Dear white middle class British women: Please don’t send used bras (or anything, really) to Africa
I am supposed to be on my summer blogging break, but the world of bad development does not seem to take a vacation…The first time I came across…
Dear white middle class British women: Please don’t send used bras (or anything, really) to Africa
I am supposed to be on my summer blogging break, but the world of bad development does not seem to take a vacation…The first time I came across…
Book Review: Precarious Labour and Informal Economy: Work, Anarchy and Society in an Indian Village by Smita Yadav
In Precarious Labour and Informal Economy: Work, Anarchy and Society in an Indian Village, Smita Yadav explores the life, labour and politics of a community of Sur Gonds in India’s…
Networking Nature: Tracking Terra, Sensing the Sea, Atmo-structures
Lately, when I have the pleasure of walking in the stacks of a regal, well-stocked, old library, and am in a devious mood, I imagine I am an…
The art of conviviality in a seamless world
Paul Gilroy, recipient of the 2019 Holberg Prize, speaks with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about double consciousness, post-imperial nostalgia, cultural creativity and conviviality as a weapon against xenop…
The art of conviviality in a seamless world
Paul Gilroy, recipient of the 2019 Holberg Prize, speaks with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about double consciousness, post-imperial nostalgia, cultural creativity and conviviality as a weapon against xenop…
At Odds with the Impulse: Muslim Humanitarianism and its Exclusions in Northern Pakistan #MUHUM
Drawing on fieldwork undertaken between 2004 and 2013 in Gilgit Town, the multi-sectarian capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, this brief explores how, even while they…
Practical Earth Skills
E hara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takimano, takitini.Success is not the work of one, but the work of many. Nau mai. Harae mai.…
The Added Value of Anthropology for Business Impact: Reflections on the 2019 Global Business Anthropology Summit – a guest post by Autumn D. McDonald
On May 29th and 30th of this year, roughly 160 people (including myself) attended the 2nd Annual Global Business Anthropology … More
SciCom: The Slippery Business of STEM Promotion
“One thing is certain: When something is scientifically complex, it’s harder to understand and to communicate” (sciencebranding.com). Regardless of its accuracy, this is a commonly repeated sentiment …
The Surprising Connections between Climate Finance, Sacrifice and the Spirit of Capitalism
In this episode, Adam and Aneil reflect on Aneil’s fieldwork in climate finance. Climate finance is an area of finance focused on mobilizing investment for climate change solutions,…
The Surprising Connections between Climate Finance, Sacrifice and the Spirit of Capitalism
In this episode, Adam and Aneil reflect on Aneil’s fieldwork in climate finance. Climate finance is an area of finance focused on mobilizing investment for climate change solutions,…
A Postcolonial Civic? Shi‘i Philanthropy and the Making and Marking of Urban Space in Mumbai #MUHUM
Scholarly discussions of charity, philanthropy and humanitarianism in varied contexts tend to uphold the moral ideal of giving for the sake of humanity at large or the common…
Jessica Chandras takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation, titled Multilingual Practices, Education, and Identity in Pune, India, is a first attempt at bringing readers into an ethnographically informed composite sketch…
Gastronomica: 19.2 and the Launch of a New Editorial Collective
University of California Press is proud to announce that Gastronomica, a leading food studies journal, has just published the first issue under new leadership – an editorial collective…
“Waarom dan?” Energieprofessional Elbert Huijzer analyseert antropologen
Door Elbert Huijzer Toen mijn kinderen nog klein waren, werden geregeld de wat- en waarom-vragen gesteld. Papa, wat is dat? Papa, waarom is dat zo? Als ik het…
Diana Pasulka, “American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology” (Oxford UP, 2019)
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in…
Diana Pasulka, “American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology” (Oxford UP, 2019)
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in…
The Egyptian Red Crescent in the Twentieth Century #MUHUM
The Egyptian Red Crescent was founded in 1912 by Sheikh Ali Yussuf with a clear Panislamic and anticolonial agenda. In the following decades, however, the organization turned more…
Is anti-trafficking dead?
I will attempt to answer this question at ANU’s Migration and Social-Cultural Change Workshop. For further details about the event can be found here. Abstract of my talk…
Summer Cycling at Minto-Brown Island Park
This summer, I have been returning to mountain biking in the local park, Minto-Brown Island park. I used to mountain bike a lot, when I lived in California.…
Accumulation by media saturation
Palapa-lined beach on the East Cape of BCS, Mexico. Photo: Ryan Anderson, 2012. Recently, I was at the doctor’s office (I’m fine, thanks) and I started sifting through…
Ep. #41: Mediocrity, Confusing Cake, Public Accountability & Gift Reciprocity: This month on TFS
Simon (0:48) kicks off this panel by asking us about mediocrity. He reflects on his fieldwork in Iran, where he observed – particularly in the education sphere –…
Om att klä ned sig när man ska köpa dyra kläder
Det hela började som något av ett dåligt omdöme från min sida. Först hade jag ont om rena tröjor så det fick bli en av de som jag…