Studying Up in the Age of Trump
In the recent months and weeks since Donald Trump was elected and inaugurated as our 45th president, I’ve seen a lot of anthropologists questioning “what can we do?,”…
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CFP: Treating Waste as a Resource
CFP: ‘Treating Waste as a Resource’ RGS-IBG conference 29 Aug – 1 Sept, 2017 London, UK
Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?
The word “Caucasian” is used in the U.S. to describe white people, but it doesn’t indicate anything real. It’s the wrong term to use! My colleague and one…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 17: Riché Barnes on #BlackFamiliesMatter, Especially Black Mothers
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to relaunch the second semester of an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagog…
Web Roundup: Water by Lily Shapiro
Before I began graduate school, I worked in water-related public health, and have continued to follow the news around water. This month, some stories (mostly) about water. Trump…
Protesting the Powers that Be and Being the Power that Protests w/ Jara Connell
What does mass-protesting accomplish? Does no arrests equate success? Why is protesting disruptive? And more! In this action packed episode of This Anthropological Life, Aneil, Adam, and…
Measures of Quality Education
When I first came to Brazil, I quickly became aware of the problem in the educational system here. So, I began to collect statistics and study why the…
The Biological Fallacy of American’s Race Problem #MeadCompetition
I love my hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. I’m sure you’ve heard about Baltimore lately, with its sagging school system, serving a mainly African-American population; its yet again exploding…
Structure & Agency In Contemporary Social Theory
One of the main concerns of theorists of society in the 20th century has been the question of the relation between structure and agency. Describe three different schools…
Labour & The Self
What is Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self? How is it shaped by labor processes? According to Karl Marx, an individual’s self-identity influences their local context or is…
Summary of Classical Sociological Theory
The basic premise of all classical sociological theory is that the contemporary world is the outcome of a transition from “traditional” to “modern” societies. Explain how Karl…
大鸡大利 | Year of the Cock
It’s a joke so obvious and trite that I tried very hard to avoid it, but eventually everyone around me was cracking it, and sometimes the cheapest jokes…
From Erdoğan’s Turkey to Trump’s America
Since signing a petition to end state violence against Kurds in southeast Turkey, academics critical of the Turkish regime have come under increased scrutiny. These “dopey academics” as…
Sexwork and migration fiction, part 2 : Jobs in the sex industry
I wrote The Three-Headed Dog to get away from the straitjacket of a debate where one side is always moralising and the other reacting with rational debunking. In…
Beware the Slender Man: From Cyberlore to Conspiracy Theory
We didn’t want to go, we didn’t want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time… The moral…
What Foodanthro is Reading Now, January 31st Edition
This article about a Syrian supper club in New Jersey was a glimpse of bridge-building, centered on food. Hooray for bridges. And hooray for cooking, with cookbooks, even in…
In the Journals – January 2017 by Anna Zogas
Welcome to a new year of Somatosphere’s In the Journals section! Here are some of the articles available in January 2017. Enjoy! Medical Anthropology Chronic Subjunctivity, or, How…
The Transformation of One of New York City’s Most Famous Squats #MeadCompetition
The notorious C-Squat has become a kind of “house society” in which people are tied together by their connection to shared property and communal history. But can it…
A Nation Divided by Social Media
How are you dealing with dissenting opinions in your news feed? And within your circle of friends and family? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A Nation Divided by Social Media
How are you dealing with dissenting opinions in your news feed? And within your circle of friends and family? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Anthropology of Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
Ever since the pioneering work of Mary Douglas on risk back in 1992, anthropologists have understood that there is a difference between what is actually dangerous and what…
Hannah Arendt and Martin Luther King Jr.: The Next #AnthReadIn on February 17, 2017
By: JC Salyer and Paige West On January 20, over one thousand anthropologists came together to read Michel Foucault’s lecture eleven in “Society Must Be Defended.” What began…
Seppuku – Honorable Suicide
A staged version of the Japanese ritual suicide known as Seppuku or Hara-Kiri, circa 1885. The warrior in white plunges a knife into his belly, while his second…