Secular powers and heretic undercurrents in a God-fearing world. A Lecture
In this lecture – which you find as a transcript and an audio link below – I think together some of my fieldwork in Egypt, and a critical…
Changing Its Tune
Back in 2012 I blogged about MidEast Tunes (mideasttunes.com) one of the largest Arabic music sites in the world. I just updated my old post to fix the…
Yemen
There is near silence about the war on Yemen led by KSA and UAE and supported by US, UK and France indicating the success of public relations bought…
Sarah Shulist on her new book, Transforming Indigeneity
Interview by Shannon Ward https://utorontopress.com/ca/transforming-indigeneity-2 Shannon Ward: Your book demonstrates how children in São Gabriel actively respond to discourse that frames Indigene…
Science with heart
Conservation biologist Alex Bond on dealing with pollution, harm, and suffering as a scientist.
Different ‘Developments’: Japanese Anthropologists and Development
by Kazuki Horiuchi Non-western countries, such as China and India, have become in the last decades major actors of international development (Madwsley 2013). Yet, distinguishing between traditional an…
Eine „Kritik der Freiheit“ in Sachen Liebe und Sexualität, die notwendig sei. Eva Illouz‘ neues Buch Warum Liebe endet. Rezensiert von Mathias Beschorner
Aus dem Klappentext: „Unsere Kultur ist unendlich reich an Darstellungen und Geschichten, die vom Erscheinen der Liebe im Leben der Menschen handeln – von jenem magischen Augenblick, in…
The War of the Public Intellectuals: A Review of “Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal” (2015)
When and how did the polarization of political opinion become so mainstream in the US? When was acrimony institutionalized? When did it become acceptable to deny a political…
Participant observation from a first-timer at the AAA conference 2018, San Jose
This first experience of a really big conference makes me want to go to smaller conferences, where it would be easier to find the people who share my…
Die Kunst des Interviewens
„Ehrlich gesagt, hatte ich dich nicht erwartet“. Ich habe mit Vielem gerechnet. Die Tatsache, dass meine Interviewpartnerin unseren festgelegten Termin vergessen und zudem einen anderen Termin fast z…
Surviving Indigenous Landscapes in the Willamette Valley: the Mid-Valley Buttes
In my short life, I have spent some 30 years traveling the Willamette Valley from north to south and east to west, and not really giving the buttes…
The Real Race Problem – Part 1
On the eve of the one-hundred and eighth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ newspaper The Crisis, we are presenting, in its entirety, a lecture from the distinguished anthropologist,…
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…