#Review: After Ethnos
After Ethnos is a philosophically sophisticated provocation and inspiration towards a new mode of anthropological analysis that breaks free from the classic conflation of anthropology with ethnography…
Geoffrey Barstow, “Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a re……
Rachel Werczberger, “Jews In The Age Of Authenticity: Jewish Spiritual Renewal In Israel” (Peter Lang, 2016)
Perhaps there’s something in the air in the Middle East, something that elevates spirituality. The Middle East, particularly Israel, is the legendary home of spiritual searching, of prophecy…
New Book on Sámi Educational History
“Sámi Educational History in a Comparative International Perspective” establishes an overview of Sámi education in an historical and internationally comparative perspective and e…
Ideological Closure, Austerity and National Health Service Reforms
For my PhD research, I spent a year doing ethnographic fieldwork in Greater Manchester, with political activists campaigning against cuts and privatisation in the National Health Service (NHS),…
“Framing Sukkot” Author, Curator Gabrielle Berlinger to Speak at MMWC
At the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, we have already had some very special public events at this fall semester. If you’ve attended some of these events, you…
Notwendige Positionen
„Das Ende der Aushandlungen?“ greift als Leitfrage der DGSKA-Konferenz 2019 nach einem spürbaren, aber längst nicht ausgereift gefassten Phänomen unseres noch jungen Jahrhunderts. Thematische Resonanz…
Vijayanka Nair takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is an ethnographic study of India’s Aadhaar (foundation) program, a colossal technocratic project that seeks to redefine how the Indian state (over)sees its population. Under the…
The Digital Anthropologist 2019-09-30 12:47:00
The inaugural AnthTech this week brings together anthropologists and technologists interested in how a deeper understanding of human behaviour can improve our experiences with technology. That ant…
Carola Lentz wird neue Präsidentin des Goethe-Instituts
Mit Carola Lentz wird erstmals eine Ethnologin an die Spitze des Goethe-Instituts gewählt, das mit seinen über 157 Instituten in 98 Ländern weltweit in der Sprachvermittlung und Kulturarbeit…
The Dirt
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
Benjamin Tausig, “Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint” (Oxford UP, 2019)
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy, with the security forces killing over 90 people and injuring thousands more.…
Ep. #47: Meaningful Declutter, Local Activism, Managing Fire & Writing Up: This month on TFS
Firstly, we’d like to introduce you all to Alex D’Aloia, who is managing our Facebook group TFS Chats – you might remember the blog post that he wrote…
Girls, Groupies, and Grim Reapers: The Religious Politics of Mass Response
Following a week at the UN and ensuing climate change “protests” (state-sanctioned, party-approved, media-praised, university-endorsed, “protests”), in which we were yet agai…
Höcke oder Hitler? Nationalsozialistische Sprache gestern und heute
Spricht Björn Höcke wie Adolf Hitler? ZDF-Journalisten haben sich darüber mit dem Thüringer AfD-Chef gestritten. Aber welche Rolle spielten Begriffe wie „Lebensraum“ und „Entartung“ für den Nationalso…
Tribal? Not so much…
Tribal? “Tribalism” as the term is frequently used by evolutionary biologists, means a human tendency to form groups larger than the personal network. What they are actually groping…
Trees Talk…and Sometimes They Also Tell Lies
Out on a limb in Grenada in August, I had the fine pleasure of sampling such a special sweet fruit of the “Spice Isle”. It is a fruit…
Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night [excerpt]
The Path of DayHenchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru’s Manu National Park, left home one morning to go hunting in the vast…
Guest Post: The Anthropology Letters, Part 1
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Bailey Duhé. Bailey J. Duhé is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies racial fluidity,…
Follicular Circulations: Race in the Global Hair Market
How is race done in the transnational circulation of hair for the production of wigs, extensions, and toupees? Or to put it differently: what happens to race in…
How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene?
For millennia, humans have been altering the Earth—for example, through agricultural adaptations such as these rice terraces near Pokhara, Nepal. Erle C. Ellis This article was originally…
Links & Contents I Liked 339
Hi all, UNGA week is wrapping up, but the focus on this week’s link review is on some of the other #globaldev stories, from shrinking civic spaces in…
Prof. Klaus Theweleit hält Vortrag bei LOEWE-Konferenz an der Goethe-Uni
Mit dem Buch „Männerphantasien“ über die psychosoziale Vorgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus wurde er in den 1970er Jahren bekannt, nun ist Klaus Theweleit zu Gast an der Goethe-Universität. Im Rahmen…