Transcontinental Travel—2,000 Years Ago
Two thousand years ago, a sophisticated people lived in the rolling hills of the greater Mississippi River drainage in North America. Most of their sites are concentrated in…
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Three Lies of Digital Ethnography
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Gabriele de Seta, contributing the final post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. Three Lies of…
„Wie ist es da bei euch in Deutschland mit den Flüchtlingen?“ – Wir Forschende als Informant_innen und unsere Verantwortung im Feld
Immer, wenn wir uns in unserem Forschungsfeld bewegen, verändern wir es unbewusst oder vielleicht manchmal auch bewusst. Inwieweit dadurch unsere „Ergebnisse“ verändert werden, muss von Fall zu Fall…
Funeral Traditions in Tana Toraja
Death is something that is unavoidable. Whether you have experienced the death of a close one or have yet to do so, it is a universal experience. However,…
Book Review: The Neopopular Bubble: Speculating on ‘the People’ in Late Modern Democracy by Péter Csigó
In The Neopopular Bubble: Speculating on ‘the People’ in Late Modern Democracy, Péter Csigó argues that the financial crisis of 2008 has prompted the development of novel forms of sense-ma…
Schrijven – mooi en moeilijk
Door Ton Salman. Helder, goed onderbouwd, juiste bronvermelding, logisch opgebouwd, strak betoogd – we benadrukken het steeds: zó moet je schrijven. En dat geldt des te meer voor…
How archaeologists discovered an ancient Assyrian city – and lost it again
Turkey’s Ilisu dam will flood hundreds of ancient sites, including the city of Tušhan, but there is now a rich record of what will be lost It’s a…
How archaeologists discovered an ancient Assyrian city – and lost it again
Turkey’s Ilisu dam will flood hundreds of ancient sites, including the city of Tušhan, but there is now a rich record of what will be lost It’s a…
Robert Foxcurran, “Songs Upon the Rivers” (Baraka Books, 2016)
The story of the American West as it is often told typically involves Spanish, British, and American Empires struggling with Indigenous people for control of the vast territory…
Native People are Part of Oregon, and Are Not the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers
In recent years, in the State of Oregon, there have been some positive signs that the state has finally accepted that there are Native people, Continue reading
what i’m working on: financial divisions in South Africa
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…
Book Forum––Des Fitzgerald’s Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience by Todd Meyers
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,…
Migration as Clickbait
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…
DragNet: January 16 – January 31, 2018
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…
Hurricane Bomb
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…
Diversity Audited (A Short How-To Guide)
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…
What Foodanthro is Reading Now, February 6 2018
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…
‘Artefacts of History’ by Sudeshna Guha
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…
Related by Old Man Fisherman, a family of Yoncalla Indians
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
Where is Alexandria? (The East of the City and the Chinese Housing: A Fragment)
[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.…
Where is Alexandria? (The East of the City and the Chinese Housing: A Fragment)
[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.…
How Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology
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 De-socializing of Jim Kim? by Jon Shaffer
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…
anthro in the news 2/5/18
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…