A note to the exhausted anthropology student
It’s the end of the term. You’ve handed in your papers, you’ve written your last exams. You’ve put the last few months behind you, and hopefully you’re able…
The Politics of Explaining Taiwan
Mail to Taiwan often gets sent to Thailand Imagine if, when writing a paper on Donald Trump, you had to start your paper by saying the following:1 The…
Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017
“Fossil scout” Pedro Boshoff inside the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, where Homo naledi fossils were found. Wits University This year’s anthropological findings brought us fasc…
Five Years of Teaching Culture
Five years ago this fall we launched an experiment. As an editor at a university press, with an interest in ethnographic methods and a mandate for publishing teaching-oriented…
Top of the heap: Nayantara Sheoran by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, who is a medical anthropologist and lecturer in the Cultural Anthropology program…
Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps
Claire Reddleman’s new book ‘Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps’ is out now from Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies! Claire Says: “It’s all about…
Interview mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheffer – Für eine multiparadigmatische Soziologie in Forschung und Lehre
In der deutschsprachigen Soziologie tut sich gerade so einiges. Auf dem Blog der DGS schreibt Prof. Dr. Jörg Strübing von der Universität Tübingen über „Einheit und Uneinigkeit der…
The New Abolitionist Model
The New Abolitionist Model By Laura Agustín, was published in Jacobin Magazine 6 December 2017. I wrote this after reading Julie Bindel’s new book but my thoughts are…
A Christmas Anth(rop)ology
For this week’s blog, we decided to each write some thoughts on Christmas, from varied anthropological perspectives. We come at this from the position of people who were…
Kiddush: Local Flavor
Leslie Carlin The ‘Kiddush’ lunch is a tradition at many synagogues, including the one I belong to in downtown Toronto. It’s a shared meal to which all are…
Michael Leiris, “Phantom Africa” (Seagull Books, 2017)
Between 1931 and 1933, French writer Michel Leiris participated in a state-sponsored expedition to document the cultural practices of people in west and east Africa. The Mission Dakar-Djibouti…
Why Do We Wrap Presents?
[no-caption] Buppha Wuttifery/Getty Images The holiday season is here. That means presents under Christmas trees, next to menorahs, accompanying Kwanzaa candles, traded at white elephant …
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXI
My latest articles and interviews: Alabama proves that appealing to Trump voters is a lost cause. The power is elsewhere (12/13/17) — Globe and Mail With Trump, the GOP…
Anthropology & Open Access
Open Access Logo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg Anthropology and open access or “open anthropology” – selected resources, interviews and com…
Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Exploitation, Cultural Genocide: Problems of Neoliberal Diversity Management
“The Emergence of the Chief” is a statue on the Loyola campus of Concordia University in Montreal. {click to enlarge} In Canada, “a yoga instructor…says her free class…
Towards a relational anthropology of the state
This ain’t New York As a contributor to the recently published edited volume Stategraphy: Towards a relational anthropology of the state (Thelen, Vetters, and Benda-Beckmann 2017), Allegra invited…
anthro in the news 12/18/17
Hashtag #MeToo, December 2017. Credit: Wolfmann/Creative Commons sexual harassment survey U.S. News and World carried an article about the results of a recent survey of thousands of women…
A look back at anthropology everywhere in 2017!
As 2017 comes rapidly to a close, here’s our annual round-up of some of our favourite posts and content published this year. Thanks to everyone who has read…
A look back at anthropology everywhere in 2017!
As 2017 comes rapidly to a close, here’s our annual round-up of some of our favourite posts and content published this year. Thanks to everyone who has read…
The tense truce between detectorists and archaeologists
Metal detecting is enjoying a resurgence, driven by good press and fantastic finds. But archaeologists are not overjoyed at the rise of the hobby detectorists. Why? There’s been…
The tense truce between detectorists and archaeologists
Metal detecting is enjoying a resurgence, driven by good press and fantastic finds. But archaeologists are not overjoyed at the rise of the hobby detectorists. Why? There’s been…
Opportunities in Discard Studies (Dec 2017)
Call for papers: JEP 2019-1 Waste and globalised inequalities Special Issue Editor: Nicolas Schlitz, Stefan Laser Global capitalism and its transnational production networks have grown and changed…
Blånisser – kända i Norge men inte annanstans i Norden
Blånisse är en term jag själv stötte på som barn i Norge i början av 2000-talet. Det var då dessa nissar (eller eventuellt tomtar) klistrades på allas näthinnor…
CFP: Consuming In, and Consumed By, a Trump Economy
A CFP from the American Sociological Association on consumption: CALL FOR PAPERS “Consuming In, and Consumed By, a Trump Economy” *one-day pre-American Sociological Association mini-conference* Friday…