Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today. A Legacy of Fifty Years
50 years ago, “Ethnic Groups and Boundaries” (Fredrik Barth, ed.)…
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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today. A Legacy of Fifty Years
50 years ago, “Ethnic Groups and Boundaries” (Fredrik Barth, ed.)…
Ben Gatling, “Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
George Mason University professor Ben Gatling’s debut book, Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), is a beautifully written ethnography exploring the lives, r……
Ben Gatling, “Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
George Mason University professor Ben Gatling’s debut book, Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), is a beautifully written ethnography exploring the lives, r……
The Endangered Fishers of the Archipelago Sea #WhoseGreen?
Regulation and the Archipelago Sea ”You are looking at the last generation of coastal fishers!” a fisherman told me, as I was getting my coffee at a seminar…
Someday we will all play for the Patriots
Tom Brady says new plays were inserted into the Patriot’s playbook on Sunday. “At the team hotel, the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, the offensive players were…
Special Issue: Immigrant Workers, Structural Vulnerability, and Occupational Injury by Anna Zogas
The December 2018 issue of Anthropology of Work Review is a special issue titled, “An Injury to One is an Injury to All: Immigrant Workers, Structural Vulnerability, and Occupational Injury.R…
Special Issue of BioSocieties: Empirical engagements with environmental epigenetics from the lab to the clinic by Anna Zogas
The December 2018 issue of BioSocieties is a collection on epigenetics. Here are the abstracts. Enjoy! Situating the biosocial: Empirical engagements with environmental epigenetics from the lab to the…
#WhoseGreen? Reflecting on Alternative Routes to Chemicals Production
Whether it’s our disposable coffee cup or the vanilla flavouring in the coffee; this morning’s shaving cream or last week’s false nails; lifesaving medicines or the components for…
Ep. #29 TFS at AAS: Multimodal ethnography, monolithic China, online bans & the ‘anthro helmet’ – Guest panel with Viktor Baskin, Sacha Cody & Katherine Giunta
We, at The Familiar Strange, would like to acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional lands we recorded and produced this podcast, and pay our respect…
Luisa Steur: A Women’s Wall against the fascist menace in Kerala? Some less-comfortable observations
On New Year’s Day, the world was treated to the spectacle of a 640-kilometer-long “Women’s Wall” in Kerala (South India). This human chain of more than five million…
Beadie Dreams
Some time ago I wrote a post about the beadwork I do for fun. As I’ve mentioned in my health-related posts, I’m working a reduced schedule at the…
CFP: Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2019 15-16 November (Post)colonial foodways: creating, negotiating, and resisting transnational food systems Because of its manifold effects…
In the Journals: December 2018
From: Papachristos, A. V., Brazil, N. and Cheng, T. (2018), Understanding the Crime Gap: Violence and Inequality in an American City. City & Community, 17: 1051-1074. doi:10.1111/cico.12348 …
Links & Contents I Liked 308
Hi all, Busy, satisfying day at work today-so without further delay & a long intro here’s this week’s link review! Excellent thesis examination day so far! From #Myanmar to…
A university is not a factory
Keir Martin and Thomas Hylland EriksenDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo This article was translated into Norwegian and published online at morgenbladet.no on 17 January 2019. It…
A university is not a factory
Keir Martin and Thomas Hylland EriksenDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo This article was translated into Norwegian and published online at morgenbladet.no on 17 January 2019. It…
A university is not a factory
Keir Martin and Thomas Hylland Eriksen Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo This article was translated into Norwegian and published online at morgenbladet.no on 17 January 2019.…
Decolonising Environmentalism #WhoseGreen?
Urgency and Transition Environmentalism is rhetorically framed as a “Good Thing”, unquestionably. Being environmentally friendly is, as it were, a no-brainer. Anthropologists have shown many times how…
On Not Teaching Fast Enough, Far Enough
This summer I was asked by the United Steelworkers to give a talk on Central American migration to union leaders gathered from across the country for ongoing education…
On the Politics of Reflection
On the afternoon of 30 October 2018 I left my office—late—to attend what had been described to me as a “rally” or a “protest” to coincide with President…
Response to the Tree of Life Shootings
Since Columbine, Americans have grown unsettlingly accustomed to mass shootings. We know what to expect from politicians, the media, and gun-control and gun rights advocates. More recently, especially…