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…
Playing with Conspiracy Theories
What might viewing conspiracism as a form of play tell us about the workings of contemporary culture, our capacity for critical thinking, or how we build new understandings?…
Can Anthropologists Propel Astronauts Toward Mars?
Jack Stuster poses with a NASA space shuttle. Jack Stuster In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union satellite Sputnik 1 streaked across the night’s sky. The event kicked off…
Our Governor Resigned via Facebook: #RickyRenuncia, Puerto Rico’s Summer of Protest
Disponible en español aquí. On July 13th, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Center for Investigative Journalism) leaked 889 pages of a Telegram App chat between the governor of…
The making of a market: politicising gangs in Sierra Leone, by Kars de Bruijne
The back of a clique member By January 2019, politicians were recruiting gang members once again, nearly a year after the Sierra Leone elections. They were asked to…
“Sikh-Religion in der Schweiz”: Interview mit Buchautor
Christoph Peter Baumann, ehemaliger Leiter von Inforel in Basel, hat ein Buch zur “Sikh-Religion in der Schweiz” vorgelegt. Die Sikh-Religion ist eine der zahlenbezogen kleineren Weltreligionen mit r…
Krishnendu Ray, “The Ethnic Restaurateur” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Academic discussions of ethnic food have tended to focus on the attitudes of consumers, rather than the creators and producers. In this ground-breaking new book, The Ethnic Restaurateur…
8 podcasts I’m listening to right now
I love listening to podcasts during work breaks, walks around town, chores and exercising. There are so many high quality, … More
Eating Insects and the Yuck Factor
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS How come some people think eating insects is disgusting? Join SAPIENS hosts Jen Shannon and Chip Colwell as they dine on many-legged delicacies and …
Special Issue: The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health by Raha Peyravi
The July 2019 issue of Science, Technology & Human Values has a special issue, titled “Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health”. The Death of the Clinic?…
Blockchain Reactions: The peril and promise of techno-governance for stateless Rohingya
While Myanmar’s recent ethnic cleansing of its Rohingya minority, which saw 800,000 people driven into Bangladesh, has brought the community’s oppression to the world’s attention, it has also…
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…
Christina Thompson on Prehistorians of the Pacific
My new episode of New Books in Anthropology is up — it’s an interview with Christina Thompson on her book The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. It’s…
A Cooperative Craft Survey in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Part 1
A note on photographs. Here just a few photographs from the first day of our May 2019 travel in Yunnan are presented. It will take time to work…
Devin Proctor’s page 99 test
My dissertation, On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space, is based on five years of ethnographic engagement examining identity construction and social practice among the Otherkin…
Book Review: The Politics of Land edited by Tim Bartley
In The Politics of Land, editor Tim Bartley brings together contributors to highlight the significance of the neglected issue of land to political sociology. This is a highly informative volume…
(Dis)continuities in cancer care: An ethnographic approximation to practices of disease stratification by Ignacia Arteaga
Background: Disease stratification practices have long been used as a means to produce and make sense of cancer, distinguishing ‘types’, tumour development stages, and even patients’ sociode…
The Dirt
The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in research related to waste and wasting.
Fremd im eigenen Land — Das Kopftuch im Wandel der Zeit
Verfasst von Andreas Schulz Über Fremdheit ist schon viel geschrieben worden. Sie stellt einen der grundlegendsten sozialwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungsgegenstände dar und mündet in Spezialdiskurse u…
The one thing that changed everything: Complex illness & the functional fallacy of a singular cause
When I asked my research participants what they felt had caused theirs or their patient’s schizophrenia, it was often put down to one thing or another, rather than…
In the Journals, July 2019 by Raha Peyravi
I think this month’s articles would be of specific interest for looking to read on topics of risk and health, the politics of standardized evidence, boundaries of science…
Grautöne. Über die Tugend des Hinterfragens in Zeiten schneller Meinung
Die Aufarbeitung vergangenen Unrechts und die Herausforderungen einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft stellen die Diskussionskultur in der Demokratie auf den Prüfstand. Das zeigt – nur zum Beispiel – der…
The Limitations of Compassion in International Volunteering
On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 p.m., two bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The effects were physically devastating — three dead and…
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, “Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties” (NYU Press, 2019)
Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account? In Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community…