Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
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Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Wakanda University at #AmAnth2018
Elizabeth Chin, @nidhisrathore, @allergyPhD, @dorinnekondo, Chibundo Egwuatu & others at #WakandaUniversity gave us an alternative vision of what the space of the AAA conference can be like, look…
Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
This conversation takes place with two ethnographers of Los Angeles: Juli Grigsby is an assistant professor of anthropology at Haverford College, who researches Black women’s political subjectivity, v…
Reporting On Egypt, From China
There is an account in Chapter Three of Pál Nyíri’s Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World in which a couple of Chinese correspondents reflect…
Book Review: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery
In My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, Katherine Verdery offers insight into the history of communism in Romania by exploring the surveillance file created on…
Decolonizing Primatology: Part I
We all have texts that are formative in our academic, professional, spiritual, personal, mental, and philosophical lives. There are a few books that I can point to as…
Vinterforberedelser
Skrevet av Marie Elisabeth Nickelsen, BA sosialantropologi Det er høst. Bladene skifter farge, luften blir kjøligere og kulden angriper, regnet … More
Norge – verdens beste land å bo i. For hvem?
Skrevet av Tiril Frøland, BA sosialantropologi Nok en gang så topper Norge statistikken som verdens beste land å bo i. … More
An Uneasy Truce
Over the past few decades, much has been written about the ways in which project teams bring technologies to market. In this context, social scientists typically partner with…
Britt Halvorson on her new book, Conversionary Sites
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28267368.html Interview by Josh Reno Josh Reno: What were your primary goals in writing this book? Britt: Halvorson: One of my goals in writi…
Jack David Eller, “Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo” (Reaktion Books, 2018)
Americans gathering for Thanksgiving this week may assume they are continuing an unbroken chain of tradition that traces directly back to Massachusetts settlers in 1620. In fact, many…
Hazes is ook erfgoed
door Annemarie de Wildt Een oratie die aantoont hoe we van alles erfgoed maken: de redding van het Thaise jeugdelftal, de monsterzwemtocht van Maarten van der Weijden en…
The bodies of question – An anthropology of post-surgical complications
By Luke Walker Nothing is quite as ubiquitous as the body. Over the years, anthropology has dragged the body in all kinds of directions, thus making it a…
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…
Konferenzbericht: 100 Jahre Sozialwissenschaften als Gesellschaftsgestaltung. Diagnose. Reflexion. Antizipation. Verfasst von Andreas Schulz
100 Jahre Republik Österreich. 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht. 100 Jahre Sozialforschung in Österreich. Im Zuge des diesjährigen Jubiläumsjahres 2018 nahmen sich das Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Men…
A Feminist Analysis of Orthodox Dogspotting
Dogspotting, arguably, was a tenuous thematic precursor to real-world crossover Pokémon Go. Instead of catching cutesy pocket monsters, group members went about spotting (and appreciating) as many can…
Pre-Anthropologists and Colonization
Anthropology as a science grew out of needs of colonizing countries to gain more information about the frontier. The United States in the early 19th century needed to…
Arctic Youth well-being project participating in circumpolar comparison
The team of the joint Finnish-Russian project studying well-being among youth in Arctic Ria Adams presenting her work within WOLLIE on opportunities and threats for young people’s well-being,…
Training Adorno
Is it mean to advise someone wanting to write on sneakers to go and read Adorno? On trainers/sneakers, surely Adorno would be asking what is so secretive about…
Sequential art for your shopping cart
In the past two years I’ve had the opportunity to read some really fantastic graphic novels, including a few that will be of interest to anthropologists. As we…
Paper: The anthropology of digital visuality
Budka, P. (2018). The anthropology of digital visuality: Notes on comparison, context and relationality. Paper at Vienna Anthropology Days 2018 (VANDA2018), Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna, 20 S…
Aber selbstverständlich! (Voll meta, wie du abgehst)
Eine persiflierende Glosse zum Fachverständnis der Kulturanthropologie von Tamara Krabes „Bescheidenheit ist eine Eigenschaft, für die ein Mensch bewundert wird, falls die Leute je von ihm hören sollt…
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