Making #AmAnth18 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
The 2018 AAA meetings are upon us and we’re looking forward to getting out from this rainy, cold Toronto weather and into some California sun! In keeping with…
Flávio Eiró: On Bolsonaro: Brazilian democracy at risk
Picture a street handcraft market in a touristic village called Porto de Galinhas in Pernambuco, Northeast Region of Brazil. A few days before the second round of the…
Framing The Revolution In Chinese
It will come as no surprise to most of us that how the Egyptian Revolution, and the Arab Spring more generally, was covered in global media would depend…
Joanna Davidson, “Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a book about change. The Jola, a people living in…
APLA at AAA 2018: No Small Change
Co-Sponsored by the Society for Economic Anthropology and APLA Since 2011, anthropologists have been researching cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the blockchain technologies on which they are bas…
APLA at AAA 2018: Magical Thinking and Tinkering
In a global context of forced mobility, growing inequality, and economic restructuring and austerity, actors in the social domain face an expanding sphere of intervention and, often, shrinking…
APLA at AAA 2018: The Uses of Trust
The English legal historian Frederic Maitland argued (around 1900) that the trust was one of the great innovations of his country’s legal development: a flexible legal mechanism that…
Serie Seniorprofessuren / Prof. Rainer Voßen 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…
Review: Burger
Burger (Object Lessons): Carol J. Adams. London: Bloomsbury. 2018. 174 pp. ISBN 9781501329463 James P. Verinis Anthropology and Sociology Roger Williams University Along with personal stereo a…
How to read a t-shirt (and the future)
Listening for the future is a tricky thing. If we listen far enough out into the future, we are dealing with very weak signals. Or, better, we are…
Should you major in Cultural Anthropology?
A first-year student in my Anthropology 101 course emailed to let me know that they found the class readings intriguing and that they loved to learn about cultural…
Should you major in Cultural Anthropology?
A first-year student in my Anthropology 101 course emailed to let me know that they found the class readings intriguing and that they loved to learn about cultural…
Is Space a Human Place?
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS From space junk and the International Space Station to space colonization and SpaceX, space is becoming a more human place. What will it mean when…
"Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-End Coffee"
Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-end Coffee
“The Hope Is in Organizing:” An Interview with Iconic Farmworker Activist Dolores Huerta
Post author Andre Fernando Biehl is a junior at Princeton High School in Princeton, NJ. As part of an independent social science project, he has been working with…
"Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-End Coffee"
Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-end Coffee
Sandra Fahy, “Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Amidst an atmosphere of hope on the Korean Peninsula over the past year, questions over the wellbeing of North Korea’s population have again come to global attention. But…
Survivors of sexual violence need #supportnotsuspicion
by Hannah Rose Last Thursday night, the feminist direct action group Sisters Uncut delivered 30,000 sheets of paper marked ‘confidential’ to the door of the Crown Prosecution Service,…
Treaty Recognition Week
Acknowledgment “We [I] will begin this event (Name the Event) by acknowledging that we are meeting on aboriginal land that has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples from the…
Bridging anthropology and user experience design: an undergraduate’s path into an applied anthropology career
This is a special guest post by Melanie Zhang, a 2017 anthropology graduate of York University. She is currently studying for her Master of Information degree at the University…
Island in the Stream: A discussion with author Michael Lambek on his new release
The Scholarly Publishing program at University of Toronto Press has been producing the Anthropological Horizons series since 1991. The series is home to imaginative, immersive ethnographic works that…
PhD Fellowship Opportunities at UVM
If you are interested in the intersection of food systems and health, food systems and sustainability or food systems and climate change, these opportunities may be of interest…
Five Things You Should Know About the “Migrant Caravan”
We are anthropologists who work with migrants and refugees, many of whom are fleeing for their lives. And we want to set the record straight. We conduct research…
Roxanne Varzi on her ethnographic novel, Last Man Underground
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25983 Harvey Stark: What inspired you to write Last Scene Underground and what one or two main things do you hope your readers will come away with? Roxanne Varzi: …