“Capitalism Is Just around the Corner…”
A view on tourism and economic development from rural Cuba Expanding private business “Everyone is now crazy for renting,” my friend Julio told me during my last stay…
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Sustainable Tourism… for Development?
Not a day goes by without being confronted, one way or the other, with the multiple environmental, societal, and economic challenges that our planet faces. Because it is…
Anthropologists Weigh in on the Sustainability of Tourism
With 1 billion annual tourists worldwide (and rising), the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) declared 2017 the Year of Sustainable Tourism. But how—and if—tourism can be sustainable, particularly as…
Anthropologists need to address the Google memo on its merits. Again.
When Google engineer James Damore wrote his now-infamous memo about how woman are naturally unsuited to work at Google, anthropologists everywhere groaned inwardly. Our discipline’s lot in life…
anthro in the news 8/14/17
Closed due to heat wave. Credit: MTSOfan/Flickr summer in the city The Conversation published an article on heat waves, urban life, and social inequality by Merrill Singer, professor…
Syllabi resources for challenging systemic racism, colonization, and more
In the wake of the horrific, racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, it is important for anthropologists to think about our voice in university classrooms as…
My new book on Global Water Governance with Nathanial Matthews
Very pleased to announce my new book, co-authored with Nathanial Matthews, is now out with Palgrave Macmillan. A description of the book is below (or here) and the…
How we discovered pollution-poisoned crustaceans in the Mariana Trench
A trench amphipod, Hirondellea gigas, from the deepest place on Earth: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (10,890m). Alan Jamieson, Newcastle University, Author provided Alan Jamieson, Newcastle Un…
Do All African Immigrants Arrive Sick, Desperate, and Empty-Handed on the Shores of Europe? Ask Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg!
The lives, status, and image of immigrants may constitute the single-most urgent human issue of our time. In an arresting and captivating new study of Cameroonian mothers now…
Call for Applications: Laurits Andersen PhD position in Business and Organizational Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen
The Laurits Andersen Foundation at the University of Copenhagen has granted funds to the Department of Anthropology for a three-year fully financed PhD position in the field of…
Siberia Geography Postdoc wanted
Our colleagues in Vienna have this interesting job opening in a project that combines anthropology and GIS in the area of the East Siberian railway region (BAM, AYAM).…
Illustrated Man #10: The Vision
I first started blogging about anthropology and comic books back in 2012 in an occasional series titled Illustrated Man. It lasted for about nine posts before petering out…
al-Juwayni on Islamic Law
David R. Vishanoff has recently published online A Critical Edition, English Translation, and New Commentary on Imām al‑Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī’s Leaflet on the Sources of Law (Kitāb al‑Waraqāt fī…
Ethnography as Street Magic, or What We Can Learn from David Blaine
By Haley Bryant I think we have a lot to learn about ethnographic practice from street magic….stay with me, here. What is Magic? David Blaine, Street Magic When…
A Conversation About Life in America
About a week ago, I went to New York City to see my West African friends at the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market. Usually I
A Conversation About Life in America
About a week ago, I went to New York City to see my West African friends at the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market. Usually I
A Conversation About Life in America
About a week ago, I went to New York City to see my West African friends at the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market. Usually I
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Hi all, I’m wrapping up a fantastic week of teaching at a summer academy in Northern Germany! Lots of great discussions about the past, present & future of…