…
“Creative Methods and Participatory Arts Research in Medical Anthropology” – Conference Report of the 9th MAYS Meeting
Hide Press Release (6 Less Words) Ursula Probst, Karoline Buchner, Max Schnepf Copyright: Ritti Soncco Introduction: Focusing on Junior Scholars’ Perspectives In medical anthropology, participatory act…
Soziologie auf Abwegen? Vom Quexit und warum Geisteswissenschaftler*innen gerade besonders wichtig sind
Laut FAZ gibt es aktuell einen neuen “Methodenstreit” in der Soziologie (Artikel vom 23. Januar), genauer einen “Positivismusstreit”. “Natürlich gab es schon immer Auseinandersetzungen zwischen den v…
Genetics, neuroscience and the narrative on eating disorders: Where science and storytelling meet by Emma Louise Pudge
The narrative around eating disorders is shifting. Researchers and activists have advanced a more complex understanding of eating disorders by presenting cutting-edge scientific and clinical research …
Visitor Log Chronicled for the Denisovan Family Home
Tooth pendants (one pictured here), along with other artifacts discovered at Denisova Cave, mark the earliest evidence of human ornamentation—between 43,000 and 49,000 years ago—in northern Eurasia. …
Januar-Blues
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, leiden Sie auch unter dem Januar-Blues? Haben Sie die Minustemperaturen, die ewige Dunkelheit und Ihre ambitiösen Neujahrsvorsätze langsam satt? Und sind Sie auch der…
The Irresponsible Neanderthal
An article grabbed my attention last year but it took a while for me to realize why. The title, “Neanderthals Self-Medicated for Pain” examined research findings analyzing Neanderthal…
In The Journals, January 2019 by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott
The January roundup from the journals. Happy Reading! Body & Society Why Kinesthesia, Tactility and Affectivity Matter: Critical and Constructive Perspectives Maxine Sheets-Johnstone This article …
CFP: Special Issue for Food, Culture, & Society on Food and World’s Fairs/Expositions
A call for papers that could be of particular interest to SAFN members and FoodAnthropology readers who study festivals, fairs, and other events. Call for Papers: Special Issue…
cut from the draft of the pecuniary animus of the university…
We might consider the university as that space where the practice of education for life, with all its contemporary contextualisations, difficulties and possibilities, is a collective responsibility an…
Ghost Exchange: Complexity, Velocity, and Risk
Increased complexity leads to increased risk. Stock markets run by algorithms, creating virtual markets that even the experts have difficulty explaining. The “flash crash,” “dark pools,” and “high-fre…
New PoLAR Editors and Editorial Board
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to welcome the new co-editors of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Jessica Greenberg and Jessica Winegar.
Work Out of Joint: Our Future Lives With Robots and Intelligent Agents
Wired magazine – mostly hagiographies of silicon valley entrepreneurs – capitalist porn – vague reassurances for the future from the uber-wealthy. 500 dollar headphones. The Senior Associa…