The Last Word(s)
After 11 years at the University of Toronto Press, and over 6 years curating this blog, I’m stepping down, hanging up my hat, moving on (choose what euphemism…
Category: English
“Now I know how the movies are made”. Living through the horrors of war
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE “When I think about the war, I imagine that it isn’t real,” Valbona tells me during one of my frequent visits to her family home. “It seems…
How the Samoan Tattoo Survived Colonialism
In Samoan communities, men traditionally receive a pe’a tattoo from mid-torso to knees as a marker of maturity. Sandra Mu/Getty Images In the 1800s, a chief in the…
The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush
Unethical social scientific research may negatively impact a society’s trust in our scholarly field. In a recent case of fraudulent research practice the discipline of anthropology, incorrectly, got…
The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush
Unethical social scientific research may negatively impact a society’s trust in our scholarly field. In a recent case of fraudulent research practice the discipline of anthropology, incorrectly, got…
„ETHNOLOGIE HAT MEIN VERSTÄNDNIS FÜR VERSCHIEDENHEIT UND VIELFÄLTIGKEIT GEPRÄGT“
NAME: Nele Gabriel STUDIENFÄCHER: Pädagogik und Ethnologie (Magister), Erziehungswissenschaft und Sonderpädagogik (Diplom) BERUF: Förderschullehrerin __________________________________________________…
Heineken in Africa (book review)
Olivier Van Beemen’s Heineken in Africa-A Multinational Unleashed is probably one of the most readable, nuanced and critical accounts of ‘multinationals doing business in Africa’ that I have…
Heineken in Africa (book review)
Olivier Van Beemen’s Heineken in Africa-A Multinational Unleashed is probably one of the most readable, nuanced and critical accounts of ‘multinationals doing business in Africa’ that I have…
Elana D. Buch’s Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care by Shir Lerman
Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence In American Home Care Elana D. Buch New York University Press, 2018. 263 pages. Elana Buch’s critical and thoughtful analysis of the…
De institutionalisering van salafisme – Een reactie op het Tilburgse rapport
Auteurs: Annelies Moors (Universiteit van Amsterdam) & Martijn de Koning (Universiteit van Amsterdam / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Meer dan een half jaar geleden schreven we een kritische besp…
Ethos Special Thematic Collection: “Extraordinary Conditions, Global Psychiatric Care, and Moral Subjectivity” by Anna Zogas
The March 2019 issue of Ethos, organized by Neely Myers and Kristin E. Yarris, focuses on “Extraordinary Conditions, Global Psychiatric Care, and Moral Subjectivity.” The collection close…
In the Journals, January-February 2019
From: Diane M. Nelson, “Low Intensities,” Current Anthropology 60, no. S19 (February 2019): S122-S133. Welcome back to In the Journals, a brief look at just a few…
The Nature of the Copy
From the dead center of an all-white eye, a lone sapling rose two feet tall. Cyclical ridges and valleys, etched in bioplastic by an unseen watchmaker, encircled the…
Letting Go and Holding On, Documenting Hope in Postwar Guatemala
When Beti asked her twelfth-grade students to consider Guatemala’s contemporary challenges, their suggestions quickly filled the board. In large letters, their words loomed like storm clouds: corrupti…
Läckande gränser, vattentäta skott och kritiska kulturanalyser
I en kommande avhandling om europeiskt gränsarbete påpekar den danska etnologen Marlene Paulin Kristensen att föreställningen om stabila gränser är en fantasi, om än en mycket stark sådan.…
Kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på djur – människa
Att ta ansvar för en helt ny kurs är ett spännande projekt och en stor utmaning! Hur designar man en lärorik, intressant och inspirerande kurs? Eftersom den nya…
Disrupted connections: On participation in caring for a mother with dementia by Tanja Ahlin
On a sunny, stifling afternoon, my friend, an Ayurvedic doctor, ushers me into a scantily furnished examining room of his clinic in central Kerala, South India. There, a…
Kevin T. Smiley, “Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future” (NYU Press, 2018)
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city? In Market Cities, People Cities:…
Kevin T. Smiley, “Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future” (NYU Press, 2018)
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city? In Market Cities, People Cities:…
Levi S. Gibbs, “Song King: Connecting People, Places and Past in Contemporary China” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
How does music link people across time and space? How do singers modulate their repertoires to forge links with audiences both within and across local, regional and national…
Levi S. Gibbs, “Song King: Connecting People, Places and Past in Contemporary China” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
How does music link people across time and space? How do singers modulate their repertoires to forge links with audiences both within and across local, regional and national…
Thomas Marchione Award 2019
Graduate Students! Are you doing or have you recently completed research related to food and human rights? Food security? Food justice? Do you consider that these and related…
Christine Wilson Awards for 2019
Students! Are you writing great research papers on food and/or nutrition? Want fame and recognition? We want to hear from you! The Society for the Anthropology of Food…
The Virus of Violence
In the study of epidemiology, one has an opportunity to learn about communicable and non-communicable diseases. This curriculum is usually pursued on the graduate level and…