«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
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«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
Jonathan Rosa, “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jonathan Rosa‘s new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of ling……
Sichuan food and the transience of traditions
One of my secret passion (or not-so-secret, if you know me a bit) is cooking. Last weekend was devoted to the new edition of Fuchsia Dunlop’s The Food…
Other People’s Clutter
perhaps the most perplexing item she had kept from her time was the empty casing of an artillery shell from World War Two. She told me that many…
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books…
Writing for Them, Writing for Us: Resilience in Practice
Anthrodendum welcomes guest editors Beatriz Reyes-Foster and Rebecca J. Lester. Writing for Them, Writing for Us: Resilience in Practice In part two of our series, Humanizing Fieldwork, we…
Mare Nullius participates at Norad seminar “Ocean management: opportunities, challenges and experience”
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. On 22 October 2019, I participated in the seminar “Ocean management: opportunities, challenges and experience” in Oslo, Norway. The seminar was organised…
Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart
In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual variations in natural endowments, but with…
Digging up the Dead
The Slavia Field School in Mortuary Archaeology in Drawsko, Poland, unearthed a 400-year-old cemetery. Joanna Pearce Excavating a 17th-century cemetery in the small town of Drawsko, Polan…
Immigration force
Some may wonder why Britain quite likes having a cheap labour force available for illicit work, yet politicians spend huge amounts of time presenting their tough on immigration…
Links & Contents I Liked 344
Hi all, I just returned from Batumi and Kotaisi in Georgia and in addition to meeting wonderful academic colleagues from Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine & Sweden again, I can…
Special Issue: Ethnographic Explorations of the Right to Health in Practice by Anna Zogas
October’s issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is a themed issue, edited by Alejandro Cerón & Jessica Jerome. The articles are “Ethnographic Exp…
Fieldnotes on Bribes, Smiles, and Myths
This summer, a new billboard in Vilnius Old Town, caught my eye. A healthy-looking man was pointing his finger up and informing Lithuanians, “Don’t Believe the Myths—patients are…
Does Tattooing Boost Health?
A Samoan schoolteacher receives a full pe’a, the traditional tattoo generally worn by males. Christopher D. Lynn This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been rep…
In the Journals, October 2019 by Anna Zogas
Here are some highlights from journals with new issues published in October. Enjoy! Annual Review of Anthropology Physician Anthropologists Claire L. Wendland Physician anthropologists have…
Lynne Pettinger, “What’s Wrong with Work?” (Policy Press, 2019)
How should we understand work? In What’s Wrong with Work? (Policy Press, 2019), Lynn Pettinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, explores how work is…
Perla Guerrero, “Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place” (U Texas Press, 2017)
Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South explores the history of an ever…
BONUS EPISODE: Faire une anthropologie multilingue, avec Monica Heller et Émilie Urbain: TFS in French
Monica Heller est professeure en anthropologie linguistique à l’Université de Toronto (Canada). Émilie Urbain est professeure adjointe de linguistique au département de français de l’Université Carlet…
Household Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights
Domestic labor in urban Latin American life takes center stage in the film, Roma. “Have you seen Roma?” This is perhaps the single most prevalent question I get as…
Sex Sells: Female Athletes’ Use of Instagram
by Lucy Shepherd We have all seen it, female athletes being used as sex objects to sell products, pictured on billboards in bikinis or sports bras, posed in…
Portending the Posthuman on YouTube
During this most spooky time of year, it is apropos to explore our transmogrification into posthumanity—a concept that instills fear in the hearts of many scholars, including many…
Public lecture of Esra Özyürek ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust among the Muslim-minority in Germany’
On Wednesday evening 13 November 2019 prof. dr. Esra Özyurek (London School of Economics and Political Science) will deliver a lecture: ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust…
Gary J. Adler, Jr., “Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge University Press,…