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…
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…