In 1927, the Polish-Jewish physical anthropologist Henryk Szpidbaum published an account of his recent expedition to Mandate Palestine on behalf of the Polish Society for the Exploration of…
Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach (Editors). Anthropologists and Their Traditions Across National Borders. Histories of Anthropology Annual Series 8. 296 pp., 8 photos, 1 illus. Lincoln: Universit…
In the previous iteration of this site, I talked a lot about Open Access. The trend continues. For some background, check out this 2009 interview with Colleen Morgan,…
Try walking around the mall, on a crowded sidewalk, or through a university campus and there is one thing that stands out: people are engulfed in their phones.…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsors a program called Healthy Eating Research through which they support research on healthy eating among children. The program recently released a call…
Bullshit Jobs in the news The latest book by David Graeber, London School of Economics anthropology professor book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, was published May 15 and is…
[This article was co-authored by Dick Powis and Savannah Martin. Please cite accordingly.] Today, we are proud to launch Footnotes, a group blog by and for anthropology and…
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1117/Interview%20with%20Angie%20Heo.mp3 In the beginning of March 2018, Angie Heo gave a talk in our visiting se…
In Samaaka Dreaming (Duke University Press, 2017), Sally and Richard Price take readers back to their initial moments of fieldwork and recall their struggles, insights and encounters as…
The red party. APC political rally in Freetown Congosa in Krio means gossiping and spreading rumour, but its connotations are much darker than in English. It equals with name…
Worum geht es? Migration – Bildung – Frieden das ist der Dreiklang, um den die Herausgeberinnen Bettina Gruber und Viktorija Ratković Perspektiven der Migrations-, Konflikt- und Friedensforschung zu…
Vijayendra Rao, the lead economist at the World Bank in the research department, talks to our own Ian Pollock about the role that anthropology and ethnography could play in helping…
Meine Erfahrungen aus dem Lehrforschungsprojekt Erwartungsvoll stehe ich im Treppenhaus des Studentenwohnheims. Ich warte wie bei meiner ersten teilnehmenden Beobachtung darauf, von der Vielzahl an In…
Gerne leiten wir einen Call der Under.Docs weiter: „Wir sind ein Team von Studierenden der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften an der Uni Wien, die eine Konferenz mit dem Titel…
In the fall 2017 quarter I kicked off my intro to cultural anthropology course with one of those Ancestry dot com videos. These are all over the place,…
For years, I have stated that the tribes did not have bison in Oregon, so they would not have made tipis. This is why the tribes have…
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional Agustín Fuentes Penguin, 2017, 352 pages Agustín Fuentes’ The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (Fuentes, 2017)…
Lee Hsien Loong “Even as the crisis unfolded, we didn’t know how wide it was going to spread, or how severe it was going to be. And we…
Dear students, friends, alumni and supporters of visual anthropology at Kent, Please join us for the biggest student screening event in the history of visual anthropology at Kent.…
Hi all, Another great, sunny Friday! So keep the readings for the weekend and enjoy the start of your weekend outside 🙂 ! Development news: Gender Equality Top…
Be free. Eat sweets. Do not go to university (but use the university to print for free). Resist academic hierarchy. Do not believe what professors say. Doubt, always.…
This financial speculation essay acknowledges the inspiration of the Dick Jensen version of the song, “Try a Little Tenderness,” in its principal guiding pun; it is a suggested…
North Korea is an exceptional state, but unlike an imperial power it lacks a doctrine of exceptionalism. It is exceptional in that it is willing to suffer any…