Ben Tausig on his book, Bangkok is Rising
Interview by Mack Hagood https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bangkok-is-ringing-9780190847524 Mack Hagood: Bangkok is Ringing brings us into the center of the Red Shirt protests in Bangkok during…
Susmaryosep, Filipinas!: el español, el chabacano y el tagalog.
‘¿Qué tal tú?’‘¿Cosa tu nombre?’‘¿habla usted chabacano?’. “Siguro”, le respondes, sólo si quieres responderle que “quizás”. “Mucho gusto de conocer contigo”. “¿Donde andas?” te preguntan si quieren s…
Internet-Based Access to PrEP in the U.S.: A “Critically Applied” Approach and the Symbolic Effects of a Clinical-Technological Assemblage by Shana Hughes
Introduction “I‘d been trying to get PrEP through my physician at the time, and …I had to print up all these studies and all the prescription information because…
GUEST PODCAST: AnthroDish 49: Exploring Quinoa Production through Design Anthropology with Dr. Adam Gamwell
For this episode, we’re doing something a little different. I’ll be your guest. I got interviewed by the wonderful Sarah Dunigan on her podcast Anthro Dish, a weekly…
Arctic anthropology job in St Petersburg
Our colleagues from Arctic Anthropology at the European University in St Petersburg have a job vacancy at their department. I guess reading on from here is relevant only…
Ep. #42: Economies of Openness: Ros Attenborough on cultures of trust, exclusion & generosity in STS
“All of these questions deserve…just that little bit extra thought about what would openness look like for my study and in my discipline? What would it achieve? What…
Die Welt eines Historikers um 1970: „Der Käse und die Würmer“ von Carlo Ginzburg
Der kulturhistorische Bestseller „Der Käse und die Würmer“ von Carlo Ginzburg, 1976 erstmals erschienen, bietet noch immer höchsten Lesegenuss. Er rekonstruiert das Weltbild eines italienischen Müller…
Night Soil and the Metabolic Rift
Our latest article is out, which examines the history and cross-cultural management of human waste (or “night soil”) as an agricultural resource. The paper grew out of a…
Fact in Fiction: Examining archaeology’s influence on the speculative genre
By Catherine Hill Anyone who has a passable knowledge of the works of novelist HP Lovecraft is probably aware of the prominent role that archaeology and intrepid archaeologists…
Stone Age Myths We’ve Made Up
When most members of the general public think of the Stone Age, they probably envision an adult male hominin wielding a stone tool. That picture is laughably incomplete.…
Buchrezension „The peoples of Southeast Asia today – Ethnography, Ethnology, and change in a complex region“ von Robert L. Winzeler
„But is Southeast Asia real or invented?“ (S. 1) Mit dieser bezeichnenden Frage beginnt Robert L. Winzeler* sein englischsprachiges Buch „The peoples of Southeast Asia toda…
John D. Hawks, “Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story” (National Geographic, 2017)
John D. Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human…
#Review: Out of “love” and “solidarity”
Out of “love” and “solidarity”, an ethnography written in Greek, is Katerina Rozakou’s insightful study of two volunteer organizations that helped refugees in Athens in the early 200…
A Call for Transformation: Dismantling Extractive Partnerships
After introducing my call for transformation within museums and the wider academic-industrial complex, and presenting the first part of my call, ending the myth of neutrality, I am…
Köer och konflikter
Det här med att stå i kö är ett väldigt svenskt fenomen. Vi svenskar tycker att det är det smartaste sättet att bli betjänta i den mest…
How Skirts Are Changing Bolivian Wrestling
Martha La Alteña (right) and Susana La Bonita (left) wrestle in El Alto, Bolivia. Aizar Raldes/Getty Images This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republis…
Jennifer Reich’s Calling the Shots Why Parents Reject Vaccines by Travis Chi Wing Lau
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines Jennifer Reich NYU Press, 2016. 336 pages. A timely intervention into recent anti-vaccination controversies, Jennifer Reich’s Call…
Urban decay and how HGTV can fix it
I was reading Axios today and came across an article that describes the desperate conditions of some American neighborhoods. Working with data collected by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,…
Not knowing as pedagogy: Ride-hailing drivers in Delhi
*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…
A Counterfeiting Guide To Preventing Your Business from Falling Victim to Fake Money
The Counterfeiters Guide to Spotting Counterfeit Money Counterfeit money is a problem that is not going away anytime soon. It affects everyone from the average consumer to governments…
Der Hass aufs Authentische: Spaziergang durch ein Neubaugebiet
Die besten ethnologischen Museen sind Neubaugebiete in deutschen Kleinstädten. Man erfährt dort anschaulich, wie Neubaugebietbewohner gerade fühlt und denkt. Ein baulich relativ neuer Trend im Neubaug…
No Country for Anthropologists?
The conference No Country for Anthropologists? Ethnographic Research in the Contemporary Middle East, which we co-organized and hosted at the University of Zurich in November 2018, addressed major…
Review: Organic Sovereignties
Organic Sovereignties. Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade. Guntra A. Aistara. University of Washington Press. 2018. ISBN: 9780295743110. Laura Kihlstrom (University of South Florida) Gunt…
Alaska Grown
Abigail Adams Central Connecticut State University Our plane descended for landing in Anchorage, which was fully visible at 10 pm in June’s Alaskan midnight sun, and I stored…