Art is a Movement – This Anthro Life
“Money cannot be the reason why you make art. Artwork can be sold and should be sold because artists need to make a living. But they should not,…
Closer to Home
What is home? Is it a physical space, a set of relationships, or a state of mind? SAPIENS host Esteban Gómez follows Amy Starecheski, a researcher who has…
Serie Seniorprofessuren / Prof. Manfred Faßler im Interview
Wer sind eigentlich die knapp 30 Seniorprofessorinnen und –professoren an der Goethe-Universität, die sich auch nach ihrer Pensionierung noch in der Lehre engagieren? In einer mehrteiligen Serie werde…
Famine and War in Yemen
By Helen Lackner. The Geneva ‘consultations’ on 6 September between the two Yemeni warring parties failed to happen. According to the media, it was because the Huthis failed…
“The Workingmen’s Colony”: Labor Conflict and Historic Preservation in Campbell, Ohio
In August, I visited the town of Campbell, a former hub of Ohio’s steel industry. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company established operations there in 1902, on the banks…
Promise of Citizenship and Informal Allotment at the Grand Ronde Reservation
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Exploring anthropologies of medicine and health across borders at 4S 2018 by Aadita Chaudhury
This year’s annual meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) had an intriguing new component: an exhibition on the histories of STS in flux internationally,…
Patrick Eisenlohr on his new book, Sounding Islam
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298712/sounding-islam Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim Ben Ale-Ebrahim: In Sounding Islam, one of your primary arguments is that anthropologists of religion should foc…
Therapieresistenz als generalisierte Semantik. Interview mit Moritz von Stetten
Die Depression ist scheinbar auf dem Vormarsch: Jahr für Jahr werden mehr Menschen mit der Krankheit diagnostiziert und die großen Gesundheitsorganisationen schlagen längst Alarm, welche Folgen das fü…
How Does the Necessity of Paid Work Impact Our Students?: Learning from the Global Studies Student Employment Survey
by Paul Robert Gilbert **This is the first of three posts on student experience in higher education; the next two posts will published on October 15th and 22nd.** There is…
On Indigenous People’s Day, the Fight for Bears Ears Remained Unresolved
Since Theodore Roosevelt all but four presidents—Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush—have used the Antiquities Act to enlarge or dedicate new national… — Re…
In the Journals – September 2018, Part I by Livia Garofalo
Here’s the first part of the journal round-up for September. This month, American Anthropologist features a Special Section on Medical Anthropology in “World Anthropologies” and Etho…
On Using Archives and Freedom of Information Act for Anthropological Research
At some point during the last quarter century I wandered away from doing ethnographic fieldwork and pursued archival and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) anthropological research. There were…
Syria: The New Terra Nullius
SYRIA, seat of an Islamic Caliphate. Syria, site of the Middle East’s newest liberal democracy. Syria, socialist paradise. Syria, a corrupt and murderous dictatorship that practices genocide. Syria,…
Massimiliano Mollona: Authoritarian Brazil redux?
On Sunday, 7 October, the Brazilian people will go to the polls to elect their next president. There has never been such a dramatic election since 15 January…
Social Stratification
Stratification. 1 Approaches: 1 Functionalist perspectives: 2 Talcott Parsons. 2 Kinsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore. 2 Marxist perspective: 2 Weberian perspective: 3 Stratification in contemporary usage. 3…
Social Fact
Social Fact In Durkheim’s sociology, a social fact is a social phenomenon that has a coercive effect upon the individual. Thus, although, social facts may originally be…
Are We All Going Crazy?
The Peace Wall, Belfast (Photo by Paul Stoller) Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have a confession: I’m not sleeping well these days. I used to sleep well, but recently…
Confronting the Specter of Cultural Appropriation
[no-caption] kokouu/Getty Images Humans celebrate many things—from rites of passage to religious events to groundhogs. One of the most intriguing, anthropologically speaking, is Halloween…
Links & Contents I Liked 295
Hi all, Let’s just say it was a long week, the link review is quite extensive & there’s also a new book review-so check things out, enjoy your…
Learning service (book review)
Stories about bad volunteering experiences, voluntourism and things that go wrong when predominantly young people yearn for meaningful experiences in the global South are regulars in my weekly…
Oktoberfest Munich – is it all about human-horse relations?
Why would we write about the Oktoberfest on this blog? It turns out that there is an aspect of it that is closely related to the interest in…
Travel log – Exploring Shanghai and its neighbourhood
Nachdem ich im letzten Blogeintrag ausschließlich meine ersten Eindrücke von Shanghai geschildert habe, soll sich dieser meinen bisherigen Erkundungen in Shanghai und meinen Ausflügen ins Umland von …