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…
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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…
ask an expert: anthropologist Susan Brownell watches world come together at olympic games
UMSL Anthropology Professor Susan Brownell is an expert on the Olympic Games, having studied their history and attended five Games – the first in Los Angeles in 1984.…
Oxfam, Haiti & the aid industry’s #MeToo moment-a curated bibliography
Last update: 23 March 2018.There are now more than 110 resources!For the time being, this bibliography will not be updated regularly anymore. The debate has branched out in…
AGU: Welcome to the “eugenicene”
In this series of posts, I provide an account of my new relationship with the American Geophysical Union (the largest community of earth & space scientists) as an…
anthro in the news 2/12/18
Le razza bovines. Credit: Alex Caputi/Wikimedia Commons veganism and food taboos The Guardian carried an article on how veganism may be shifting the categories of food in Western…
Thesis Review: Placing the Apple
Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or would like to review one, you…
Falling in Love with Anthropology
Each year we kick off our Anthropology Day celebration by asking individuals from across the field to share how they fell in love with anthropology. This year’s post…
Women’s Career Pathways in Academia: From Leaky Pipeline to Rube Goldberg Machine
In 2016, Aileen Fyfe, Ineke De Moortel and Sharon Ashbrook of St. Andrew’s College in Scotland wrote Academic Women Now: experiences of mid-career academic women in Scotland. I…
Women’s Career Pathways in Academia: From Leaky Pipeline to Rube Goldberg Machine
In 2016, Aileen Fyfe, Ineke De Moortel and Sharon Ashbrook of St. Andrew’s College in Scotland wrote Academic Women Now: experiences of mid-career academic women in Scotland. I…
LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 Preview: ‘Why We Need a Citizen’s Basic Income: A New Edition or a New Book?’ by Malcolm Torry
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’…
Storm over beelden
Door Thijl Sunier Er is iets raars aan de hand met de discussie over historische standbeelden, de ‘vaderlandse geschiedenis’ en de ‘nationale identiteit’. Even de feiten op een…
Vem lurar i bäcken?
Nu när gossen såg den muntra fålen, Gick han sakta lockande till honom, Grep i hast hans man och sprang på ryggen, Lysten att en glädtig ridt försöka;…
Komplexitätsreduktion. Rezension von „Systemtheorie – Theorie für die vernetzte Gesellschaft“ von Christian Schuldt – verfasst von Christian Leineweber
Dass der Soziologe und Systemtheoretiker Niklas Luhmann am 8. Dezember des vergangenen Jahres 90 Jahre alt geworden wäre, weckte in jüngster Vergangenheit das Interesse medialer Berichterstattung (vgl…