Revisiting ‘States at Work. Dynamics of African Bureaucracies’
‘States at Work’ aims to contribute to the academic debates on processes of state-building in Africa, and, among development practitioners, on the role of the state in development,…
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Flüchtige Leben, gesundheitliche Versorgung: Medizin und Migration – ein Kongress-Bericht
Caroline Meier zu Biesen Über die Grenze. Eine wachsende Zahl Flüchtender erreicht Südtirol. Aufgrund aktueller Migrationsbewegungen intensiviert sich die Debatte um ihre medizinische Versorgung. Bild…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part II
Thanks to some amazing role models in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, where I studied, I have always known that it is possible…
After the Workshop, Before the Fieldwork (12/12)
A photograph of the project team and special guests on the steps of the Anthropological Museum of Guangxi in Nanning. December 12, 2017. Photograph courtesy of the Anthropological…
Beauty by Lynn M. Thomas
In the late 1990s, a group of Japanese researchers set out to investigate whether small-scale gold mining operations near the shores of East Africa’s Lake Victoria were resulting…
Taste and Terroir as an Anthropological Matter – Summary
Happy New Year! Abigail Adams and I are the new co-editors of the SAFN blog. Our heartfelt thanks to David Beriss, the long-time editor and constant champion of…
anthro in the news 1/15/18
Flag of the Republic of Haiti. Credit: Wikipedia Haiti pride The Haitian Revolution defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and established the only country in the world based…
‘Collecting, Ordering, Governing’ by Bennett et al.
Tony Bennett, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis, and Conal McCarthy. Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government. 360 pp., 46 illu…
Von Beziehungen und ihren Tücken
Bonn, Münsterplatz. 4. November 2017: Erste teilnehmende Beobachtung meines Lebens Ich bin überfordert. Heillos überfordert. Es stürmen tausend Eindrücke auf einmal auf mich ein. Ich weiß gar nicht,…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Applying an ethnographic approach
Last week, I shared my recent experiences being hired as a research assistant at Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation to conduct a case-study on a local example of…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Applying an ethnographic approach
Last week, I shared my recent experiences being hired as a research assistant at Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation to conduct a case-study on a local example of…
Book Review: The Sociology of Food: Eating and the Place of Food in Society by Jean-Pierre Poulain
In The Sociology of Food: Eating and the Place of Food in Society, Jean-Pierre Poulain offers an account of how food has emerged as a new field within sociological…
Diversity + Inclusion in Higher Education, part 1 – This Anthro Life
Welcome listeners to the first installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series, bringing together This Anthro Life with Brandeis University. For those of you who are new…
The state of the state in #Africa
How political authority and legitimacy are sustained in societies marked by socio-economic inequality and political exclusion has been a long-standing preoccupation in the social sciences. Especially …
The Anthropology/Poetry Nexus–An Interview with Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Can artists and social scientists inhabit the same universe? Melisa (“Misha”) Cahnmann-Taylor embodies that nexus. Her advanced degrees include an MFA in poetry . . . and a…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part XXIII
Here are my articles and interviews from the past week: Trump’s racism is more than rhetoric — it forms policies and ruins lives (1/13/18) — Globe and Mail The…
In an era of climate change, our ethics code is clear: We need to end the AAA annual meeting
Image: United Airlines Boeing 767-200 by Ian Crivellaro. (Via Flickr) By Dr. Jason Hickel I remember when the AAA shifted from the old printed program to the new…
Blaming the victim(s)? Is it the aid industry’s fault when places are labeled ‘holes’?
I was in the process of writing a short response to NPR’s Goats & Soda invitation to comment on How Are Poor Countries Portrayed By Aid Groups And…
Workshop on Ethnographic Methods in Museum Folklore and Ethnology
This post is the next in my series of reports on the trip to China that American museum colleagues and I took in December 2017. The Beijing posts…
La Pista de Baile, PST LA/LA & LACE
I am excited to be collaborating with Colectivo AM (Mexico City) and LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) on “La Pista de Baile.” Below is the description of the…
Where the Whacky Franz Boas Pictures Come From
Ya’ll know what I’m talking about, right? Franz Boas posing for figure in USNM exhibit entitled “Hamats’a coming out of secret room” 1895 or before. Via the Smithsonian.…
Stingy American Settlers of the Willamette Valley
The Kalapuyan tribes of the Willamette Valley have lived here for more than 10,000 years, some 50,000 generations of people. The whole of the valley was owned…
Soft Power: The Over-Determined Politicization of Vulnerable in the #CDC7words by Elizabeth Bromley
At first blush, the inclusion of the word vulnerable alongside words like fetus, evidence-based, and diversity in the list of 7 words discouraged for use in budget documents…
Quinn Slobodian: Against the neoliberalism taboo
Daniel Rodgers has written the latest would-be obituary for neoliberalism as a category of analysis, hot off the press in the first 2018 issue of Dissent magazine. Like…