Sticky notes by Simon Cohn
I remember when I was a lot younger and my grandmother was still alive, her flat became increasingly filled with small pieces of paper attached by tape to…
Help! Really. The Mathers Museum of World Cultures Needs You!
An Indiana University event known as #IUDay is nearly here. Scheduled for Wednesday, April 10, 2019, #IUDay is a celebration of Indiana University. It is a day of…
Teaching Evolution in the South: Framing Evolutionary Theory for Religious Students
I am a biocultural anthropologist and teach at a university in the southern United States of America. This means that many of my students are religious and haven’t…
Integration by Clara Devlieger
In one of several letters he wrote to me during my fieldwork, Serge addressed what he considered to be the problems of integration for disabled people in the…
Nur der Sultan
Die Lehrerin setzt behutsam alle Kinder zurecht. Die Kinder posieren artig fürs Gruppenbild vor der Handykamera der Lehrerin. Es ist eigentlich verboten, im Museum der Republik in Almaty…
Anthropology…in Theory
Bernard Perley © 2019 Bernard Perley is Maliseet from Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada. He teaches courses in linguistic anthropology and Native American studies at the…
Observations on Rastafari Cosmopolitics from the Caribbean
Rastafari-grounded and Caribbean imaginative reinventions have long influenced the evolution of Caribbean ethnography. They could inspire a decolonial anthropology for this century. “I am Ethiopian j…
Resisting Indigenous Erasure from Alcatraz Island to Elizabeth Warren
A critical look at anthropology and 50 years in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty (1969–2019). Indians must be redefined in terms that white men will accept, even if…
The Way We Were?
The radicalism of the 1960s transformed anthropology. But ours was not the racist, exoticizing, colonial project it was imagined to be. The 1960s—Vietnam and resistance to the war;…
Upsetting the Canon
Teaching anthropology offers a site for critical intervention. So what should we be reading with our students? A critical and reflexive anthropology requires, beyond the self-indulgent condemnation of…
Homage to Those Who Hollered before Me/Meditations on Inheritances and Lineages, Anthropological and Otherwise
Homage to Those Who Hollered before Me Silence chose me I didn’t choose silence silence immobilized me I could not breathe in my own skin without breaking the…
From academia to industry: Takeaways on anthropology in tech from the 2018 AAA conference – a guest post by Mary Robertson
Editor’s note: In this guest post by Mary Robertson, a newly minted PhD anthropologist now working in technology, Mary shares … More
Goodwin and Cekaite on their book, Embodied Family Choreography
https://www.routledge.com/Embodied-Family-Choreography-Practices-of-Control-Care-and-Mundane-Creativity/Goodwin-Cekaite/p/book/9781138633261 Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae YJB: In arguing that the family a…
Why the Startup environment in Silicon Valley is more fruitful than in the Netherlands
by Vivienne Schröder At a pitch event I meet John “startup” Doe*. I am very biased to meet him after the pitches: That name sounds familiar. It sounds…
Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
A Twitter essay by Mary Annaïse Heglar: Sorry, Y’all, but Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
Diskussionskultur in der Wissenschaft. Ein Interview mit “Max Musterwesen”
Anonymität ist in öffentlichen Debatten umstritten. Auf der einen Seite vermutet man Tricks, Verleumdung, Unehrlichkeit, in einer freien Gesellschaft gäbe es keine Gründe für Anonymität. Durch die Ge…
Rezension zur 2. Auflage „Neuer Antisemitismus?“ herausgegeben von Christian Heilbronn, Doron Rabinovici und Natan Sznaider
Der Frage was mit einem „Neuen Antisemitismus“ gemeint ist, klären die Herausgeber einleitend und meinen, dass es sich dabei um einen Antisemitismus handelt, „der erst nach der Schoah…
How Do Leaders Impact Our Definition of Responsibility?
What happens when our sense of responsibility breaks down? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Leben nach der Heiligen Anastasia. Rechtsradikalismus in Grün
Zur Anastasia-Bewegung gab es bei REMID zuletzt 2016 einen ausführlicheren Artikel (vgl. Rechte Ideologie im esoterischen und neureligiösen Bereich). Über seine Recherchen zu der neuen religiösen Bew…
Weeds don’t exist in the wild: What can that tell us about humans?
Each so-called weed, after all, has a remarkable story to tell. Each is the product of millions of years of evolution. Each is a descendant from an ancient…
DATT/S is on Patreon!
Greetings everyone! I wanted to notify my readers & those who regularly use my content both on DATT & DATS that I will be producing content at. patreon.com/Hood_Biologist.…
An example preprint / working paper
This work is driven by the results in my previous paper on LLMs. Create your slides in Markdown – click the Slides button to check out the example.…
De institutionalisering van salafisme – antropologie en ethiek
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier Met verbazing las ik het artikel over de perikelen rond de promotie van meneer Soroush in Tilburg en het oordeel van de externe onderzoekscommissie (NRC…