(Anti)Institutional Menses: Our Blood, Our Business by Andrea Ford
Photo courtesy of “Jane” Jane started us off by saying “I grew up in the US, so I could never count on having healthcare.” Jane (for whom I’m…
Book Review: When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency by Bernardo Zacka
In When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency, Bernardo Zacka draws on eight months of fieldwork working as a receptionist in an anti-poverty agency to…
Ecomodernism and the Sacred Shibboleth
I recently wrote a post criticizing ecomodernism as “magical thinking”. I argued that it ignores key scientific studies on the unviability of absolute decoupling in order to…
On the Recent Rulings against Academics for Peace in Turkey
The criminal proceedings against several hundreds of academics in Turkey who signed a petition for peace (Academics for Peace) continue in Istanbul. They are individually sued in various…
#Review: Moving by the Spirit
In Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt, Naomi Haynes provides a compelling ethnographic study of the centrality of Pentecostal Christianity in contemporary Zambia.…
De-centrifuedalised or tropicalization: Marx outside the Euro-American Circuits
So, a bit bemused at the appearance of various Marx readers or ‘companions’ filled with US and UK based scholars, mostly, I thought it worth pointing to a…
anthro in the news 5/14/18
Flood damage along the Choluteca River caused by Hurricane Mitch. Credit: NOAA/Flickr. immigration policy in the U.S. The New York Daily News carried an article about the Trump…
Rückübernahme gegen Geld? Entwicklungsgelder als Druckmittel
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit dient der Überwindung von Armut und der nachhaltigen Verbesserung von bislang unzureichenden Lebensbedingungen. Wenn sie zur Verhandlungsmasse wird, um Partnerländer willfäh…
Deborah A. Jones’ “Afterlives & Other Lives: Semiosis and History in 21st Century Ukraine”
Page 99 of my dissertation falls toward the beginning of a monster chapter exploring my rural interlocutors’ fight for land rights, encounters with the legal system, and conceptions…
“Red-carpet catholicism”: gendering the heavenly body
by Mac Spencer Three decades after the fallout from Like A Prayer, the relationship between pop culture and Catholicism seems on more stable ground if the pinnacle of…
Panel: The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology [Media Anthropology Network]
The EASA Media Media Anthropology Network is organizing a panel at the 15th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference in Stockholm, 14-17 August 2018. “The Digital Turn…
Book Review: Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy by Richard E. Ocejo
In Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy, Richard E. Ocejo explores four traditionally working-class jobs – barbering, bartending, distilling and butchery – that have been…
Gregory Snyder, “Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding” (NYU Press, 2017)
Today we are joined by Gregory Snyder, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), and author of Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional…
De sjamaan en de sofa
door Peter Versteeg Hoe vreemd is vreemd? Waarom noemen we sommige dingen gek en andere niet? Het zijn de bekende vragen waarmee antropologen graag hun publiek vermaken en…
Das Vertraute unvertraut machen. Zygmunt Bauman im Gespräch mit Peter Haffner | Rezension von Raffael Hiden
Andenken Ein Jahr ist nun verstrichen, seitdem Zygmunt Bauman die Bühne des Lebens verlassen hat. Ein Jahr, in dem er bereits schmerzlich vermisst wurde und offenkundig geworden ist,…
James Swan; Fishing Culture of Coastal Washington Tribes
James G. Swan is a legendary scholar of Native people of the Northwest coast. He is an early federal employee in the Oregon territory and lives in the…
Decolonizing Anthropology: Comprehensive Exam Practice
Describe what is meant when anthropology is labeled “colonial.” Anthropology has aided colonization by dehumanizing and stereotyping Natives, by causing an erasure of Native history and identity, by…
Foundations of American Ethnography of the Northwest Coast: Comprehensive Exam Practice
Area 2: Ethnographic Accounts of Pacific Northwest Native peoples This subject entails the discourse and dialogue between Native peoples and societies and ethnographers on the Pacific Northwest…
Ep. #14 Thesis writing, picturing cults, Muslims with caste, & fieldwork boredom: this month on TFS
Ian (1:25) starts us off by asking, just how well-written does a thesis need to be? “As anthropologists, basically what we do is write… whether it’s writing your field notes,…
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
It is with excitement and regret that I announce today that this will be my last post for Anthrodendum. I’m leaving the blog. It’s hard to leave something…
Should I stay or should I go?
Elm tree, Ottawa At the end of my sixth semester as an anthropology professor, I’m reflecting on what it means to inhabit this discipline (or, maybe, to occupy…
10 questions for world builder Gerry Flahive
10 Questions for Gerry Flahive Gerry Flahive is the creator of a fictional character, Bert Xanadu. And Bert Xanadu is man who was the Mayor of Toronto in…
Oregon Native Place Names in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Part 2
The next section map of the coastline, (770c) begins with Cascade Head and ends at the Cape Meares. Every major feature of the Coast has a Native name.…
In the Journals, April 2018 by Aaron Seaman
Along with our normal roundup of articles, there are several special issues to note this month. The most recent issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience contains a special…