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Hi all, If you are celebrating Easter you are probably looking for some good readings for the long weekend! Development news: AP investigates UN peacekeeping troubles in Haiti;…
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Links & Contents I Liked 228
Hi all, If you are celebrating Easter you are probably looking for some good readings for the long weekend! Development news: AP investigates UN peacekeeping troubles in Haiti;…
“EUER WEH”: Accra station woe
EUER WEH – German for ‘your woe‘, reads the car inscription on the bonnet. An unwitting meaning, residue of the former German fire truck, which had FEUERWEHR written…
Black Women’s Food Work is from the Future
Ashanté M. Reese, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College When I think about being a Black girl from the future, my mind goes to the contradiction that…
Kill your darlings part 7
The slaughter of excess paragraphs and cul de sac ideas continues to leave this residue here in case I need to return… There are several admirable reasons for…
Summer School: Hands-on Anthropology and Collaborative Storytelling
Everyone has a story to tell. For anthropologists, such accounts can reveal as much about the people and societies we study as more conventional research. But the process…
The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered
The Pech, an Indigenous group in eastern Honduras, possess local knowledge, stories, and survival skills that are invaluable for knowing a place and its history. Christopher Begley We…
Anthropology against white supremacy
In this post from the AAA’s Anthropology News, Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega offers “Six Ways Anthropologists Can Challenge White Supremacy” (27 March 2017). Create purposeful students Critique identi…
Anthropology against white supremacy
In this post from the AAA’s Anthropology News, Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega offers “Six Ways Anthropologists Can Challenge White Supremacy” (27 March 2017). Create purposeful students Critique identi…
#Fieldwork among comedians: A Danish anthropologist trying to be funny
“Why are stand-up comedians better anthropologists than I am?” A few years ago, I started asking myself that question. As an anthropologist, I am supposed to know about…
Alright, let’s talk about GHB: A user’s guide.
When it kicks in, it feels like meeting an old friend for the first time. – Daniel, 34 Few drugs are as misunderstood and stigmatized as GHB (except for…
Acceleration: the Key Feature of Twenty-First Century Globalization? A Review of ‘Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change’, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Pluto Press, 2016 By David O’Kane
‘It’s the global’: these were the words which miners in Sierra Leone used to explain the global economic slowdown of 2007, the event which would lead to the…
Acceleration: The Key Feature of Twenty-First Century Globalization? A Review of ‘Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change’, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Pluto Press, by David O’Kane (2016)
‘It’s the global’: these were the words which miners in Sierra Leone used to explain the global economic slowdown of 2007, the event which would lead to the…
Inside a Moroccan Marijuana Farm
With my gaze fixed on the horizon, I stood at the bow of a ferry that carried me across the Strait of Gibraltar. One by one, the peaks…
The Syllabus is pausing to breath, and so should you.
We’ve been going for 26 weeks! Those of us in the classroom are getting to the parts of the semester that are very tricky to maneuver. Why is…
FreeThink 5: Finding Balance in the Midst of Burnout
Freethink #5: Finding Balance in the midst of Burnout In this week’s free think Ryan and Adam talk burning out and finding balance. They reflect on their travels…
FreeThink 5: Finding Balance in the Midst of Burnout
Freethink #5: Finding Balance in the midst of Burnout In this week’s free think Ryan and Adam talk burning out and finding balance. They reflect on their travels…
CFP: Waste, Space, and Place
We invite papers from multiple disciplines to engage with the topics of waste, wastage, wasting, waste-ability, rescue and salvage in relation to space and place.
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop: An Interview with Susan Ossman
Anthropologist and writer Helen Faller interviews Susan Ossman, Artistic Director of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop and professor of Anthropology a University of California, Riverside. Helen: …
Call for Proposals: Why Will You March for Science
Will you be at the March for Science on April 22? If so, AN would like to hear from you! March organizers describe the event as “the first…
AAA CFP Last Call // Sedimentation: Extraction, Soil and Memory
Sedimentation: Extraction, Soil and Memory (seeking papers re: Agriculture, Food Commodities) Co-organizers: Serena Stein, PhD Candidate, Princeton University Andrew Ofstehage, PhD Candidate, UNC-Chap…
A Threat to Academic Freedom Everywhere? A CEU Update
An estimated 70,000 people turned out to rally in support of Central European University in Budapest on Sunday. The amendment to the higher education law, given the moniker…
Commentary: The Environmental Anthropology of Settler Colonialism, Part I
By Zoe Todd, Carleton University § If we take seriously the work of Indigenous scholars on the Indigenous legal-governance systems of territories across what is now Canada, and if…
Upton on HIV and public health in Botswana
Colgate students and faculty assembled in the Persson Hall Auditorium on Wednesday, March 29 to listen to a talk given by Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Co-Director…