Category: English
Introducing a new micro revolution: Students UnDivided
By Dominique van de Kamp UnDivided is a conference on how to explore diversity and promote inclusion in higher education, organised by a group of students…
Lecture: Introduction to Cultural & Social Anthropology
In 2017, the lecture “Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna is organized by Philipp Budka,…
What FoodAnthro is reading now, October 17, 2017
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…
Robin Kimmerer: The Teachings of Grass
Robin Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, has been getting wonderful reviews. A short video (dedicated to the now extinct Passenger Pigeon) if you haven’t picked it up:
Toxicity by Danny Hoffman
1. Toxicity names forces for which there is no remediation. Ibrahim is a tour guide in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. His carefully crafted tour takes you around the…
anthro in the news 10/16.17
School girl, India. Credit: Google Images Commons/Pexels. educated brides sought, but not working wives Japan Today published an opinion piece co-authored by cultural anthropologist Rachael Goodman, p…
A Brexit in the World, and How It Found Its Place
On the relocation of the UK in a time of populist instability. [pquote]Once the formal Brexit process is completed, Britain will no longer be in the same place…
Conferencing: How to be a great Chair
With #AmAnth2017 on the horizon, we’ve been sharing some timely tips for conference goers over the past two posts. Today we are sharing some resources on how to be a…
Migrants sell sex in flats, or are they brothels?
Why does it matter where you sell sex? Although most photos attached to media stories show truncated women’s bodies standing in dark streets, the news often concerns indoors:…
Benzene, PCBs, and industrial chemistry: A narrative bibliography
How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World in The Atlantic by Rebecca Altman, is a narrative exploration of the rise of organic chemistry, and the industrialization of the branch of chemistry…
Review: Crumpled Paper Boat
By Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani ***Originally published in LSE Review of Books*** Writer James Agee, when commissioned to bring back an enticing story for Fortune magazine about impoverished farmers…
Review of Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals
http://www.depauw.edu/humani…/issue%2017/calarco-iveson.html Or here (PDF): http://www.depauw.edu/…/issue%2…/pdfs/calarco-iveson-pdf.pdf ‘Life and Relation Beyond Animalization’ by …
Ghassan Hage: multiculturalism, anti-racism and nationalism in Australia
World101x Anthropology of Current World Issues in Melbourne to talk to Ghassan Hage from the University of Melbourne about multiculturalism and nationalism in Australia and his work on…
From supporting migrants to protesting for change
By Lysanne Vrooman Almost half a year ago, on the 25th of March 2017, it was the sixtieth anniversary of the treaty of Rome.…
Three Lessons I Learned From Charlottesville
White supremacists surrounded counterprotesters at the University of Virginia campus on August 11. Shay Horse /Associated Press On the evening of August 11, a torch-bearing mob assaulted …
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part XVIII
Here are my articles and interviews from the past two weeks: Fast Company, Why Puerto Rico Is Not Trump’s Katrina (9/27/17) CPAC, “Perspective with Alison Smith: Mass Shooting…
Links & Contents I Liked 254
Hi all, I almost felt overwhelmed by the amount of interesting readings, reports and articles that made it into this week’s review-there is *a lot* of interesting stuff…
History, Ethics, and the Environmental Archive by M. X. Mitchell
In Marshallese culture the environment itself is sacred.[1] Yet American colonizers used ancestral environments in the Marshall Islands for devastating nuclear weapons testing and related environmenta…
Visual Anthropology Of The Egyptian Revolution (And Beyond)
A special issue of the journal Visual Anthropology brings together seven scholars exploring visual aspects of political contestation in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring. The issue …