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…
Immortality: no longer fiction?
The great unknown associated with dying has resulted in a societal fascination – no, obsession – with death. Death is everywhere from our newsfeeds, to our music, to…
Death Machine
Right to die groups over the year have tried to portray death as a positive experience. They want to desensitize the general public to death, removing the negative…
The Living Dead
While avoiding starting my homework, I was watching clips on YouTube from different TLC TV-shows. I quickly fell down the rabbit hole of watching clips from the Untold…
Bonobos Spied Sharing a Feast
Bonobos congregate around a male bonobo holding an African breadfruit to get a share of the meal. Barbara Fruth/LuiKotale Bonobo Project People are weird—at least compared to other…
CFP [AAA 2018], Secura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care
Please kindly consider the following panel proposal for the 2018 Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association (November 14-18, 2018 in San Jose, California). Panel Title: Secura: Secur…
CfP – Speaking more broadly: Adapting anthropological concepts for a broader audience
Following up on our previous post, AAA in San Jose – Anthropological Concepts for Non-Anthropologists, Jennifer and I would like to take this opportunity to circulate a call for…
CfP – Speaking more broadly: Adapting anthropological concepts for a broader audience
Following up on our previous post, AAA in San Jose – Anthropological Concepts for Non-Anthropologists, Jennifer and I would like to take this opportunity to circulate a call for…
Toying with Our Teleologies: Reflections on What SF Can Do for Anthropology
By Priya Chandrasekaran, Taylor C. Nelms, Valerie Olson, Elizabeth Reddy, Heather Thomas, and Nicholas Welcome At the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in late 2017, a…