Author’s Note: I originally wrote this article for my institution’s student-run literary magazine after the Parkland shooting. Our little community was engaged in passionate debate about “gun culture”…
Last week – April 25 – Facebook posted the 2018 first-quarter data on revenues and users (here the original post from Facebook.) The perhaps unexpected take-home message is…
How did Nepal become synonymous, in the minds of many Westerners, with the idea of a mystical paradise and a place to find enlightenment? How did Kathmandu become…
Sometime in the very early 1990s, while I was in grad school, I got a call from a student at Grinnell College, where I myself had graduated asking…
Michael Blume ist nicht nur mit diesem vierten Interview Rekordhalter im REMID-Blog – es ging um sehr verschiedene Themen wie Evolutionary Religious Studies, Yeziden in Kurdistan-Irak und Krise…
Michael Blume ist nicht nur mit diesem vierten Interview Rekordhalter im REMID-Blog – es ging um sehr verschiedene Themen wie Evolutionary Religious Studies, Yeziden in Kurdistan-Irak und Krise…
By Neil Nunn, University of Toronto§ At every turn in my research examining the politics of mine-waste, salmon have spoken to me. They speak through a groundswell of…
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
The curse of the anthropologist: finding culture everywhere in nature. Today, the neighborhood in which my husband and I now live hosted a cleanup in a nearby cove.…
Shinonome-riken Canal Court housing, Tokyo. Source: Pinterest what lurks behind the door Oxy (California) reported on the role of beliefs about the dead in affecting rent prices in…
This is a photograph of a publicity for a “street corner” obstetrical ultrasound in Brazil. It proclaims: “ultrasound examinations at low prices.” The advertised “low prices” can be…
What’s In Your Bag, Anthropologists? Do you have a field notebook you can’t do without? A set of tools of sentimental value? A camera that has never let…
Photo: Gigi Taylor Thanks to the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) for having Adam Gamwell and Matt Artz of This Anthro Life present at the annual meeting in…
The article ist ein Blog, den Studierende und junge Forschende des Kunstgeschichtlichen Instituts der Goethe-Uni als Plattform für Kunstinteressierte gestartet haben. Neben Aktuellem aus der Kunstgesc…
“It is difficult to characterize this fascinating book,” George Tanabe writes in his short preface to The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (University of Hawai’i…
The historian of Islamic astronomy and mathematics, Dr. David King, recently gave a fascinating lecture at the Furqan Foundation in London. Here is the Youtube video of the…
Der jährliche Rundgang des kunstpädagogischen Instituts der Goethe-Universität bietet den Studierenden die Möglichkeit zur Präsentation ihrer Arbeiten. Zudem bekommen sie die Gelegenheit dazu, mit der…
In central India, agriculture is a risky business. As climate change has altered weather patterns and monsoon rains are becoming increasingly unpredictable, a new crop insurance policy promises…
A new crop insurance scheme Early in 2016 the Indian Government, with much fanfare, announced a new crop insurance scheme meant to alleviate the growing risks of agriculture and…
by Magnus Marsden While conducting research for the TRODITIES project in China, Afghanistan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine I regularly meet traders from Afghanistan who talk about…
Es sind Momente wie eben dieser, in denen sich das Prekariat in seiner ganzen Dimension zeigt. Das Blatt ist leer, und das darf nicht sein. Ich habe genau…
This book-length essay is from the Oregon Historical Society Library. It appears to be completely unpublished. The author Alexandra Ley Rock, was none too generous towards her characterizations…
“Storytelling: that’s part of the power of podcasts, and just the power of ethnography in general, to really have people tell their own stories. And I think it’s…
Cooperation may be central to our social evolution but American cultural emphasis on the individual and her successes creates a contradiction. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com