Feminist Anthropology Is Teamwork
As the launch of Feminist Anthropology was becoming visible in 2019, I found myself working on its editorial board with colleagues with whom I had collaborated over the…
Review: The Way We Eat Now
Bee Wilson The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution has Transformed our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World. Basic Books. New York. 2019. ISBN 978046509377 Richard…
How Names Tell Stories of Loss and Resilience
Bhutanese Nepali performers—including Shyam “San” Rai at center—pose at a cultural festival. Katie Reilly When Shyam “San” Rai was 8 years old, he and his family were forced…
El Cruce de la Muerte: Fieldwork and Carework at the Crossroad of Death
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Amarilys Estrella, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her research examines the role of human…
Happycondríacos: coachers, influencers, jokers.
“La publicidad se basa en una única cosa: la felicidad. […] Pero ¿qué es la felicidad? La felicidad es solo un momento antes de que quieras más felicidad.”…
September 2019 ~ Table of Contents
Volume 11 | Numbers 1-2 | September 2019 Editor’s Note Rylan Higgins, Maria D. Vesperi and Emily Martin. Features Relax, It’s just Culture: Secularizing Conventions in Nonfiction…
OsloMets første Storbykonferanse: viser veien for videre forskning
av Marikken Wullf Wathne og Per Martin Norheim-Martinsen Byer blir i stadig økende grad sett på som essensielle for globale prosesser. De siste tiårene har vi sett et…
Et urbant universitet i rurale Norge (Storbytalen 2019)
Rektor Curt Rice holdt åpningstalen på storbykonferansen på OsloMet. Dette er er en redigert utgave av talen hans. En redigert versjon av talen er tidligere publisert i nettavisen…
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #9
In Section 9 Omar teaches Greta the amount of adjectives required to break government gatekeeping – while Naga defends the precious Ministry data from short term consultants in spite…
Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Together with Lotty Brand, we wrote a piece for aeon about the paper: Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be? The piece was then…
Dear Graduate Student…
Dear Graduate Student, Here we are, well into another semester. Many of you are in the field already or preparing for the field. If you are already there,…
Writing, Silence, and Sensemaking After Fieldwork Trauma
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Kimberly J. Lewis, Associate Director of the Office of Scholars and Fellowships at the University of Richmond. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from…
Book Review: A Future History of Water by Andrea Ballestero
In A Future History of Water, Andrea Ballestero explores the conflict between water as a human right and water as an economic good through ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Costa Rica…
Ledige studentplasser ved NIBR, våren 2020
Er du masterstudent og jobber med by eller sted? By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR ved OsloMet ønsker flere studenter velkommen, og lyser hvert semester ut åtte studentplasser i våre…
Serin D. Houston, “Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
In Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the geographer Serin Houston complicates Seattle’s liberal and progressive reputation through a c… Visit New…
Die Klimablockade
11.000 Wissenschaftler warnen vor dem «Klimanotfall» – der Menschheit drohe durch die Klimaerwärmung «noch nie dagewesenes Leid». Gleichzeitig werden die ideologischen Konflikte in der Klimafrage imme…
Providing Accessibility as a Meeting Attendee
You’re getting ready for the Annual Meeting! Great! Do you ever wonder about who goes and who doesn’t go? And why? As anthropologists, we are trained to analyze…
Det oppgraderte mennesket.
Hvor sitter det som gjør deg menneskelig? I hjernen? I hendene? I sjelen? Og hvor mange deler av deg selv kan du bytte ut før du ikke lenger…
On reproductive work and family, again by Cinzia Greco
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family Sophie Lewis Verso, 2019. 224 pages. In the first segment of the 1963 Oscar-winning anthology film Ieri, Oggi e Domani, Sophia Loren…
How Belonging Shapes the Vaccination Crisis
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS Anthropologist Elisa Sobo never wanted to study the issue of vaccination. The topic was too fraught, she says, and she didn’t want to touch it…
Critical Imagination at the Intersection of STS Pedagogy and Research
*This post was co-authored by Emily York and Shannon Conley* In 2017, we established the STS Futures Lab—a space to critically interrogate plausible sociotechnical futures and to develop…
PrEP at the After/Party: The ‘Post-AIDS’ Politics of Frank Ocean’s “PrEP+” by Benjamin Weil
Introduction HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have taken many forms, ranging from pop-up stalls at LGBTQ+ Pride parades to circuit parties at popular queer venues. In this essay, we examine…