Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca Part 5
“The New Paradigm” Yesterday marked exactly a year since Ayahuasca Healings submitted to the DEA their petition for exemption from the Controlled Substances Act. The cover letter, dated…
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Christine Wilson Awards
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to invite students to submit papers in competition for the Christine Wilson Award. This award is presented to outstanding…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 26: Sameena Mulla on Missing Black Girls and Women
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Why We Need Transnational Social Protection for Migrants
On February 20, migrants and British nationals came together for One Day Without Us rallies, demonstrations, and other events throughout the United Kingdom to celebrate the role of…
Cities as Migrant Emplacement
São Paulo rappers are remaking the cultural space of the city. We’ve joined forces with AAA’s public education initiative “World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration”…
Cris Shore: What is a European?: Solidarity, symbols, and the politics of exclusion
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Earlier this…
Around the Web Digest- March 27
As the buds start popping out on the northern hemisphere, I emerge with your readings for the week. As contemporary travel writing continues to perpetuate colonialist ideas and…
antropologi.info finally mobile friendly (and secure)
Today I have finally upgraded the antropologi.info’s blogging software (b2evolution, not WordPress!) and made its templates mobile friendly. So, now, finally, antropologi.info no longer looks so weir…
Call for Papers: Ethno/Graphic Storytelling
AAA 2017: Anthropology Matters November 29-December 3, 2017 Washington, DC Ethno/Graphic Storytelling: Communicating research through graphic novels and animation Co-Organizers: Archaeologist Sonya At…
This week in anthropological rebuttals to Charles Murray
Just when you think that The Bell Curve has been thoroughly debunked, it rears its ugly head…again. It’s like a weed that just won’t go away–and that should…
“Comparative Dynamics of Cooking Practices” – PhD opportunity in France
PhD. Student recruitment in social sciences – “Compared dynamics of cooking practices” Context Created in 2008, the Center for Food and Hospitality research at the Institut Paul Bocu…
kill your darlin’s day 5 (missed a day) still slashing away, detritus for the record…
Things that were context then, needed to be updated now so go: – the New Cross Fire,[1] the Battle of Lewisham,[2] Brixton SUS[3] – [1] The New…
Nature’s Most Creative Copulators
For humans, sex is risky, socially complicated, and culturally loaded—but it’s almost always fun. David Williams Googling “sex” in 2016 yields approximately 3.34 billion results in 0.29 s…
Shifting realities – #IstandwithCEU
Solidarity during the protest in support of CEU and academic freedom on 2 April 2017. (Photo courtesy of Index.hu) By Georgette Veerhuis A few weeks ago I was…
Refusing Blood, Establishing Relational Biocitizenship: Collectivizing Moments among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Małgorzata Rajtar Picture 1: Excerpt from a Jehovah’s Witness advance directive. © Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Photo: M.…
Maternal Deaths in the U.S.
Photo Credit: Elisa Talentino, New York Times When most American couples get pregnant their attentions immediately turn to the bundle of joy they are about to bring into…