The Stories Bones Tell w/ Kristina Killgrove
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teen pregnancy reduction campaigns in Brazil may be backfiring
Teen pregnancy reduction campaigns in Brazil may be backfiring (iStock) Efforts to reduce teen pregnancy rates in Brazil have shown mixed results, and new research from Vanderbilt University…
The Voice of Hunger, Part 1
A Two Part Series on Lives Sacrificed under Turkey’s State of Emergency For Nuriye, Semih and many other brave souls who choose to carry on… Part 1: The…
Pride in Resistance
In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Pride marches and parades are taking place against a backdrop where taking to the streets has been resignified as a potent,…
Not afraid of the ruins: Call for submissions for science fiction and utopian imaginaries
The goal of this new section will be to regularly showcase new, original, creative and critical reflections to foster intimate and productive conversations across the intellectual and creative…
anthro in the news 6/26/17
Parliamentary election exit poll results 2017. Source: News.com.au electability over vision The New Statesman published commentary by David Graeber, professor of social anthropology at the London Scho…
What’s At Stake in Speculation? by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
We’ve long been thinking about health, well-being, illness, sickness, and disease, in relation to risk. That things might not be maintained at their present levels, either individually, among…
Focaal Volume 2017, Issue 78: Boredom after the global financial crisis
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.co…
‘Fredrik Barth’ by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography. xi+249 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. London: Pluto Press, 2015. $99 (cloth), $35 (paper) Fredrik Barth was a creative and…
Why We Post: Anthropologists take on Social Media
In response to our posts last week about the presence and role of anthropologists and other academics on social media, I stumbled across the Why We Post, Social…
Living with the End
By Peter Versteeg Recently Chris Cornell, singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died. Soundgarden is probably best known for their early nineties song ‘Black Hole Sun’, whic…
Videos: The Adventures of the Master Class Reconsidered
Here we return to the theme of the previous feature on “reality tourism,” and the promotional materials produced by the Razor’s Edge company. With this, we complete our…
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – An international Workshop
The twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the United Nations, a project…
From the Field: Havana, Cuba
by Evie Browne In the annual International Worker’s Day (Primero de Mayo) march past the Jose Martí statue in the centre of Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion, the…
Die Ärzteschaft türkischer Herkunft und die „Entdeckung des türkischen Patienten“ – zur Ethnisierung der Gesundheitsversorgung in (West-)Deutschland
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Lisa Peppler Arztkoffer mit Utensilien, um 1980; Wörterbuch Deutsch-Türkisch, 1976. Objekte in Privatbesitz, Foto: Lisa Peppler. Im gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Disku…
Inequality, Conservative Christianity and Implicit Racism in the US
In the United States, like many countries, income inequality has been reaching staggering proportions. In 1980, the average pre-tax income of the top 1% was 27 times the…
Food Studies for Anthropologists
David Beriss I have just returned from the joint annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values…
Updated History of Anthropology timeline — now with ‘homepage’!
I (actually, Kerim, who is hosting it) updated my history of anthropology timeline. I’ve also added a homepage for the timeline on my personal website. This page explains how…
Psychoanalysis, primitivism and reality testing
I realize it is meaningless to harp on the failures of past authors, but I was still struck by this very blithe statement from a psychoanalytic scholar in…