Anne-Maria Makhulu explores systematic economic inequity in post-Apartheid South Africa Anne-Maria Makhulu Anne-Maria Makhulu is an associate professor of cultural anthropology and African and Africa…
Des Fitzgerald writes of his book, Tracing Autism, “This is a book about scientists talking about their own practice, in tones that are beset by ambiguity, uncertainty, complexity,…
The demonization of young migrants and their families may be shocking, but these policies and practices are neither new nor surprising. On October 24, 2017, United States Customs…
Image from projects.bettergov.org DragNet is back, with a recap of a number articles that came up last month in our twitter feed. In World News, we have a…
By Rosa E. Ficek, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey § Nobody went outside. The outside world did not exist. There was no internet or television. The power had gone…
Since the 1980s, audits have almost become mundane. They have provided means by which employers can increase efficiency and productivity, as well by which the most disenfranchised can…
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Sudeshna Guha, Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts. xiii+273 pp., 15 illus., bibl., index. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2015. $59 (hardcover) Sudeshna Guha has written…
The Fisherman family of Calapooia Indians are related to the Halo/Fearn family in ways that are as yet unclear to people not from their community. Continue reading
[This is a fragment from an article and a book chapter that I’m working on right now and that hopefully will be published in a year or two.…
[This is a fragment from an article and a book chapter that I’m working on right now and that hopefully will be published in a year or two.…
In creating other worlds, Ursula Le Guin showed the power inherent in constructions of culture and new realities. Marian Wood Kolisch/Flickr This article was originally published at The…
The 12th president of the World Bank Group, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, is arguably the most powerful anthropologist in the world. As the co-founder of the groundbreaking NGO…
A couscous dish. Credit: Creative Commons the cultural politics of couscous Quartz carried an article on the disputed history of couscous and rising interest in North Africa of…
In October 2017, we published a series of posts on essential conferencing skills. We started with a post about how to write an effective abstract or organize a…
By Larisa Kurtović Making anthropological expertise public—that is, releasing our insights into the world of non-academic publics—is never easy. Anthropological engagements with media are frequently a…
In October 2017, we published a series of posts on essential conferencing skills. We started with a post about how to write an effective abstract or organize a…
by Esther Mulders For the past two years, I’ve been volunteering in Zambia with Studio Zambia, a Dutch non-profit organisation that I co-founded in 2016 and currently co-run.…
Det finns en hel del traditioner, föreställningar och föremål som kopplas till bröllop. Det är inte konstigt eftersom bröllop under många århundraden har varit en viktig händelse i…
Nach 2012 haben wir nun wieder ein Sonderheft! Es entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bayerischen Forschungsverbund ForGenderCare und befasst sich mit dem sehr sehr aktuellen Thema Fürsorge/Care. Entst…
When a friend drew my attention to Conan O’Brien’s trip to Haiti following the infamous ‘sh&€hole’ debate which named the island among other countries, I did not see…
“Doing history ideally is like doing anthropology of people who are gone, except that you don’t have native informants, you only have these written fragmentary sources. But the…
Now that 2018 is about 8.3% done, it is time for an another Around the Web Digest! Is 3D Technology the Key to Preserving Indigenous Cultures? Using 3-D…
It’s a Sunday. The ants are everywhere around the kitchen sink, swarming through the crack in the dishwasher door. Afterwards, every time you feel the tiniest itch, you…