A response to Noah Smith about global poverty
During the debate about the global poverty numbers that unfolded earlier this year, the Bloomberg opinion columnist Noah Smith wrote a piece discussing some of my claims. …
APLA at the AAAs: Early Career Mentoring
APLA is hosting a series of events for individuals who are attending the joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society in Vancouver…
Humanizing Fieldwork
Anthrodendum welcomes guest editors Beatriz Reyes-Foster and Rebecca J. Lester. Humanizing Fieldwork: Trauma and Resilience in Ethnographic Fieldwork, Part II The first collection of posts in this se…
Ståle Knudsen: Debts and the end for infrastructure fetishism in Turkey
The immense new Istanbul Airport, additional spectacular bridges over the straights, the Marmaray metro/train tunnel under the Bosporus, high-speed trains, highways, extension of the Istanbul metro ne…
Omri Grinberg takes the p. 99 test
Sarah Mitchell’s admirable avoidance of “gaming” the pg. 99 test (link) ironically inspired me to not avoid the temptation of doing so, mainly because despite “cheating”, the test’s…
What to Call US Border Detention Centers?
The controversy over the term “concentration camps” stems from the connotations it carries, setting up analogies that risk hyperbole and overlook the complexities of historical comparison. The governm…
„Leben und Alltag in ländlichen Räumen. Lebenslagen – Herausforderungen – Perspektiven“ – Ein Tagungsbericht von Sara Schiemann
Vom 27. bis 29. März fand die Tagung Leben und Alltag in ländlichen Räumen. Lebenslagen – Herausforderungen – Perspektiven an der Universität Rostock statt. Dazu eingeladen haben André…
Jessica Starling, “Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
In her recent ethnography, Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū (University of Hawaii Press, 2019), Prof. Jessica Starling invites us into the daily…
Habermas – moderne und postmoderne Architektur
Jürgen Habermas ist nun 90. Was fällt mir dazu ein? Eine äußerst verdienstvolle Rolle im Historikerstreit, seinerzeit in den 1980ern. Wie die Machtkonstellation in diesem Fall wohl heute…
Deepfakes, words vs actions, hatred in anthropology and social dissociation: This month on TFS (Re-Release)
On this month’s panel episode, digital anthropologist Dr Stephanie Betz (5:50) discusses “deepfakes”. It’s been possible to doctor images to a very high degree of believability for a…
On Human Mating Habits: considering also the evidence of “introgression” between anatomically modern and archaic people.
Recently two aspects of our understanding of humanity appear to be converging. One is the study of human reproductive – especially “sexual” – behaviour, which has resulted in…
White Men and Their Toxic White Fragility
It has been several months since the shooting in my classroom at UNC Charlotte where two of my students were killed, four were physically injured, and an untold…
Trinkets from Bác Hồ
Always on the lookout for the anthro connection, so this hit high on my trigger warning system: A gift from Uncle Ho to “Vuong Chi Sinh, a leader…
Der Kopf unter dem Hut. Helke Sanders kluger Film „Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit“
Wenn über die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf öffentlich gesprochen wird, geht vor allem darum, wie Frauen trotz Kinder Karriere machen können. Dabei steht viel mehr zur Debatte.…
Das Thema Klimawandel als Indikator für Antisemitismus
Unser Mitglied Michael Blume, Antisemitismus-Beauftragter von Baden-Württemberg, wurde neulich etwas verkürzt zitiert, in der Jüdischen Allgemeinen, “Windräder gegen Judenhass” (1. August 2019). Ihm …
NBN Classic: Jaime Alves, “Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we’re reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. The 2018 election of far-right president Jair…
Carl Hoffman, “The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure” (William Morrow, 2019)
Journalist Carl Hoffman talks about Bruno Manser and Michael Palmieri, two men who arrived in Borneo with very different dreams and aspirations. Hoffman served as a contributing editor…
The Blueberry Wars
In elementary school, the first “robin red-breast” of spring signaled warmer days, colorful flowers, and a promise that the school year wouldn’t last forever. I considered robins m…
The Market as a Village
Blog editors’ note: This is the summer edition of the Latinx Foodways in North America series, which looks at different approaches scholars use to analyze foods and food…
Ladies ‘Log’: Women’s Safety and Risk Transfer in Ridehailing
*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 precarious…
Gun Violence Harms, Even if You’ve Never Been Shot
Shoes representing the estimated 7,000 U.S. children who were killed by gun violence since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting cover the Capitol lawn in 2018. Saul…
Osanna (köns)roller på nätet
I början på 2000-talet när jag höll på med studier i sociologi och antropologi hade jag bestämt mig för att ta reda på hur vanligt det var att…
Friendships Built on (Dis)Trust: Navigating fragility during fieldwork
Hareem Khan is a cultural anthropologist based in the US, however, she is interested in the transnational webs that sustain and complicate diasporic realities. Her ethnographic research examines…
The Mueller Report: Highlights
The Mueller Report is probably one of the most extensive legal investigations in the history of the United States. Certainly, the circumstances necessitating it are historic…