Sustainable Development Postdoc
The following announcement was received from Amy Trubek, who notes that there are several UVM Food Systems faculty affiliated with the Gund Institute. That, along with the fact…
anthro in the news 12/26/17
An arm bracelet from Nabwageta Island, Papua New Guinea. The names of the people who have owned the bracelet are written on it. It was part of a…
Lower Chinook Vocabulary by Robert Shortess, 1853
Robert Shortess married a Clatsop woman in the late 1840s in Astoria, Oregon. He had arrived in Oregon in 1839 and was active around the Willamette Valley for…
Gone Ice Fishing!
AN has gone to Yorkshire, UK and Milwaukee, WI. We wish you a peaceful and enjoyable holiday period. See you in January 2018! Fancy a spot of anthropology…
Zout in de wonde – Een bespreking van White Innocence van Gloria Wekker
Nog geen week geleden kwam een Nederlandse politieke partij met een statement dat aangaf waar zij voor staat: ‘een open, tolerant, democratisch Nederland waar individuele eigenschappen bepalend zijn,…
A New Layout For The New Year
After 12 years it was time to update the layout of antropologi.info. I tried to keep some of the old elements while adjusting the look to our new…
Misplaced Memorials
I recently found a mysterious, out-of-place grave marker on a vacant lot in Detroit, and I went down a research rabbit hole trying to figure out how it…
Discard Studies going dark, being reborn in 2018
Dear Discard Studies Readers, I have been posting on this blog every week for the past seven years. It has been a pleasure. I began as a PhD…
My History of Anthropology Syllabus
This semester I taught ANTH 490, the History of Anthropology. It is a required class for our majors and is sort of a ‘capstone’ for their anthropology experience,…
NDNHISTORYRESEARCH End of the Year 2017 Wrap
This year, 2017, has shown a lot of growth after the 2016 breakout year, capping two years of amazing histories being written, and an awesome response from my…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, December 22, 2017
David Beriss 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…
Our Most-Read Articles of 2017!
We rounded up the most-read articles of 2017. Here’s the top five from In Focus, Opinion, and Section News! Most-Read In Focus Articles 5. “The Future of Education is…
Best of 2017: AAA Journals
As 2017 comes to a close we’d like to celebrate the AAA publishing portfolio by announcing the most-downloaded articles published by each journal this year. These articles are…
Projekt zur Nok-Kultur geht in die Endrunde
Die Erforschung der Nok-Kultur an der Goethe-Universität kann weitergehen: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft hat jetzt den Förderantrag des Afrika-Archäologen Prof. Peter Breunig und der Archäobotan…
Democratization vs. Liberalism in Canada
Many North Americans (leaving aside Mexico), would likely not know that the official acronym for “North Korea” is “DPRK,” and if they did then fewer still might realize…
Editorial on Editing
One of the most undervalued, but arduous forms of academic work is editing: organizing knowledge, judging quality, finding emergent themes, and forging connections. Editing is a form of…
Gifts are a traditional part of Christmas – but why do we give presents at all?
The Gift, written by Marcel Mauss in 1925, explores why we exchange things and the social rules we follow – and might help explain why gift-giving can be…
Gifts are a traditional part of Christmas – but why do we give presents at all?
The Gift, written by Marcel Mauss in 1925, explores why we exchange things and the social rules we follow – and might help explain why gift-giving can be…
Online Open Research – A collaborative approach
By Matthias Teeuwen – Some time ago I wrote a blog about the possibilities emerging technologies offer to the practice of qualitative research. Back then, I wrote that…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies (Nov & Dec 2017)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in…
A Christmas story: Health insurance in the Netherlands
It’s that time of the year again. The days are short and cold, and we are looking forward to Christmas – the most wonderful time of the year,…
My development blogging & communication review 2017
In my first annual reflection on my development blogging engagement in 2011 I stated quite plainly: Development blogging has become part of narrative writing for those who work…
När halm hörde julen till
Vad är det som markerar att julen har kommit till din familj? Kanske är det pyntandet av julgranen eller pepparkaksbaket, men i äldre tider var det julhalmens intagande…