Becoming White
Policing Whiteness Karen Brodkin’s 1998 book, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America was a crucial entry in a genre of studies…
Digital Food Activism – a book review by Michelle Pentecost
Digital Food Activism Tanja Schneider, Karin Eli, Catherine Dolan and Stanley Ulijaszek (eds.) Routledge Series in Critical Food Studies, 2018, 234 pages A Swiss academic scans the…
Forum Origin, Diversity and Territories
The variety of organizations involved in what is loosely referred to as the “food movement” is sometimes quite astonishing. Even for anthropologists, who are supposed to be trained…
Special Issue: Critical perspectives on US global health partnerships in Africa and beyond by Anna Zogas
The open-access journal Medicine Anthropology Theory has published a special collection of essays titled “Critical perspectives on US global health partnerships in Africa and beyond.” Her…
Special Issue: Psychopathological Fringes by Anna Zogas
History of the Human Sciences (31[2]) has published a special issue about “zones of uncertainty that defy psychopathology’s order of things.” The issue, Psychopathological Fringes: Knowled…
Something to Shoot For
A note for the reader: I had the idea to attend a gun show and doing some writing about it a while ago, but the appeal of it…
Special Issue: Genomics and Genetic Medicine by Anna Zogas
Anthropology & Medicine (Vol 25 [1]) brings us a special issue on Genomics and Genetic Medicine, edited by Sahra Gibbon, Susie Kilshaw & Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner. See below for the…
Special Issue: Cognitive Disability by Anna Zogas
The most recent issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology is a special issue on Cognitive Disability, edited by Patrick McKearney and Tyler Zoanni. Enjoy! Introduction: For an Anthropology…
quake champions resources
Just a collection of helpful resources for Quake Champions, created by members of the community: The ↑Guide for Optimizing Fun in Quake Champions is a nicely done…
Web Roundup: Women, Withdrawal, and Antidepressants by Katherine Warren
In April, an article in the New York Times caused a stir with the headline, “Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit.” The piece begins with a…
Anthropology Bite Club
The first rule of Bite Club is that we’re going to talk about cookbooks. The second rule of Bite Club is I need some of ya’ll to…
Paper: Indigenous articulations in the digital age
Budka, P. (2018). Indigenous articulations in the digital age: Reflections on historical developments, activist engagements and mundane practices. Paper at International Communication Association 2018…
Nachhaltigkeit – Klima – Energie. Interview mit Dr. Franziska Sperling
http://alltagswelten-blog.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/180524_Franziska-Sperling.m4a Sina Wohlgemuth spricht mit Dr. Franziska Sperling über kulturanthropologische Pe…
Living Monuments: Imagining Ancient Gene Pools in the Middle East
In 1927, the Polish-Jewish physical anthropologist Henryk Szpidbaum published an account of his recent expedition to Mandate Palestine on behalf of the Polish Society for the Exploration of…
‘Anthropologists and Their Traditions Across National Borders’ edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach
Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach (Editors). Anthropologists and Their Traditions Across National Borders. Histories of Anthropology Annual Series 8. 296 pp., 8 photos, 1 illus. Lincoln: Universit…
Open Access, Apathy & Cowardice in academic publishing: An interview w/ Taylor R. Genovese
In the previous iteration of this site, I talked a lot about Open Access. The trend continues. For some background, check out this 2009 interview with Colleen Morgan,…
The Paradox of Hyper-connectedness and Solipsism in Contemporary America
Try walking around the mall, on a crowded sidewalk, or through a university campus and there is one thing that stands out: people are engulfed in their phones.…
Healthy Eating Research Grants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsors a program called Healthy Eating Research through which they support research on healthy eating among children. The program recently released a call…
anthro in the news 5/28/18
Bullshit Jobs in the news The latest book by David Graeber, London School of Economics anthropology professor book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, was published May 15 and is…
This is unsettling; this is our discipline.
[This article was co-authored by Dick Powis and Savannah Martin. Please cite accordingly.] Today, we are proud to launch Footnotes, a group blog by and for anthropology and…
Interview with Angie Heo
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1117/Interview%20with%20Angie%20Heo.mp3 In the beginning of March 2018, Angie Heo gave a talk in our visiting se…
Sally and Richard Price, “Samaaka Dreaming” (Duke UP, 2017)
In Samaaka Dreaming (Duke University Press, 2017), Sally and Richard Price take readers back to their initial moments of fieldwork and recall their struggles, insights and encounters as…
Congosa politics: Rumours and elections in Sierra Leone, by Diana Szanto
The red party. APC political rally in Freetown Congosa in Krio means gossiping and spreading rumour, but its connotations are much darker than in English. It equals with name…
Rezension | Migration – Bildung -Frieden von Bettina Gruber und Viktoija Ratković rezensiert von Christoph Rauner-Lange
Worum geht es? Migration – Bildung – Frieden das ist der Dreiklang, um den die Herausgeberinnen Bettina Gruber und Viktorija Ratković Perspektiven der Migrations-, Konflikt- und Friedensforschung zu…