How ICE’s Bogus Science Is Violating Human Rights
Teeth and bones can tell us something about age—but not someone’s birthday. Journal of Forensic Dental Sciences This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been repu…
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Drucker’s Records of Clackamas Villages
The Clackamas (Tlakamas) lived along the Clackamas river and along the lower Willamette. Their villages and associated territorial claims extended from Willamette Falls to the Willamette Slough. Schol…
Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 3: Mexico—Armed Rebellion, Mass Migration, Flat GDP
Getting Past the Propaganda We are routinely told that Mexico has grown into the “one of the more robust emerging economies with exports of about $1 billion a…
Diasporic Fields of Belonging
I collect stories about U.S. anthropology graduate training experience from racially minoritized individuals across color lines and borders. I document these narratives emerging from this broad collec…
Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 2: Canada—Localized Profit, but a Net Outflow of Capital
In Part 1, details on trade and investment between Canada and the US were presented that showed the US has run surpluses in the trade in goods and…
Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 1: Introduction—the US, Trump, and Facts and Fictions about Winners and Losers
Canada, Mexico, and the US: we could argue that any one of these nation-states “lost” because of NAFTA while the others “won”. That is Donald Trump’s position: that…
The Power of Small Things: Trustmarkers and Designing for Mental Health
At my office we put tennis balls on the legs of the chairs to reduce the noise of the scraping chairs against the parquet floors. They are hard…
So You Want to Write for The Geek Anthropologist?
You ever see those quippy article titles–the perfect combination of academic punnery and inside theory humor–pop up on your newsfeed, only to click through and discover that your…
Is Health Activism a Collective Responsibility? by Beza Merid
During the tumultuous “repeal and replace” frenzy in the spring and summer of 2017, the US House of Representatives and Senate moved quickly to consider bills intended to…
Hurdal Ecovillage as an Alternative Ecological Space
Co-written with Hugo Ferreira and published electronically by Tvergastein at https://tvergasteinjournal.weebly.com/ferreira-and-eriksen.html# The stories from Hurdal are Hugo’s, as he has carrie…
Hurdal Ecovillage as an Alternative Ecological Space
Co-written with Hugo Ferreira and published electronically by Tvergastein. The stories from Hurdal are Hugo’s, as he has carried out anthropological fieldwork there for an extended time. Introduction…
Hurdal Ecovillage as an Alternative Ecological Space
Co-written with Hugo Ferreira and published electronically by Tvergastein. The stories from Hurdal are Hugo’s, as he has carried out anthropological fieldwork there for an extended time. Introduction…
Mind the gap: Mental health and a regulated insurance market in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, citizens are under a legal obligation to insure themselves through a private insurer. Health insurance is thus entangled with both the realm of the state…
Mind the gap: Mental health and a regulated insurance market in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands healthcare is organized by a regulated insurance market. This combination of state and market creates tensions that are explored in this short film, in which…
Shaligrams Featured on “The Familiar Strange”
Hey everyone, My work on Shaligram stones has been featured on the popular anthropology blog The Familiar Strange. Check it out. “Living Fossils” — The Familiar Strange
Who was Bobby Kennedy?
This post was submitted by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of medical anthropology at UC Berkeley where she directs the doctoral program in Critical Studies in Medicine, Science and the…
Living Fossils
One of the most popular jokes among anthropologists is how often our work is mistaken for palaeontology. Almost every one of my colleagues and even a few of…
How “Fake News” Lost Its Meaning
Collins Dictionary named “fake news” its 2017 word of the year, an easy choice given the word’s “unprecedented usage increase” of 365 percent over the previous year. Collins…
Guest Post: An Open Letter to Anthropology
[The following is a guest post by graduate student of anthropology. All names have been changed.] Dear Anthropology, I want you to know why I feel the way…
In The Journals, May 2018 by Ann Marie Thornburg
We hope you find articles of interest in this month’s In The Journals selections. Happy reading! American Ethnologist Quantitative care: Caring for the aggregate in US academic population…
Wenn die “Theologie” der Religionskritiker*innen auf “konfessionslose” Islambilder trifft
Im “Freitag” finden sich aktuell zwei Beiträge zum Berliner Neutralitätsgesetz. Auf die Startseite als Empfehlung aus der Community geheftet wurde “Die Krux mit der Religion” von David Danys…
Science as a Structure of Violence
The study of human diversity and subsequent racialisation of people has been examined and critiqued but has escaped interrogation as an institution by which structural violence is enacted.…
A Brief History of Race in the Western Thought
Race, as a concept, has important ontology in American society. In order to understand the relationship between race, genetic research, and the American class structure, it is necessary…
Regarding the moral issue in Corporate Anthropology
An interesting anecdote is told by Patricia Sunderland and Rita Denny in their work “Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research”. They were both contacted by an important fast food…