Review: Puer Tea
Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic. Jinghong Zhang. University of Washington Press. 2014 Yingkun Hou (Southern Illinois University) Many scholars believe that the province Yunnan, in southwest…
Fully Funded PhD: Water Security in Cape Town
Cameron Harrington and I have received full funding for a PhD student interested in the politics and ethics of water security in Cape Town. Details of the call…
Queueing for wine – Queueing for nothing #EASA2016/2018
Reflections on the EASA Conference at the University of Milano-Bicocca, 20-23 July, 2016 : “Anthropological legacies and human futures” It was the last day of the 14th biannual conference…
A Short History of Oregon Tribes in the Contemporary Era
(Draft Modified 2018) In, Murphree, Daniel S. editor, Native America: A State-by-State History, Greenwood Publishing group,…
Klamath Tribal Termination
Essay originally written in 2007. DGlewis Klamath Tribal Termination The last Indian lands, mainly contained within reservations, contained some of the last untouched natural resources in the United…
How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
Industrialization’s footprint has heavily impacted Gladstone, a city on the east coast of Australia. James Morgan/Getty Images In Gladstone, a small city in Queensland, Australia, even th…
Ghosts in the Machine: On losing control to the technoscape
“There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form un-expected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free…
What Are the Jobs That Immigrants Do?
“The data reveals an important point: There is no singular industry or job where unauthorized immigrant workers are a majority. They are outnumbered by native-born workers when you…
Lewis 2008, Termination of the Grand Ronde Tribe, Chapter 11
Lewis, David, Termination of the Confederated tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Dissertation, 2008. (Pre-final draft, 2007) Chapter 11 Co…
Lewis 2008, Termination of the Grand Ronde Tribe, Chapter 10
Lewis, David, Termination of the Confederated tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Dissertation, 2008. (Pre-final Draft, 2007) Chapter 10 Re…
Lewis 2008, Termination of the Grand Ronde Tribe, Chapter 9
Lewis, David, Termination of the Confederated tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Dissertation, 2008. (Pre-final draft 2007) Chapter 9 The…
Lewis 2008, Termination of the Grand Ronde Tribe, Chapter 8
Lewis, David, Termination of the Confederated tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Dissertation, 2008. (Pre-final draft, 2007) Chapter 8 Fed…
Lewis 2008, Termination of the Grand Ronde Tribe, Chapter 7
Lewis, David, Termination of the Confederated tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Dissertation, 2008. (Pre-final draft, 2007) Chapter 7 Jus…
Gender and Mental health: The need for a wider lens
As the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby powerfully put it, it would help if we didn’t start by seeing females and males as being from different planets. Experiences of…
Seeing Finance in 360° – This Anthro Life
Hey there TAL listeners! Aneil has been working on a project centered on capturing the experience of working in finance with a fellow anthropologist and a filmmaker in London,…
Andrew B. Kipnis, “From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat” (U California Press, 2016)
“When I first went to Zouping in 1988,” writes Andrew B. Kipnis in From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat (University of California Press,…
A World of Pain and Suffering and Dispossession: Remembering Sri Lankan Tamil Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
Comrade Saleh Memon asks to repost this: A WORLD OF PAIN, SUFFERING AND DISPOSSESSION – REMEMBERING SRI LANKAN TAMIL ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE JULY 31, 2018 SALEH MAMON LEAVE…
Heredity, Genealogy, and Popular Knowledge: An Interview with Carl Zimmer
For three decades, Carl Zimmer has researched and written on both professional and popular understandings of science and technology for readers of Discover and The New York Times,…
Welche Auswirkungen haben Anker-Zentren?
Anfang August begann die Pilotphase für die Anker-Zentren in Bayern. Einrichtungen in weiteren Bundesländern sollen folgen. Ziel der Anker-Zentren ist es, die Asylverfahren zu beschleunigen und die Ko…
Weiterbildung in den Ferien – echt jetzt?
Montagvormittag bei der Arbeit: Es sind Sommerferien, die Leute schlurfen in Badekleidung am Büro vorbei, unter ihren Armen klemmen bunte Gummieinhörner, Gummienten oder Gummiflamingos. Die Aare warte…
Unterbringung von Geflüchteten
Studien zu Sammelunterkünften Autor*innen: Johanna Elle, Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess, Dr. Rebecca Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Albert Scherr Seit 2015 ist die Frage der Unterbringung ein zentraler Aspekt der…
Damien Riggs, “The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities” (Lexington Books, 2018)
In order to fully grasp the workings of racism, we cannot limit ourselves to examining it within majority cultures. Racism exists in minority cultures, such as the gay…
Creators of the Contemporary in Africa
In Ghana, the creative culture and the contemporary art sphere is in a period of exponential growth and reconfiguration. Across Accra and Kumasi, the contemporary creative scene has…