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…
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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…
Kill your darlings #6
Now the collection of – clunky concrete poetry – things dumped here show just how rough the first draft really was. Out damn spot, out. It is always…
Eugene Raikhel, “Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic” (Cornell UP, 2016)
Alcoholism is a strange thing. That it exists, no one seriously doubts. But it’s not entirely clear (diagnostically speaking) what it is, who has it, how they get…
Funeral Home Makes Missing Body Parts
A funeral home in Shanghai, China has started a 3D printing repair service in an attempt to repair damaged or disfigured corpses. Body mutilation is very common in…
What a ballot-rigging conspiracy theory says about India’s toxic political climate
by Nayanika Mathur **Reprinted from The Conversation.** The headline story from India’s recent provincial elections was the staggering victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party …
The School Lunch Debate: Ethnographic Perspectives
AAA Panel CFP The School Lunch Debate: Ethnographic Perspectives on Education, Nutrition, and Culture From parents to politicians, health care providers to business executives, anthropologists and ma…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, April 11th Edition
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…
anthro in the news 4/10/17
Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile during a flight test Credit: U.S. Navy, Wikimedia Commons Trump strike on Syria Two newspaper reports on Trump’s April 6 missile attack on…
Dream Factories in the Time of War
On Sunday, February 26, 2017, the Arab world held elections—anyone who had access to a cell phone and wanted to pay the extra fee to send an SMS…
Building Vocabularies for Everyday Discussions about "Race", racism, and Inclusion/exclusion
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
Building Vocabularies for Everyday Discussions about "Race", racism, and Inclusion/exclusion
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
CFP: Sciences, savoirs et pratiques des déchets: Dialogues entre mondes européens et américains
(English below, Spanish here, Portuguese here) Colloque international Sciences, savoirs et pratiques des déchets. Dialogues entre mondes européens et américains 23 et 24 Novembre 2017 A l’Institut des…
HSR II: Consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies
In the first of two questions of the second roundtable, human smuggling experts share their views on the (un)intended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies. We assembled a range…
Roundtable II: Responses by Luigi Achilli
What are the unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? From the perspective of media, border authorities, and public opinion, human smuggling is perceived as an exploita…
Roundtable II: Responses by Alexandra Ricard-Guay
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Alexandra Ricard-Guay is a Research Associate at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre…
Roundtable II: Responses by Peter Tinti & Tuesday Reitano
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Migrant smugglers exist because there is demand for people to move irregularly or illegally across border…
Roundtable II: Responses by Robert Barsky
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Although aimed at reducing the suffering and risk incurred by migrants, forced and otherwise, most anti-s…