Senegalese Football’s Impossible Dream
After a sixteen-year absence, Senegal’s football team returned to the World Cup, but their sporting success belies the risks and uncertainties of an unequal global sports industry. A…
anthro in the news 7/9/18
Relatives of the soccer team members and the coach pray at a shrine for their rescue. Credit: Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press a goddess is watching over them As reported…
Kiwi, the imaginary ethnographer
this is, you know, pretty great. Please visit the show on the theme of Imaginary Ethnography in Experimental Music and Sound on the web space of Jeu de Paume: Fourth Worlds…
Bruce Kapferer: The Hau complicity: An event in the crisis of anthropology
Hau is a phenomenon. It burst on the scene of the relatively small academic scholarly world of anthropology capturing scholars from around the globe into its spirit. Hau…
Damien Stankiewicz on his new book, Europe Un-imagined
https://utorontopress.com/us/europe-un-imagined-2 Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: You open Europe Un-Imagined by suggesting that while the television channel you studied aimed to fashion a …
Anthropology of Coptic Christianity Since 2012
I was having dinner in Seoul recently with an old friend who taught in Egypt back around 2000. Living in East Asia for the past decade, he hasn’t…
Masterplan Migration: Aktionismus, der viel Schaden anrichtet
Gastkommentar zu geplanten Maßnahmen Autor: Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer Lange wurde spekuliert, was genau Horst Seehofer (CSU) mit dem “Masterplan Migration” vorhat. Nun sind die Inhalte bekannt. In…
Digital Anthropology in Practice
Jennifer Fu and Gemma Tortella-Procter, MSc. Digital Anthropology at UCL “What exactly constitutes ‘digital anthropology’?” While the practical projects we worked on may not provide a comprehensive an…
Körper – Wissen – Tod. Ein Tagungsbericht verfasst von Christoph Nienhaus & Ida Meyenberg
Am 25. und 26. Mai 2018 fand an der Universität Passau eine soziologische Fachtagung zu dem Thema „Körper – Wissen – Tod. Sozialwissenschaftliche Zugänge zwischen Lebenswelt und Transzendenz“…
Ep. #17 Slamming doors, predicting futures, picking sides & citing informants: this month on TFS
With Julia’s PhD submitted (!!!) and Jodie back from her travels, the band is finally back together! Jodie starts us off, (2:04) asking if a theory from psychology…
Guest Post: Citation is a Gift: “Punking” Accounting in #hautalk
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Jules Weiss. Weiss is an MA student in the Applied Anthropology program at Oregon State University. They are a…
Streamline(d) – “Time Served”
This post is the beginning of an experiment. Recent ethnoGRAPHIC work like Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, as well…
Popular American Cultural Theft of Totem Poles
The story of the Ritz Sauna Totem pole is rich with cultural history. The Ritz Sauna has been associated with the Oregon Country Fair since the beginnings of…
Want Fame and Glory? Award Deadline Reminders!
SAFN has two glorious awards that are given annually to students engaged in various aspects of food and nutrition related research. The deadline for both is coming up…
Flüchtlingsforschung gegen Mythen 7WissenschaftlerInnen diskutieren Behauptungen aus der Flüchtlingsdebatte
Die Koalition CDU, CSU und SPD hat sich am 05. Juli 2018 auf Maßnahmen zur „Ordnung und Steuerung in der Migrationspolitik“ geeinigt. Sie zielen unter anderem darauf ab,…
Summer break 2018
Hi all, As I wrote in last week’s link review: Unlike previous years I will have a proper break until the second half of August to focus on…
Indexing
The requirement imposed upon untenured ‘early career’ scholars to target only alleged “quality” publications is academic narrowcasting. Zines fall between the cracks of experim…
Zoltan Pall, “Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Zoltan Pall‘s Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a just published ethnographic investigation of the rise of Salafism among Lebanese Sunni … Visit…
Anthropologies of destiny
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
Anthropologies of destiny
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
Abolition
Abolish Prison. Get this journal:
The problem with the Human Development Index in an era of ecological breakdown
If you haven’t come across the Global Footprint Network yet, check them out. Based in Oakland, CA, they produce fantastic data on the Ecological Footprint (EF) of…
Sharon Batt’s Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement by Grazia De Michele
Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement Sharon Batt UBC Press, 2017, 383 pages After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, Sharon…
Discovering Tampa in my Kitchen
By Daniel Miller Of all the bad habits I have passed on to my daughter, reading at the dinner table is the one I am least ashamed of. …