Thomas Marchione Award
Announcement: Thomas Marchione Award Deadline July 27, 2018 Eligibility: all MA, MS or PhD students For research exploring “the best and more sustainable approaches to fulfill the right…
Oxford University Departmental Lecturer – Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
Departmental Lecturer – Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography DEPARTMENTAL LECTURER – VISUAL, MATERIAL AND MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY Grade 7: £31,…
Große Koalition: Migrationspolitik geht an wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen vorbei
Kritik des RfM am Koalitionsvertrag – zukunftsweisende Migrationspolitik sieht anders aus Pressemitteilung vom 13. März 2018 Am 14. März wird der Bundestag Angela Merkel zur Bundeskanzlerin wählen und…
Saba Mahmood (1962 – 2018) – Piety, religious freedom and Power
Last Saturday, 10 March, Saba Mahmood passed away. She was professor of anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work was a big inspiration for me and…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, March 12, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
›Fluchtursachenbekämpfung‹ als migrationspolitischer Zentralbegriff
Anmerkungen zum Koalitionsvertrag Autor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer Am 7. Februar 2018 einigten sich CDU/CSU und SPD auf einen Vertrag für eine neue Große Koalition, der Mitte März…
So…Is There A Global Occusphere?
The Occusphere. That’s the term given by Tod Moore of the University of Newcastle in Australia to the “totality of Occupy-inspired events” in his article “The transformation …
anthro in the news 3/12/18
Gowns made from recycled materials. Credit: James Wendlinger/The South China Morning Post activist anthropology meets sustainable fashion An article in The South China Morning Post reported on Sustai…
Strike4Decrim on Women’s ‘Day’ Soho 8 March 2018
I was glad to be able to participate in the Strike4Decrim events on the evening of 8 March – International Women’s Day. In general I’m no fan of…
Rihan Yeh on her new book, Passing
Interview by Héctor Beltrán Héctor Beltrán: In your book you conceptualize the hearsay public to provide a critique of liberal notions of publicity. Can you unpack how this relationship…
‘Antropologen kunnen bedrijven verder helpen waar anderen falen’
door Menno van den Bos Cultureel antropologen zijn wereldverbeteraars die je niet zult aantreffen in het bedrijfsleven. Zo, dat cliché is eruit. En nu over naar de realiteit:…
Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia
This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and Prof. Dr. Madeleine Reeves…
Mechanismisches Denken. Rezension von Felix Bathon
,Mechanismen‘ stellen einen zentralen Topos wissenschaftstheoretischer Fragestellungen und Diskussionen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte dar. Von einem »mechanistic turn« ist die Rede (vgl. Ylikoski 2012: 2…
The Significance of Salmon River Encampment in 1875
In 1875, the United States Congress passed an act, March 3, 1875, to reduce the Coast Reservation. This act, terminated the Alsea Reservation, that section Continue reading
Enviro-mental-ism
Want Electric Ride.
anthropology professor Linda Spurlock helps bring names to victims in her down time
The bust in the foreground was then produced using modern forensic anthropology techniques in order to determine what the Egyptian mummified man’s face might have looked like when…
Southern Foodways Alliance 2018 Graduate Student Conference: Food Studies Across the Disciplines
Received from the Southern Foodways Alliance…this annual conference has proven to be very useful for graduate students with interests in food over the last few years. Oxford, Mississippi…
Links & Contents I Liked 273
Hi all, It was International Women’s Day yesterday and this week’s link review is to a substantial amount a reflection of that-celebrating female achievements, writers & researchers-but also…
The Exploitation of Tragedy
The death of an individual, especially if they are close at heart, can spark a wave of both anger and sadness simultaneously. However, nothing enrages me more than…
CFP for EASA2018 in Stockholm: Moving on: Food Futures and Reimagining Uncertainty
Does your research look at food practices, food supply chains, local cuisines or agriculture in a changing environment? Does your work draw broadly on the themes of temporality…
Claudio Sopranzetti, “Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok” (U California Press, 2017)
When the army brutally dispersed Red Shirts protestors in Bangkok’s busy commercial district in May 2010, motorcycle taxi drivers emerged as a key force, capable of playing cat-and-mouse…
New Paper! Financialization and the water-energy-food- climate nexus
I’m delighted to announce that my latest paper, co-authored with Nate Matthews, is now out in Geoforum. It is free via this link until April 28, or copy…
War Crimes, Mourning, and the Quest for Closure
“A double exposure including: a) current day scene From My Lai-Quang Ngai photo by Binh-Dang and b) American ‘Huey’ helicopters during My Lai Massacre on March 16,`968 in…