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…
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A 2018 Anthropology Day Manifesto
By Emma Backe and Nick Mizer Happy Anthropology Day! So far this year at The Geek Anthropologist we have been spending a lot of time thinking and talking about…
Fame, femininity, financial vitriol: a methodology of Kommercial success
by Mac Spencer We begin at one of this century’s most infamous ascents to celebrity status, which I assume needs little retelling. In 2007, a leaked sex tape…
Susanna Trnka’s One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health by Paul Mason
One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health By Susanna Trnka Stanford University Press, 2017, 262 pages. Bringing children to the field can change…
Adventures in Blogging: Bringing Anthropology to the World
For World Anthropology Day, we asked Paul Stoller to share his thoughts on the urgent need for a more public anthropology, as well as his ideas about blogging…
Book Review: Personal Style Blogs: Appearances That Fascinate by Rosie Findlay
In Personal Style Blogs: Appearances That Fascinate, Rosie Findlay analyses the development of personal style blogs from their early origins, situating this sub-genre of fashion blog within a ‘l…
Friends, Romans, naked wolf-men … why an ancient festival is still controversial
The annual Lupercalia festival turned society upside down – and the location of its starting point is still hotly debated Scenes from films like Gladiator and series such…
Mylingar – de döda barnen utan sinnesfrid
Skrämmer tanken på gengångare dig? Hur föreställer dig du dessa i så fall? Många målar antagligen upp en bild av en vuxen människa, kanske en gammal person. I…
Friends, Romans, naked wolf-men … why an ancient festival is still controversial
The annual Lupercalia festival turned society upside down – and the location of its starting point is still hotly debated Scenes from films like Gladiator and series such…
#AnthroDay with the Department of Anthropology at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Please stop by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures during the 12-2 pm window tomorrow for our #AnthroDay celebration with the IU Department of Anthropology. We want to…
The Gateway on the Central Oregon Coast, Fort Umpqua and the Umpqua Sub Indian Agency
The southern and central Coast of Oregon is a relatively unknown area in Native American history. As the area is not well researched it Continue reading
#WhyWeAnth: Answers on World Anthropology Day 2018
Are you keen to understand more about what anthropologists do and why they do it? This post compiles the reasons of anthros from around the world in honour…
MPAAC, Sexual Harassment, and Immigration
[pquote] MPAAC embodies the spirit of the previously distinct committees but now functions as a single entity to generate more coordinated and focused efforts vis-à-vis both the discipline…
When It Comes to Love, Is Three (or More) a Crowd?
Even today, performances of Romeo and Juliet move audiences for how the couple’s ardent love imperiled them. Robbie Jack/Getty Images Passionate love is a dangerous thing, or so…
Book Review: The Sociology of Intellectuals: After ‘The Existentialist Moment’ by Simon Susen and Patrick Baert
With The Sociology of Intellectuals: After ‘The Existentialist Moment’, Simon Susen and Patrick Baert make a collaborative effort to build upon Baert’s preceding book, The Existentia…
What is Good Food? Anthropologists, historians and economists in conversation
What is Good Food? Five episodes of delicious stories and conversations about how we know what we eat is ‘good’. This podcast series is produced by a group…
Brave Community: Teaching Race in the American Classroom w/ Janine de Novais – This Anthro Life
Welcome listeners to the second installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series, bringing together This Anthro Life with Brandeis University. For those of you who are new…
Lonely Deaths
Source:https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sLNXt9DmC_U/hqdefault.jpg I was on snapchat, after the horrid update, and I went to the discovery section because it was too frustrating to figure out the actual snapch…
Ein Forschungsfeld im Umbruch: Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung in Deutschland von 2011 bis 2016
In den letzten Jahren hat die Forschung zu Flucht und Flüchtlingen einen regelrechten Boom erlebt. Das Thema wurde in den Gesellschafts- und Geisteswissenschaftlichen und anderen Disziplinen mit einer…
AFHVS/ASFS CFP Deadline Extended!
Extended deadline for the upcoming AFHVS/ASFS conference. You have another week! Don’t miss it. The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems is pleased to ho…
New Zealand-born and internationally raised
I am delighted to welcome writer Cileme Venkateswar to anthropod. This is the third post in my series on doing fieldwork with kids, and in it Cileme (who…
Fieldwork: Highlights from the Basketry and Architecture Group
I have been delayed in finishing up the series on the December 2017 trip to China that colleagues and I undertook. I am happy to return to the…
Book Forum: Larisa Jašarević’s Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market by Larisa Kurtović
In Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: An Intimate Debt, Larisa Jašarević explores the mutual entanglement between the economy, living body and the good life in…
“7 Reasons Not to Be an Organ Donor”
I was scrolling through my News Feed on Facebook, and I came across this post by the Odyssey: “7 Reasons Not to Be an Organ Donor” I stopped…