What FoodAnthro is reading, March 8, 2019
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or hunterjo@gmail.c…
Äger du varorna i kundkorgen
När man är i affären med sitt barn händer det då och då att det gör något som man får skämmas en smula för. Ett exempel är när…
Breathing Room: Poetic Form as Resistance to Convention in the Ethnography of Suffering by Casey Golomski
Here I ruminate on recent writing experiments at the convergence of poetry and ethnography as a means to convey experiences of suffering. Recent ethnographies of suffering highlight innovative…
What Migrants Leave Behind
A child’s backpack abandoned on a migrant trail in the Tumacácori Mountains suffers the ravages of time. Gabriella Soto “Oh my God. Did you see this backpack?” a…
A Story of Us
For the past several years, the graduate students of the Ohio State Department of Anthropology have produced A Story of Us, a podcast that is sponsored by the…
#AcademicTwitter: A How-To Guide for Anthropologists
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Jules Weiss. Jules Weiss (they/them pronouns) is a 2nd year MA student in Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University.…
Links & Contents I Liked 315
Hi all, Happy International Women’s Day! My piece on white saviour communication & media rituals has gained some nice traction this week, but there were also other interesting…
Links & Contents I Liked 315
Hi all, Happy International Women’s Day! My piece on white saviour communication & media rituals has gained some nice traction this week, but there were also other interesting…
Great new book from Karine Gagné: Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
This is a great looking new title from Karine Gagné at the University of Guelph. Available here from University of Washington Press, where the blurb below is also…
Frauen, Flucht und Handlungsmacht
Von Ulrike Krause und Hannah Schmidt Zum heutigen Weltfrauentag möchten wir den Blick auf die Lage geflüchteter Frauen in Aufnahmeländern legen. Zweifelsohne sind sie weltweit häufig mit…
New York, New York
“No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” -James Baldwin Då folk frågade mig hur New York var, brukade jag svara kort och enkelt ”kaos”. Enligt Wikipedia, brukade kaos…
Regime Change Reality Checks: Lessons from Hanoi, Caracas, and Beyond
Lessons from Hanoi: North Korea and the US The first Kim-Trump Summit, which took place in Singapore a mere eight months ago, seemed so hopeful—a real breakthrough, a…
The Conversation
What is does it mean to work post-graduation, and what does anthropology have to do with it? It happens every quarter. The conversation. Students ask us big questions…
„Integration“ und (Des)Integration
Herausforderungen für die politische Kommunikation Autor: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann Welches Wissen verwenden Politik und Bevölkerung, wenn sie über „Integration“ sprechen? Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann ge…
AAA/CASCA 2019 Annual Meeting CFPs
Abstracts for the AAA Annual Meeting must be submitted by 3 p.m. EST on April 10th. If you are looking for panelists for your session or looking for a panel…
CFP: AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Start planning your sessions for AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC! The time has come to start planning sessions for the annual AAA meeting – this…
Review: From Virtue to Vice
Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. V. 4. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78238-455-7 hardbac…
Vigilance as coping, vigilance as injury by Michelle Munyikwa
If I were asked for a definition of myself, I would say that I am one who waits; I investigate my surroundings, I interpret everything in terms of…
Does Art Have a Homeland?
Detail from a 16th-century bronze plaque from Benin, West Africa, held at the British Museum, London. Trustees of the British Museum This article was originally published at Aeon and has…
Interrogating Queer Identity: The Use of Art as Resistance and Stories from the Margins
by Colin Gill In this moment in history we are witnessing several ultra-right movements across the globe. The most recent example of this is the election of president…
Das Schweizer Asylverfahren
Ein Zukunftsmodell für Europa? Dr. Constantin Hruschka In seinem Gastbeitrag für die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung erklärt Dr. Constantin Hruschka die wichtigsten Neuerungen und beschreibt, was andere…
Nya världar med nya invånare
”Om du hittar en grimer, eller nåt annat som jag inte har, så fånga den!” säger nioåringen innan vi skiljs. ”Är det den som ser ut som en…
Ed Simpson: State Highway 31
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1188/Ed%20Simpson%20-%20State%20Highway%2031.mp3 Ed Simpson (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) gav…
Hummingbirds are Nature’s…
One of my passions is studying multispecies entanglements. As an anthropologist, the ways in which human activities affect the lives of other living organisms are of central interest…