What the Cottingley Fairies can Teach Us About Belief
Why do false beliefs persist in the face of facts? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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ReEBOV: Developing an Ebola rapid diagnostic test at research ground zero by Imogen Bevan
Expired ReEBOV tests in a hospital laboratory in Sierra Leone. Photograph by Ann Kelly In June 2015, as Sierra Leone and Guinea was experiencing new surges in clusters…
“This garden is who I am”
by Ola Plonska This month the Master thesis ‘This Garden is who I am’ has been awarded as the best thesis written on Latin-America and the Caribbean in…
anthro in the news 4/16/18
encounters in anthropology A triple book review in the New York Times looks at Katherine Verdery’s latest book, My Life as a Spy, and reflects on it in…
Learning From Design Researchers: Jan Chipchase’s Field Study Handbook
Jan Chipchase is a leading design researcher. Some of you may have come across his work on the anthropology of mobile phones. I discovered it by chance while…
Rasbora Argyrotaenia and Barbonymus Gorionotus
Love fishingGo. Fishing Lestari Courtesy of IG @satria_berjoranbiru
CHNY Scholars Grant Awards 2018
From the Culinary Historians of New York, small grants of interest to SAFN readers who are engaged in current research projects. They do not have to focus on…
Squeezing development research juice out of the Millennium Village Project evaluation
Thirteen years after the project started in 2005, the Millennium Village Project (MVP) founded by Jeffrey Sachs, has reached ‘peak evaluation’ with an article by Shira Mitchell and…
MOOC “Sustainable food systems: a Mediterranean perspective”
This is an announcement for a free, on-demand, on-line, course on sustainable food systems. It is an intriguing model for providing certain kinds of education about food (and…
Sierra Leone General Elections 2018 – A personal diary, by Diana Szanto
On the 4th of April, I was sitting on the veranda of a restaurant in Lungi and watched mesmerized the police officer next to me who, in his…
Coleman Nye and Sherine Hamdy on their new graphic novel, Lissa
https://utorontopress.com/us/lissa-2 Interview by Perry Sherouse Perry Sherouse: In your article in George Marcus and Dominic Boyer’s volume on collaborations, you write that “comics – fa…
Alexandra Cox, “Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
How does the juvenile justice system impact the lives of the young people that go through it? In her new book, Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of…
Prekarität „Sinnfrage“ – ein Essay als Untertreibung – verfasst von Peter Stöger
Der Zorn Bürokratische (man möchte meinen durchaus vorgesehene) Erschwernisse verstärken natürlich Prekaritäten. Die Leute sollen klein gehalten werden. Dem dienen auch mythenbildende Rituale (vgl. II…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXVI
This week my book “The View From Flyover Country” gets released in print for the first time. This collection of essays on the collapse of institutions and trust…
Ep. #12 Cultural imaginaries, deepfake videos, hatred in anth, & social dissociation: this month on TFS
This month, Ian (1:12) asks how we should engage when people describe their culture one way, but our observations of their behavior don’t match those descriptions. What is…
Call for Papers: “Digital Visuality” – Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA 2018)
VIENNA ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS (VANDA 2018) September 19-22, 2018 Call for Papers Session “Digital Visuality” Prof. Dr. Elke Mader and Dr. Philipp Budka (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology,…
From the Field: A drive through north western Afghanistan
by Magnus Marsden I am often asked what it is like to do fieldwork in Afghanistan. To give a sense of doing fieldwork in the country today, I…
Melissa Demian: The gender of the minibus
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1104/Melissa%20Demian.MP3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Melissa Demi…
Do we really want to live forever?
Society has always been an obsession with immortality, with living forever and never having to fear death. This fascination with immortality can be found throughout legends and stories,…
Links & Contents I Liked 277
Hi all, Some of the highlights from this week’s review: ICC prosecutes gender-based violence; how we are getting China in Africa wrong; OLPC in Madagascar; the blockchain refugee…
Tijo Salverda: Aiming to keep capitalist accumulation in check: The role of the global land rush’s fiercest critics
This post is part of a feature on “How Capitalists Think,” moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bergen) and Tijo Salverda (University of Cologne). Following the…
Ab 18. April / Vortragsreihe zu Krieg und Gewalt in der Vergangenheit
Das Thema prähistorische Konfliktforschung hat angesichts der derzeitigen Kriege in Osteuropa und Westasien eine bedrückende Aktualität gewonnen. Die Alltäglichkeit von Gewalt verschiedenen Ausmaßes, …
SCA2018: An experiment in carbon conscious conferencing and radical access
The Society for Cultural Anthropology is experimenting with a new exciting initiative this year. Next week (19-21 April 2018) the Biennial Meeting will take place online, as a…
Today’s Forecast: Heavy rains, rising seas, and floating bodies
While scouring the internet for additional information for my Op-ed, I came across an article onan un usual consequence of inclement weather: floating caskets. I’ve never heard…