Call for Proposals: Awkward Moments
For National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN would like to hear about your awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field: Have you accidentally uttered…
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Hi all, Development news: Justin Forsyth, Save The Children & abuse; don’t send stuff in humanitarian emergencies! ‘Poor, but happy’ in India; Chinese monkey suits; blockchain summit; brutally…
Jerry Flores, “Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wrap-Around Incarceration” (U California Press, 2016)
What are the lives of young incarcerated Latinas like? And what were their lives like before and after their incarceration? In his new book, Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance,…
After #oxfamscandal: Tough trade-offs ahead for the aid industry
By the time you read this post my bibliography of the #oxfamscandal will have reached 100 entries. Once the political momentum has slowed down a bit and the…
Anthropologists on the Strike
Yesterday, lecturers began 14 days of strikes in over 60 universities across the United Kingdom. Nominally, the strikes are to oppose pension changes proposed by university employers that would end…
Deactivism: The Pleasures of Life without Social Media
Finally, on February 21 (2018), I decided to completely withdraw myself from the two main social media accounts that had kept me busy online for nearly a decade:…
Be Right Back
Black mirror is a popular Netflix original anthological series that examines the dark aspects of modern society with countless casts and stories, from political satires to future dystopias.…
Marc Edelman: Sacrifice zones in rural and nonmetro USA: Fertile soil for authoritarian populism
Sacrifice zones—abandoned, economically shattered places, with growing social and health problems—are spreading in historically white rural areas and small towns across the United States. Rural declin…
Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part I
By Mónica Salas Landa, Lafayette College § Oil infrastructure, Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico. Image by author. ‘‘How do you feel living right across from the oil and gas complex?’’ I…
Gruesome TV: dumb culture returns?
The thing that strikes you about The Frankenstein Chronicles is how gruesome it is. This was true too of The Alienist. In both cases, the series begins with…
Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange (and So Important)
Ivory beads and ochre—affixed to the pelvic bones of a child—likely decorated the burial clothing of this 10-year-old interred at Sunghir some 34,000 years ago. E. Trinkaus/Trinkaus and…
LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 Feature: Introducing 5 Key Items in LSE Library Exhibition ‘A Time for Revolutions: Making the Welfare State’ (8 January – 13 April 2018)
Image Credit: A Time for Revolutions: Making the Welfare State exhibition, LSE Library, 8 Jan – 13 Apr 2018 (© London School of Economics and Political Science) In…
Lazy PowerPoint (Working With Text 4)
We all know we should bike to work, but sometimes the weather is bad, or we are late, or just feeling lazy, and so we take the car.…
Appeal to politicians: Italian anthropologists demand that more scientific information be made available to the public, in order to combat racism
Presse release of 6 February 2018: Scientific knowledge as an important tool in the social and political battle against racism: this proposal put forward by anthropologists will be presented Thursday,…
Orixás in den Alpen: Eine teilnehmende Beobachtung innerhalb von Umbanda-Gruppen in Brasilien und Europa
Inga Scharf da Silva (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) arbeitet zu “Trauma als Wissensarchiv. Postkoloniale Erinnerungspraxis in der sakralen Globalisierung am Beispiel der zeitgenössischen Umbanda”. Man…
Orixás in den Alpen: Eine teilnehmende Beobachtung innerhalb von Umbanda-Gruppen in Brasilien und Europa
Inga Scharf da Silva (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) arbeitet zu “Trauma als Wissensarchiv. Postkoloniale Erinnerungspraxis in der sakralen Globalisierung am Beispiel der zeitgenössischen Umbanda”. Man…
Black Dogs – följeslagare, demoner och hundlika varsel
Hunden har genom människans historia haft en ganska speciell roll som vän och följeslagare, vid sidan om rollen som sällskapsdjur . Hunden är inom många kulturer en viktig…
The Three Faces
Since taking a course on The Philosophy of Religion with Dr. Wendy Farley, I have developed an interest in studying death and suffering. Naturally, I began to pay…
What Would You Do?
Equality. A term flaunted in many public circles, political campaigns, and social justice movements. In these instances, “equality” refers to fairness and justice in life; the act of…
Book Forum––Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega’s Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject by Todd Meyers
Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega’s Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject is a fine-grained account of the “neuro-” in a range of disciplines, and, importantly––crucial…
Anthropological Reflections on a Family Death
Comparing my own experiences of death to those of the Tiwi culture that I learned of in my anthropology studies, the void that I felt in the months…
Rejecting the Solutrean hypothesis: the first peoples in the Americas were not from Europe
A recent Canadian documentary promoted a fringe idea in American archaeology that’s both scientifically wrong and racist Last month’s release of The Ice Bridge, an episode in the…
Rejecting the Solutrean hypothesis: the first peoples in the Americas were not from Europe
A recent Canadian documentary promoted a fringe idea in American archaeology that’s both scientifically wrong and racist Last month’s release of The Ice Bridge, an episode in the…
Ammara Maqsood, “The New Pakistani Middle Class” (Harvard UP, 2017)
The relationship between class and religious piety represents a theme less explored in the study of modern Islam in general, and in the study of South Asian Islam…