Digital Anthropology in Practice
Jennifer Fu and Gemma Tortella-Procter, MSc. Digital Anthropology at UCL “What exactly constitutes ‘digital anthropology’?” While the practical projects we worked on may not provide a comprehensive an…
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Körper – Wissen – Tod. Ein Tagungsbericht verfasst von Christoph Nienhaus & Ida Meyenberg
Am 25. und 26. Mai 2018 fand an der Universität Passau eine soziologische Fachtagung zu dem Thema „Körper – Wissen – Tod. Sozialwissenschaftliche Zugänge zwischen Lebenswelt und Transzendenz“…
Ep. #17 Slamming doors, predicting futures, picking sides & citing informants: this month on TFS
With Julia’s PhD submitted (!!!) and Jodie back from her travels, the band is finally back together! Jodie starts us off, (2:04) asking if a theory from psychology…
Guest Post: Citation is a Gift: “Punking” Accounting in #hautalk
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Jules Weiss. Weiss is an MA student in the Applied Anthropology program at Oregon State University. They are a…
Streamline(d) – “Time Served”
This post is the beginning of an experiment. Recent ethnoGRAPHIC work like Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, as well…
Popular American Cultural Theft of Totem Poles
The story of the Ritz Sauna Totem pole is rich with cultural history. The Ritz Sauna has been associated with the Oregon Country Fair since the beginnings of…
Want Fame and Glory? Award Deadline Reminders!
SAFN has two glorious awards that are given annually to students engaged in various aspects of food and nutrition related research. The deadline for both is coming up…
Flüchtlingsforschung gegen Mythen 7WissenschaftlerInnen diskutieren Behauptungen aus der Flüchtlingsdebatte
Die Koalition CDU, CSU und SPD hat sich am 05. Juli 2018 auf Maßnahmen zur „Ordnung und Steuerung in der Migrationspolitik“ geeinigt. Sie zielen unter anderem darauf ab,…
Summer break 2018
Hi all, As I wrote in last week’s link review: Unlike previous years I will have a proper break until the second half of August to focus on…
Indexing
The requirement imposed upon untenured ‘early career’ scholars to target only alleged “quality” publications is academic narrowcasting. Zines fall between the cracks of experim…
Zoltan Pall, “Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Zoltan Pall‘s Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a just published ethnographic investigation of the rise of Salafism among Lebanese Sunni … Visit…
Anthropologies of destiny
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
Anthropologies of destiny
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
Abolition
Abolish Prison. Get this journal:
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown
If you haven’t come across the Global Footprint Network yet, check them out. Based in Oakland, CA, they produce fantastic data on the Ecological Footprint (EF) of…
Sharon Batt’s Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement by Grazia De Michele
Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement Sharon Batt UBC Press, 2017, 383 pages After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, Sharon…
Discovering Tampa in my Kitchen
By Daniel Miller Of all the bad habits I have passed on to my daughter, reading at the dinner table is the one I am least ashamed of. …
An Homage to Teotihuacan
Gabriel Vistrain Andrade travels through time at his shop near the ruins of Teotihuacan. Dominic Bracco II The ruins of Teotihuacan, just outside Mexico City, are Mexico’s most…
Versionen fiktiver Migrationspolitik und was sie unterscheidet: Transitzentren, Flughafenverfahren und die australische non-Migration Zone
Die Einrichtung sogenannter „Transitzentren“, die die Einheit der Union und der Regierung retten soll, basiert auf einer Fiktion. Asylsuchende, die die deutschen Außengrenzen überqueren, sollen rechtl…
In the Journals, June 2018 (Part II of II) by Melanie Boeckmann
Medical Humanities Images as catalysts for meaning-making in medical pain encounters: a multidisciplinary analysis Deborah Padfield, Helen Omand, Elena Semino, Amanda C de C Williams, Joanna M Zakrzew…
Book Review: Patriots, Traitors and Empires—The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans
Review of: Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans. Published by Baraka Books, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 6 x 9 inches. 280…
Savage System
Often, I address white American attitudes towards native peoples. How historians have ignored whole sections of our history, racism and genocide against native peoples, the lack of education…
Does Anthropology Have a Point?
Even as I attempted to (re-)present my research as anthropological, on its journey into the public sphere and a wider audience, it was interpreted and reinterpreted as ‘international…
Hodeidah is being attacked, but the Western media is silent
By Marina de Regt. “Hodeidah is empty, Marina, there is no one there anymore”, says Noura to me this morning, in a short telephone conversation that is repeatedly…