The Dawn of Digital Therapeutics
A techno-optimistic attitude tells us we’re living at an inflexion point where care practices are being transformed by technology. Monitoring and attending to health and well-being are no…
Business Anthropology: From the Trobriands to enterprises
Soon after I had established myself in Omarakana (Trobriand Islands), I began to take part, in a way, in the village life, to look forward to the important…
Katherine Verdery on her book, My Life as a Spy
https://www.dukeupress.edu/my-life-as-a-spy Interview by Tim Gitzen Tim Gitzen: You describe this book—and the process of reading your police file and writing the book—as part memoir. This is evident…
CFP: Studying Traditional Crafts: Goals and Methods in Higher Education
Here is a call for papers for an exciting conference in Estonia. The hosts are wonderful colleagues whom I met while visiting Viljandi last fall. Their call is…
(Un)Categorizing Albinism by Giorgio Brocco
“Everything started with a little spot in the head, right up [by] my right ear! I don’t even remember the precise day or week I discovered it. Instead,…
Book: Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance
Luger, M., Graf, F., & Budka, P. (Eds.). (2019). Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance. (Ritualization – Mediatization – Performance). Göttingen: V&R Unipress/…
Queering chemicals (EDCs): A bibliography
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) are a class of environmental toxicants that may impact sex, gender, and sexuality. Here is our bibliography on queering EDCs.
Der Krieg und seine Diskurse – 4. Sonderheft erschienen
Liebe Leser_innen, an dem Heft, welches Du gerade liest, arbeiten wir seit mehr als zwei Jahren. Es hat sich aus zwei von Thomas Scheffer geleiteten Master-Seminaren entwickelt, die…
Ep. #35: Loneliness, Positionality, ‘Person’ & Violence: This Month on TFS
This month Julia (0:59) starts us off with the relationship between loneliness and health after listening to an episode of ‘All in the Mind’, a podcast that explores…
The WikiLeaks Case: Democracy Dies in Empire
In the avalanche of news reports that have washed over the globe since the abduction of Julian Assange, this conversation struck me as containing numerous points of importance.…
Links & Contents I Liked 320
Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
Links & Contents I Liked 320
Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 5
We are nearly to the end of our 6-week ‘6 items challenge.’ As eight undergraduates and one lecturer at the University of Sussex, we have committed to living…
Tax Season Woes Have Complex Roots
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, people’s acceptance of taxes owed varies widely. Miranda Sheild Johansson In the midsize Bolivian city of Cochabamba, informal work is the norm among the lowest-pa…
Restoring the balance: Living well with pain by Else Vogel
Like dementia, persistent pain comes with irreparable losses: physical restrictions, strained relationships, financial problems, perished dreams and ambitions. Both conditions require ethnographers an…
Queer Zones: Refugees from Africa and Interactions with Canada’s Borderlands by Notisha Massaquoi
On June 28, 2009, a group of queer Africans took to the streets of Toronto. In what is one of the largest and longest-running Pride parades in North…
Evig eies kun det uavhendelige (eller: eier du egentlig foten din?)
Hvor mange måter kan man egentlig eie noe på? Man skulle kanskje tro det bare var én – enten eier man noe, eller så gjør man det ikke.…
Werken tot je neervalt: Turkse migrantenvrouwen en hun kwetsbare positie binnen de Nederlandse samenleving
Door Sevde Koca Nederland kent een lange geschiedenis van arbeidsmigratie, met als meest recente voorbeeld migratie uit Oost-Europese landen. Arbeidsmigranten uit deze landen hebben rege…
Vem bryter mot funktionalitetsnormen?
Min storebror är döv. Han har alltid varit döv och han har alltid varit min bror. I mitt liv är det så att storebrorsor talar teckenspråk och inte…
Julian Assange, Political Prisoner: A Dark Day for Citizenship
After a day of following RT’s live coverage of the outrageous arrest of Julian Assange, abducted from the Embassy of Ecuador in London by British police agents, and…
Review: White Bread
Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. Beacon Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-080704467-4. Laura Valli Washington State University Aaron Bobrow-Strain in White Bread fol…
Offshoring Responsibility for Asylum-Seekers
After fleeing persecution in his home country in 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani boarded a boat with more than 60 other asylum-seekers that would be intercepted by the…
How to fix the Conde Nast business model
Peter Kafka has a great piece on Conde Nast, specifically how this once dominant publishing enterprise now struggles and what this means for incoming editor Roger Lynch. “The magazine industry…
Nachicolcho or Siletz: a Place on the Oregon Coast
The Siletz placename is something of a mystery. Leo J. Frachtenberg, the ethnologist assigned to collect native languages on the Grand Ronde and Siletz reservations in about 1913, …