Florida’s Indigenous Heritage Faces a Watery Grave
Six ancient Native American mounds lie in Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park near Tallahassee, Florida. Ebyabe/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at The Co…
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Hi all, Unfortunately, this week features a lot of difficult reads: Mercy Corps is involved in a long-term abuse scandal, the de-facto prostitution of Iraqi child brides, the…
Pearls before Swine
Pearls, in the Parish of St. Andrew’s, Grenada, just up the road from the main town of Grenville, is a unique place that sits at the intersection of two…
ERC Research Group Indigeneities in the 21st Century: 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships and 1 Doctoral Position
Via Philipp Schorch, Munich Available from 1 April 2020 for the duration of 3 years (with the possibility of extension) at salary grade TVL 13 (Postdoc 100 %, Doctoral…
Welcome to #MDGcomics: Mzungus in Development and Governments!
Welcome to #MDGcomics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! A Phd turned Graphic novel about Mzungus in Development and Governments. Meet Omar, the one with the fake beard. Omar…
Understanding the Digital Infrastructure of Photo-sharing in China: Notes on Tuchong as an Example
Yunchang Yang, PhD Candidate, UCL Anthropology A photo of my working space, showing my laptop, notebook, IC card for working with images On 3rd July 2019, I caught up…
Neanderthal Legs and Feet—Suited to Sprinting
If you’re like me, you view long-distance running as a somewhat unrealistic aspiration and see those people who do it well as remarkable creatures. The truth, though, is…
Et boligsystem i endring?
Gjesteinnlegg av Mari Løken, master i samfunnsgeografi Boligmarkedet i Oslo er oppe til revurdering. Terskelen for å komme inn på boligmarkedet – som vi så snedig benevner selveiermarkedet…
Jugaad y Jua Kali: la necesidad, la madre de todas las invenciones.
“Jugaad” o “jugaard” en hindi, consiste en soluciones improvisadas de baja o nula tecnología, con pocos recursos, nacidas de la ingeniosidad y la inteligencia de personas económicamente pobres…
The Inspiration for the History of Anthropology Newsletter
A few years ago when the History of Anthropology Newsletter (HAN) relaunched as an online publication, a number of articles described how it was started by George Stocking in 1973. Mo…
Nico Besnier in anthropology Friday seminar
Nico Besnier (University of Amsterdam / Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) will present the paper “Utopia Modern: Palm Springs in the American Imaginary” in the Anthropology Friday s…
The value of anthropology in Design Thinking
It seems like everybody is talking about Design Thinking these days. In case you havent, design thinking is a methodology that has become very popular in contexts of…
Sensitivity Reading: Gegen Diskriminierung – für Vielfalt in der Buchszene.
von Anna Helene Lemke Ob Kiezdeutsch, das generische Femininum oder auch das Thema Sensitivity Reading (oder Diversity Reading): Wenn es um Sprache in Deutschland geht, gehen die Meinungen…
“Ain’t no future in your future”: Temporalities of Recovery and Resilience in Flint, Michigan
By Talia Gordon, University of Chicago § A future full of possibilities starts by drinking pure quality water – Nestlé “Pure Life®” Bottled Water In October 2018, Mayor…
Biologisierter Antirassismus. Wie DNA-Ethnizitätstests ein falsches Verständnis des modernen Rassismus (re)produzieren
Gentests, die Einblicke in die ethnische Abstammung versprechen, sind nicht nur ein erfolgreiches Geschäftsmodell geworden. Sie gelten zunehmend auch als argumentatives Rüstzeug gegen Rassismus. Ansta…
Niyawe
Niwikanaki, nipakalawi pefitawiko. Nipekatefiwe Kekakikikemeta, Lenawaakiyayoki Wikewa, nihowesilepwa. Pilocilakwa, takosiye skoli hokimaki kotakiki Lenawaakiyayoki Wikiwa. Skoli hokimaki, peyetoki ma…
Virtual Attendance Pilot Project Slated for 2019 Annual Meeting
At the request of the Members’ Programmatic Advisory and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC), AAA is offering a “Virtual Attendance” pilot project in conjunction with the 2019 Annual Meeting in…
Are Colors Universal?
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS Remember the meme #TheDress? Was it white and gold, or blue and black? With the help of Nicola Jones, a freelance science journalist who writes…
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities #ISSH2019
An International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways in which scholarship engages with society…
Bærekraftighet gjennom radikal planlegging
Gjesteinnlegg av Eivind Junker, postdoktor ved Institutt for arkitektur og planlegging, NTNU Planlegging skal bidra til å gjøre samfunnet bedre. En forutsetning for å kunne oppnå målet om…
7. bis 9.10. / Oswin-Köhler-Archiv an der Goethe-Uni veranstaltet Workshop und Konferenz
Zahlreich sind die Sammlungen über außereuropäische Kulturen und Sprachen, die in europäischen Archiven und Museen lagern. In postkolonialen Zeiten ist die Wissenschaft aufgefordert, neue Formen der B…
Ather Zia, “Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism” (U Washington Press, 2019)
Ather Zia’s Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism (University of Washington Press, 2019) is a brilliant, bold, and urgent ethnography centered on Kashmiri women of the APDP……
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, “No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement” (Cornell UP, 2018)
In No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2018), Elizabeth Cullen Dunn describes in a very on point and straight forward way…
Platypus Celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month
In support of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, please enjoy some of our favorite posts engaging with understandings of disability! Does ‘Going Sighted’ Make Life Better? Undoing the…