Shocked, not Surprised #hautalk
The surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and phone go into a…
TAL Goes to the Smithsonian – This Anthro Life
Hey Listeners! We are incredibly excited (and humbled) to announce that This Anthro Life is partnering with the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and…
The Sounds of STS: In conversation with Prof. Stefan Helmreich
I was first introduced to the work Stefan Helmreich, an anthropologist of science at MIT, as a first year PhD student. As an STS student, I’ve always been…
Women’s Scholarship in Political Ecology
On June 20th, 2018, I was honored to give one of the keynote addresses at the 2018 POLLEN conference in Oslo, Norway. The talk I gave, “Critical Approaches…
Why Envy Might Be Good for Us
Nyae-Nyae in northern Namibia is the last place in the country where Ju/‘hoansi are free to hunt in the traditional way. James Suzman This article was originally published…
Revisiting a ‘Lost’ Field
Sustaining a long-term relationship with one’s ethnographic field site is not easy. Revisiting Leiden after over a decade, I find that the communication revolution and globalisation have not…
Revisiting a ‘Lost’ Field
Sustaining a long-term relationship with one’s ethnographic field site is not easy. Revisiting Leiden after over a decade, I find that the communication revolution and globalisation have not…
Revisiting a ‘Lost’ Field
For the ethnographer, an ongoing relationship with her field can be bitter-sweet and difficult to sustain in the long term. Rarely does the anthropologist continue to reside in…
Anthropological tools in stakeholder management
In the corporate environment, stakeholders have the strongest presence in the context of investor relations or CSR activities. Dealing with them is usually the responsibility of Marketing and…
Daisy Deomampo, “Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India” (NYU Press, 2016)
In Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India (NYU Press, 2016), Daisy Deomampo explores relationships between Indian surrogates, their families, aspiring parents fro… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…
Book Review: Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India by Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
In Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India, authors Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey offer a compendious account of waste in India, exploring its implication in questions of economic…
Ausgrenzung Geflüchteter
Untersuchung am Beispiel Bautzen Autor: Dr. Sebastian Kurtenbach Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie einzelne Kommunen zu Orten der Ausgrenzung für Flüchtlinge werden. Beispielhaft wird dies an…
REDUX: #PrecAnthro. Let’s talk about unionisation. #hautalk
First published on the 21st of June 2018 The HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition…
Lessons from the Indian Internment at Indian Reservations and Boarding Schools
From the 1830’s (Indian Removal Act) to 1900 most of the Tribal Reservations were established in the United States holding a population of over 350,000 people. The people…
A Gallery Talk at Sam Noble Museum in Conjunction with the Putting Baskets to Work in Southwest China Exhibition
I will be doing a gallery talk at the Sam Noble Museum on Sunday, June 24 at 2:00 pm in the Higginbotham Gallery, which is where the exhibition…
Another Life
As anthropologist Kirin Narayan put to readers of her book Alive in the Writing, the creative process of ethnographic writing can grow from ‘the impulse to find company…
Omar Dewachi’s Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq by Anna Zogas
Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq Omar Dewachi Stanford University Press, 2017. 239 pp. Every year, tens of thousands of Iraqi patients leave their country…
Why the Present Matters: The Importance of Community Outreach and Public Engagement in Archaeology
The authors with [Reef Radio TV Productions] host, Eiden Salazar and Camera Tech, Kainie Manuel, after being interviewed on the Good Morning San Pedro Show. Courtesy of Tracie…
That Most Dangerous, Sacred American Space, the Bathroom
Binary clarity at an Interstate comfort station. “Ladies” to the left, “Gentlemen” to the right. Courtesy Robert Myers. uncommon sense Spoiler alert: In Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho, Janet Leigh…
Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften / Frischer Wind in der Afrikanistik
Zwei neue Professuren treiben die Neuaufstellung der afrikanischen Sprachwissenschaften voran. Hausa, Swahili, Lucazi, alles exotische Sprachen, mit denen man hierzulande nichts anfangen kann? Keinesf…
Rat für Migration verurteilt die Kriminalisierung von Flüchtlingshilfe in Ungarn
Stellungnahme vom 20. Juni 2018 Wer Schutzsuchende unterstützt, muss in Ungarn zukünftig mit hohen Strafen rechnen. Ein entsprechendes Gesetz soll heute voraussichtlich im ungarischen Parlament verab…
Charles Dolph: The second time as farce? The IMF returns to Argentina
Argentina’s Mauricio Macri administration unexpectedly announced recently that it had opened negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a Stand-By Arrangement amid intense monetary an…
Guest Post: Is your department’s website #anthrosowhite?
[Footnotes is proud to present the work of Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Hannah Gould. Goodwin-Hawkins is deep hanging out in a geography department, as a postdoctoral researcher at Aberystwyth Universi…