The Culture of Corruption
Many of us know that political corruption is not new to the world. It is an unsavory, human practice with a history that extends far back into ancient…
Beyond Nutrition: Eating, Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility
Beyond Nutrition: Eating Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility from Sight and Life (2017)
HHS Transgender Proposal a Shabby Costume
Implementing the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed definition of sex as “either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born…
Here’s a simple solution to the green growth / degrowth debate
A number of high-profile economists – people like Carlota Perez and Michael Liebreich – have recently come out swinging in favor of “green growth” theory, trying to…
At the Estonian National Museum
#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld This is the third of three anticipated posts on my fall 2019 visit to Estonia (1st, 2nd). A great resource for the University of Tartu’s…
A Reader’s Guide to the Anthropology of Ethics and Morality – Part III by Jeannette Pols
Editor’s note: We asked several scholars which readings they would recommend to students or colleagues interested in familiarizing themselves with the anthropology of ethics and morality. This is…
Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment – Part 2
This is the second of a two-part blog post by Marie-Eve Carrier Moisan discussing the challenges and potentials of part of transforming ethnographic research into graphic novel form.…
A Feeling for Robotic Skin
Ethnographic explorations with sex dolls, robots, and their makers “I hate it when her eyes flick open. This one, her eyeballs sometimes go in different directions and it…
Book Review: Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia by Tomas Matza
In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia, Thomas Matza offers an ethnographic account that explores the rise of psychotherapy in post-socialist Russia. Through in…
Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 4th and 5th of October 2019. Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist republic of Vietnam Welcome to the website for the conference Innovations in…
Waste colonialism
Waste colonialism refers to how waste and pollution are part of the domination of one group in their homeland by another group. The concept has been gaining traction…
Happy Halloween!
Halloween is such a fascinating holiday to consider from a cultural perspective. During Halloween season we revel in breaking taboos and dancing with danger. We celebrate life…
The 2019 Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA)
It is time to think about SIMA again! As in the past, I share here on an announcement from the SIMA organizers at the National Museum of Natural…
Eric Holt-Gimenez & Other SAFN AAA Highlights
Amanda Green The SAFN program committee (Amanda Green, Ryan Adams, Jennifer Jo Thompson) are excited to announce SAFN events for the 2018 AAA meeting in San Jose, California.…
Handbuch Interkulturelle Pädagogik
Nachschlagewerk für Studium, Praxis und Forschung Migrationsbewegungen und Globalisierungsprozesse haben kulturelle, sprachliche und soziale Vielfalt nachhaltig verstärkt. Das vorliegende Handbuch d…
Are podcasts a wasteland? (with a post script about Kurt Wagner)
This image of Rebecca Walker is from the Wikipedia entry for Third Wave Feminism (I can’t find an attribution for the image on this page or the one…
Book Review: The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City edited by Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett
In The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City, Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett bring together contributors to explore the conditions that have emerged or intensified since the…
Anand Taneja, “Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi”
Anand Taneja’s Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi (Stanford University Press, 2017) is a landmark publication that interrogates modes of religious practice ……
Chocolate Treats Have Been a Part of Our History for at Least 5,000 Years
Not a trick: We’ve been hooked on chocolate treats for a long time. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment
In the first of a two-part blog post, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan talks about the challenges of adapting her ethnographic work on sex tourism in Brazil into graphic novel form.…
The Mercurial Life of Drugs: Psychedelics as models, risk factors, and treatments for mental disorders by Johanna Pokorny
A Workshop Report by the Neuroscience and Society Network Introduction The Neuroscience and Society Network organised a workshop on 11-12 July 2018 at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry…
Appellierende Überlegungen für die beschwingte Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung
Nach einem Boom des Forschungsfeldes befindet sich die Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung in Deutschland an einem Wendepunkt. Für ihre nachhaltige Etablierung gibt es wichtige Gründe, aber auch entschei…
September 2018 ~ Table of Contents
Volume 10 | Number 2 | September 2018 Features Social Movements, Policy Change, and Abortion Access in Catalunya by Bayla Ostrach Remotely Global: How an Indigenous Village Wired…