Breffu: a slave, a rebel, a fighter – and a woman almost invisible to history
The role of women in conflict is often lost to the archaeological record – but Breffu’s story illustrates how sometimes we catch a glimpse of them Early one…
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Breffu: a slave, a rebel, a fighter – and a woman almost invisible to history
The role of women in conflict is often lost to the archaeological record – but Breffu’s story illustrates how sometimes we catch a glimpse of them Early one…
#Review: White Gold. Stories of Breast Milk Sharing
Those of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, “tribal” lineage-based societies, often semi-feudal, with residues almost…
The Death of a Dog
“Wise old man” by Shaun Hopkinson is licensed under CC by 2.0 In our society, it is common practice to euthanize dogs in old age either with or…
Awkward Anthropological Moments
In honor of recent National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN invited anthropologists to share their awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field. Read about…
Transparent marketing and design
[This post first published on Medium March 16, 2018] I was looking at the app store this morning and noticed in the upper left hand corner The Art…
Wie weiter mit dem Engagement in Deutschland?
Studie „So schaffen wir das“ zur Arbeit mit Geflüchteten Pressemitteilung vom 21. März 2018 Seit 2015 hat sich in Deutschland eine überwältigende Zivilgesellschaft gebildet, die sich für geflüchtete…
From Edison to Tim Brown: Some ideas about Design Thinking
Design Thinking is defined as a method that allows us to generate innovative solutions based on the needs of users. It was created in the classrooms of Stanford…
anthro in the news 3/19/18
Genevieve Nnaji is a top Nigerian actor. Credit: FEVA TV. Nollywood-Bollywood relations An article in The Telegraph (India) offers insights about the relations between Mumbai’s Bollywood film industry…
Where (You Might Think) There’s No Tienda
This fourth installment of the series, “Latinx Foodways in North America,” introduces the work of Teresa Mares, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Vermont. Mares̵…
THE 1st BIANNUAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD AND COMMUNICATION
It may be a bit bold to declare a conference the 1st biannual (what if there never is a 2nd one?), but the organizers of this particular conference…
‘Enlightenment’ now and empathy later? by Agustín Fuentes
Steven Pinker wrote Enlightenment Now thinking he was making the case for “reason, science, humanism, and progress.” But instead produced a 556 page text filled with some interesting…
Von drei Vögeln, einer Teekanne und einer älteren Frau. Eine Notiz zum Schreibprozess.
Ortswechsel: Ich sitze in einem Café auf dem bayerischen Land und schreibe ein Portrait über eine meiner Interviewpartnerinnen. Ich bin so vertieft im Schreiben, dass ich meine Umgebung…
Flüchtlingspolitik 2015 war eine historische Ausnahme
Buch zur Geschichte der Flüchtlingspolitik Autor: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun Wer die politischen Debatten in Deutschland verfolgt, der muss den Eindruck bekommen, als sei die deutsche Flüchtl…
Human rights: Why debating their universality is unhelpful
By Koen Donatz Human rights have become a hotly debated topic in both the academic and the political world, one of the main points of contention being whether…
Neuer Nationalismus im östlichen Europa. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven | Rezension von Andreas Schulz
Die seit einigen Jahren zu beobachtenden gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen im östlichen Europa finden beachtliche mediale und politische Aufmerksamkeit in Westeuropa, welche zum Teil mit Sorge und Krit…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
…May ’68, Nuit Debout and Romanticizing Struggles by Jade Ascencio In 2016, the Nuit Debout movement in Paris installed its headquarters only two stops away from my place.…
The Death Penalty
Over spring break, a lot of articles surfaced concerning the trial of Nikolas Cruz, the mass shooter of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. One particular…
Trickster’s Path
If one tries to consider Tawfiq ‘Ukasha as a counterreactionary populist demagogue, (as do the few journalists and political scientists who mention him at all), the bizarre rises…
Joel Robbins: Anthropology between Europe and the Pacific
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1099/Joel%20Robbins%20only%20talk.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. …
Ep. #10 Smoking v. vaping, anthrosmelling, de/colonization, & America’s gun “tribes:” this month on TFS
This month, Julia (1:12) prompts us to think about ‘vaping’ e-cigarettes as a clinical compromise for smokers with schizophrenia. Having observed this strategy to be effective in the…
Fieldwork: Highlights from the Textile Group
This post in the recent series on December 2017 research and travel in Guangxi, China was written by Carrie Hertz, who also provided the photographs. In this post,…
Challenging the New Colonialism, and Celebrating the (Almost) Eradication of Polio: An Anthropological Response to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
Image adapted from “Weimar’s Courtyard of the Muses,” by Theobald von Oer (1860). By Elizabeth Marino* Why I Read Enlightenment Now Cognitive Psychologist, Steven Pinker, wrote a bo…
Steve Redhead: Theoretical Times
I’ve read most of Steve Redhead’s work over the years. Maybe not all the Virilio stuff as I leave that to Sophie, but this is the next one…