In this month’s panel discussion, Jodie (1:14) tells us about documents with agency: “Ideas just get up and grow legs, and they run away with themselves.” (Trigger warning:…
In 1855, the United States was on a campaign to purchase all of the land from the Oregon Tribes and remove them to reservations. Joel Palmer, Superintendent of…
For us, one of the special features of 2017 is that it marks the 10th anniversary of Zero Anthropology. We are now officially past 10 years of age,…
Robert Shortess was an 1839 emigrant to Oregon. In 1843 he was was elected to the Oregon Territorial Legislature in the 2nd wolf meeting (teh founders of Rome…
A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat, Eric Holt-Giménez, Monthly Review Press, 2017. Jo Hunter-Adams Working in food studies often means grappling…
A Reflection on Group Fieldwork. There is a high-fever-pitch limbic sensation of simultaneously registering something you heard or read as wrong, and the antsy, itchy, compulsion to raise…
Anthropology News invited members to report on the AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from reflections on a panels, to gonzo-style reporting, to anthropological impressions of the District. …
As we consider the role of justice in pedagogy and scholarship, I want to ask a simple but difficult question: What is our ethical task? Do we desire…
By Sean Carey “Why do you want to go to a posh Indian restaurant and spend a small fortune when you can go to the Lahore or Needoo’s…
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1079/ghannam.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Farha Ghannam gave a …
Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril. “AIDS orphans” are commonly imagined as the…
What is it to be moral, to lead an ethically good life? From a naturalistic perspective, any answer to this question begins from an understanding of what humans…
Zek Valkyrie teaches at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. His new book, Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline…
Hi all, Welcome to one of the final link reviews of 2017! It’s an interesting mix this week featuring public lectures, (visual) communication of development & #MeToo reflections…
Vorderasiatische Archäologen leisten wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Nordirak. Proben konnte Prof. Dirk Wicke diesmal nicht mitbringen von seiner Grabung im Nordirak. Wegen des Unabhängigkeitsre…
Kann es das schon gewesen sein? Das habe ich mich die letzten Tage immer wieder gefragt. Seit dem ersten Semester ist der Auslandsaufenthalt Das Gesprächsthema unter uns gewesen.…
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern from November 16-17, 2017.…
Es ist 22:00 Uhr am Donnerstagabend in Buenos Aires, draußen sind noch 28° und ich sitze zwischen einem einzigen Pack-Chaos in meinem kleinen Zimmer. Für morgen Abend habe…
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…
The short documentary Historia de un ballet (History of a Ballet, 1962) dramatizes an ethnographic encounter central to a creative process. Director José Massip followed Cuban choreographer Ramiro…
A list of anthropology blogs collected by Jason Antrosio of “Living Anthropologically”: https://www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology-blogs-2017/ Including the new anthropology grou…
In Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (Indiana University Press 2011), Sarah D. Phillips offers a compelling investigation of disability policies and movements in Ukraine after… Visit…
So-called alt-right groups, such as these demonstrators at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, have been emboldened by recent political developments in…
The ocean has long been considered the ideal location for the disposal of waste—including, among many other things, treated and untreated sewage poured easily into the sea, the…