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…
Juan Javier Rivera Andía, “Non-Humans in Amerindian South America” (Berghahn, 2018)
In Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals, and Songs (Berghahn, 2018), eleven researchers bring new ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates o… Visit New…
Julia Cassaniti, “Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia” (Cornell UP, 2018)
How do you understand mindfulness? Is your understanding limited by your own culture’s definition of what mindfulness is? These are some of the questions you will ask yourself…
The arguments against climbing Uluru… and why people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
Author: Dr. Yasmine Mushbarbash, senior lecturer in anthropology at the Australian National University. The focus of her ethnographic work has been on Warlpiri people living in Yuendemu, in the…
An anthropologist’s guide to Chicago’s 75% off ebook sale
I love ebook sales. They’re a great way to pick up books you’ve always wanted but couldn’t afford. In fact, they’re a great, low-cost way to take a…
Discussion: pros and cons of research cooperation between academia and military/security organisations
This month’s reading and discussion circle of our Arctic Anthropology team is open to all interested participants! Given the relevance of the topic for the entire academia, we…
Starke Frauen, prekäre Lebenswelten: Alexander Askoldows „Die Kommissarin“ neu gesehen
Der Film „Die Kommissarin“ (1967) war zwanzig Jahre lang verboten. Die Thematisierung jüdischen Lebens und Sterbens sowie die unorthodoxe Darstellung der Bürgerkriegszeit passten nicht ins sowjetische…
The Neanderthal Diet—From Teeth to Guts
One of the more tenacious misconceptions about Neanderthals is that they were exclusively meat eaters. Sure, in some of the colder regions of Europe plant food would have…
The Embodiment of Kintsugi
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Shir Lerman Ginzburg, project director in the Department of Pediatrics and the Preventive Intervention Research Center (PIRC) at the Albert Einstein College of Medi…
Nazia Kazi, “Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Nazia Kazi’s Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imper……
Philip Grant, “Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped” (Oxford UP, 2017)
The authors of Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped (Oxford University Press, 2017) make points that professionals already know and that end-investors ought to know: that…
JNU & University Strikes in Delhi
“On Friday, the Congress had voted — unsuccessfully —for amendments proposed by the CPM and the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to the government’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Am…
Frantz Fanon on Care:
‘To care for someone is not only to give him or her the possibility not to die, it is above all to give him or her the possibility…
Prokrastination. Subjektivierung. Affekt — Diana Schieck
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…
Harshita M. Kamath, “The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance” (U California Press, 2019)
Harshita M. Kamath‘s new book The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (University of California Press, 2019) features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises…
Does Your Microbiome Shape Your Friendships?
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert/SAPIENS It is early morning on a wide plain in Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya. With a small Dixie cup and a wooden tongue…
La trampa de la diversidad: las nuevas identidades y el narcisismo clínico.
“Esta es una era de desorden cada vez más grande. El desorden es de naturaleza global, pero la manera de experimentarlo es, para la mayoría de la gente,…
Different organizations, different leaders: Anthropology and leadership
In this article, I discuss the importance of a well-fitting leadership style to the construction of organizational culture. I start by explaining the formation process of organizational culture.…
Fear of/in the Ethnography
Dr Tarek Younis is cultural psychologist with a PhD/PsyD in Clinical Psychology. He is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London. His British Academy postdoctoral fellowship was…
Baaaz: Ibtissam Abaaziz (Meld Islamofobie) en Annelies Moors (UvA) over het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding
Op 1 augustus 2019 is het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding (ook wel boerkaverbod genoemd) ingegaan. Hoe heeft het verbod ooit tot stand kunnen komen en en wat zijn…
Alpa Shah, et al., “Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st-Century India” (Pluto Press, 2017)
A recent UNDP report makes the astonishing claim that India has halved its poverty between 2006 and 2016. Moving us past the rosy picture, Alpa Shah and her…
Pollution Does Not “Go Away”: Mylar Balloons and Air Quality in California’s Pristine Wastelands
By Julia Sizek, University of California at Berkeley § Joshua Tree National Park regularly ranks as the National Park with the second-worst air quality, but its pollution is…
Uncovering Hidden HERstories of Women in the Digital Arts
Logo for the annual meeting of the computer graphics community, which includes academic, commercial and fine arts practitioners of computer graphics and interactive techniques, as well as hardware…
Das Neutralitätsgebot in der Bildung
Neutral gegenüber rassistischen und rechtsextremen Positionen von Parteien? Autor: Dr. Hendrik Cremer Die Publikation richtet sich an Entscheidungsträger in Ministerien und Behörden sowie an Gericht…