It’s not hip to be square
I see shows like Star Trek as emblematic of a transitional period in American masculinity — at least on TV. The 50’s would have been pure Kirk, with…
Coding Culture IV: Code-phobia and Making the Most of Fear, Failure, and Tiny Victories in Digital Anthropology
This is the fourth and final post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. In the first…
anthro in the news 8/7/17
Credit: Canadian Liver Foundation/Google Images Commons. undetected, untreated, deadly The Washington Post published an article co-authored by medical anthropologist Paul Farmer, the Kolokotrones Univ…
Review: Bitter and Sweet
Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning and Modernity in Rural China. Ellen Oxfeld. University of California Press, 2017. David E. Sutton Southern Illinois University The residents of Moonshadow Pond,…
Perspectives: checking out the new #OpenAccess textbook
In a recent post, Anthrodendum (formerly Savage Minds) highlights the new open-access teaching resource Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology. This new, open-access textbook is a pr…
Your city could be exporting deadly air pollution – here’s why
Goods and services produced in one region for use by another region are responsible for 22% (762,400) of air pollution-related deaths worldwide.
Transnational Scientific Projects and Racial Politics: The KEMRI Six Case Against the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Contemporary Kenya
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Denielle Elliott The Supreme Court of Kenya: Lawyer Ogutu, Sam Gwer, Lawyer Chigiti, Michael Mwaniki, and Moses Ndiritu (left to right), taken…
Searching for Solutions to Climate Change Risks in the Peruvian Andes
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Courtney Cecale Climate change has arrived in the Cordillera Blanca. Since 1970, this mountainous region with the largest concentration of tropical glaciers in…
Ilana Gershon, “Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Labor markets are not what they used to be, as Ilana Gershon argues in Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work…
A Southwest Central Indiana Collaboration: The Art with a Purpose Exhibition at the Brown County Art Gallery
This afternoon the Brown County Art Gallery in Nashville, opened the exhibition Art with a Purpose: Brown County Baskets. The exhibition is a homecoming, of sorts, because it…
Language contacts in the Arctic
August 31 is the deadline for paper submissions to a congress in Moscow. Judging from the keynote speakers, this should be also very interesting for us anthropologists, because…
Re-materializing the Immaterial Economy: Sareeta Amrute’s Encoding Race, Encoding Class
(This occasional post is a book review that comes to us from Alisha Wilkinson and Meg Stalcup. Meg Stalcup is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Ottawa,…
In the Journals – July 2017 by Danya Glabau
American Quarterly Queer History, Mad History, and the Politics of Health Regina Kunzel Among the central themes of the eclectic field of mad studies is a critique of…
CFP: “Food and …” Texas Tech, March 29-31, 2018
Upcoming conference of possible interest to SAFN members. Call for Papers “Food and . . . ” Conference March 29-31, 2018 Humanities Center at Texas Tech The Humanities…
On Queer Amnesia
The AQA exists as a dedicated home for queer anthropology within the larger discipline. Nonetheless, in these pages, on the AN website, and in their own work, AQA…
Trump’s Wall and the Dictator Aesthetic
Well, look, we’re going to have a border. It’s going to be a real border, and we’re going to build a wall and it’s going to be a…
After the Women’s March
While pundits continue to debate what led to the outcome of 2016’s election, it is clear that intersections between gender and race played a central role. The question…
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Hi all,Surrounded by moving boxes comes the latest link review! Development news: Did Angelina Jolie really do harm on her film set? What are the Clooneys up to…
Spielende für die TaschenspielerDeutschland muss seinen kreativen Umgang mit den Dublin-Fristen beenden
Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat am 26. Juli 2017 mit der Entscheidung Mengesteab die Fristenregelungen der Dublin-Verordnung für justiziabel erklärt und gleichzeitig entschieden, dass die Unter…
Einige Gedanken zu interdisziplinärem “Studieren” – VL Frühe Neuzeit
Ich sollte dafür danken, dass ich in der im unserem Kernbereich liegenden Vorlesung “Einführung in die Frühe Neuzeit” viel erlernt habe. Dabei würde das sich für mich zeigen, wie…
The Perils and Privileges of an Amazonian Hallucinogen
As practices associated with the use of ayahuasca grow in popularity, so do concerns about the appropriation of Indigenous traditions. Barbara Fraser Jens Kossmagk gazed into the darkness…