Robinson Crusoe (1947 film)
I want to see this 3D Soviet 1947 adventure version discussed by Eisenstein as the way of the future – (non glasses stereoscopic) – Robinson Crusoe (1947 film)…
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Dispelling the Cloud of Black Eternity: the Willamette School at Grand Ronde in 1857
Once the tribes were removed to the reservation, additional work began to civilize them. The Indian Agents and teachers disregarded the tribe’s cultures and previous Continue reading
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, February 19, 2019
David Beriss 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…
Guns & Anthropology
For the March issue of Open Anthropology we will be highlighting anthropological responses and ethnographic resources on the topics of guns, gun violence, gun safety, and gun control.…
First Trip Back Home – A Photo Essay
Amazônica just published a short interview and photo essay that I helped develop with friends while living in Iquitos, Peru in 2016. Roldan (the first author) is an indigenous…
anthro in the news 2/19/18
Acceptable N-words: This was in the kindergarten room today. They’re learning N. Credit: Kevin Fillips/Flickr teaching about hate language Several media reported on conflict at Princeton Univer…
Institutional Inconsistencies: The Case of “Transgender” by V Varun Chaudhry
The CDC’s recent attempt to dictate and regulate possibilities for funding and research included attention to broad swaths of people, including those deemed “vulnerable” and/or receiving “entitlements…
From the Field: Persian New Year in Yiwu and Iranian Special Tea in Karachi
by Magnus Marsden One of my most memorable evenings while conducting fieldwork in Yiwu, China in 2016 fell on 20th March, the evening of Nowruz, Persian New Year.…
C. Grant and H. Schippers, “Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2016), a multi-authored volume co-edited by Catherine Grant and Huib Schippers, examines a range of musical ……
“Dance, sister! Dance!” New ways of doing ethnography in the city
“Dance, sister! Dance!” Dina is prodding my side, encouraging me to stand up and dance. “My friend is asking you to dance!” She points at her smartphone, which…
“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,…
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.…