Pacific salmon declines and the thread-bare promises of modernity
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…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, May 1 2018
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…
Environmental Anthropology: An Anthropologist’s View of a Cove Cleanup
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.…
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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…
Ultrasound as a diagnostic tool in Brazil: celebrating babies, blurring problems. by Ilana Löwy
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?
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…
Consulting Podcasters: Prototyping a Democratic Tool for Multiple Voices, Storytelling and Solution Finding – This Anthro Life
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…
Aufruf: „The article“ sucht Autoren
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…
Guillaume Rozenberg, “The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2015)
“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…
David King on Islamic Astronomy
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…
Rückblick: Studierende der Kunstpädagogik über den »Rundgang 2018«
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…
Risky Business: Crop insurance in rural India
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…
Risky Business: Crop insurance in rural India
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…
Closer to Home: Yiwu in the UK
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…
Der unwissenschaftliche Wissenschaftler oder: Wie man im universitären Prekariat „richtig“ arbeitet – verfasst von Michael Brandmayr
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…
Stagaush Tribes remove to Salmon River: Excerpts from a History of the Little Nestucca
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…
Ep. #13 TFS presents Anthropod: “Podcasts and Pedagogy: audio in the anthropology classroom”
“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…
Why is Cooperation So Difficult in the Workplace?
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
Marx’s 200th birth anniversary is in a week. what’s planned? [please add what’s on in your city]
Many of these are linking to Facebook, sorry, but the ungated web is gone… Celebrating 200 Years of Karl Marx Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx (born…
Starbucks Enlightenment
Image credit: “Starbucks, Race and ‘Corporate’ Anthropology,” CFM Public Affairs Blog (March 2015). Is Anthropology better than Starbucks? In late March 2018, anthropology rais…
Mushies
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing has written an amazing book. The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015) is all about forests and foraging and revitalising teaching and diasporas…
Fear and Loathing in Atlanta
Content warning: racism, violence, mention of miscarriage. I was on my way to the airplane that would take me back home, to Canada. I boarded the train between…
A Trip to Tillamook, By Way of the Salmon River: the First Journey of Warren Vaughn
I encountered this history, partially unpublished I believe, in the Oregon Historical Society Library. The published book of his journal focuses on the second trip down the coast…
“The View From Flyover Country”: Interviews and reviews
What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and…