Buch zur Geschichte der Disziplin Autor: Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Bade Klaus J. Bade verknüpft in diesem Buch autobiographische Perspektiven mit der Geschichte der Migrationsforschung, der Entwicklung de…
As part of the book launch for The Anthropology of Sustainability, leading anthropologists consider this question – offering unconventional answers and a radical new paradigm for anthropology in…
Two live pigs being transported to a local butcher in Mukono district, Uganda Taenia solium is a zoonotic disease shared between humans and pigs. Humans become infected with…
Hardly a day goes by without a blaring news story on the devastating impact of the millennials on the economy or how HR departments are challenged in dealing…
Hardly a day goes by without a blaring news story on the devastating impact of the millennials on the economy or how HR departments are challenged in dealing…
During the week of Easter, the beaches of the Dominican Republic were converted into billboards for the campaign to stop the consumption of parrotfish. Pictures taken from drones…
By Kristina Lyons, University of California, Santa Cruz § The president of the communal action committee whom I call Doña Marta ushered me to a more secluded corner behind…
A Birthday Present Georgia, my middle daughter of three, is a combination of my DNA and identity release[1] donor #2817[2]. Unlike her sisters who both have the advantage…
2Anthropologists — especially American anthropologists — fret endlessly that they are not doing enough to make their work more widely known, their opinions more widely shared, and their…
Ein Essay von Laura Esser 1. Dein Essay in einem Satz: In meinem Essay zeige ich am Beispiel der Kölner Urban Gardening-Initiative “NeuLand” auf, wie über städtische Gartenprojekte…
Folklore scholar Joseph Sciorra is the Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in Queens College which is part of the…
For the 4th time I am organizing the seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. In this course, students…
Photo: Paul R. Greenough Eva Jansen “The politics of vaccination. A global history” is a multi-faceted study of the connections between vaccination, identity (constructions and politics), political s…
I This is a series of posts that examines how and why American culture matters to American business. The opening post was “American Culture* and the Harvard Business…
The semester is ending for many universities here in North America and students are furiously completing their final papers. There may be food-related research gold in those papers!…
The ring. Credit Charley Marley/Flickr sexism and the sumo ring The Japan Times reported on current debates in Japan about the origins of the rule against women in…
This piece is a little different from previous iterations of “Tip of The Cap.” Earlier entries into this series were written by published scholars, and they were written…
By: Dána-Ain Davis One night in early 2018, a doula-friend of mine, Josie who is white, sent me a photo of a Black woman sitting in a wheelchair.…
Routine collection of blood samples from neonates – often using so-called Guthrie cards (pictured) – began in the 1960s when a number of North American and European countries…
My dissertation explores media networks within the Chicago culinary industry. At three fieldwork sites I conducted participant observation and employee ethnography with media producers, chefs, and sof…
Liebe Leser_innen, seit den 2000er Jahren hat der wissenschaftliche, politische, aber auch mediale und feuilletonistische Diskurs um Prekarität deutlich zugenommen. Die sogenannte ‚Soziale Frage‘ steh…
By Rhoda Woets Almost every month, I join a small group of anthropologists from the VU to go to the movies. Last month, we went to the action…
In several relatively recent papers (2017, 2015a, 2015b) I’ve made the point that for tens of millions of Egyptians, the uprisings of 2011 weren’t something they physically experienced…
In the earliest lore of the City of Salem, the location was an Indian village named Chemeketa, next to Chemeketa Creek. Before this village was known by Americans,…