anthro in the news 6/25/18
How about gun control for the military and/or racist police? Credit: PosterBoy/Flickr police killings: collateral damage National Public Radio (U.S.) reported on a study published in The Lancet…
Marx on India in 1857
Marx writes to document the outrages committed by the British in retaliation for the uprising in 1857: “The Punjaub is declared to be quiet, but at the same…
Sirpa Tenhunen on her new book, A Village Goes Mobile
h https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-village-goes-mobile-9780190630270 Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: What is so fascinating about A Village Goes Mobile is how effectively you use yo…
Book Review: Social Theory Now edited by Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause and Issac A. Reed
With Social Theory Now, editors Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause and Issac A. Reed bring together contributors to provide an outlook on the current state of social theory and…
Exploring multiplicity: Photographing and blogging as method
Partial truths: Blogging as research method – What do our methods actually do if they cannot depict reality as it is? This is not a new question in…
Hongwei Bao, “Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China” (NIAS Press, 2018)
Hongwei Bao’s book is a thoughtful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in China. This work stems from the term and identity tongzhi, which means “comrade” and in…
Guest Post: To Talk Like Them
[Footnotes is pleased to welcome the following guest post by Tian An Wong, a professor of Mathematics with an affinity for social theory. This post was originally published…
Aglaja Przyborski über Identitätsnormen, „supernormale Helden“, Bild und Repräsentation sowie die Möglichkeiten der soziologischen Analyse
Aglaja Przyborski hat ihr Psychologiestudium mit der Motivation, Beraterin und Psychotherapeutin zu werden begonnen, aber auch mit der Idee empirische Zugänge zum Menschen zu finden, die nicht in…
Ep. #16 The costs of efficiency: Cris Shore talks neoliberalism in the public sector
“Rather than always studying poor, peripheral peasants, pastoralists, and fishermen, let’s turn the critical gaze of our discipline, which we do so well, let’s pivot it round like…
Spotlight: Yagnamurti Shaligram
Yagnamurti Shaligram Yajna (or conversely, Yagna) literally translates as “sacrifice, worship, or…
What did Friedrich Engels have to say about Australia?
there was a series that Ben and Melitta used to include in Rabelais, along such lines – what did Lenin think of the Labor Party etc., I wish…
Verano de investigación en la UADY
En 2017 Hugo Alberto Aguilar Velasco, estudiante de licenciatura en psicología de la Universidad de Guadalajara, estuvo trabajando conmigo durante el Verano de la Investigación Científica, ayudándome …
Nacirema Thinking
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has endured as a first-day favorite for Introduction to Anthropology courses, and is read far beyond…
Processing Settler Toxicities: Part II
This second instalment of a 2+ part post is adapted from a presentation at the 2018 Cultures of Energy Symposium at Rice University. Many thanks to everyone who…
Nacirema Thinking
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has endured as a first-day favorite for Introduction to Anthropology courses, and is read far beyond…
‘Wasted hours in the field’ as a key to understanding the research topic
By Herbert Ploegman Originally attributed to Winston Churchill, the statement “never waste a good crisis” has become an aforism that, by now, has been appropriated by many voices.…
Drone Capitalism
In recent article, Drone Capitalism, author Michael Richardson makes a number of expected and acceptable oversights in recent scholarship on UAVs. I tend to be rough with it…
Goodbye for now
Superb Fairywren by Lydie Paton This blog is currently inactive. I have a small babe and a book manuscript under review so time is precious.…
The Agroecological Prospect, Cheese Curds and Radishes
David Beriss Last week I attended the joint annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society.…
Last Day of Summer I
Yesterday was the last day of the first summer session. I taught a section of LBST 2213 (anthropology of science) and I had students reflect of the semester…
Aggressively Human: An Anthropological Manifesto
A few months ago, I was talking to a group of students after class. One of them commented that they appreciated my openness about different things as a…
Patrick Neveling: HAU and the latest stage of capitalism
As anthropology assesses an increasing number of reports about abuse, bullying, sexism, and financial misconduct and fraud at its now shooting-star journal HAU, it is important to keep…
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PM: Migrationspolitik funktioniert nicht mit nationalen Alleingängen
Pressemitteilung des Rats für Migration vom 22.06.2018 Derzeit erwecken manche Politikerinnen und Politiker den Eindruck, Migration ließe sich mit nationalen Instrumenten gut steuern, doch dieser Eind…