Review: Egg (Object Lessons)
Egg (Object Lessons) Nicole Walker. London: Bloomsbury. 2017. 154 pp. ISBN 9781501322877 Leslie Carlin (University of Toronto) When my children were small and I kept frequent company with Mother…
Review: Hippie Food
Hippie Food: How Back to the Landers, Longhairs and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Jonathan Kauffman. New York: William Morrow, 2018. ISBN 978-0062437303 Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State Univers…
Spurwechsel für abgelehnte Asylsuchende – warum und wie?
Die Nachwirkungen der umfangreichen Flüchtlingsbewegungen nach Deutschland 2015-2016 haben erneut zu einer intensiven Diskussion über die Vor- und Nachteile sogenannter „Spurwechsel“ geführt. Damit is…
Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. A Conversation with Stuart Kirsch
How can an anthropologist who teaches at a university work towards helping indigenous people in their efforts to make their lives better? Many turn to publishing as an…
Von Äffchen und weisen Sprüchen an Toilettenwänden
“And it Hurts, I can’t be what Everyone wants or what Anyone Needs. And it Hurts I can’t Be what I want or what I Need, Because I’m…
Prisoners of Love
Read the whole thing from Beyond Borders here: Prisoners of Love
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: “I would like the Museu Nacional to remain as a ruin, a memory of the dead things.”
This week, a translation of an interview between anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro of the Museu Nacional in Brazil, and journalist Alexandra Prado Coelho. “My wish, with the…
Call for 2019 Opinion Columnists!
What do you want to see in AN? Have you been wishing for a column that probes the anthropology of climate change or stand-up comedy or the tech…
73,000-Year-Old Hashtag Is Oldest Example of Abstract Art
A silica flake from Blombos Cave contains the oldest example of prehistoric abstract art, and it looks like one of the most used symbols online — Read more on…
The End of the World As We Know It
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Listen to the companion episode of SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human! Back in 2008, Chad Huddleston was driving home from work when he saw a stra…
Are You Ready for TEOTWAWKI?
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS It’s the end of the world as we know it. How do you feel? SAPIENS co-host Jen Shannon follows the trail of some contemporary preppers…
On What Was Really Lost in the Fire
As everyone almost certainly knows by now, just over a week ago, the Brazilian Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro burned, with massive damage and the complete destruction…
On What Was Really Lost in the Fire
As everyone almost certainly knows by now, just over a week ago, the Brazilian Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro burned, with massive damage and the complete destruction…
User as a Currency
Both internet users and market regulators are becoming more concerned about who uses personal data and how. The recent events involving Cambridge Analytica have helped to raise the…
Azra Hromadžić, “Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Despite all the buzz about the reconstruction of Mostar’s beautiful Old Bridge, Mostar remains a largely divided city, with Bosniaks on one side and Croats on the other.…
Writing a tailor-made thesis
by Suzanne Jansen A finished thesis is a tailor-made product: it has that perfect mixture of scientific knowledge embedded in lively ethnographic tales of the field. In my…
Spotlight: Dadhivamana (Vamana) Shaligram
While it is listed as Dadhivamana in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, this Shaligram is often described as a variation of the more common Vamana Shaligram of the Dasavatara…
Race, Rural Livelihoods, and Contested Conservation Landscapes
A visit to Basu Farms in Pembroke Township, about 60 miles south of Chicago, provides a glimpse into the entanglement of land tenure, black history and self-determination in…
Serie Seniorprofessuren / Prof. Bernd Nothofer im Interview
Wer sind eigentlich die knapp 30 Seniorprofessorinnen und –professoren an der Goethe-Universität, die sich auch nach ihrer Pensonierung noch in der Lehre engagieren? In einer mehrteiligen Serie werden…
Taussig’s negative sublime
From Palma Africana (2018) “irradiation of the negative sublime”… “With this admittedly top-heavy phrase I am referring to the death pall cast by the (X)paras and palm plantati…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, September 10, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Jan M. Padios, “A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines” (Duke UP,
Jan M. Padios‘ new book A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines (Duke University Press, ) sheds light on the industry of…
„If Bushido is integration, I am masturbation“: Rezension zu Pinar Tuzcu „Ich bin ´ne Kanackin! Decolonizing Popfeminism – Transcultural Perspective on Lady Bitch Ray” verfasst von Daniel Heinz
“The history of European migration is the history of European social life.” (Tilly 1978: 68). Neben dem US-amerikanische Soziologe Charles Tilly erkannten auch andere Wissenschaflter*innen bereits frü…