Trade Between the Interior and the Coast; Kalapuyans, Klikitats, Coosans
Previous to the Americans and the British In Oregon, the tribes had a millennium of interrelationships with one another. Trade was a major part of the lives of…
AFHVS / ASFS 2018: The Agroecological Prospect
Call for abstracts for the best annual interdisciplinary Food Studies conference. SAFN members, it would be great to organize whole SAFN panels for this event. Start a discussion…
Minerals by Robyn d’Avignon
Mining is a toxic business and gold mining is particularly noxious. Mercury and cyanide pollute river-ways and sentient bodies. The large-scale evacuation of earth often acidifies water tables,…
Een reis door het paradoxale verleden van Iran
Door Kostas Brejaart In het hipste koffietentje van Teheran drink ik een dubbele espresso. Ik moet nog steeds wennen aan het feit dat ik in Teheran ben en…
Erinnerungen an Cape Town oder Wie man den Winterblues bekämpft
Vor sechs Tagen habe ich mich in Johannesburg in den Flieger nach Deutschland gesetzt – widerwillig und müde und irgendwie noch nicht bereit. Eigentlich hatte ich mich lange…
Applying for a job with no experience…
When you have been in university for such a long time, you may feel like you don’t have any real experience for the jobs you are interested in…
Applying for a job with no experience…
When you have been in university for such a long time, you may feel like you don’t have any real experience for the jobs you are interested in…
anthro in the news 12/11/17
Kutupalong, the world’s fastest growing refugee camp, is located in Bangladesh’s Chittagong province. Credit: U.K. Department for International Development/Flickr [no changes were made to this photo] …
Refugees and Police Violence in Calais
An anthropologist reflects on ethical responsibility and everyday violence. Sitting on a bench in a beautiful town-center park in Calais, we speak to a number of Ethiopian refugees…
Xiaojie: no sexworker identity
I know many folks who relate to the idea of sex work as one of their jobs and to sexworker as one of their identities. But I have…
David Hamou and Ida Susser: Where to Catalonia?: Is this commoning? What for independence?
As we sit here in Barcelona, a historic center of anarchism and left resistance, the questions debated in the most recent Focaal special section “Exploring the urban commons” confront us.…
Efuru@50: en dokumentärfilm om kvinnliga författare i Nigeria
Av Paula Uimonen och Yaki Bozi Firandet av Flora Nwapa, pionjär av afrikanska kvinnors litteratur. År 1966 publicerade Flora Nwapa Efuru, den första internationellt publicerade romanen av en…
Muzo: Colombia’s Emerald Kingdom
By Bram Ebus Muzo, Colombia – It is here where clouded forests overgrow the mountain slopes in which world’s most valuable emeralds are hidden. For much of history,…
Heuchlerisches Doppelspiel der Europäischen Union in LibyenHilfen für einen desolaten Staat
Aktuelle Berichte über Sklavenmärkte in Libyen, auf denen Asylsuchende und Migrant_innen verkauft wurden, haben zu einem Aufschrei unter Mitgliedstaaten der EU und AU sowie zu raschen Reaktionen gefüh…
The European Union’s hypocrisy in LibyaTraining and blaming local authorities?
Recent reports on migrant slave markets in Libya led to a joint outcry amongst EU and AU leaders and to quick hypocritical reactions: vulnerable asylum seekers are (planned…
The uncanny predictability of precarious existence #precarity
EASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the University of Bern. The two-day seminar, organis…
Five years after deadly factory fire, Bangladesh’s garment workers are still vulnerable
by Geert De Neve and Rebecca Prentice (Previously posted on The Conversation UK.) Five years ago last month, in November 2012, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory…
Human Rights in an Age of Immorality and Unreason
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
The boss knows everything
Innovation and culture? According to McKinsey’s innovation report of 1,400 executives, 94% of CEOs recognised the importance of culture and employees as the most fundamental aspects of innovation….
The boss knows everything
Innovation and culture? According to McKinsey’s innovation report of 1,400 executives, 94% of CEOs recognised the importance of culture and employees as the most fundamental aspects of innovation….
Advice From the Frontlines: DC-Based Human Rights Defenders
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
Fish by Jennifer Lee Johnson
If you’ve seen Hubert Sauper’s (2004) documentary film Darwin’s Nightmare you may remember the stark contrast he draws between the sterile disassembly line of a factory producing Nile…
Language, Human Rights, and Social Justice
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights, now represented on the Members’ Programmatic,…
Book Review: Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair by Emma Tarlo
In Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, Emma Tarlo explores the hidden networks through which human hair circulates around the world, tangling together the local and the global through diverse…