Anthropology at the Crossroads
- Post date 4th April 2016
- Post author By Paul Stoller
- Post categories In English
April 3, 2016: Hello FoodAnthro readers, the past week has been overflowing with food news. If you have something you’d like to contribute for future weeks, please email…
Heather Miyano Kopelson explores how religion, primarily expressed through bodily action, contributed to colonial notions of difference in her recent book Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race… Visit…
Filed under: trinketization
Even though other international events have largely pushed it in the background, the Greek debt drama continues. The IMF and the EU institutions cannot agree on the terms…
The latest in the abortion wars: “One Indiana woman recently created the Facebook page Periods for Pence where she encourages others to call the governor’s office to report their periods,…
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Proshant Chakraborty] Over the last year or so, I have found that nearly every academic essay I have written for my courses contains…
Filed under: books
This is the thirty-fourth post in the freedom technologists series This past March 2016 I spent three weeks in Lima (Peru), as well as a few days in…
Within a historical context, ethnography attempts to be holistic in nature based in part on emic views. It is written, observational science that provides an account of a…
In addition to our regular roundup of journal articles, these two special issues were published this month: In Medical Anthropology Quarterly, “Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Re…
Here is the second half of our March roundup of journal articles. There are also two Special Issues out this month that may be of interest, including the current Medical…
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). I still clearly remember Margarita,[1]…
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Heike Becker „Stumble Stones“ of Siegfried and Edith Robinski | planted by Robins in memory of his relatives When Steven Robins delivered…
Drive out in the late afternoon to one of the many hills on the outskirts of the tiny Arizona town of Arivaca and look west. You will see…
“Unser Feminismus ist antirassistisch – Reclaim feminism” (12 maart 2016, Keulen) © strassenstriche.net, via creative commons Door Marina de Regt en Reinhilde Kōnig De discussie ove…
Museums to prevent insurrection Many countries in the world have State financed national museums, based on the European model of the nineteenth century centralized state. These museums all…
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop aims to problematise…
(Savage Minds is pleased to present this occasional post by Gregory Starrett, professor of anthropology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This piece is a response to…
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly recap of recent publications regarding security, law, crime, and governance. The upcoming April edition of Security Dialogue features a fantastic…
The Moche, one of the world’s great ancient civilizations, occupied the northern coast of Peru from roughly A.D. 100 to A.D. 800. They produced beautiful ceramic vessels; hundreds…
brothers dying in the street and our hoods in crisis we need more messages for the grassroots we need resurrections like Osiris corner stores b-boys wondering what freedoms…