Notwendige Positionen
„Das Ende der Aushandlungen?“ greift als Leitfrage der DGSKA-Konferenz 2019 nach einem spürbaren, aber längst nicht ausgereift gefassten Phänomen unseres noch jungen Jahrhunderts. Thematische Resonanz…
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Vijayanka Nair takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is an ethnographic study of India’s Aadhaar (foundation) program, a colossal technocratic project that seeks to redefine how the Indian state (over)sees its population. Under the…
The Digital Anthropologist 2019-09-30 12:47:00
The inaugural AnthTech this week brings together anthropologists and technologists interested in how a deeper understanding of human behaviour can improve our experiences with technology. That ant…
The Dirt
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
Benjamin Tausig, “Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint” (Oxford UP, 2019)
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy, with the security forces killing over 90 people and injuring thousands more.…
Ep. #47: Meaningful Declutter, Local Activism, Managing Fire & Writing Up: This month on TFS
Firstly, we’d like to introduce you all to Alex D’Aloia, who is managing our Facebook group TFS Chats – you might remember the blog post that he wrote…
Girls, Groupies, and Grim Reapers: The Religious Politics of Mass Response
Following a week at the UN and ensuing climate change “protests” (state-sanctioned, party-approved, media-praised, university-endorsed, “protests”), in which we were yet agai…
Tribal? Not so much…
Tribal? “Tribalism” as the term is frequently used by evolutionary biologists, means a human tendency to form groups larger than the personal network. What they are actually groping…
Trees Talk…and Sometimes They Also Tell Lies
Out on a limb in Grenada in August, I had the fine pleasure of sampling such a special sweet fruit of the “Spice Isle”. It is a fruit…
Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night [excerpt]
The Path of DayHenchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru’s Manu National Park, left home one morning to go hunting in the vast…
Guest Post: The Anthropology Letters, Part 1
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Bailey Duhé. Bailey J. Duhé is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies racial fluidity,…
How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene?
For millennia, humans have been altering the Earth—for example, through agricultural adaptations such as these rice terraces near Pokhara, Nepal. Erle C. Ellis This article was originally…
Links & Contents I Liked 339
Hi all, UNGA week is wrapping up, but the focus on this week’s link review is on some of the other #globaldev stories, from shrinking civic spaces in…
Design Research is Anthropology Applied with Amy Santee
At long last we are back! In this episode host Adam Gamwell talks with Design Researcher and Strategist Amy Santee. This is one of these conversations that’s a…
Anthropology at, and of, the Limit
Where do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, launched his little war…
We don’t survive – we live here!
These were the introductory words of Alexandr Ivanov, the head of the Olenek district in Yakutia, in his discussion during our session on indigenous people’s territorial governance under…
New Book: ARIMA BORN
Arima Born Revealing the History of Arima and its Mission through the Catholic Church’s Baptismal Registers, 1820–1916 by Maximilian C. Forte Montreal: Alert Press, 2019 The Catholic Mission…
India’s Third Gender Rises Again
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, high priestess of a convent of hijras, takes selfies with admirers at India’s 2019 Kumbh Mela religious festival. Ina Goel Laxmi Narayan Tripathi sat on…
Book Review: Archaeogaming and the Wide Wonderful World of Archaeology in Video Games
By Alissa Whitmore Reinhard, Andrew (2018) Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games. New York: Berghahn Books. Originally trained in classical archaeology, Andrew Reinhard …
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The No-Map and the Fear of Being in the No Go World
The NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their lips firmly closed. “It was an air-strike”, my…
contradictions of capital
How come sometimes a book is 80 quid on Amazon then three days later is 3 quid? Anyway, at last they caught up with the new one from…
Agenda 2030 in Mali
Eine Spurensuche in der ländlichen Gemeinde von Dioro Djouroukoro Diallo Verkehr in Bamako | Bild: flickr/ LenDog64 Wieder einmal bin ich in Bamako, der Hauptstadt Malis. Genau vor…
Agenda 2030 in Mali
Eine Spurensuche in der ländlichen Gemeinde von Dioro Djouroukoro Diallo Verkehr in Bamako | Bild: flickr/ LenDog64 Wieder einmal bin ich in Bamako, der Hauptstadt Malis. Genau vor…