Waste by Jennifer Wenzel
Waste is a tricky word. In our meditations in Somatosphere, waste hews toward its concrete sense as discard: material byproducts of some transformative process, metabolic or mechanical; things…
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anthro in the news 10/23/17
Credit: Pixabay/Creative Commons clarifying the “Nuclear Deal” The Huffington Post published commentary by William O. Beeman, professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, cla…
Conferencing: Working the (Reception) Room
#AmAnth17, CASCAinCuba, and SfAA 2018 Sustainable Futures meeting, oh my! Here at #anthroeverywhere!, we’ve used the last number of posts to cover various topics related to best and…
Niger Nightmare: The Cost of Cultural Ignorance
Whenever Niger is in the headlines, the news is never good—drought, floods, epidemics, starving children and now the emergence
Niger Nightmare: The Cost of Cultural Ignorance
Whenever Niger is in the headlines, the news is never good—drought, floods, epidemics, starving children and now the emergence
Niger Nightmare: The Cost of Cultural Ignorance
Whenever Niger is in the headlines, the news is never good—drought, floods, epidemics, starving children and now the emergence
In space, this is the age of reusability
It might seem that the obvious solution is to reuse rockets. The idea of Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs) isn’t new, but reusing rockets has proven tricky in the…
About that takedown notice from the AAA
Here we go again. If you’re a member of the American Anthropological Association, you should have received an email this past week (10/17) about avoiding copyright infringement. The…
About that takedown notice from the AAA
Here we go again. If you’re a member of the American Anthropological Association, you should have received an email this past week (10/17) about avoiding copyright infringement. The…
Me Too Anthropology
TW: Rape, abuse, misogyny; CW: cis-gendered language by Elizabeth Beckmann Just over a week ago the #MeToo campaign, originally pioneered by black activist Tarana Burke over ten years ago,…
Special Focus: Fields, Furrows, and Landmarks in the History of Anthropology
Read the full Focus Section here. The post Special Focus: Fields, Furrows, and Landmarks in the History of Anthropology appeared first on History of Anthropology Newsletter.
Links & Contents I Liked 255
Hi all, Development news: The UN & the Rohingya crisis; Africa is too expensive for manufacturing; how Angelie Jolie almost had a dinner date with Joseph Kony; Hungry…
The Lomidine Files (book review)
Guillaume Lachenal’s The Lomidine Files-The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa, expertly translated by Noémi Tousignant, has been one of the most interesting books I…
Replicants and Reproduction: Blade Runner 2049 and Sci Fi’s Obsession with Motherhood
(Warning: Blade Runner 2049 spoilers.) From the outset of Blade Runner 2049, Agent K (Ryan Gosling) is promised the possibility of a miracle. No longer more human than…
Can We “See” Climate Change?
While standing on the Senate floor in Washington, D.C., in February 2015, Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma expressed his deep skepticism about climate change. “We keep hearing…
Review: Eating the Ocean
Eating the Ocean. Elspeth Probyn. Duke University Press, 2016. L. G. Brown (Indiana University) In, Eating the Ocean, Elspeth Probyn contributes to an anthropology of food in two…
Conferencing: Contributing to the Conversation
Our past few posts have focused on tips for conference-goers, which are timely with the upcoming #AmAnth17 in November. To date we’ve shared some tips on Writing better Conference Abstr…
In The Journals – September 2017, part II by Christine Sargent
Hi folks! Without further ado, the second half of September’s installment: Medical Anthropology Quarterly Normal, Regular, and Standard: Scaling the Body through Fecal Microbial Transplants Mat…