SAFN Events & Panels at AAA 2017
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association is rapidly approaching. The conference will be held November 29-December 3 in Washington DC, mostly at the Marriott Wardman Park…
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Article Alert! New Texts in Discard Studies (October 2017)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in…
Is the United Nations Broken?
U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated the United Nations at the 72nd U.N. General Assembly in September. MediaPunch/Associated Press When the United Nations General Assembly convened its…
Yes, it is surely a Oklahoma Cherokee basket; Or my captions, as written
Fellow basketry enthusiasts may have seen the traveling exhibition Rooted, Revived, and Reinvented: Basketry in America. Happily for our musuem the exhibition includes a Sea Island basket from…
Web Roundup: NFL Concussion Risk and our Chronic, Traumatic Entertainment by Kathleen Lynch
As the NFL continues to dominate headlines in both sports and politics, there was a renewed focus this month on CTE and its impact on the lives of…
Axel Rudi: Independence from Whom? The Aftermath of the Kurdish Referendum
In the future, people will say, “On the 16th of October, it happened again.” The Kurds were once again betrayed by the international community. Afraid of losing their…
ethnoGRAPHIC: Extending Anthropology’s Reach, One Comic at a Time
Part of my job as an editor is to convince people to write the books I think they should write, not necessarily the ones they want to write.…
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis…
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis…
THE OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY COOPERATIVE: Towards an Online Public Anthropology
We attempt here to explore the relationship between anthropology, social media and public engagement through a web-based network that we helped to found and manage. We argue…
All that is trafficking is rape, and other emotional excesses
A combination of titillation and outrage characterise public rhetoric about commercial sex, along with a tone of moral indignation suited to crusaders. A policeman in Cornwall has just warned…
When the press covers news
Katie Sims / Sun Staff Photographer ROHINGYA Prof Urges Students to Consider Oppression of The Rohingya By Victoria Moore The Rohingya crisis has been termed a “textbook example of…
“Not All Suffering Is Illness; Some Suffering Is Political”: The Ambit of Radical Care
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay. 2016. A Labour of Liberation. Regina, SK, Canada: Changing Suns Press. 68 pages. A Labour of Liberation, published by the new Changing Suns Press, is a…
Butler on nonsystematic writing
I’ve been re-reading Butler’s work lately because I’m thinking about political mimesis, and I was struck along the way by her very frank and admirable comments about the…
Call for 2018 Opinion Columnists!
We are seeking opinion columnists to write engaging, critical commentary for the Anthropology News website in 2018. Do you want to provide your anthropological viewpoint on current events…
We’re Looking for Annual Meeting Reporters!
Anthropology News will be running a series of reports on events at the Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Would you like to share your reflections on a panel,…
Digging Into the Myth of Timbuktu
Sometime around 1 o’clock in the afternoon on April 19, 1828, René Caillié emerged from the dark hull of the slave ship that he had boarded weeks before.…
How to Make a Monster: Lessons from the Ancient Greeks
Homer’s Odyssey is essentially a monster-making manual. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
2017 Christine Wilson Award Winners!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Christine Wilson Awards. These awards are presented to outstanding undergraduate and graduate student research papers that examine topics…
Detritus by Sharad Chari
I employed the category ‘detritus’ in the early 2000s to diagnose the different kinds of residues of racial capitalism with which people struggled in the shadows of South…
anthro in the news 10/30/17
Elia Fester & children, Kalahari Khomani San Bushman, Boesmansrus camp, Northern Cape, South Africa. credit: South African Tourism maintaining minimalism and equality The Guardian published a pie…
One size does not fit all – Applying Anthropological Principals to Pedagogical Research
Blogger Jennifer Long has begun a new research project which looks at the various ways in which students’ unique context and identities influence their learning experiences. Where you…
Resistance to what?
Recently I attended a public lecture by Douglas Blum, a political scientist (with ambitions to be a cultural sociologist) who is involved in youth studies. He told that…
Resistance to what?
Recently I attended a public lecture by Douglas Blum, a political scientist (with ambitions to be a cultural sociologist) who is involved in youth studies. He told that…