What is your body story?
Rather than having an explicit political conversation, I’d like this to be an open space where we can learn from each other’s different realities by sharing our own…
Rather than having an explicit political conversation, I’d like this to be an open space where we can learn from each other’s different realities by sharing our own…
What is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’ – or at minimum…
“Wir hoffen immer, und in allen Dingen ist besser hoffen als verzweifeln.” (Goethe, Torquato Tasso) Und doch: Manchmal könnte man einfach nur noch heulen. Die “Süddeutsche Zeitung…
Marcos Andrade Neves Organization’s room: procedure and paper work | 2015 Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves Since 1871, upon the inception of the Criminal Code…
synthetic zero ” As philosophical fashions lurch from one extreme to the other — from the hyper-relativism of the cultural construction industry to the ever-multiplying essentialisms of the…
Join TAL’s Aneil Tripathy and Ryan Collins as they interview Ana Mariella Bacigalupo of SUNY Buffalo. Ana’s discussion of her research on Mapuche shamans takes us on an…
One day back when I was working in my campus IT job, I jotted down some notes on a day at work. I was in the middle of…
Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology by Cassandra S. Crawford NYU Press, 2014, 314 pages The title of this important book gives only the slightest hint of…
This post is also part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). I visited Lampedusa from 24…
Buy a kidney, exploit the poor and desperate Washington Post published a weekly “In Theory” piece by medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California at Berkeley.…
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Colleen Morgan. Post by Laia Pujol-Tost. Archaeology has a long tradition of using visual representations to depict the past. For most of its…
Aedes aegypti, the mosquito capable of transmitting the zika virus. Photo from Wikipedia. Brazil is facing an epidemic of a severe birth defect: microcephaly (abnormally small head size),…
Abram de Swaan View on Amazon For a couple of decades, scholars have moved toward a broad consensus that context, rather than ideology, is most important in pushing…
© APA/AFP/Roberto Pfeil Door Peter Versteeg Het nieuwe jaar was nog tamelijk vers toen verontrustend nieuws bekend werd. Met oudejaarsnacht zouden vele tientallen vrouwen op het Keulse stationspl…
A pair of new publications focus on the “chicken or egg” question in environmental justice: Are present-day disparities around hazardous sites the result of a pattern of placing…
Der Fachverband Werte und Normen in Niedersachsen e.V. “verfolgt den allgemeinen Zweck, philosophische, gesellschaftswissenschaftliche und religionskundliche Bildung zu fördern, die auf den Wertmaßst…
We’re back – and full of energy for YET another exciting Allegra year! We hope that your break was enjoyable and relaxing (and do not tell us that…
Hello FoodAnthro readers, we’ve got a great collection of readings this week. As always, if you have something you’d like to share on a future round-up, please email…
There are so many types of “refugees” and many ways to describe them. We have used terms like Displaced Persons (“DPs”), Victims of War, Illegal Immigrants, Émigrés; each…
This is an extended version of an article orginally published in The Conversation. I am grateful to the editors there for their support and for helping myself and…
Outside my new house, which is currently full of half-unpacked boxes and lamps waiting to be reunited with their shades, there’s a palm tree. If you go out…
At first glance, it may seem that the value of specimens of opal, silver, or amethyst is related to their intrinsic qualities. After all, minerals ostensibly represent bits…
King cake, New Orleans style David Beriss University of New Orleans I ate three pieces of cake on Wednesday. All in the name of research, of course. I…