Blood bowl: The Other Fantasy Football, Part 1: Warming Up
Editorial Note: This article will be released in three parts over the course of the next month. Stay tuned. Shouts ring out around one of the main halls…
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What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, June 2nd 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Links & Contents I Liked 235
Hi all, We are currently examining and discussing about 20 excellent MA thesis projects which is always a great way to wrap up the teaching term!I wish I…
Links & Contents I Liked 235
Hi all, We are currently examining and discussing about 20 excellent MA thesis projects which is always a great way to wrap up the teaching term!I wish I…
Visual Anthropology Revisited, pt 2
We like to bring you some of our favorite conversations from our catalogue as we think about new ways to explore the topic. This week we’re bringing you…
Visual Anthropology Revisited, pt 2
We like to bring you some of our favorite conversations from our catalogue as we think about new ways to explore the topic. This week we’re bringing you…
Visualising the past: crafting respectability in Seychelles and London #ThinkingVisually
In some research contexts, it is all but impossible to neglect the visual. Prior to beginning research on knowledge and intimacy in Seychelles and in London (with the…
Envisioning a More Public Anthropology: An Interview with Fredrik Barth April 18th, 2001
Envisioning a More Public Anthropology An Interview with Fredrik Barth April 18th, 2001 Fredrik Barth: Let me begin with a general preamble to our conversation. Since anthropology draws on…
Conferentie in Marokko over Feminisme, radicalisering en extremisme
Paintings: Khadija MADANI ALAOUI, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez Door Edien Bartels en Lenie Brouwer Feminisme, radicalisering en extremisme zijn grote woorden. Hoe breng je die bijeen…
In the Journals – May 2017 by Livia Garofalo
Please enjoy the article round-up for the month of May! This post was put together in collaboration with Ann Marie Thornburg. American Ethnologist Plant matters: Buddhist medicine and economies…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XII
Here are my articles and interviews from the past few days. I will be speaking at the March for Truth in St. Louis this Saturday morning. Follow March…
How Smart Were the First Toolmakers?
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) makes it possible to image people’s brains while they are moving their arms, which allows researchers to study the brain activity of toolmakers. …
Year-End Reflections on The 2016-17 Anthropoliteia BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project
Welcome to the last post of the 2016-2017 year of Anthropoliteia’s #BlackLivesMatter syllabus. We’ve invited all of the series contributors to offer their thoughts here as we reflect…
Religion and Economy – Part Two
We need to understand better how we build the infrastructures of collective existence, money among them. How do meanings come to be shared and memory to transcend the…
Trump Echoes Bush in Middle East Visit
President Introduces New Term into Counterterrorism Lexicon President Trump embarked on his first international trip since moving into the White House after a special counsel was appointed to…
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
Mixed Kernels, or What We Don’t See in Ads #ThinkingVisually
You know how a common criticism of politicians is that they’re out of touch with the real world? “Does your local representative know the price of a carton…
Life Lessons From Prince: Four Things I learned After Four Days at Paisley Park. Part 3
(photo credit 3. Embrace your weird. It’s what changes the world for the better. Prince was certainly not a human you would describe as “ordinary” or “mainstream” or…
Clifford Geertz: Ethnographer?
Why was Clifford Geertz such a popular anthropologist? Because he connected anthropology and the humanities? Because he was a great writer? One answer that often comes up is…
What EM Is Reading and Watching
Another set of thought-provoking readings and recommendations from frequent FoodAnthropology contributor Ellen Messer. Note that while many of these are inspired by items from the Financial Times, Dr….