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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Goods and services produced in one region for use by another region are responsible for 22% (762,400) of air pollution-related deaths worldwide.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…