Funeral Rituals: The Death of a Dog
“Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow…
Nederland houdt van gewoon
Door Irene Stengs. In het kader van ‘onderzoek om de hoek’ kom ik nog een keer terug op mijn veldwerkexcursie naar de Huishoudbeurs van afgelopen februari. In mijn…
Welcome to The New Ethnographer!
We are the new ethnographers. Some of our supervisors have warned us against embarking on this project (“it could damage your career”). Many of us are in…
#Review: Remediation in Rwanda
In her new book, Kirsten Doughty provides us with an ethnographic account of the paradoxes, contradictions and omissions of remediation processes in post-genocide Rwanda. More precisely, by analyzing…
Anthropology Is Boring: Bring Other Books
I was determined to make sure that I was never bored during my fieldwork. Vibrant informants and constant social interaction were to be the key to my successful…
Beth Comstock and 7 truths for the C-suite
(This post was first published on Medium, April 3, 2018.) Anyone who works as a creative, a strategist, a planner, a story teller, a PR specialist, or a…
Die Macht der Migration
Zehn Gespräche zu Mobilität und Kapitalismus Interviews u.a. mit Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan und Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril Warum fühlen sich Menschen durch Einwanderung bedroht? Wie kann sich…
When will the US Stock Market Collapse?
As in the previous post on When will the United States collapse?, I’ve been working on a draft of this for a couple months. So I might have…
Eeva Kesküla: How capitalists think about labor dynasties and corporate ethics
This contribution looks at the implications of how capitalists think about corporate ethics and moral obligations in monoindustrial towns. I present the cases of two mining towns in…
When will the United States collapse?
As of 4 April 2018, I had been working on a draft of this post on “when will the United States collapse” for a month or so. I…
Mara Buchbinder, “All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain” (U California Press, 2015)
As physicians, we cannot image or measure it, we can only try to locate within the lives and (sometimes) bodies of our patients. In Mara Buchbinder, All in…
The Personhood and Rights of Apes
I spent the earliest part of my career as an anthropologist studying captive chimpanzees at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, NC. While there, I always made a…
What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
We’ve all been caught unawares by our digestive tract at one time or another. It happened to the Nash family several months ago. We were nearing the end…
Creating a story: Large-scale bioenergy production and its critics in Sierra Leone
‘How thousands of farmers lost everything’ states the title of a recent Dutch newspaper article about the consequences of a large-scale bioenergy project in Sierra Leone. The narrative…
Creating a story: Large-scale bioenergy production and its critics in Sierra Leone
Volkskrant article On 24th March 2018, De Volkskrant, a leading Dutch newspaper, published an article about the bioenergy investments of Addax Bioenergy and its successor Sunbird Bioenergy in…
The Space of Boredom – A conversation with Bruce O’Neill
The Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and practices of homeless men and women left behind…
Prekäre Lebenswelt: Wissenschaft. Eine Blog-Reihe über akademische Minenfelder, unwissenschaftliche Wissenschaftlichkeit und körperloses Flaschengeist-Dasein – verfasst von Nadja M. Köffler
Prekär – prekärer – Wissenschaftswelt? Eine Steigerungsform, die treffender kaum ausfallen könnte, führt man sich die Realität gelebter Wissenschaft im öffentlichen Dienst zu Gemüte: Promotionswut tri…
anthro in the news 4/2/18
Cheapest guns in USA! Union, West Virginia. Credit: Taber Andrew Bain/Flickr the social life of guns The Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester) reported on a symposium held in Rochester,…
Lee Hoffer on the Opioid Epidemic
Last week, the OSU Undergraduate Anthropology Club invited Lee Hoffer, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, to give a guest lecture on the opioid epidemic.…
Assessing damage to indigenous cultures by industrial development with maths?
I just read an interesting post by the Russian news agency TASS (in Russian) announcing proudly the launch of a new method for assessing damage to indigenous culture…
#Adulting and the Disordered State of American Adulthood
[pquote]It is a word apt for the state of social adulthood in the US, where a long-eroding set of markers from the twentieth century are collapsing into a…
Alex E. Chávez on his new book, Sounds of Crossing
https://www.dukeupress.edu/sounds-of-crossing Interview by William Cotter William Cotter: In the introduction to your book you mention that for Mexican migrants, transnational forms of music making c…
Timothy Neale, “Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
In Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), Tim Neale examines the controversy over the 2005 Wild Rivers Act in the Cape…
Gloria Origgi, “Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters” (Princeton UP, 2018)
We all put a great deal of care into protecting, managing, and monitoring our reputation. But the precise nature of a reputation is obscure. In one sense, reputation…