On the Iraq border archaeological digs are a minefield – in every sense
At the ancient site of Charax Spasinou, military activity has left an indelible mark. Should it be viewed as modern damage – or as an important record of…
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On the Iraq border archaeological digs are a minefield – in every sense
At the ancient site of Charax Spasinou, military activity has left an indelible mark. Should it be viewed as modern damage – or as an important record of…
When Ex-convicts Become Criminologists
Education can offer prisoners an avenue by which to both voice their critiques of the system and to help transform it. Wenting Li/SAPIENS One fresh, sunny morning this…
“The Message and the Media: Advancing Your Mission through Communications” a 2017 AAA Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Jeff Martin, AAA’s director…
Care, assimilation and revitalization in Deanuleahki, Sápmi
We have the pleasure to host at the anthropology team Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. She is doing research on kin-based forms of care, an…
If you thought Trafficking was a bad term, try Modern Slavery
As if Human Trafficking weren’t an already over-used, ambiguous, confusing term for a raft of phenomena, some influential characters want to replace the term with Modern Slavery. I…
Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion – Workshop Report
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Caroline Meier zu Biesen Report on the workshop “Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion”, convened on…
On the 90th Anniversary of the First European Crossing Of New Guinea, “Explorer” Benedict Allen Claims to Have Done It For The First Time
British “explorer” Benedict Allen made news recently by being rescued from a failed attempt to cross the central mountain range of Papua New Guinea and paddle downs stream…
On the 90th Anniversary of the First European Crossing Of New Guinea, “Explorer” Benedict Allen Claims to Have Done It For The First Time
British “explorer” Benedict Allen made news recently by being rescued from a failed attempt to cross the central mountain range of Papua New Guinea and paddle downs stream…
Danish Tavern Serampore
Danish tavern decked up to start second innings in Serampore Ajanta Chakraborty| TNN | Nov 21, 2017, 04:53 IST KOLKATA: The double-storey Denmark Tavern, which was in a shambles till a…
“Germany’s dirty secret”
This post by Shirley Fiske is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. The conference itself exuded “green”…
Why Do So Many People Want to Die?
[no-caption] Colin Knowles/Flickr This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. “You said that you’re afraid of dying. What are you …
Tweeting #AmAnth17 – First in a series
In Twitterspace, the lead-up to the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is generally quiet, but I’ll start my analysis this year one week ahead of the game. Here’s…
Volunteers and refugees in South Korea
by Maaike van Nus
Chemical Showers: How Daily Routines Structure Our Exposures to Toxicants
By Rachael Wakefield-Rann, University of Technology Sydney § Source: http://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/04144722/supermarket-skin-care-buys1.png The choreography of daily life dic…
COP 23: Negotiations and Homeless Topics
This post by Naveeda Khan is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. I decided to stay home…
‘Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World’ by Michael Brian Schiffer
Michael Brian Schiffer. Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World. 397 pp., 38 b&w photos, notes, refs., index. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. $26.95 (paper), $22…
The Great American Cultural Eclipse
Viewers in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which was briefly renamed “Eclipseville” for the eclipse. Photo courtesy Nicole Erwin, WKMS. Total solar eclipses are magnificent, dramatic visual colli…
Magdalenas Termin: Wenn verschiedene Anliegen zusammenfinden
Übersetzung von Elena Radwan – An diesem Mittwochmittag, nachdem Cedric* mir die Haare geschnitten hatte, verbrachte ich einige Zeit in der Küche von Mastercut, als ich bemerkte, dass…
The 1851 Tansy Point Treaty Journal: The Clatsop Treaty
For the Tansy Point Treaties, Dart worked to get all the land from the tribes. By this time the tribes had already heard rumors of the treaties, and…
More Food Panels, Papers, and Posters at AAA 2017
A week or so ago we posted a listing of the panels sponsored by SAFN at the upcoming meetings of the American Anthropological Association. It is a glorious…
Poop by Joshua Grace
For colonial officials in British East Africa, African excrement endangered public health because Africans were reckless defecators. The world was their toilet, and they simply went where they…
Neda Maghbouleh, “Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race” (Stanford UP, 2017)
How does a group become defined as white? And does that group define themselves that way as well? Neda Maghbouleh‘s new book, Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and…
Ian Brodie, “A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy” (UP of Mississippi, 2014).
In A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (The University Press of Mississippi, 2014), Ian Brodie, an associate professor of folklore at Cape Breton University, brings…