Resolutionaries 2019
Matt Rose introduces the event with a poem. Welcome and thank you for coming. Before the films get up and running I’d like to invite us all…
Impeachment & Anthropology
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> Impeaching Trump, Anthropologically Many eloquent statements have been written about why Trump should be impeached for ethical and legal…
Staying with the Feeling: Trauma, Humility, and Care in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Greg Beckett. He is assistant professor of anthropology at Western University (Canada) where his work focuses on crisis, disaster, and humanitarian intervention in …
A Call for Transformation: Framing the Situation
By Bryan Cockrell At the end of January 2018, I quit a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. As a cis-gendered white man…
Business anthropology: some thoughts
A couple of weeks ago, I participated in the 2019 Global Business Anthropology Summit held on the New York City campus of Fordham University. Melissa Fisher organized the…
Stonewall Mythology
How we tell the story of Stonewall matters. This June marks the fiftieth anniversary of the riots at The Stonewall Inn in New York City. The days-long series…
Honger in een land van overvloed
Door: Eva van Roekel “Hier, eet.” Ik ben net aangekomen in Caracas en het eerste dat ik voorgeschoteld krijg is een groot stuk ananas. We zitten midden in…
The value of anthropology in social entrepreneurship
Have you asked yourself: what role can anthropology have in the world of social entrepreneurship? This article introduces some of the contributions that anthropological research can provide to…
‘The Story Box’ Exhibition Review
The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology. An exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York and the U’mista Cultural Centre…
Links & Contents I Liked 330
Hi all, Glad Midsommar from Sweden! This will be one of the last link reviews before the summer break and from a communication for development perspective this one…
Links & Contents I Liked 330
Hi all, Glad Midsommar from Sweden! This will be one of the last link reviews before the summer break and from a communication for development perspective this one…
CFP: What’s in Your Bag, Anthropologists? 2019 Edition
Do you have a field notebook you can’t do without? A set of tools of sentimental value? A camera that has never let you down? Diapers for the…
Vaccine hesitancy is not correlated with social media penetration at country-level in Europe
The Wellcome Trust has recently (yesterday) released the 2018 Global Monitor, a 140,000 people survey on how ‘people around the world think and feel about science and major…
Book Review: Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice by Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker
20 June is World Refugee Day. In their new book Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice, Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker offer a comprehensive discussion of…
Globale Trends zu Flucht und Asyl: Mehr Geflüchtete in Langzeitsituationen, weniger dauerhafte Lösungen
Von Ulrike Krause und Marcus Engler Anlässlich des seit 2001 stattfindenden Weltflüchtlingstags publiziert das Flüchtlingshilfswerk der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) jährlichen seinen Bericht über die gl…
John O’Brien, “States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation” (Routledge, 2018)
Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries and not others? How was alcohol helped build the modern state? These are just…
John O’Brien, “States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation” (Routledge, 2018)
Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries and not others? How was alcohol helped build the modern state? These are just…
Vaccine hesitancy is not correlated with social media penetration at country-level in Europe
The Wellcome Trust has recently (yesterday) released the 2018 Global Monitor, a 140,000 people survey on how ‘people around the world think and feel about science and major…
Avoiding ‘Manels’
At ZS, our firm-wide Inclusion and Diversity initiative is picking up steam, and it’s generating a lot of interesting and thought-provoking discussion about how we can continue to…
Reminder: 2019 Thomas Marchione Award Deadline is July 26!
Do not miss this opportunity to have your work recognized! Graduate Students! Are you doing or have you recently completed research related to food and human rights? Food…
Reminder! 2019 Christine Wilson Awards Applications Due Soon!
Don’t Miss This Great Opportunity! Students! Did you write a research paper on food and/or nutrition this year? Are you writing one now? Want fame and recognition? We…
Institut für Ethnologie der Goethe-Uni kuratiert Ausstellung im Weltkulturen Museum
Das Weltkulturen Museum und das Institut für Ethnologie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main laden ein zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Plakatiert! Reflexionen des indigenen Nordamerika“ am 26. Juni…
Hope or Resignation: the Future of Anthropology
By Matthias Teeuwen Standing at the end of my Master’s, the topic of this year’s anthropology day particularly spoke to me: Futures. What can I expect of the…
Joseph Hill, “Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal” (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Joseph Hill‘s new book Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal (University of Toronto Press, 2018), is an ethnographic study of women Sufi…