‘The right to vote’ and Catalan independence
A battle of words A group of 30 honours students (3rd year) of Leiden University’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences paid a 4-day visit to Barcelona. The aim…
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Hobby Lobby’s Antiquities Trouble
The Department of Justice’s case against Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is one of only a few instances in which illegal antiquities were confiscated, but investigations into smuggled artifacts…
anthro in the news 7/10/17
Maori flag; credit: Wikipedia “thuggish, stupid youth” stereotype banished TheFIX (Australia) reported that Maori Television in New Zealand has pulled an Australian mini-series, Jonah from Tonga, fro…
Our New Name: Anthrodendum
anthrodendum /anTHrəˈdendəm/ or /anTHrōˈdendəm/ n 1. anthropological annotations of a community’s practices, expectations, experiences, and relationships. 2. an additional text, directing the reader t…
The Refugee in Anthropological Perspective
Over the past decade, we have witnessed new and ongoing crises around the world that have forced many people to uproot their lives in order to seek refuge…
Bibliography on critical approaches to toxics and toxicity
Toxicity, toxins, and toxicants are areas of critical concern because controversies over what they mean, how they act, how they come into being and where, and what counts as…
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, “Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
In mid-March, Europeans observed the Dutch national elections with intense interest. Onlookers believed that a victory of the Party for Freedom led by Geert Wilders will influence the…
For African Asylum-Seekers, a Treacherous Journey Is Only the Beginning
Sprawling, makeshift camps in the mountains of northern Morocco are home to large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans who await their chance to cross into Spain. Isabella Alexander Africans…
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Hi all, It’s Friday-and you know what that means: New #globaldev stuff and more from Aidnography! Development news: Immersing with a family in Kenya; aid reforms; refugees &…
Petra Rethman: The German question: Solidarity, Lexit, nation
On 14 May 2017, in North Rhine-Westphalia’s (NRW) state (Bundesland) election, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won in emphatic fashion. Emphatic, here, does not express itself in numbers—33…
Radio Okapi Kindu (book review)
Jennifer Bakody’s memoir Radio Okapi Kindu-The Station That Helped Bring Peace to the Congo on her time as a UN communications officer and local radio station manager in…
Activity theory
Extract from Ruijer, E., Grimmelikhuijsen, S., & Meijer, A. (2017). Open data for democracy: Developing a theoretical framework for open data use. Government Information Quarterly, 34(1), 45-52. A…
Interview: Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade by Rajan Gurukkal
Rajan Gurukkal‘s Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations (Oxford University Press, 2016) casts a critical eye over the exchanges, usu…
Jon Dean, “Doing Reflexivity: An Introduction” (Policy Press, 2017)
Doing Reflexivity: An Introduction (Policy Press, 2017) by Jon Dean, a senior lecturer in politics and sociology at Sheffield Hallam University, explores and explains reflexivity as one of…
Glimpses from Calcutta’s Old Chinatown: The Oldest Chinatown outside Southeast Asia
Originally posted on Encounters: India has a long history of commercial and cultural contacts with mainland China. Chinese communities had, therefore (mostly temporarily) settled in different ports al…
Casting into the Cosmos: Magic and Ritual in Human Spaceflight (Part 2)
In Part 1, I wrote a gonzo ethnography about my experience at a rocket launch in Florida. For Part 2, I will be utilizing historical records, museum didactic…
Human Contamination: The Infectious Border Crossings of Jeff VanderMeer’s Area X by Sophia Booth Magnone
“What if an infection was a message, a brightness a kind of symphony? As a defense? An odd form of communication? If so, the message had not been…
Reconsidering How We Honor Those Lost to War
Cities in the southern U.S. are currently under pressure to take down statues of Confederate leaders, whose publicly sanctioned presence is a constant source of injury to many.…
Class Politics and Romania’s “White Revolution”
The color white embodied exclusionary middle-class aspirations to moral governance and virtuous citizenship. Romania’s “White Revolution” (January–February 2017), the most recent episode of East Eur…
An Anthropologist In Situ Part II: A Business Accreditation Conference
I (Jenn) have recently been reflecting on the ways in which we can bring anthropological knowledge into non-traditional anthropological places – particularly, during conference season. First, I spoke…
Interview: Sonic Rupture by Jordan Lacey
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding the…