Milk…It’s Good to Think
David McMurray Anthropology, emeritus Oregon State University I am a product of the Upper Midwest with its (waning) Scandinavian and German influences. I am entangled in “milk culture,”…
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Disability in and through Rural Worlds by Vandana Chaudhry
The vast majority of disabled people in the Global South inhabit rural worlds and their experiences are shaped by material, relational, and social specificities of rurality, and yet…
Elise Berman on her new book, Talking Like Children
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982 Interview by Shannon Ward Shannon Ward: Most chapters of your book illustrated the enactment of “aged agency” t…
Antisemitismus und der Hass auf die „halbierte Aufklärung“ – ein Plädoyer für antimissionarischen Universalismus Eine Rezension zu Samuel Salzborns Globaler Antisemitismus. Von Mathias Beschorner
Der derzeitig am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der TU Berlin als Gastprofessor arbeitende Politikwissenschaftler Samuel Salzborn gilt als einer der renommiertesten Experten zum Antisemitismus. S…
Cambridge job offer, Russian Arctic Studies
Today we pass on the job advert of colleagues at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. They search for a new person responsible for the world’s top Russian…
Fluid Masculinity: The case of Krishna
As Rama becomes more and more the icon of “virile Hinduism” and the symbol of a new kind of hegemonic, patriarchal, masculinity, so Krishna is held up as…
Warum venezolanische Migrant*innen als Flüchtlinge zu betrachten sind
Wie wir Venezolaner*innen im Exil behandeln, wird den Entwicklungsverlauf ihres Landes und der umliegenden Region bestimmen. Rund 3,4 Millionen Venezolaner*innen sind bereits vor dem wirtschaftlichen…
What FoodAnthro is reading, March 8, 2019
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or hunterjo@gmail.c…
Breathing Room: Poetic Form as Resistance to Convention in the Ethnography of Suffering by Casey Golomski
Here I ruminate on recent writing experiments at the convergence of poetry and ethnography as a means to convey experiences of suffering. Recent ethnographies of suffering highlight innovative…
What Migrants Leave Behind
A child’s backpack abandoned on a migrant trail in the Tumacácori Mountains suffers the ravages of time. Gabriella Soto “Oh my God. Did you see this backpack?” a…
A Story of Us
For the past several years, the graduate students of the Ohio State Department of Anthropology have produced A Story of Us, a podcast that is sponsored by the…
#AcademicTwitter: A How-To Guide for Anthropologists
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Jules Weiss. Jules Weiss (they/them pronouns) is a 2nd year MA student in Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University.…
Links & Contents I Liked 315
Hi all, Happy International Women’s Day! My piece on white saviour communication & media rituals has gained some nice traction this week, but there were also other interesting…
Links & Contents I Liked 315
Hi all, Happy International Women’s Day! My piece on white saviour communication & media rituals has gained some nice traction this week, but there were also other interesting…
Great new book from Karine Gagné: Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
This is a great looking new title from Karine Gagné at the University of Guelph. Available here from University of Washington Press, where the blurb below is also…
Frauen, Flucht und Handlungsmacht
Von Ulrike Krause und Hannah Schmidt Zum heutigen Weltfrauentag möchten wir den Blick auf die Lage geflüchteter Frauen in Aufnahmeländern legen. Zweifelsohne sind sie weltweit häufig mit…
New York, New York
“No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” -James Baldwin Då folk frågade mig hur New York var, brukade jag svara kort och enkelt ”kaos”. Enligt Wikipedia, brukade kaos…
Regime Change Reality Checks: Lessons from Hanoi, Caracas, and Beyond
Lessons from Hanoi: North Korea and the US The first Kim-Trump Summit, which took place in Singapore a mere eight months ago, seemed so hopeful—a real breakthrough, a…
The Conversation
What is does it mean to work post-graduation, and what does anthropology have to do with it? It happens every quarter. The conversation. Students ask us big questions…
„Integration“ und (Des)Integration
Herausforderungen für die politische Kommunikation Autor: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann Welches Wissen verwenden Politik und Bevölkerung, wenn sie über „Integration“ sprechen? Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann ge…
AAA/CASCA 2019 Annual Meeting CFPs
Abstracts for the AAA Annual Meeting must be submitted by 3 p.m. EST on April 10th. If you are looking for panelists for your session or looking for a panel…
CFP: AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Start planning your sessions for AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC! The time has come to start planning sessions for the annual AAA meeting – this…
Review: From Virtue to Vice
Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. V. 4. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78238-455-7 hardbac…
Vigilance as coping, vigilance as injury by Michelle Munyikwa
If I were asked for a definition of myself, I would say that I am one who waits; I investigate my surroundings, I interpret everything in terms of…