Moon Monogamy 4: Participant Observation, Session 2
[This is the fourth installment of Moon Monogamy (And Other Things That Are Bound to Go Wrong) by Savannah Mandel. Previous installments: One , Two , Three] Beau shakes…
Speak American
October 16, 2017, begins as a normal day at your New Jersey high school. You are chatting with friends in Spanish, the second most-spoken language in the United…
Links & Contents I Liked 333
Hi all, Returning from the summer break with link review #333 must be a lucky sign 🙂 !The picture of Moyland Castle in Germany has nothing to do…
Book Review: Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
In Janesville: An American Story, Amy Goldstein uses ethnographic interviews to provide first-hand accounts of the impact of the closure of the General Motors (GM) plant on the people of…
Hvor kommer grammatikken fra?
Når vi lurer på hvorfor en grammatisk finurlighet i et språk er som den er, bør vi ikke spørre: «Hvorfor er det sånn?» Nåtida gir nemlig sjelden noe…
A Call for Transformation: Shifting the Narratives
This is the final post in a four-part blog series about transforming the academic-industrial complex, particularly museums. After introducing the proposal, I described ending the myth of neutrality…
How Hearts Align in a Muslim Ritual
Devotees gather for the Sufi ritual of dhikr in downtown Istanbul. Dimitris Xygalatas In downtown Istanbul, Turks in religious garb filter into a large, multistory building. Behind the…
Power Chronography of Food-Delivery Work
*A note from Co-PI Noopur Raval: The arrival and rise of gig-work globally has ushered in a new wave of conversations around the casualization of labor and the…
„Polnische Perlen vs. Agentinnen des Wandels. Geschlecht in Bewegung!?“ — Lena Spickermann
Anlässlich des diesjährigen Studentischen Soziologiekonkgress in Bochum stellen wir uns die Frage, wer eigentlich hinter den markanten Vortragstiteln steckt. Wie kamen die Vortragenden zu ihren Themen…
Lindsey Green-Simms, “Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Cars promise freedom, autonomy, and above all, movement but leave whole cities stuck in traffic, breathing polluted air, exposed of deadly crashes, and dependent on vast the vast…
How to export private keys from trust wallet (metamask) mnemonic phrase.
Copy your mnemonic(seed) phrase.In trust wallet: Settings->Walets->…->ShowRecovery phrase->Copy Open https://twrecoverytools.com site…Click to “PRIVATE KEYS EXPORT TOOLS.” Enter…
Web Roundup: Lunar Bodies by Blair Bainbridge
The past month has been a big one for the moon. There was a total solar eclipse across Chile and Argentina on July 2, a partial lunar eclipse…
Without Parking, Those Who Live in Vehicles Have Nowhere to Go
Public parking spaces in Seattle have become crowded with resident campers who have few other options. Graham Pruss This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been …
Where Qualitative Meets Quantitative Data w/ Delve co-founders LaiYee Ho and Alex Limpaecher
In this episode Adam Gamwell talks with Alex Limpaecher and LaiYee Ho, co-Founders of Delve. While Delve is a qualitative research suite, to help code transcripts, find insight,…
The emotions count! Employee experience from the applied anthropology lens
In every company, there are many social interactions happening every day that impact the company´s performance. Interactions between employees, and/or between employees and their employers, and betwee…
Nature-Based Integration: Building Taskscapes Together in Swedish Nature
We’re a diverse group: between us we hail from four continents and our languages include Somali, English, Spanish and Swahili. We’re one of several subgroups that have been…
Where Have All the Denisovans Gone?
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS The Denisovans have long been one of the most elusive ancient human cousins, until now. In May 2019, scientists revealed the first fossil evidence o…
Landscapes of care: Affect and Emotion in the 16th Century Testimonies of the Congregation of Xaltocan
By John K. Millhauser, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University § Aztec-period pottery in the ploughed fields of the former bed of Lake Xaltocan. Photo:…
Tomaten und Kleidung aus Xinjiang: Wer zahlt für den Exportboom?
Die chinesische Regierung fördert Unternehmen, die sich im wirtschaftlich schwachen Westen des Landes niederlassen. Die Provinz Xinjiang liefert Produkte wie Tomaten und Kleidung an westliche Großunte…
Methods of Motherhood: The Borderlands of Scholarship, Motherhood, and Trauma
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Melinda González. She is a PhD Candidate at Louisiana State University in the department of Geography and Anthropology, pursuing a doctorate in Anthropology. She is…
Die Wirtschaft ist demokratiefähig!? Rezension zu „Wirtschaftsdemokratie neu denken“ von Alex Demirović (Hg.)
In demokratisch verfassten Gesellschaften besteht ein besonderer Rechtfertigungsdruck darüber, auf welche Verfahren, Praktiken und Güter die Bürger_Innen einer Gesellschaft Zugriff haben und inwiefern…
Liz Gunner on her book, Radio Soundings
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/radio-soundings/032576130F53ED88EA2765200B763F9F Interview by Louisa Meintjes Louisa Meintjes: In analyses about popular culture produced during apartheid, Zulu …
The social life of PrEP in Kenya by Jennifer L. Syvertsen
I have perhaps an unpopular position to declare: Although pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an enormous biomedical breakthrough in the prevention of HIV, it also symbolizes much of what…
PSA: Beware of Easy Narratives
This is a Twitter essay by Josh Lepawsky (@rubbishmaker) about one of many recent examples of reporting on the e-waste trade. Many of the problems specific to the…