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On the Brink Podcast: Featuring This Anthro Life
Although TAL is just now getting back into the recording studio, you can catch up with Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins on the latest episode, Episode 28, of…
W. Lloyd Warner, A Black Civilization
Although perhaps best known in the social sciences for his Yankee City series of books, W. Lloyd Warner’s first ethnography was his still-impressive A Black Civilization: A Social…
Another re-launch…
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho) It has been almost two years since STUAnthroBlog was last functioning regularly.…
Deterritorializing Chinatown in Digital Tokyo
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the series Digital Anthropologies in East Asia. [pquote]The growth in digital forms of sociality and their intersection with new mobilities has ensured…
People, Places and Change
Exhibition – Research in the Arctic Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland October 3 –19, 2017. Kopio Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, University of…
Links & Contents I Liked 252
Hi all, Before I’m heading to Pretoria for a week to participate in the kick-off workshop of the new Swedish-South African University Network, I’m sharing my regular Friday…
#Humanitarianism(s) in socialist Red Cross societies
The international Red Cross family built up a network of humanitarian aiders that one cannot pass over when thinking about 20th century humanitarianism. This article will cover a…
Soe Lin Aung: Three theses on the crisis in Rakhine
By now, the main contours of the recent events in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, are well-known. On August 25, an insurgent group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya…
Teach Archaeology at Hartwick College
Hartwick Archaeology As mentioned in the Hartwick Anthropology Survey, 2017-2018 marks the first retirement from Hartwick Anthropology. Professor David Anthony, acclaimed author of The Horse, the Whee…
Teach Archaeology at Hartwick College
Hartwick Archaeology As mentioned in the Hartwick Anthropology Survey, 2017-2018 marks the first retirement from Hartwick Anthropology. Professor David Anthony, acclaimed author of The Horse, the Whee…
Uber and Mr. Uddin
Caption and credit: An anti-Uber demonstration in London, 2014. Credit: David Holt/Flickr. Written by: Sean Carey “Do you think Uber will close?” asked Mr. Uddin, a worried 52-year-old…
Iceland’s Forgotten Fisherwomen
Fisherwomen have played a significant role in Iceland’s history, and yet their contribution has been, for the most part, overlooked. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS In the mid-1700s, a seawoman in…
Living Text: Written messages outside and inside a West Bank peace project
This photo essay gathers statements from both outside (West Bank/Jericho area) and inside the peace project EcoME (“Ecological Middle East”) in the contested Palestinian Territories. The texts and…
Incitement to paedophilia: It’s the zeitgeist
The headline reads Spanish brothel’s “back to school” party sparks outrage in Andalusia. El Bosque is a legal club de alterne where sex workers drink, dance and chat with customers…
The Event! Designing Human Futures
Dr. Paul Hartley came to McMaster last night to give us a talk about Reassessing our (i.e. Humans’) Relationship with Technology. The talk was extremely useful in that…
CFP: Organizing and Managing Waste (Dec 1)
Special issue call for papers from Society and Business Review Organizing and Managing Waste Deadline December 1st, 2017 Waste is not only a global environmental issue. It is also…
#Humanitarianism tomorrow? Humanitarian actions in former Yugoslavia
“We did it! Montenegro passed the great exam of humanness. In less than 48 hours it collected over 200,000EUR to help three-year-old Selena Mandic, who has neuroblastoma, a…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part XVII
I’m back in the US and back on the road to give talks over the next few weeks. If you’re in Springfield MO, Austin TX or New Haven…