Sydney Ideas – Beyond Trafficking and Modern Slavery?
I am honoured to take part in a keynote panel this Wednesday at tge University of Sydney which will consider discourses of trafficking and modern slavery. With current…
Race is Still a Problem in Anthropology
By Anar Parikh [The following essay emerges from conversation with fellow PhD student and AES/SVA attendee, Scott Ross (George Washington University).] How is it that a senior anthropologist…
anthro in the news 4/9/18
Plate scraping. Credit: jbloom/Flickr reducing food waste Tri-States Public Radio (U.S.) reported on how the Food Recovery Network aims to reduce food wasted in college cafeterias. Food Recovery…
The Black Box in Bologna: A short documentary
By portraying seven perspectives on the recent spread of the black box in the car insurance domain, this documentary sheds light on the much-debated relation between responsibility, privacy,…
The Black Box in Bologna: A short documentary
The 'black box' The approval of the Italian Competition Law in August 2017 sparked off a controversial debate around car liability insurance and the employment of a technological…
The Testing Revolution: Investigating Diagnostic Devices in Global Health by Alice Street
Image by Alice Street in collaboration with Jennifer Littlejohn. The origins of laboratory medicine are often traced to the establishment of a small clinical laboratory in Guy’s Hospital,…
Long Read Review: The New Poverty by Stephen Armstrong
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Beveridge Report and written in the spirit of George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, The New Poverty takes a tour of contemporary…
A Theory of Propaganda for the Social Media Age
Intertextuality and the propagation of disinformation Propaganda typically refers to manipulative techniques and misleading messages used to gain public acquiescence for a political cause, especially …
Helena Wulff on her new book, Rhythms of Writing
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rhythms-of-writing-9781474244152/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: When you are at a book event for an Irish author, how do you explain what an anthropologist b…
Review: Cultivating Development
by Esther Mulders David Mosse’s groundbreaking book, Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice (2005, Pluto Press), focuses on the complex link between policy and practice in…
Ich will kein Geist in der Flasche sein – verfasst von Susannah Haas
Entgegen dem klassischen Wortgebrauch in allen möglichen journalistischen und literarischen Textsorten ist das „System“ nichts Statisches. Jedes biologische oder soziale System entwickelt oder regener…
Conditions of the Alsea Indians and the Salmon River Encampment 1876-1878
As addressed in previous essays, in about 1875, most Indian annuities for the Western Oregon tribes ended because the 20 year payments were exhausted. This Continue reading
Blogging on MENA TIDNINGEN
Dear Friends of Tabsir, If you wonder why I hardly post on Tabsir these days, it is because I blog mainly on the Swedish website MENA Tidningen. Check…
Conjuring Madness: Self/Non Self and Mental Illness in Post-Apartheid Namibia by Mattia Fumanti
Il convient plutot de s’attacher à ce que signifie ȇtre un homme, avant de problématiser la folie en terms de santé et maladie, Ludwig Binswanger, Le Rȇve et…
Links & Contents I Liked 276
Hi all, After a short Easter break, your favorite #globaldev link review is back! What I realized when going through 2-week’s worth of content was how quickly a…
What should you do?
(if the United States collapses, that is) This series has been examining the question of When will the United States collapse? The decline of US hegemony is usually…
How Natural Birth Became Inaccessible to the Poor
[no-caption] Michelle Jones/SAPIENS Pilar* gave birth in a private, “humanized” hospital in Mexico City that takes a holistic approach to health and combines world-class medicine with the…
Satanismus in der Religionswissenschaft. Interview mit Buchautor Joachim Schmidt
Als ich seiner Zeit 2005 Praktikum bei REMID machte, wurden mir auch Publikationen aus dem REMID-Umfeld geschenkt, darunter das Buch “Satanismus – Mythos und Wirklichkeit” von Gründungsmitglied Joach…
Satanismus in der Religionswissenschaft. Interview mit Buchautor Joachim Schmidt
Als ich seiner Zeit 2005 Praktikum bei REMID machte, wurden mir auch Publikationen aus dem REMID-Umfeld geschenkt, darunter das Buch “Satanismus – Mythos und Wirklichkeit” von Gründungsmitglied Joach…
“Memento Mori – Death, Deconstruction and the Afterlife” – Studierendensymposium im Mai
Zum 25. Studierendensymposium im deutschsprachigen Raum in Leipzig vom 10. bis 13. Mai 2018, zu “Memento Mori – Death, Deconstruction and the Afterlife”, interviewte REMID aus dem Team…
„Memento Mori – Death, Deconstruction and the Afterlife“ – Studierendensymposium im Mai
Zum 25. Studierendensymposium im deutschsprachigen Raum in Leipzig vom 10. bis 13. Mai 2018, zu “Memento Mori – Death, Deconstruction and the Afterlife”, interviewte REMID aus dem Team…
Debarati Sen, “Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling” (SUNY Press, 2017)
In her new book, Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling (SUNY Press, 2017), Debarati Sen analyzes the paradoxes and promises of Fair Trade-organic tea…
Roll Your Own QDA (Working With Text 5)
Many social scientists purchase expensive qualitative data analysis software to code their field notes and interview data, but I want to show how you can accomplish the same…
Like this blog post or you will die in your sleep tonight
The year is 2007. Your razr–hot pink–chimes. You just received a message. There is a blurry image of a girl you’ve never seen before. The text underneath reads: This…