Laura L. Heinemann’s Transplanting Care by Ellen Rubinstein
Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the U.S. Laura L. Heinemann Rutgers University Press, 186 pp. Heinemann’s work eschews the dramatic moment of transplant…
Waiting to Die
There is an episode of Grey’s Anatomy where Dr. Meredith Grey has a patient have a close call with death. Yet when she delivers the happy news that…
Precarity in Canadian Academia… A Working Bibliography
Unfortunately, precarity in academia has become a well-worn cliché… not least of all for those of us living in this state of ontological insecurity. In Canada, most university…
Precarity in Canadian Academia… A Working Bibliography
Unfortunately, precarity in academia has become a well-worn cliché… not least of all for those of us living in this state of ontological insecurity. In Canada, most university…
From Heathers to 13 Reasons Why: Romanticizing Suicide
The 1998 film Heathers follows the life of Veronica Sawyer, the witty and contemplative protagonist who is disillusioned with the shallowness of high school and her ultra-popular, conventionally…
The Picket Line in the Digital Age
Joseph Cook -MPhil/PhD Anthropology @joseph_m_cook The following is the transcript from a talk given on Monday 26th February as part of a range of student-led teach-ins and…
Lecturer in Heritage Studies, Manchester University
The School of Arts Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester invites applications for a permanent, full-time lectureship in Heritage Studies, tenable from 1 September 2018. The…
CfP: The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology
The EASA Media Anthropology Network is organising a network panel at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference “Staying, Moving, Settling” in Stockholm, 14-17 August, 2018. Please find the Call…
Save the Oceans!
Numerous studies indicate if human waste management and consumer patterns continue as they are now, then in 2050 the plastic in the world’s oceans will weigh more than…
Early History of the White Salmon Reservation
One of the shortest lives reservations was the White Salmon Reservation, on the north bank of the Columbia River across from Hood River. The Reservation Continue reading
Web Roundup: In the clouds by Lily Shapiro
As I’m sure many of you saw, this month started with the successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, giving a boost (sorry) to privatized space travel, and providing…
In the Journals, February 2018 by Anna Zogas
Here are some of the articles published in February 2018. Among them are two Special Issues I’d like to highlight: first, Social Science & Medicine brings us a…
Progress, Progressivism, and Progressives
Where does “progress” come from? What does “progressivism” mean? Which cultural tradition and ideological discourse makes “progressive” movements or parties thinkable? Why is it always important to be…
Semi-Feurdal Cyber-colonialism
Yes! thank you, Evers and Nordin [of course it is always slightly embarrassing to be posting citations, but the occasional acknowledgement of a phrase I particularly dwelt long…
Why #MeToo Is Complicated for Female Anthropologists
How do we ensure that the #metoo movements reach beyond both Hollywood’s red carpets and academia’s Ivory Towers, to areas where a shake-up is arguably most needed? How…
De Huishoudbeurs: de grootste braderie van Nederland
door Irene Stengs Als antropologisch onderzoeker van ‘cultuur in Nederland’ doe ik in feite al mijn onderzoek ‘om de hoek’, en dit is helemaal het geval bij onderzoek…
infant skull binding may have conveyed privilege in ancient Andes
Above-ground tombs at the cemetery site of Yuraq Qaqa (Colca Valley, Peru). The idea of binding and reshaping a baby’s head may make today’s parents cringe, but for…
Glacial Melting Isn’t Someone Else’s Problem
High in the Ecuadorian Andes, the peak of Cotacachi was once reliably white. But by the early 2000s, the glacier on top of this dormant volcano, which reaches…
Populism and the Conundrums of Democracy in Italy
There is one pattern that characterizes post-Cold War Italy: new political figures emerge, espousing an anti-establishment rhetoric, but end up bringing the people more of the same. Whether…
Religion & Medizin: Ein Gespräch über Heil- und Heilungskonzepte zwischen den Disziplinen
Für gewöhnlich gehen viele davon aus, dass “Religion” und “Medizin” zwei völlig abgetrennte und verschiedene Bereiche des Lebens ansprechen. Dabei ist vielleicht zunächst überraschend, dass die monot…
Religion & Medizin: Ein Gespräch über Heil- und Heilungskonzepte zwischen den Disziplinen
Für gewöhnlich gehen viele davon aus, dass “Religion” und “Medizin” zwei völlig abgetrennte und verschiedene Bereiche des Lebens ansprechen. Dabei ist vielleicht zunächst überraschend, dass die monot…
Thomas Mira y Lopez, “The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead” (Counterpoint Press, 2017)
We’ve all participated in the rituals of the dead at some time or another in our lives, going to funerals and wakes, visiting loved ones in cemeteries. Some…
Arabic Dictionaries Online
In 1981, while visiting Egypt for a consulting assignment with USAID, I purchased the old Cairo edition of the massive dictionary Tāj al-‘Arūs of Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī (d. 1790).…
Will finance policies solve the EU “refugee crisis”?
The German government is floating the idea of restructuring EU funds to benefit member states that take in migrants and refugees. What seems like a selfish move by…