Coco: How Pixar uses Mexican culture to talk to kids about death
This past Friday night, my Disney-obsessed best friend dragged me to watch Coco with her at Harland Cinema. Okay, okay, you got me, she didn’t have to drag…
LCF Field School
This week, Dr. Lydia Light and I took graduate and undergraduate students to the Lemur Conservation Foundation in Myakka City, FL to learn how to do identify primates,…
How Do We View Death in Fiction?
The question of how death is handled and viewed in the horror industry popped into my head earlier this week as I eagerly awaited the release of The…
SAFN @ AAA’s: Sessions, Papers, Lightning Talks, Roundtables, Mentoring Events, Retrospectives, Posters!
It is time to plan for AAA 2018 in San Jose! The submission portal is open, and we encourage you to begin organizing panels. This year’s SAFN program…
The Weird, Wild World of Mortuary Customs
A couple of months ago, I attended the funeral of a friend. Howard was almost 90 years old when he died, and not only did he live longer…
Future Remains: a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene (new book!)
Another great looking new book, from University of Chicago Press, with a slate of well regarded contributors. Future Remains: a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene Edited by:…
Weeds, Herbicides, and Bodies: Emerging Entanglements in Toxic Agricultural Landscapes
By Tony VanWinkle, Sterling College § Dedicated to the memory of Jackie Dill. Pigweed. Photo by author. Shortly after the unexpected death of friend and mentor Jackie Dill, I…
Loss: The story of Dande and her hair
To Dande who was not given the chance to wear her afro after chemotherapy. I’m sitting in a cafe in Amsterdam on a Sunday afternoon. Slightly hung…
Verlust: Die Geschichte von Dande und ihren Haaren
Für Dande, der nicht die Möglichkeit gegeben war, ihren Afro nach der Chemo zu tragen. An einem Sonntagnachmittag sitze ich in einem Café in Amsterdam. Leicht verkatert…
Marigt värre att hålla maran borta
Alla har vi någon gång haft mardrömmar som väcker oss med ett ryck och lämnar en obehaglig känsla hos oss. Oftast går denna känsla ändå snabbt över och…
Making the Enemy…Or Not
At the end of 2013, the Muslim Brotherhood had gone from being an organization whose members held the Presidency and the largest number of seats in Parliament to…
Reaching Out, Looking In: On Research, Refusal, and Responsibility by Tess Lanzarotta
The papers in this series, “Critical Histories, Activist Futures,” have captured some of the exciting conversations that took place during a conference titled “Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Sc…
New book on Water Justice
This looks like quite a nice collection from Cambridge University Press. Water Justice Edited by Rutgerd Boelens, Tom Perreault, and Jeroen Vos Book description Water justice is becoming…
The Revolution that Wasn’t (Yet): Reflections on Iran’s protests two months out
I still remember vividly the words of an informant who, when asking him about his vision of a freer Iran, responded adamantly, “we don’t need more freedom, what…
CaMP Anthropology Virtual Reading Group
Dear colleagues, Many of you have been able to join us over the past few months for our new virtual reading group. We meet the last Friday of…
How Billy Graham Married Evangelism and Anthropology
In 1960, Billy Graham met with Maasai people while preaching throughout Africa. James Burke/Getty Images On March 2, millions watched the funeral of the Rev. Billy Graham, one…
Indian Catchers of Coastal Oregon 1850s
A truly remarkable fact of Oregon history presented itself whole conducting some coastal research. In 1856 and for years after, the Indian agents employed and Continue reading
Secrets of a Brothel Privy
For Jade Luiz, a graduate student in archaeology at Boston University, historical archaeology is all about detective work. Through piecing together historical documents and archaeological finds from t…
Tenure Track PhD position in Product Design/Development at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Call for Applications: Tenure Track PhD position in Product Design/Development at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Candidates with anthropology backgrounds are encouraged to apply! Centra…
An Anthropology of Afrin—An Impossibility?
Searching for solidarity in the anthropological community. [pquote]How does one find the space to write or think—let alone breath—in such an environment?[/pquote]Şehitler ölmez vatan bölünmez. The mar…
Kathryn Woolard, “Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in Twenty-First Century Catalonia” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Kathryn Woolard is Professor Emerita and Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She has authored seminal works on language ideology and the sociolinguistic…
Sida Liu and Terence C. Halliday, “Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Sida Liu and Terence C. Halliday spent ten years interviewing criminal defense attorneys throughout China in order to compile the evidence on the professional lives of criminal defense…
”Bleka dödens minut” – begravningens rituella betydelse
Kyrkans roll i samhället har onekligen förändrats markant sedan exempelvis 1800-talet, i takt med hur samhället överlag har förändrats. Vissa kanske till och med undrar om den alls…
anthro in the news 3/5/18
A view of the U.S Congress building from Garfield Circle. Credit: Matthew Straubmuller/Flickr speaking truth to power STAT interviewed Kathryn Clancy, professor of anthropology at the University of…