Top Articles of 2018
As the year winds down, Anthropology News rounds up our most popular articles of 2018. From critical reflections on the discipline and experiences of it, to grappling with…
The Dirt
#Discardstudies takes waste and wasting as its topic of study. To keep practitioners up-to-date, we publish The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls…
Tagungsbericht: 5. Jahrestagung der Migrations- und Integrationsforschung in Österreich verfasst von Andreas Schulz
Die Kommission für Migrations- und Integrationsforschung (KMI), das Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung (ISR), die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (OEAW) und der Forschungsbereich „M…
what do you call that reorder edit – on a crooked line of Marx
In Marx’s own copy of the 1867 edition of Capital, we can see he changes a few things. I wonder when. There are more changes in the copy…
Nicht mächtig, aber zukunftsträchtig: Zum Potenzial des globalen Flüchtlingspakts
Von Ulrike Krause und Dana Schmalz Der globale Flüchtlingspakt (Global Compact on Refugees) soll den Flüchtlingsschutz weltweit verbessern. Doch was beinhaltet er und welche Wirkungen sind zu…
MeToo Anthropology
I’ll spare you the worst of it but I will tell you that, some agonizing moments later, I was able to reach my field knife while he was…
Worker or Labour
Note for later… on the difference between worker and labour. Is it not obvious there are questions to ask here about demarcation – is a worker everyone under…
The Temporary Cow Creek Umpqua Reservation
The Cow Creek Umpquas were a Takelman speaking tribe of native peoples related to the Takelma peoples of the Rogue river valley. The Cow Creek peoples resided in…
Material Culture Journalism, 1
Happily, next month I will again teach a graduate course in material culture studies at Indiana University. In that context I will be even more interested than usual…
Publicity or Marginality? On the Question of Academic “Silencing” in Anthropology
Abstract What is “silencing” and is it out of place in the contemporary North American university? How do “silencing” and “public anthropology” intersect? What are the roles of…
The 1855 Umpqua Reservation Census
Some recent census research revealed a census I had not yet analyzed. Luckily, a brief search of my records found that I had previously collected the census, enabling…
When the Southern Molallas Moved to the Umpqua Reservation
In 1853, Joel Palmer Indian Superintendent for Oregon established the Umpqua Reservation in the inland Umpqua Valley. The September 19, 1853 Treaty with the Cow Creek Band of…
Joshua Clover: The roundabout riots
Much has been written about the gilets jaunes and their relation to both politics, of the left and the right, and historical waves of labor unrest. In this…
Links & Contents I Liked 305
Hi all, We are moving closer to a short, but well-deserved break (next week’s review will be the last for 2018), but in the meantime, there’s some interesting,…
Best of SAPIENS 2018
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert Thanks to our excellent contributors, we had more than 80 articles to choose from in voting for our favorite SAPIENS pieces of 2018. After…
Self-isolation as a Choice: The Sentinelese and the Missionary
In November, the killing of a missionary on North-Sentinel attracted a lot of media attention. The fact that John Chau tried to set foot on an officially closed…
Varför kommer en arkeolog till nordisk folkloristik?
Arkeologer jobbar med föremål. Enligt mantrat som man lär sig när man börjar studera arkeologi, forskar ämnet i ”människans förflutna genom materiell kultur utifrån ett långtidsperspektiv”. Hur har…
Self-isolation as a Choice: The Sentinelese and the Missionary
In November, the killing of a missionary on North-Sentinel attracted a lot of media attention. The fact that John Chau tried to set foot on an officially closed…
Selbstfindung oder Selbsterfindung, das ist hier die Frage!
Ich entsorgte gerade Papier, Glas und Dosen und nervte mich über die Katzenfutter-, Olivenöl und Rotweinreste, die sich am Boden meiner Tasche zu einem ekligen Etwas vereint hatten,…
Book review: Capitalism Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone
I recently came across this book by Stephen Campbell which examines migration and labour precarity in Thailand. The book is excellent and I decided to review it. The…
Can Honeybees Teach Us How to Live?
“Bees know best,” beekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina tend to say. Keen observers of hives, Bosnian beekeepers take bees as knowledgeable beings. The bees, they say, concoct complex hive substances,…
Beyond the Horizon available online
“Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society”, originally published in 2008, is now available online at https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfa.2/ The book was edi…
Is inequality within countries getting better or worse?
In a recent Twitter post, Max Roser of Our World In Data claimed that the narrative about rising inequality within countries is incorrect. Inequality has been falling…