Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists
Here’s something fun for back to class: the relatively new tumblr Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists! Alex Golub posted about his new project on anthro{dendum} back in November, but…
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Book Review: Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart edited by Rowland Atkinson, Lisa McKenzie and Simon Winlow
In Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart, editors Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie and Simon Winlow make a compelling moral case for the social sciences to challe…
Somatosphere in 2017 by Eugene Raikhel
As 2018 begins we pause to briefly look back at the posts that appeared in the past year on Somatosphere. Last year we were happy to publish a…
Rezension | Klassiker der Soziologie: Eine illustrierte Einführung von Ansgar Lorenz und Nektarios Ntemiris – verfasst von Bianka Plüschke-Altof
„Mit leichter Kost“ (S. 138) einen Einblick in die Soziologie zu eröffnen, das haben sich der Soziologe Nektarios Ntemiris und der Illustrator Ansgar Lorenz in ihrer Monographie „Klassiker…
The Museum of Women and Children | 中国妇女儿童博物馆 (12/9)
This is the third 2017 China trip post. As in the two (1, 2) previous posts, it reports on adventures in Beijing with Jon Kay (my MMWC colleague)…
Three Styles in the History of Anthropology
Anthropology has an unhealthy relationship to its past. Approaches range from highly fetishized, almost ritual reading of sacralized texts like The Gift and The Nuer to intense, context-free…
The Temple of Heaven | 天壇 (12/8)
This briefer note is the second on our recent trip to China. The context for this travel will come (I hope) a few posts down the road. For…
What the ancient DNA discovery tells us about Native American ancestry
A new genome from a Pleistocene burial in Alaska confirms a longstanding model for the initial peopling of the Americas Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native…
The Discovery of India – Nehru (Roshan Seth)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1EG23oYcaFu6SNAiofd0uco0sD0JeVji¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=4f6vdW91hLA&mode=NORMAL https://youtu.be/4f6vdW91hLA?list=PL1EG23oYcaFu6SNAiofd0uco0sD0JeVji Filed und…
What the ancient DNA discovery tells us about Native American ancestry
A new genome from a Pleistocene burial in Alaska confirms a longstanding model for the initial peopling of the Americas Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native…
Annual Health Check?
“That will be next year’s project”, say many of us. “By then, I’ll be ready for it”, we might add. These kinds of statements also featured in several conversations…
In the Journals – December 2017 by Anna Zogas
Happy new year! This post rounds off Somatosphere’s 2017 “In the Journals,” with articles published in December. Enjoy! Medical Anthropology Quarterly (In)Visibility Online: The Bene…
Food Swamps, Homeopathy, Healthy Soil, and Airplane Food: A New U.S. Food Policy Roundup
By Kelly Alexander Happy New Year and without further ado, here’s the state of U.S. food policy on this second day of 2018: Special United States Edition. In…
BRAZIL’S DICHOTOMOUS TREATMENT OF CORRUPTION – PT 1
PART ONE✓ Brazil is a country saturated with corruption. From the small, family-owned mom and pop neighborhood grocery store to the hallowed halls of the Senate and Congress,…
The IU Gateway Office and Tsinghua University Art Museum (12/8)
This post is about a portion of my recent trip to China. The main focus of this trip was collaborative ethnographic research in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, but…
National Science Fiction Day — 1/2/2018
On this day devoted (by some) to a genre fiction, my thoughts have turned to dystopia and utopia–these are not, however, co-extensive with SF, but see Fredric Jameson’s…
Anthropology in Our Moment in History: Interview with Philippe Bourgois
Robert Borofsky: How did you become an anthropologist? Discovering anthropology for me was like falling in love. I was a freshman in college and I knew nothing about…
Dart’s Instructions of Colonization and Assimilation in 1850
In 1850, the United States passed The Oregon Donation Land-claim Act. This act gave American men 640 acres, one square mile of free land in Oregon, allowed other…
Postindustrial Landscapes, Communities, and Heritage
I’m excited to be in New Orleans this week for the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dan Trepal and I are chairing a session entitled,…
Start an Anthropology Career in 2018
Lets put aside for the moment all the usual warnings about pursuing an academic career. Lets say that you are old enough to take responsibility for your own…
best wishes for 2018!
anthropology in the news is taking a break this week but will return on January 8
Rejection of the Nineteen 1851 Oregon Treaties
Anson Dart, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, from 1850 to 1852, remains an enigma. His nineteen treaties with the tribes of western Oregon, negotiated by the…
Anthrodendum: 2017 in Review
2017 was a very productive year for Anthro{dendum} and to kick off another year in the anthropology blogosphere, I bring our annual year in review! Our three most popular…
The Battle of Abiqua, Second Battle of the Willamette Valley
The Battle of Abiqua In February 1848, six months after the Whitman Massacre, the settlers in the Willamette valley were very tense, concerned that the tribes would gather…