Category: English
Only looking forward?
“In front of the office of the NGO stood a traditional ‘hanok’ house which caved in just a few days before I took this picture.” By Maaike van…
“To Peace, Because the Awful Alternative is the End of All Life”: Build Bomb–Explore Space(s)–Save World! (Part 1)
This two-part post is a collaborative authorship between Taylor R. Genovese and Martin Pfeiffer, a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. For more on…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XIV
Hey do y’all believe me now about that whole “Russian inference” thing I’ve been writing about for over a year? Anyway, here are some of my articles and…
Nader Hashimi and Danny Postel, eds. “Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East” (Oxford UP, 2017)
The term ‘sectarianism’ has dominated much of the discourse on the Middle East and dictates that much of the unrest in the region is due to religious and…
Looking Ahead: University Anthropology Museums Matter
With notices going out from the Program Committee this week, the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting (November 29-December 3, 2017) is coming into focus. Notes that I am…
The duodenum is a noble, noble organ and I am totally, totally willing to own that name.
anthroduodenum /anTHrəˈd(y)o͞oəˈdēnəm/ or /anTHrōˈd(y)o͞oəˈdēnəm/ n 1. an anthropology blog dedicated to breaking down the most important issue facing our discipline. 2. the hard, under-appreciated, b…
What happened on 12 July: A lot.
July 12 was a historic day for net neutrality, with 1.6 million comments sent to the FCC and over 3 million phone calls made to congress. Anthropologists did…
Links & Contents I Liked 241
Hi all, Despite the lack of sun in Sweden, this post still counts as a ‘summer post’… Development news: The war in South Sudan; failing to learn from Biafra…
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – A Report
Our students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our workshop « The Bureaucratization of Utopia: International Governance, Audit…
Can we transform the repetition of virtual development debates into something bigger? And do we have to?
Maybe it was purely coincidental. Or maybe it was because I have more time to engage with digital content during my summer teaching break, but there seems to…
Conversations and Podcasting as Social Technology
This episode is a little different from our normal content. In it we feature a presentation Adam gave for Pivotal Labs in which he explores This Anthro Life’s (and…
How to be a tourist in Ireland
ET: You’ve said that everybody likes the Irish, but they don’t like themselves much. Why is that? DS: Well, Freud (him again) apparently said we have a neurosis but psychoanalysis would…
How to be a tourist in Ireland
ET: You’ve said that everybody likes the Irish, but they don’t like themselves much. Why is that? DS: Well, Freud (him again) apparently said we have a neurosis but psychoanalysis would…
Shitting in Space: Engagements with Cosmic Taboo
Last December, I was asked an interesting question on Twitter: “How much poop is on the moon?” After a quick, panicky, existential reevaluation centered on whether my mountain…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
To PhD or not to PhD…
To PhD or not to PhD… this is a question that many prospective and current students haven’t thoroughly considered. As Daniel McCormack notes in “Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe”…
Roundtable: Comment by Dorothy Noyes #CollaborativeDilemmas
Dorothy Noyes, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, responds to the questions Chiara Bortolotto has recently raised in her virtual roundtable on “‘Col…