Disciplinary Violence
#MeToo is an opening for change—but can anthropologists look beyond the media moment to confront sexual violence and transform the discipline? Those who speak up to share stories…
The Invisible Walls of the Whisper Network
#MeToo makes us all responsible for confronting sexual harassment. Let me begin by saying that it has been difficult for me to write about #MeToo. Although the topic…
Sexual Violence in the Clinics and the Courts
Medico-legal systems must change how they respond to victims. Many survivors of sexual assault neither seek out health care nor report to law enforcement, yet these two institutional…
The Disavowal of Henrietta Schmerler
Anthropology’s decades-long misrepresentation of this story of sexual violence should inform the discipline’s relationship to #MeToo. This is the story of a story that matters to us. In…
Oregon Native Place Names in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Part 1
In the map collections of Oregon Historical Society there is a selection of Coast Survey maps. Most of these maps date from 1874 and there are some later.…
#MeToo Holds Lessons for Political Resistance
How to Stop the Normalizing of Trump. Remember when everyone feared the “normalization” of a Trump presidency? Well, it’s gotten to the point where the US president can…
Archaeology’s Search for History Hidden in Ice
When Ötzi the Iceman, the most complete Neolithic mummy ever found, melted out of the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, the field of “ice patch archaeology” was born. In…
Holly Gayley, “Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Often when people think of Tibetan Buddhism they have a limited vision of that social reality, perhaps one that imagines monks sitting in meditation or focused on the…
Fotos Interiores
En 2016 sufrí un grave accidente doméstico y perdí movilidad por varios meses. En parte por la fascinación de los colores que aparecieron en mi pierna y en…
Hepatitis B Viruses Discovered in Ancient Human Remains
[no-caption] BSIP/Getty Images Around the world, more than 200 million people live with an infection from the hepatitis B virus, a pathogen that can reside in the human…
Expats, Tourists and “Matter out of Place”
Using Mary Douglas’s notion of matter out of place, I posit that when the government changed the law and increased their negative rhetoric about foreign workers, people like…
Historische Migrationsforschung. Eine autobiografische Perspektive
Buch zur Geschichte der Disziplin Autor: Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Bade Klaus J. Bade verknüpft in diesem Buch autobiographische Perspektiven mit der Geschichte der Migrationsforschung, der Entwicklung de…
What will it take to ensure a future liveable earth? – Book Launch of The Anthropology of Sustainability
As part of the book launch for The Anthropology of Sustainability, leading anthropologists consider this question – offering unconventional answers and a radical new paradigm for anthropology in…
Diagnosis where? Testing Pigs and Humans for T. solium cysticercosis in Uganda by Rebekah Thompson
Two live pigs being transported to a local butcher in Mukono district, Uganda Taenia solium is a zoonotic disease shared between humans and pigs. Humans become infected with…
Generation glasses are not new culture glasses
Hardly a day goes by without a blaring news story on the devastating impact of the millennials on the economy or how HR departments are challenged in dealing…
Generation glasses are not new culture glasses
Hardly a day goes by without a blaring news story on the devastating impact of the millennials on the economy or how HR departments are challenged in dealing…
Parrotfish: The Charisma of Conservation in the Caribbean
During the week of Easter, the beaches of the Dominican Republic were converted into billboards for the campaign to stop the consumption of parrotfish. Pictures taken from drones…
Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part II
By Kristina Lyons, University of California, Santa Cruz § The president of the communal action committee whom I call Doña Marta ushered me to a more secluded corner behind…
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…