Our 14,400-Year-Old Relationship with Bread
New evidence from Jordan is challenging what we thought we knew about hunter–gatherer diets — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Its Only an Evil Cactus if Donkeys Chase You: Ethics and Psychedelics with Hamilton Morris – This Anthro Life
When TAL first interviewed Hamilton Morris, it was shortly after he and his production team had finished season 1 of Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia. Now, Morris has completed two seasons…
U.S. Academic Anthropology’s Hiring Network
A paper I authored with several colleagues titled “The Social Network of U.S. Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities” was recently accepted by American Anthropologist and will be publ…
Harri Englund on his new book, Gogo Breeze
Interview by Ilana Gershon http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo27256361.html Ilana Gershon: While this book ostensibly focuses on one radio presenter, because Gogo Breeze interacts w…
Rezension | Bourdieu in Question. New Directions in French Sociology of Art verfasst von Tamara Schwertel
Wie aktuell sind die Ideen des französischen Soziologen Pierre Bourdieu? Wie können seine Theorie interpretiert und weiterentwickelt werden? An welchen Punkten sind Bourdieus Ansätze problematisch? Un…
Joe Lane 1849 : Report of the Tribes and Bands of the Oregon Territory
General Joe Lane was an early politician and war hero for Oregon. He served as the Indian Superintendent for Oregon as well as Governor of the territory in…
Ep. #18 What taste is made of: Brad Weiss talks pig farming and the meaning of food in America
“Livestock are essential to our lives. We live in a world that is saturated with livestock, and not just with the food that we eat, but with the…
Protests in Vietnam (guest post)
Guest Post by Sally Mju About the current protest in Vietnam. I support and I do not support! This article is analyzed from the perspective of Karl Marx…
Articles to download
Downloads: Not sure if you need to make an account to get these, but it works for me.: Contexts for Distraction Henri, Tom, Hutnyk, John See details & download (PDF) 144…
Ist was Kultur?
Als feedback auf meinen kürzlich auf Zenith erschienenen Beitrag gegen Panikmache über Migration und sexuelle Gewalt, erhielt ich einen sehr interessanten Leserbrief von einem Kollegen aus einem ander…
Ist was Kultur?
Als feedback auf meinen kürzlich auf Zenith erschienenen Beitrag gegen Panikmache über Migration und sexuelle Gewalt, erhielt ich einen sehr interessanten Leserbrief von einem Kollegen aus einem ander…
Politics by Other Means: Health in Việt Nam by Martha Lincoln
My research in Việt Nam addresses how medicine, health, and disease function as political and cultural signifiers as well as telegraphing – in the form of epidemiological data…
Biology, Race, and “Orientalism”
Edward Said published Orientalism in 1978 and is highly influential, both in post-colonial studies and social theory. Said argues that through the construction of the ‘Orient’ (the East) a…
Dancing with the Spirits
In a present colored by forces of globalization and the Anthropocene, Masewal dancers reconnect with their spiritual landscape to visualize alternative futures. Mexico today is gripped by a…
Biocommensurations
Psychiatry is in crisis because it failed to integrate symptom classifications with biomarkers. Its future depends on finding new ways of bringing disparate insights together. Any kind of…
Joe Lane’s Report of the Rogue River battle at Evans Creek, 1853
In 1853, the Oregon Territorial militia commanded by General Joseph Lane was fighting a series of battles in the Rogue River valley, the main battle at Evans Creek.…
What’s in Your Bag, Anthropologists?
From the Andean highlands to Appalachia, anthropologists from across the discipline open their field bags to reveal favorite pens, recording equipment, emergency granola bars, and—of course—scarves. W…
What the Tech Sector Could Learn from Anthropology
Technology is a social tool that requires understanding of social and cultural factors for it to be a driver of equality. Failing to incorporate an anthropological perspective into…
Islamisches Gemeindeleben in Berlin
Studie zur Vielfalt islamischen Lebens Autorinnen: Prof. Dr. Riem Spielhaus und Nina Mühe Die Studie gibt einen Überblick über islamisches Gemeindeleben in Berlin. Sie untersucht die religiöse Ausr…
How Cutting-Edge Archaeology Can Improve Public Health
[no-caption] Megan Brickley Twenty years ago, I held in my hands the leg bones of a 2-year-old child who had died in Birmingham in the early 1800s. They…
Anthropology & US Immigration
Update July 2018: This post was originally written in 2013 in an attempt to bring an anthropological perspective on studying immigration to what looked like could have been…
What the Camera Does – #RoR2018
Two men mount the security grates over what will be the windows of my house. Title: La sécuriser. Photo Credit: Dick Powis. 2018 This series – #ROR2018 –…
What anthropologists can tell you about the US border immigration crisis
How anthropologists are helping tell real stories of migrants trying to cross US borders I am an anthropologist because I care about people. I am an archaeologist because…