Anthropological Invigoration
How do you balance a commitment to the discipline of anthropology with recognizing and valuing insights that are relevant and challenging but come from outside anthropology? How might…
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In the Land of the Mammoth Eaters
[no-caption] Sarah Gilman In the oaken hills of central Texas between Austin and Waco, a spring rises along a tangled fence line, watercress waving downstream. Water comes up…
Natasha Raheja
Natasha Raheja’s short film Cast in India calls attention to the connection between New York’s iconic manhole covers and the workers in India who make them. This is…
On Thinking with People and their Escapes: A Review of Unfinished through Storytelling by Onur Günay
Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming João Biehl and Peter Locke, editors Duke University Press, 2017. 400 pages. If hierarchy is the key to sociological knowledge production, what…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXVII
I have been on a book tour for the past few weeks, and will be back on it again in early June. Upcoming dates: 6/7: Milwaukee, Boswell Book…
Lost in Barcelona
Wir warten. Und warten. Und warten. Ich schleiche mich noch einmal verstohlen zur Anzeigetafel, obwohl ich schon weiss, was da steht: Delayed. Unser Flug von Barcelona nach Genf hat…
Farewell, Thanks, and a Top Ten List
All good things must come to an end. In truth, however, I think it’s only some good things that must come to an end and my time at…
What is troubling anthropology?
By Matthias Teeuwen Inspired by Paul Stoller’s 2017 blog ‘Doing Anthropology In Troubled Times’, the goal of this year’s ‘Dag van de Antropologie’ (Annual Anthropology Day) was to reflect…
A struggle for care: public health and private insurance in Brasília
Constitutional rights Established in 1988, the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil guarantees the right to health and guarantees that everybody living in Brazil has access to…
A struggle for care: public health and private insurance in Brasília
Access to healthcare takes us to the heart of Brazil’s polarized debate on social justice and inequality. This film explores some of the difficulties people face when they…
Geld, wantrouwen en insinuaties – Nieuwsuur en NRC over financiering van moskeeën
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier Nu de storm over moskeefinancieringen weer wat is gaan liggen, is het goed om nog eens te kijken naar de achterliggende aannames die in de…
Data Doppelgängers and Issues of Consent
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth post in our Law in Computation series. In February 2018, journalist Kashmir Hill wrote about her collaboration with researcher Surya Mattu to…
It’s Official: Neanderthals Created Art
Neanderthal art. P. Saura This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. What makes us human? A lot of people would argue it…
Italy’s populist alliance and the national anti-migrant consensus
The League’s Matteo Salvini and the Five Star’s Luigi Di Maio have entered into coalition to form a government in Italy [AP] You can read my latest piece…
Reflecting on Boundaries, Protection, and Inspiration
By: Gina Athena Ulysse Before reading Zoe Todd’s “Should I stay or Should I go?,” I had been pondering writing a post about why and how, I, a…
A Note on MUHUM
Muslim Humanitarianism – short MUHUM – is a platform that seeks to foster debate on the complex relationship between charity, philanthropy, humanitarianism, development and Islam. In anthropological a…
Till Motowlansky on Muslim Humanitarianism #Interview
Till Mostowlansky is a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute in Geneva who was awarded an Ambizione grant from the Swiss…
„Die Akademie wird sich an ihren eigenen Zielen messen lassen“. Interview mit dem Vorsitzenden der Akademie für Soziologie
Um was geht es eigentlich in der aktuellen Debatte um die Gründung der „Akademie für Soziologie“? Handelt es sich einfach um eine Fortsetzung eines Quali-Quanti-Streits? Geht es um…
American culture* and problem solving (case study #7)
At the Culture Camp in June, we will be applying our knowledge of American culture to the following topics. 1: Futures of work (the physical, hierarchical and emotional…
American culture* and big data (case study 6)
American culture is a dynamic thing. It is busting out all over. There are several ways to content with this blooming confusion, and we will look at several…
American culture* and platforms for producer creativity (case study 5)
Yesterday we talked about platforms for consumer creativity. Today we will talk about platforms for the producer creativity. The corporation was meant to serve as this platform. It…
American culture* and platforms for consumer creativity (case study 4)
What happened to mass culture, mass marketing, and mass media? Well, several things. One is the inclination of consumers to make their own culture. Once passive recipients of…
Residences, Rentals and Redolent Delectables: Women entrepreneurs and the Japanese baking industry
By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor serves me mochi (pounded rice cake) that she…
anthro in the news 5/21/18
HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/THOMASHAWK/ anthropology in and for everyday life A panel discussion on Maine Public radio included four anthropologists explaining how anthropology is part of our every…