Splice of Life by Lisa Jean Moore
A Birthday Present Georgia, my middle daughter of three, is a combination of my DNA and identity release[1] donor #2817[2]. Unlike her sisters who both have the advantage…
How To Think Like An Anthropologist: An Interview With Matthew Engelke
2Anthropologists — especially American anthropologists — fret endlessly that they are not doing enough to make their work more widely known, their opinions more widely shared, and their…
Mehr als Gemüse. Urban Gardening als Intervention in den Stadtraum.
Ein Essay von Laura Esser 1. Dein Essay in einem Satz: In meinem Essay zeige ich am Beispiel der Kölner Urban Gardening-Initiative “NeuLand” auf, wie über städtische Gartenprojekte…
Joseph Sciorra, “Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in NYC” (U Tennessee Press, 2018)
Folklore scholar Joseph Sciorra is the Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in Queens College which is part of the…
Seminar: Indigenous Media 2018
For the 4th time I am organizing the seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. In this course, students…
Review of “The politics of vaccination. A global history” (Edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough)
Photo: Paul R. Greenough Eva Jansen “The politics of vaccination. A global history” is a multi-faceted study of the connections between vaccination, identity (constructions and politics), political s…
American culture* in the digital space (case study # 3)
I This is a series of posts that examines how and why American culture matters to American business. The opening post was “American Culture* and the Harvard Business…
Got Food Studies Essays?
The semester is ending for many universities here in North America and students are furiously completing their final papers. There may be food-related research gold in those papers!…
anthro in the news 5/7/18
The ring. Credit Charley Marley/Flickr sexism and the sumo ring The Japan Times reported on current debates in Japan about the origins of the rule against women in…
Prisoners of Culture
This piece is a little different from previous iterations of “Tip of The Cap.” Earlier entries into this series were written by published scholars, and they were written…
The Labor of Racism
By: Dána-Ain Davis One night in early 2018, a doula-friend of mine, Josie who is white, sent me a photo of a Black woman sitting in a wheelchair.…
Risk and utility in the governance of diagnostic testing: the case of genetic screening, 1960 to the present by Steve Sturdy
Routine collection of blood samples from neonates – often using so-called Guthrie cards (pictured) – began in the 1960s when a number of North American and European countries…
Leigh Chavez-Bush’s “Chefs, Cuisine, and Convergence”
My dissertation explores media networks within the Chicago culinary industry. At three fieldwork sites I conducted participant observation and employee ethnography with media producers, chefs, and sof…
Unsere 17. Ausgabe des Soziologiemagazins ist erschienen: Prekäre Lebenswelten. Wie weit ist es nach unten?
Liebe Leser_innen, seit den 2000er Jahren hat der wissenschaftliche, politische, aber auch mediale und feuilletonistische Diskurs um Prekarität deutlich zugenommen. Die sogenannte ‚Soziale Frage‘ steh…
The representation of Africa in Hollywood movie Black Panther.
By Rhoda Woets Almost every month, I join a small group of anthropologists from the VU to go to the movies. Last month, we went to the action…
Diaspora, Gender & Mediated Revolution
In several relatively recent papers (2017, 2015a, 2015b) I’ve made the point that for tens of millions of Egyptians, the uprisings of 2011 weren’t something they physically experienced…
The Mills, Second Buildings at Chemeketa-Salem
In the earliest lore of the City of Salem, the location was an Indian village named Chemeketa, next to Chemeketa Creek. Before this village was known by Americans,…
Dear Colonialism – guest post by Ami V. Shah
I am honored to kick off the week with a powerful guest post by my colleague Ami V. Shah, Assistant Professor of Global Studies & Anthropology at Pacific…
Anthropology as Open Marriage
A New Life Style for Anthropologists This blog-post reproduces my comment on Paul Shankman’s “The Public Anthropology of Margaret Mead: Redbook, Women’s Issues, and the 1960s” publis…
A Stable Kalapuyan Anthropogenic-Environmental Model?
It is noted that humans have had an extreme effect on the environment everywhere they have lived. These changes became much more radical some 12,000 years ago when…
The Rumour of Calcutta – digital book
22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall, but…
Vienna anthropology days
VANDA is an international conference, first to be held in Vienna in fall 2018, aimed at bringing together scholars from various fields of anthropology and ethnology, as well…
How Fracking’s Appetite for Sand Is Devouring Rural Communities
[no-caption] “Do you want to see the mine?” asks Harlan*. “Of course,” I reply. He fetches his boots. We head outside with his wife Edith and follow a…
American culture* and the new new Coke
This is a series of posts that examines how and why American culture matters to American business. The opening post was “American Culture* and the Harvard Business School…