#Review: Monrovia Modern
Monrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book that describes the limitations and contradictions of architectural forms of political and urban imaginations in Monrovia. It will appeal to…
Category: English
Review of The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism. Bianca C. Williams. Duke University Press, 2018.
By Erica Lorraine Williams I recently spent two weeks in Lisbon, Portugal. It was the end of an incredibly busy semester, and I had recently finished reading Bianca…
anthro in the news 6/11/18
The lights of Tucson. Credit: Bill Morrow/Flickr climate-change migrants in the U.S. The Arizona Daily Star reported on the trend of internal migration from coastal areas of California…
Gil Hizi flips to page 99 of his dissertation
My dissertation deals with pedagogic programs for self-improvement in a city called Jinan, northeast China. I focus on workshops that cultivate interpersonal “soft” skills, namely emotional expression…
Yasemin Besen-Cassino, “The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap” (Temple UP, 2017)
With the rise of the #MeToo movement following dozens of high-profile cases of sexual harassment and assault by professional men against women colleagues, gender equality has become a…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, 11 June, 2018
This has been a sad week in food with the death of Anthony Bourdain, who I feel I know and admire after his death. There’s been an outpouring…
The Nerds’ Turn: Battling for a Democratic Academia in Poland
As students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines the threats to intellectual…
Mediensoziologie. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium herausgegeben von Dagmar Hoffmann und Rainer Winter | Rezension verfasst von Andreas Schulz
„Was wir über unsere Gesellschaft, ja über die Welt, in der wir leben, wissen, wissen wir durch Massenmedien.“ (Luhmann 1996: 9) Dieser vielzitierte einleitende Satz aus Niklas Luhmanns…
The Single Shot: contribute a still or moving image from the field
Author: Dr. Natasha Fijn is based at the ANU Mongolia Institute. Her research focuses on multispecies ethnography and observational filmmaking. Ethnographic film and photography includes detailed obse…
“One Day This Door is Going to Open”: A Review of “Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang” (Documentary)
Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang (2015) is probably the documentary to be seeing right now, made timely once again not just by the fact that it gives…
Jabs up to date? – better be, legacies of global beneficence and payback owed by anti-vaxxers.
This from Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005: 86): ‘Inoculation against smallpox, a major killer in Europe up to the middle of the nineteenth century, was a practice imported from…
CFP: Agricultural History Society Meeting, June 2019
Having received this call for papers twice in two days, it seems necessary to share it here. As the CFP below notes, the Agricultural History Society is interdisciplinary,…
Handy hints on cracking up
F.Scott-Fitzgerald’s ‘crack-up’ as a model for going on with when needs must and all around have been ripping each other to shreds in a mass fraternal suicide: ‘I…
Book Review: Not in Our Genes
I’ve been slacking on writing book reviews and so I need to get back to it so the next several posts will be just that (unless something happens…
Funny, Awkward, Tender, Focused: Drawing Bodies by Andrea Ford
Drawings from my research on childbirth in California created an opportunity for sharing reflections on fieldwork and “seeing.” Birth is a highly mediated experience, with ubiquitous images of…
Hooligans, Aggression, and the FIFA World Cup: How Football Reflects upon Race/Class/Gender/Power
The 2018 FIFA World Cup starts on June 14, 2018. This year it is being hosted by Russia. And in case you haven’t heard: we have a Russian ‘hooligan’…
The Race to Recover South America’s Ancient Past
Archaeologist Kurt Rademaker feared his field season was over before it had even begun. It was July 2017, and he was scanning Quebrada Jaguay, a desert site on…
Links & Contents I Liked 285
Hi all, We are in the process of examining 20+ MA projects at the moment-so without much of an introduction enjoy this week’s link review from sunny Sweden!…
Tagung „Living with Islamophobia“
Internationale Konferenz Die W. Michael Blumenthal Akademie des Jüdischen Museums Berlin, die Alice-Salomon Hochschule Berlin und das Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforsc…
Voices from the mine: Artisanal diamonds and resource governance in Sierra Leone
‘Voices from the mine’ is a new 33-minute documentary film by University of Bath researcher, Dr Roy Maconachie. It focuses on resource governance in Sierra Leone’s artisanal diamond mining sector,…
A Destiny in the Making (book review)
Even if you are only a semi-regular visitor or reader of Aidnography you have probably noticed at some point that reading and reviewing aid worker memoirs or biographies…
A Quick Trip to Beijing
Late last month, I was fortunate to have a chance to return quickly to Beijing as a member of an Indiana University delegation visiting the Chinese Academy of…
Drone Justice
There is a lot of propaganda around drones being “disruptive” technologies. I have been empirically testing the disruptive potentials of drone practices through many diverse contexts throughout the…