Weaving Social Fabric: The Craft of African Fashion
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move , an audio collaboration from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association and This Anthro Life…
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Risk is Your Business: Citizen Science after Fukushima by Maxime Polleri
I began to sweat profusely when my Geiger counter registered a radiation level of 13 microsieverts per hour—a number that indicated a high level of radioactivity. Worried, I glanced…
Reflections on Anthropology and Human Rights
Members of the AAA’s Members’ Programmatic, Advisory, and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC) reflect on the relationship between anthropology and human rights in honor of Human Rights Day and the…
John Postill on his new book, The Rise of Nerd Politics
Interview by Angela VandenBroek https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo27407562.html Angela VandenBroek: The Rise of Nerd Politics is a captivating description and analysis o…
New Position: Chair in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, University of Manchester
Chair in Art Gallery and Museum Studies University of Manchester Closing Date: 15/01/2019 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=16503 The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the Univer…
Reivew: Re-Orienting Cuisine
Kwang Ok Kim , ed. Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Berghahn. New York, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78920-067-6 Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University Kwang Ok …
Hope and mourning in the Anthropocene
These experiences resonate strongly with the concept of “solastagia,” described both as a form of homesickness while still in place, and as a type of grief over the…
A Relationship with Fashion: Thoughts from an Anthropology Student
by Silvia Irina Berástegui I arrived in Brighton 5 years ago with the dream of finding a good job and starting an autonomous life of my own. During…
Ep. #28 Relational Wine: Deborah Heath talks wine anthropology & living with the trouble
“If wine hasn’t been turned into a standardized beverage, there’s room for variation. There’s an appreciation for variation that has something to do with the taste of place.…
Boy Scout
“‘There is no document of civilization that is not simultaneously a document of barbarism‘” (Walter Benjamin Illuminations) William Burroughs’ annotated Boy…
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ in “Marx at the Movies”, 2014
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ – Hutnyk This chapter addresses the question of how, today, to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital — of which an immense, even monstrous, accumula…
Burroughs cartoon From Paris Review by Nathan Gelgud, adapted from Miles and Burroughs Esquire baboon Manifest.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/05/unconventional-part-4-william-s-burroughs-in-chicago/
What did Omission from the Annual Tribal Census Mean to Grand Ronde?
In 1907, the Indian agent at Grand Ronde began redacting, or not listing, native peoples at Grand Ronde from the annual tribal census. The agent was treating the…
New Issue of PoLAR: Volume 41, Issue 2
The latest issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review marks the end of Heath Cabot and William Garriott’s tenure as the editors of PoLAR. In their introduction, “In Good Faith …
In the Journals, November 2018 by Anna Zogas
Here are some highlights from last month’s journals. Enjoy! American Ethnologist Contractual dependencies: Disability and the bureaucracy of begging in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (op…
Snigdha Poonam, “Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World” (Harvard UP, 2018)
49.91% of India’s population was below the age of 24 in the 2011 Census. By 2020 India will become the world’s youngest country with 64% of its population…
Thomas Borchert, “Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
What makes a Buddhist monk? This is the motivating question for Thomas Borchert, Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont, as he explores the social and educational…
Snigdha Poonam, “Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World” (Harvard UP, 2018)
49.91% of India’s population was below the age of 24 in the 2011 Census. By 2020 India will become the world’s youngest country with 64% of its population…
Materiality of Research: The General Theory of Failure: Thoughts on the Material Culture of Failure by Timothy Carroll, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai and Aaron Parkhurst
In this feature essay, Timothy Carroll, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai and Aaron Parkhurst introduce recent edited collection, The Material Culture of Failure: When Things Do Wrong (Bloomsbury, 2017),…
Thomas Borchert, “Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
What makes a Buddhist monk? This is the motivating question for Thomas Borchert, Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont, as he explores the social and educational…
Forschung Frankfurt / Moderne Medizin kontra traditioneller Heiler
Wie gehen Menschen, wie gehen Wissenschaftler mit Ungewissheit und Nichtwissen um? Diese Frage steht im Fokus der neuen Ausgabe des Wissenschaftsmagazins Forschung Frankfurt mit dem Schwerpunktthema „…
The Madwoman
© Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy By Georgette Veerhuis It was around 10AM on Friday 19 January 2018 when Dolores suddenly rushed downstairs. ‘The Netherlands has gone…
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Hi all, This is quite a substantial #globaldev review-and I wish there was more positive news to include. Saudi Arabia & UAE collaborate with Sudan on mercenaries for…
A chat with the Advancing Research community
An abbreviated reprise of my UX Camp Chicago keynote, where I field questions from Lou Rosenfeld’s Advancing Research community about tackling interdisciplinary collaboration in a practical, empatheti…