“Dance, sister! Dance!” New ways of doing ethnography in the city
Karaoke on Sunday Dina and I are in a karaoke room with five friends. Like Dina, they are Indonesian women who work in Singaporean households as domestic helpers,…
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Fågeln – en bärande kraft i finsk folktro
Fåglar har en viktig roll i många folkliga traditioner och myter, vilket är lätt att förstå då man ser hur fåglarna graciöst rör sig mellan himmel och jord…
Call: Humanitarianism and Security: New Berghahn Books series
Amid the growing convergence between the politics of aid and policing, emergency and military governance, securitization and the production of collective fear, this series examines humanitarianism and…
Arbeitstagung des Freiburger Arbeitskreises Literatur und Psychoanalyse zum Thema Angst. Ein Tagungsbericht verfasst von Lukas Potsch
Je mehr der Angstbegriff in den letzten Jahren in den öffentlichen Debatten gebraucht wurde, desto unbestimmter wurde er. Gegenwärtig, so scheint es, kann der Mensch Angst vor allem…
Asylsuchende aus Afghanistan und die Defizite des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Asylsystems
Zwischen 2014 und 2016 beantragten fast 400.000 afghanische Staatsangehörige Asyl in der Europäischen Union (EU). Afghanistan war damit nach Syrien das zweitwichtigste Herkunftsland Asylsuchender in d…
Afghan asylum seekers and the deficits of the Common European Asylum System
Between 2014 and 2016, nearly 400,000 Afghan nationals applied for asylum in the European Union (EU), which made Afghanistan the second most important country of origin among asylum…
Film Review: Black Panther
Nearly three decades ago, my grandfather took me to the local pharmacy in Broadway, NC to get ice cream (it had an ice cream bar!). While there, I…
Engaged Anthropology in and about Yemen
By Marina de Regt. The aim of my Talma Lecture, which I gave on 12 January at VU University Amsterdam, was to discuss the implications of the war…
CAOS SUPPORTS ACTIVITIES IN BRAZILIAN INDIGENOUS LANDS
Carolina Schneider Comandulli Extreme Citizen Science Research Group University College London The Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability has been supporting the project “Environme…
Ep. #8 Savage Bitcoin, hamster flushing, scholars at work, and New Mandala: this month on TFS
This month, Ian (1:25) digs into Bitcoin, arguing that the cryptocurrency is no different than regular currencies, and can be analyzed along all the same lines: symbolically, materially,…
LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 Preview: The Five Giants by Nicholas Timmins
75 years after the publication of the Beveridge report, LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 (Mon 19 Feb – Sat 24 Feb 2018) offers a week of public engagement activities exploring the ‘Five Giants’…
Illustrated Man #11 – (H)afrocentric
Re-spawn. Its been on since dawn. Illustrated Man check your king with a pawn. Don’t know where but I send ’em Make my posts now on Anthrodendum Hey,…
Racism by any Other Name Is Still Racism
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces in December 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed and issued Executive Order 9066 in the name of national security.…
David Graeber: Manufactured ignorance: The strange case of Juan Cole and the Kurdish Freedom Movement, and the International Liberal Intelligentsia
This is a story about how a well-meaning liberal American professor can end up becoming an active propagandist for right-wing forces attempting to destroy a feminist revolution. •…
Canoeing the Yaquina, Coast Reservation, November 1856
The story of the Coast Reservation of Oregon is complicated. The Coast Reservation is created in 1855 by Presidential Executive Order and then for some Continue reading
Who First Buried the Dead?
The skeleton on the left is “Lucy,” an Australopithecus afarensis that is 3.2 million years old. The one on the right is a Homo naledi called “Neo,” which…
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Hi all, Like most of you I have been following the #oxfamscandal this week. More than 60 entries are now in my curated bibliography and I have learned…
Susanne Brandtstädter: Rising Above the Ordinary: Justice, Virtue, and Normative Change in the Chinese Countryside
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1105/susanne%20Brandtsta%cc%88dter.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio fil…
East Side Orchestras: Music and Social Change
I am currently working on a research project that looks at the social impacts of Arohanui Strings, Porirua Soundscapes, and Virtuoso Strings. These groups provide free, Sistema-inspired orchestral mus…
This Anthropology Day, Let’s Remember George Hunt
It’s Anthropology Day, our discipline’s latest invented tradition! A time for reflection on chocolate mint and the values of our discipline, Anthropology Day 2018 is uniquely placed this y…
Radio Ethnography, Restaurant Kitchens and #MeToo
Our SAFN president David Beriss has put out a call for blog posts on food workers, food service, restaurant kitchens and the #MeToo movement. So my ears perked…
Happy Anthropology Day from AnthroEverywhere!
A very happy Anthropology Day from us here at AnthroEverywhere! According to the American Anthropological Association, Anthropology Day is a day for anthropologists to celebrate their discipline and…
Craft fatigue / Artisanal exhaustion?
One of the things we are watching at Culturematic HQ is whether the artisanal theme is beginning to run out of steam. Leo Burnett London offers us this…