Ancient Girl Had Denisovan and Neandertal Parents
The history of modern humans is deeply embedded with the history of other hominid groups. Our understanding of these connections is only just beginning to unfold — Read…
History of U.S. Jobs Ads
by Ilana Gershon American newspapers carried announcements about jobs from as early as 1705. The first job ad I found was in The Boston News-Letter, asking for a…
Is Life What You Make of It?
In regard to how much pre-determined ‘luck’ compares to perceptions of social mobility, it is useful to remember that both luck and feelings of free-will play into social…
Drawing as Possibility: A Review of Andrew Causey’s Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
By Karina Kuschnir This review was first published in Portuguese by Mana, 24 (1), 271-275. During these somewhat discouraging times, Andrew Causey offers us a gift. Drawn to…
Call for Proposals: From 1969 to 2019
1969—Stonewall, British troops sent to Northern Ireland, Equal Employment Opportunity, Biafra, Woodstock, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first Black congresswoman, the Apollo 11 moon landing, combat dea…
Farm Girl Meets European Living
By Michaela D.E. Meyer I grew up in a small farm community in Nebraska. Our food intake relied largely on what our farm (or neighbor’s farms) produced –…
Job Advice That Has Lasted Over the Years
by Ilana Gershon Job Advice I Was Surprised to Find in the 1920s In 1917, employers were paying for employee referrals – I had no idea that this…
Tom Cliff, “Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Compared to the provinces’s native Uyghur population, Han Chinese settlers in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have not attracted as much scholarly or indeed journalistic attentio… Visit New…
farewell to the anthropologyworks blog
It was sometime in the summer of 2009 when I was approached by a staffer in the Public Affairs department of the Elliott School of International Affairs at…
Histories of the job ad, the resume, and so on
by Ilana Gershon This is my application to be a member of the Society for the Study of Boring Things. To write my book, Down and Out in the…
Allegralaboratory: Next step
Dear Allies, after a ‘magical intellectual carpet ride’ that has already lasted for five years, it is time for a new chapter in the life of our beloved…
Rezension zu Prekarisierungsgesellschaften in Ostasien? Aspekte der sozialen Ungleichheit in China und Japan. Herausgegeben von Stephan Köhn und Monika Unkel. Verfasst von Marius Meinhof
Debatten um neue Armut und Prekarisierung betreffen die Kernthemen und -kompetenzen der Soziologie. Dies trifft nicht nur deshalb zu, weil soziale Ungleichheit eines der klassischen soziologischen The…
Ep. #21 Misogyny, irrational politics, the ontological turn, and multi-media learning: this month on TFS
Jodie (1:04), drawing on the book Down Girl by Australian philosopher Kate Manne, starts us off by asking what misogyny is, and how we should tackle it as…
Review: The Story of Soy
The Story of Soy. Christine M. Du Bois. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. 266 pp. + References and Index. ISBN 978 1 78023 925 5. Ellen Messer, (Tufts University…
Remarkably Good Health … except for the deaths; Siletz Health report 1863
Reservation Health Reports previous to the 1870’s are fairly rare. there are about two reports a year for each reservation. The annual reports also have some health information,…
The what and the why of Discard Studies
We tend to think that we are familiar with waste because we deal with it every day. Yet, this is not the case–most aspects of waste are entirely…
There’s Something in the Water
A recent death in the family necessitated a return to the United States after living abroad for the past ten years. A family member in Miami has a…
Links & Contents I Liked 290
Hi all, Welcome back to another Friday link review!Development news: Things are getting better-but poverty is complex; UK Aid in a post-Brexit world; Kenya’s start-up scene so white!…
Mein erster (noch unfertiger? Vielleicht am Ende revidierter?) Blogeintrag
Ich finde mich zwischen unendlich vielen, sich laut unterhaltenden jungen Studierenden wieder. Die mit dem blauen Band um den Hals, das sind die „Internationals“, zu denen ich nun…
Mela- Alexander
An article just appeared on mela which I had not seen when writing about mela films in Global South Asia on screen, but it looks pretty much on…
Fifty Years of Refuge in the Gaza Camp
This article is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. For stateless Palestinian refugees in Jordan, ordinary life can be an extraordinary accomplishment. The Gaza Camp (mukhayyam Gaza) is…
The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Even before Ashanté Reese and I reach the front gate, retired schoolteacher Alice Chandler is standing in the doorway of her brick home in Washington,…
Should I transition from aid work to academia? Some don’ts & don’ts
In what seems like a digital lifetime ago I asked: Should I consider a PhD in International Development Studies? in 2011. My central points are still valid and…
Archival Fellowship at the Vermont Folklife Center
The Vermont Folklife Center announces a fellowship (either dissertation or post-doctoral) for those with ethnographic and archival experience. The Vermont Folklife Center has a rich history of…