Adam Kuper‘s Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth-Century (Fourth Edition; Routledge, 2014)is an excellent, comprehensive tour through one of the most important … Visit New…
How to theorize what goes without saying? In The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given (University of Georgia Press, 2017), Rob Sullivan develops a…
The built environment around us seems almost natural, as in beyond our control to alter or shape. Indeed, we have reached a point in history when cities—the largest…
Immer wieder stellen Politikerinnen und Politiker sowie Personen des öffentlichen Lebens fragwürdige Behauptungen in den Raum, die durch Medien aufgegriffen und teils zu Stammtischparolen werden. Häuf…
Eine menschen- und europarechtliche Bewertung Autor: Dr. Hendrik Cremer In der gegenwärtigen Debatte zur deutschen Asylpolitik gibt es Vorschläge, Asylsuchende an den Grenzen Deutschlands grundsätzl…
I would like to make the case that open access remains relevant to the mix of painful problems and worthy opportunities still before the ethnographic disciplines in the…
Ellen Messer Hughes, Holly (ed) 2017. Best Food Writing 2017. New York: Da Capo Press. Highly recommended as enjoyable, informative companion reading for your travels, because it can be consumed…
Volume 10 | Number 1 | April 2018 Features A Role for Anthropologists in the Local Food Movement by Paul Durrenberger To Protect and Improve: Developing the “Sacred…
“Pssst. There’s something really special happening here. I’m collecting five times more trash than the other guys and using solar energy to compact it all. Welcome to downtown…
books & arts Deepak Singh. 2017. How May I Help You? An Immigrant’s Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage. Oakland: University of California Press. 305 pages. I am…
By Alexander Taylor Our ethnographic data is in the cloud, but our heads are not More and more anthropologists are conducting, storing and circulating their research in the…
The United States’ detention of asylum-seeking women and children brings additional trauma to immigrants, such as this woman from El Salvador, who already carry many painful stories. Legal…
Von Marcus Engler und Ulrike Krause Zum Weltflüchtlingstag, dem 20. Juni veröffentlicht das Flüchtlingswerk der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) traditionell seinen ‚Global Trends‘ Bericht. Dieser do…
Die Republik Georgien feiert die 100. Wiederkehr ihrer ersten Gründung – und die Universität Tbilissi, Partner-Universität der Goethe-Uni, wird 100 Jahre alt. Aus diesem Anlass rückt das Institut…
For people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question: what kind of organizational structure not on…
As an established blog with personal and institutional contacts to many of those involved in the recent upheaval at HAU and the Society of Ethnographic Theory, we do…
Lt. William A. Slacum, a Navy purser, was sent by the President, through the Department of State, as a special investigator to the Oregon Territory to investigate the…
I am very excited to have three new preps for Fall, 2018. Course overviews are below. LBST 2213: Now this is not a new prep as I have…
Tape magic. Credit: frankieleon/Flickr a bullshit job might actually be important An article in The Washington Post connected sociocultural anthropologist David Graeber’s latest book, Bullshit Jobs, …
See below for information on semester-long fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library on early modern foodways. Follow the links for instructions on how to apply. Before Farm to Table: Early…
Across the globe, the Cold War abruptly delineated new borders and defined friends and enemies. Yet, there are few regions in which this was as pronounced as in…
Apparently, June is the month I write a blog post about the “Journal of Cultural Evolution” (or whatever will be its name) project, so I will keep the tradition…
Duncan Green just proposed 9 trends and their impact on employment in the aid industry-particularly for fresh graduates or those freshly entering the sector. As a critical reader…
My dissertation looked at how media impacts community. Specifically, how does the global circulation of regular publications help create a sense of community among 8 million Jehovah’s Witnesses…