En natt-aktiv papegoja
Jag ägnar mig inte bara åt sociala experiment och practical jokes. Det jag ska berätta om nu är en variant som ytterst lite angränsar till de mer typiska…
Museum Anthropology Review is a Teenager Now; New Issue is Now Out
Life got away from me last week and I still have more “Exhibition Week” posts to share, but today I turn attention to the new issue of MAR.…
In the Journals, March 2019 by Cara Ryan Idriss
Here are some highlights from the journals in March 2019, including a special issue of Medical Anthropology dedicated to Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology. Enjoy! American Anthropologist…
Excavating Long-Buried Stories From the Nazi Era
Reinhard Bernbeck presents the entrance of a shelter at an archaeological site on the premises of a former concentration camp and forced-labor camp in Berlin, Germany. Stephanie Pilick/Getty…
On Duty for the CIA: German Nazis and Italian Fascists
Apart from employing German Nazi scientists, and adopting the methods, principles, and science of the Nazis in developing modern warfare, for what other purposes were Nazis sought after…
Links & Contents I Liked 318
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!(Just a quick technical note: As I will be traveling to Moldova next week the next link review will most likely be…
Links & Contents I Liked 318
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!(Just a quick technical note: As I will be traveling to Moldova next week the next link review will most likely be…
«Å gjøre en forskjell» – Engelske fraselån i norsk
Fra engelsk har vi fått en rekke allmennord som børne og chille og fagtermer som controller. Men mange lån omfatter ikke enkeltord, men fraser, slik som «business as usual» og «å gjøre…
Tagung des Rat für Migration „Sprache • Macht • Bildung“
Internationale Konferenz in Berlin Der Rat für Migration lädt am 7. und 8. November 2019 zur Jahrestagung Sprache · Macht · Bildung ein. Sprache und Bildung spielen im…
Searching, Studying and Doing Sociology in the Medico-Legal Borderlands by Laura Bisaillon
Medico-legal borderlands? What is this nebulous sounding compound concept, “medico-legal borderlands”? How has it been used by social scientists whose ethnographic studies scratch at itches in the…
Exclusion and gatekeeping in psychiatric-legal borderland: Keeping the material in view by Agnieszka Doll
The concept of the “medico-legal borderland” commonly refers to the discursive intersection of medical and legal knowledges in the constitution of a new knowledge regime (McClelland, 2013). The…
Acknowledgement is Long Past Due for Attempts to Exterminate the Tribes of Oregon
Presently, there is an apology bill being considered in the Oregon State Senate for the Modoc Indian War of 1872-1873. This apology is long past due to the…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 3
by Alfred Lewis **Read about the first and second week of our ‘fashion fast’ here and here. If you can, please donate to our efforts to raise money for the labour rights…
Why Don’t You Eat Bugs?
Edible Insects part 1. Will crickets ever catch on as an alternative source of protein in the United States? How about cockroach “milk”? Why do people in so…
Why Don’t You Eat Bugs?
Edible Insects part 1. Will crickets ever catch on as an alternative source of protein in the United States? How about cockroach “milk”? Why do people in so…
Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
[no-caption] sodapix/Getty Images Northern Ethiopia was once home to a vast, ancient lake. Saber-toothed cats prowled around it, giant crocodiles swam within. The streams and rivers that …
Book Review: The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were edited by Robin James Smith and Sara Delamont
In The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were, Robin James Smith and Sara Delamont bring together a range of contributors who place loss at the centre of…
Theses on Method: New Media, Social Technologies, and the Anthropology of Digital Worlds
This is a guest post by Dr. Travis Cooper, who teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis and is a research fellow with the Lived Religion in the Digital…
Jules Evans, “The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher’s Search for Ecstatic Experience” (Canongate Books, 2017)
People have always sought ecstatic experiences – moments where they go beyond their ordinary self and feel connected to something greater than them. Such moments are fundamental to…
Jules Evans, “The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher’s Search for Ecstatic Experience” (Canongate Books, 2017)
People have always sought ecstatic experiences – moments where they go beyond their ordinary self and feel connected to something greater than them. Such moments are fundamental to…
„Wer in Palermo ist, ist Palermitaner“. Ein Interview mit Bürgermeister Leoluca Orlando.
Im Interview spricht der Bürgermeister Palermos, Leoluca Orlando, über den Zusammenhang von Mafia und Aufenthaltspolitik, seine politische Vision für Palermo und die problematische Rolle des National…
Reading Shaligrams
The book is nearly complete! It’s been a long road but I will be turning in the revised and completed manuscript to my publisher in just a few…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 2
by Amelia Yates **Read about the first week of our ‘fashion fast’ here. If you can, please donate to our efforts to raise money for the labour rights charity Labour Behind the…
Amazonia and the Ontological Turn: A Dialogue
In July 2017, I visited Manaus to work on a new collaboration with researchers in the Sociology Department at the Federal University of Amazonas State (UFAM) and I…