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From impact to transformation: Do-Gooders, Multicolored Saviors and development as lifestyle

My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…

  • Post date 24th February 2017
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus

From impact to transformation: Do-Gooders, Multicolored Saviors and development as lifestyle

My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…

  • Post date 24th February 2017
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus

#EVENTS: the past, the present and the future

It’s time for some exciting events!! Let’s go on a little bit of a time travel as we attempt to anticipate the future and reflect upon the past,…

  • Post date 24th February 2017
  • Post author By Allegra

Interview mit Buchautor Christian Röther: Islamfeindlichkeit von AfD und Pegida

Christian Röther (Religionswissenschaft Göttingen) promovierte über die islamfeindliche Szene in Deutschland. Dafür recherchierte er mehrere Jahre über die Szene und führte ausführliche Interviews mi…

  • Post date 24th February 2017
  • Post author By Christoph Wagenseil

Film India archive

Pretty excited to find parts of the FilmIndia archive online, especially 1948 with a (idiosyncratic) review of Sunny’s Mela (stars Nargis and Dilip Kumar). Also I am quite taken…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By john hutnyk

CFP-Crip Technoscience

While not always engaging with the concept of “technoscience,” scholars of critical, feminist, and crip disability studies often build on the foundational claim of disability studies that natural…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Max Liboiron

Amy Brown, “A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School (U. Minnesota Press, 2015)

There has been much talk in the news recently about funding for public education, the emergence of charter schools, and the potential of school vouchers. How much does…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By James Stancil

On Meetings… 

Industrial practices have forged new and creative ways to waste people’s time. Within these practices however, meetings are the most excellent example that I can think of, in…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By The Anxious Anthropologist

Call for Papers: Museum Anthropology in the Age of Engagement, Panel at the 2017 American Anthropological Association

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Museum Anthropology Editors

Native American Museum Studies Institute: A Professional Development Opportunity for Tribal Museum Professionals

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Museum Anthropology Editors

The Resonance of Earth, Other Worlds, and Exoplanets

How do planetary scientists understand distant places like Mars or planets orbiting another star? A conversation with Lisa Messeri about “resonance” and the anthropology of space. By Michael…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Ryan

Auf der Suche nach den Erinnerungen

Es war einmal vor langer Zeit in einer fremden Welt … – war es ein Traum? Es fühlt sich so an! Seit einigen Wochen bin ich wieder in…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Eliza

In a Genocide, Who Are the Morally Upright?

During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, more than 800,000 people were slaughtered over 100 days. Amid the chaos there were heroes—those who put their own lives on the line…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Elizabeth Svoboda

What are Anthropology jobs?

According to at least one Anthropology Department Chair, the two most googled questions students have are, “What is anthropology?” and in a close second, “What can I do…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Rhiannon Mosher

Anthropology’s heterodoxy

  “Flowers” by Claude Monet By Ton Salman            In the following blog, Ton Salman reacts to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, titled “Is Anthrop…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By standplaatswereld

Following persimmon around the world

Ten years ago, when we were still living in Boston, in the days before the large Korean supermarket chain, H Mart, made sourcing Korean produce a breeze, my…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Jo

Why Is It Significant That the White House Tours Resume?

The tradition of an open house at the White House dates back to the administration of Thomas Jefferson. Why is this an important aspect of the American democratic process?…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Krystal D'Costa

The Importance of Mortuary Rituals

Written by Saher Fatteh After listening to the podcast How Stuff Works in which Dr. Stutz discusses mortuary rituals and their importance, I thought of a specific scene…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Joyce Shin

Dealing with Dead Bodies

Written by Saher Fatteh During class on Tuesday, we watched a short film called The Undertaking. The movie investigates the life and work of Thomas Lynch, the director…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Joyce Shin

Human Sacrifice in Maya Culture

Death is already an uncomfortable topic to talk about, let alone the idea of human sacrifices. From the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifices were pretty common in Maya culture.…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Cindy Cheng

Around the Web Digest- February 13

It is 66ºF in the middle of February in Chicago and I am appreciating the warmth while writing this before climate change destroys us all. With that I…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Edward Chong

Beast of Contention: The Polar Bear as National Symbol and Emblem of Conservation

Invited post by Michael Engelhard* The Icelandic artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir painted this outline on Langjökull Glacier to draw attention to activists’ demands to reduce the amount of CO2…

  • Post date 23rd February 2017
  • Post author By Ryan

What is Trinketization

Originally posted on trinketization: For an explanation of Trinketization – never fully codified as yet – you might start with the following old posts such as: Note 33: Trinketization…

  • Post date 22nd February 2017
  • Post author By john hutnyk

OU receives Mellon Foundation grant for Native American arts initiative

  • Post date 22nd February 2017
  • Post author By Museum Anthropology Editors
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