4th Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium
Feeding a Growing World: Perspectives in 2016 Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies September 30th, 2016 Request for Proposals Half a century out from the Green…
Feeding a Growing World: Perspectives in 2016 Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies September 30th, 2016 Request for Proposals Half a century out from the Green…
The Confederate flag, which many people see as a symbol of America’s racist past, continues to spark debate. fauxto_digit/Flickr Last summer, the Confederate flag was finally taken down…
This is the last post in a six part sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. In this series I’ve written a lot about education, its constraints, the…
There are only two things of archaeological interest my friend Ralph has brought up in our daily carpool commute so far this year. The first was the discovery…
Adam Drazin, UCL Anthropology How, when and why do people start to see something as”broken”? Do objects around the home just have two states, broken and working, or…
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a monthly table of contents alert for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
Im Februar 2017 veranstalten MedizinethnologInnen aus der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland gemeinsam eine Tagung, die unter dem Titel „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ …
Students from our Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology as well as from a range of other departments recently went to the Dutch Wadden Island of Texel…
Im Februar 2017 veranstalten MedizinethnologInnen aus der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland gemeinsam eine Tagung, die unter dem Titel „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ …
With summer in full swing and the heat slowing down our brains we felt that creative spirits were in need of some rejuvenation, and thus went for a bit…
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town suburb where more…
[Savage Minds welcomes the following invited post by Matan Kaminer. Matan is a doctoral candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is working…
Savage Minds is delighted to present this invited book review by Lauren Cubellis, a Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis. In this engaging first book, Zoë…
Because he can Schema of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb blast displayed in the Peace Memorial Museum. Source: Micha Rieser, Creative Commons The Daily Mail reported on U.S. President…
Part I can be found here. Social Science & Medicine Where the lay and the technical meet: Using an anthropology of interfaces to explain persistent reproductive health disparities…
Following Anna’s post on current special issues, here are abstracts from this month’s journal outputs. American Ethnologist Skill and masculinity in Olympic weightlifting: Training cues an…
This is the third installment of the series from the University of Cape Town’s First Thousand Day Research Group. My research traces out the pathways of donated milk…
Last month I received an email from an “associate” working at a research institution that caters to the biggest development agencies worldwide: DFID, UN, Worldbank, Australian Aid –…
Hi all, Since I shared my post on the topic, lots of other interesting posts, comments and hints at previous academic contributions have been shared and in the…
In most world history survey courses, Arabia is introduced for the first time only as backstory to the rise of Islam. We’re told that there was a tradition…
David Meek, Author In anthropology departments across the country, food systems courses are becoming increasingly prevalent. Their rapid growth makes sense, because there is significant overlap betwee…
Since March, I’ve been covering the 2016 presidential election for a variety of outlets. The highlights: How state politicians are quietly working to steal the US presidential election…