development by Christine Sargent
Umm Adnan,[i] like many women I met during my research on Down Syndrome and kinship in Jordan, was extremely protective of her son Adnan. The youngest of four,…
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Ward Keeler, “The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and…
Ward Keeler, “The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and…
Reaktionär, konservativ oder progressiv? Ein Glossar. Teil 1: Dialektik von Moderne und Mythos
“Im Fall des überwertigen Realismus kann davon gesprochen werden, dass Werte, Anpassungsforderungen bzw. der Status quo lediglich aufgrund ihrer bloßen (als unerschütterlich wahrgenommenen) Existenz …
‘Undisciplined’ by Nihad M. Farooq
Nihad M. Farooq. Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940. 280 pp., 9 halftones, notes, index. New York: New York University Press, 2016. $30 (paper) In…
Having a Moment: Ruminations on Women, Hysteria, Stress, and the Pelosi Backclap by Stephanie Palazzo
Women are having a moment. At President Trump’s State of the Union address, Democratic women wore white as a nod to suffragists and female leadership, and Nancy Pelosi’s backclap went…
US-manufactured Crisis in Venezuela: Creating a “Need” for Intervention
Eva Bartlett, reporting from Venezuela, is a freelance journalist with extensive experience in the Gaza Strip and Syria. See her website, In Gaza, for more of her work,…
New certificate in business anthropology & human behavior from Clemson U
The Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice at Clemson University has a new certificate program in business anthropology and … More
Ep. #34 Knowledge Making: Emma Kowal talks Indigenous health care, difference & genomics
“A lot of what individual white anti-racists, as I called them, but also the broader policy frameworks are struggling with is the question of how do we enact…
Die Maxime “Theologie ist nicht Religionswissenschaft” und die Debatte um den Islam
Im heutigen Interview mit mit der Religions- und Islamwissenschaftlerin Assia Harwazinski (Tübingen) geht es um die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Zugänge von Islamwissenschaft und Rel…
Museum Anthropology Review is a Teenager Now; New Issue is Now Out
Life got away from me last week and I still have more “Exhibition Week” posts to share, but today I turn attention to the new issue of MAR.…
In the Journals, March 2019 by Cara Ryan Idriss
Here are some highlights from the journals in March 2019, including a special issue of Medical Anthropology dedicated to Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology. Enjoy! American Anthropologist…
Excavating Long-Buried Stories From the Nazi Era
Reinhard Bernbeck presents the entrance of a shelter at an archaeological site on the premises of a former concentration camp and forced-labor camp in Berlin, Germany. Stephanie Pilick/Getty…
On Duty for the CIA: German Nazis and Italian Fascists
Apart from employing German Nazi scientists, and adopting the methods, principles, and science of the Nazis in developing modern warfare, for what other purposes were Nazis sought after…
Links & Contents I Liked 318
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!(Just a quick technical note: As I will be traveling to Moldova next week the next link review will most likely be…
Links & Contents I Liked 318
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!(Just a quick technical note: As I will be traveling to Moldova next week the next link review will most likely be…
Searching, Studying and Doing Sociology in the Medico-Legal Borderlands by Laura Bisaillon
Medico-legal borderlands? What is this nebulous sounding compound concept, “medico-legal borderlands”? How has it been used by social scientists whose ethnographic studies scratch at itches in the…
Exclusion and gatekeeping in psychiatric-legal borderland: Keeping the material in view by Agnieszka Doll
The concept of the “medico-legal borderland” commonly refers to the discursive intersection of medical and legal knowledges in the constitution of a new knowledge regime (McClelland, 2013). The…
Acknowledgement is Long Past Due for Attempts to Exterminate the Tribes of Oregon
Presently, there is an apology bill being considered in the Oregon State Senate for the Modoc Indian War of 1872-1873. This apology is long past due to the…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 3
by Alfred Lewis **Read about the first and second week of our ‘fashion fast’ here and here. If you can, please donate to our efforts to raise money for the labour rights…
Why Don’t You Eat Bugs?
Edible Insects part 1. Will crickets ever catch on as an alternative source of protein in the United States? How about cockroach “milk”? Why do people in so…
Why Don’t You Eat Bugs?
Edible Insects part 1. Will crickets ever catch on as an alternative source of protein in the United States? How about cockroach “milk”? Why do people in so…
Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
[no-caption] sodapix/Getty Images Northern Ethiopia was once home to a vast, ancient lake. Saber-toothed cats prowled around it, giant crocodiles swam within. The streams and rivers that …