Banksy’s Donkey
By Peter Versteeg In 2007 street artist Banksy organized a project called Santa’s Ghetto in the city of Bethlehem, where international artists would work on the (‘security’ or…
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
*Note: I expanded this post into a full article, published in Real World Economic Review in 2019. See here. When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of…
How Halloween Has Traveled the Globe
A young girl attends a Día de Muertos celebration in Mexico dressed in a Halloween costume. Peter Langer/Getty Images Wendy Fonarow arrived in Mexico City late in October…
Links & Contents I Liked 298
Hi all, This week I needed to take a little break from blogging-but there’s always time for a great weekly link review! Development news: You saw the Congo…
Book and Paper Prize Winners!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Book Prize and Graduate Student Paper Prize competitions. Join us at the…
Why Are So Many Guatemalans Migrating to the U.S.?
On May 23, a bystander filmed 20-year-old Claudia Patricia Gómez González after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot her in the head. The young woman had recently crossed…
„Nicht-Arbeiten? Zwischen Nichtstun und ‚Sozialschmarotzer‘“
Studentische Forschungsergebnisse zum Anhören „Je mehr auch die geistige Arbeit sich dem traditions- und geschmacklosen, gewaltsamen Industriebetrieb assimilierte, und je eifriger Wissenschaft und Sch…
Hello, It’s Me
My blog has been just about dead the past couple years, for one reason or another and then another (#Becauselife). I’ve occasionally posted a quick update here and…
Neuer Vorstand des RfM
Pressemitteilung vom 26. Oktober 2018 Neue Impulse für die Migrationsgesellschaft Der Rat für Migration hat seit Oktober 2018 einen neuen Vorstand. Bildungsexpertin Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, Professorin fü…
Migrant sex worker in a Thai brothel: Le Carré’s The Secret Pilgrim
I collect well-styled and informative descriptions of sex-industry settings in novels, here John le Carré’s 1990 The Secret Pilgrim. Fiction can transmit far more of the atmosphere and…
Gary Alan Fine, “Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Most people have heard of the Masters of Fine Arts–“MFA”–degree, but few know about the grueling process one must undergo to complete one. In Talking Art: The Culture of…
Ein langes Wochenende in Peking – Teil 1
Tag 1: Ankunft, Hutongs und Tian’anmen Platz Nach einer viereinhalb-stündigen Zugfahrt von Shanghai erreichte ich auf die Minute genau den Bahnhof in Peking. Pünktlichkeit bei Zügen hat hier höc…
What Can Witchcraft Do in Mexico?
Although it rarely results in accusations, violence, or exclusion, witchcraft has implications for relations of power and authority in Mexican Catholicism. In late September 2017, in the quiet…
Qué es Cultura y Cultura empresarial desde una visión de Geertz
Cultura y cultura empresarial son dos conceptos, el segundo derivado del primero, que usualmente generan confusión. Anteriormente, la cultura se entendía, grosso modo, como el grupo de tradiciones y/…
Two Short Courses in Tartu
#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld In an earlier post, I expressed my appreciation for the opportunity to visit the University of Tartu as a Fulbright Specialist. Among my tasks w…
James S. Bielo, “Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park” (NYU Press, 2018)
In his new book, Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park (NYU Press, 2018), James Bielo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University, goes behind the…
På kulturanalystiska äventyr bland gungor och klätterställningar
Insprängd mellan höghusen ligger den. En liten inhägnad grusplätt, några gungor, en sliten klätterställning och kanske en bänk för trötta vuxna följeslagare. Många gånger är den varken speciellt…
Call for PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellows
In 2012, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review launched the Digital Editorial Fellows (def) Program for graduate students interested in enhancing their knowledge and experience in scholarly e…
Teaching & Learning Creative Habits: The Evolution of #archink
With #inktober now in its 10th year, Author Katherine Cook explains the on-going success of the campaign, and discusses the evolution of #archink. As instructors, we often have rather lofty…
Assessing Value: Reflections on the Royal Alberta Museum
I spend a lot of time these days angry; there is so much to be rightfully angry about and I want to write about it all but don’t…
Assessing Value: Reflections on the Royal Alberta Museum
I spend a lot of time these days angry; there is so much to be rightfully angry about and I want to write about it all but don’t…
Computable Norms: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Digital Infrastructure
I’m a sociocultural anthropologist by training. Until recently, my research focused on environmental issues in Ecuador. Yet, my attempt to address the gaps left by traditional anthropological ap…
Power Players: US Football and French Rugby
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Some athletes seem larger than life. They are revered and imitated—and they seemingly hold a lot of power. But whether they feel empowered in their…
Oana Mateescu: The Romanian family referendum: Or, how I became a sexo-Marxist
“By the way, Russia had the first sexual revolution. Lenin was a big homosexual; as for Karl and Marx, I think they were together. But they realized on…