Sixteen Years in the Dark Night at Grand Ronde
The tribes at Grand Ronde trusted the words of the American agents and the agents did nothing to help them, all promises of the treaties, of services, land,…
Victor Albert: Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement is an assertive social work organization
On 21 October, Jair Bolsonaro, the now president-elect of Brazil, made an announcement via his smartphone that was transmitted to crowds of supporters gathered in São Paulo: “Criminals…
Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs?
Ten years ago, toiling in scorching heat on the parched Fongoli savanna in southeast Senegal, anthropologist Julie Lesnik faced an unpalatable task. She had to taste a termite.…
Mukbang is Changing Digital Communications
How a global internet phenomenon is foreshadowing the effects of virtual reality and changing the way strangers connect online. Sitting in a home office filled with stuffed…
Links & Contents I Liked 303
Hi all, Happy weekend! Here’s your reading list 🙂 ! Development news: #AidToo, peacekeeping & African Union; Indonesia’s palm oil environmental disaster; hipster colonialism from Germany; war host…
Make Time to Watch “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage”
Don’t miss the recent documentary film “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song, and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. by Áslaug Einarsdóttir and Valdimar Tr.…
Outside the Asylum (book review)
I am continuing my research and public service on sharing reviews on aid worker memoirs. Lynne Jones’ Outside the Asylum-A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry adds…
Student Experience: The Scale of Avoidance
By Telissa Schreuder We all know it, the scale of avoiding things. Level one on that scale would mean no actual harm, all the while a severe level…
Hjärtmassage sent i november
Den här veckan erbjöds anställda vid ÅA att få sina porträtt tagna av en fotograf, för att få kvalitativa och enhetliga bilder till personkorten på webben, som det…
Aus den Tiefen der Fernseharchive – eine Rekontextualisierung…
Vortrag von Merle Kröger und Mareike Bernien (Berlin) mit einem Kommentar von Sharon Macdonald Dienstag, 4.12.2018, 14-16 Uhr Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Raum 0007 Institutskolloquium, I…
Aus den Tiefen der Fernseharchive – eine Rekontextualisierung…
Vortrag von Merle Kröger und Mareike Bernien (Berlin) mit einem Kommentar von Sharon Macdonald Dienstag, 4.12.2018, 14-16 Uhr Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Raum 0007 Institutskolloquium, I…
Is Gender Unique to Humans?
[no-caption] Anup Shah/Getty Images This summer, in the introductory course I teach on the evolution and biology of human and animal behavior, I showed my students a website…
Call for Editors – 2019
Platypus, the CASTAC Blog, is seeking a new Editor and several new Contributing Editors for our team in 2019! The blog is a weekly, collaborative publication of the…
Book Review: Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism edited by Hermione Spriggs
In Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism, editor Hermione Spriggs brings together visual and verbal documentation of five art-anthropology exchange processes alongside furth…
Tackling Timelessness
Timelessness is cruel because it is dehumanizing. As a mad anthropologist who researches madness, I have spent considerable time tackling timelessness. Timelessness is the name I have given…
Sohini Kar, “Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Is microfinance the magic bullet that will end global poverty or is it yet another a form of predatory lending to the poor? In her new book Financializing…
Jeong-Hee Kim, “Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research” (Sage Publications, 2016)
In today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim about her new book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research (Sage Publications, 2016). The…
At Europe’s Threshold – Bangladeshi Migrants in Greece
By Jessica van Vugt. This photo-essay is about Bangladeshi migrants in Athens, Greece. Using the case of the Bangladeshi migrants, I wanted to explore how the European discourse…
America’s Postindustrial Futures
Frank stands at the site of his last job, which was at a chemical company. Chloe Ahmann In 1963, Frank* was fired from his job at American Dredging.…
Sohini Kar, “Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Is microfinance the magic bullet that will end global poverty or is it yet another a form of predatory lending to the poor? In her new book Financializing…
Jeong-Hee Kim, “Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research” (Sage Publications, 2016)
In today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim about her new book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research (Sage Publications, 2016). The…
David Charles Sloane, “Is the Cemetery Dead?” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
It is certain that we all will experience death in our life. What is less certain is how and where our bodies will be disposed of. In Is…
Community in Economic “Kriza”: Broken Promises and Precarity in a Small Croatian Farming Community
Over two decades have passed since Croatia embarked upon a transition towards a market economy. Even though it is the EU’s most recent member, rural regions continue to…
Kathleen Hull and John Douglass, “Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California” (U Arizona Press, 2018)
Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought the imposition of foreign beliefs,…