Von „Powerfrauen“ und anderen Unwörtern
Es ist Freitagabend. Ich stehe mit meinem vollgepackten Einkaufswagen an der Kasse und gähne verstohlen hinter vorgehaltener Hand. Eine strenge Woche liegt hinter mir. Die Schlange vor mir…
Rivers of the Anthropocene: new (Free!) book now available
This is a great looking new title, available here for free by the University of California Press. Regular UC Press site here. Rivers of the Anthropocene Jason M.…
#2 Tanisha Jowsey talks “Medical Tribes”
“Part of my role in teaching medical students is to peel back the inculturation that they’re in, to be able to relate with patients. Remember before you were…
#1 This Month on The Familiar Strange
Jodie, Simon, Julia, and Ian preview what’s coming up on The Familiar Strange blog in the coming month. On today’s show, Jodie (1:40) follows up on 2015 fracas at…
Introducing The Familiar Strange
Welcome to The Familiar Strange! In this brief introduction, the four hosts of the show introduce themselves, the podcast, and The Familiar Strange blog. This is a podcast…
Reminder to self to read this again, and again (3 times and it might stick). Spivak’s telegraphed coda.
From the essay ‘What’s Left of theory?’ In An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalisation. Spivak 2012: 216-7.Filed under: marxism, Spivak, trinketization
A ‘Garden Island in Space’
This post by Julie Raymond is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. COP23 takes place at the…
Plenary Dialogue with Parties and Non-state Actors in the RakiRaki Room
This post by Shirley Fiske is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. The daily schedule of meetings…
A “Hoppy” Bubble? Linking Labor and Capital in Washington State’s Beer and Cannabis Industries
Blog Editor’s note: This is the second installment in FoodAnthropology’s series on Latinx foodways in North America. We welcome contributions from researchers in this area. More details about…
When Black Boy Joy and STEM Don’t Mix
As a kindergartner with Black boy joy, Carter excitedly began public school wanting to become a scientist. Carter considered scientists “some of the smartest people on earth,” because…
Links & Contents I Liked 259
Hi all, It has been a loooong week-as you probably guessed by the delayed publication of this week’s review.However, as always there is plenty of food for thought…
Fieldwork/Fieldplay?
For several weeks I have been trying to figure out if I could write anything on the topic of workplace abuse of power and sexual harassment in anthropology…
The Strength of Anthropology
Deciphering the Enigma of Social and Cultural Mechanisms [pquote] anthropologists are still asked to resolve human problems as if there were some miracle solution… Anthropological answers are mu…
Anthropology for the Planet
Partnering with business for sustainability. Although the US federal government under the Trump administration is working to roll back the Environmental Protection Agency and withdraw from the Paris…
Orte meiner argentinischen Lebens(er)haltung – 2
(Der Bruch mit dem letzten Post ist wohl arg radikal, aber ich möchte euch ja auch noch von anderen Dingen berichten.) Nicht nur mein Uni-Leben ist hier in…
Communicating About Climate Change: We Have So Far To Go
This post by Susie Crate is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. Wow! COP 23, not unlike…
Medical Student Activism: Political x Institutional x Personal by Robert Rock
Robert Rock and Nientara Anderson are medical students involved in a broad range of activism efforts at the Yale School of Medicine, including the US Health Justice initiatives…
My body, my walk
by Georgette Veerhuis Two weeks ago I was catcalled while I was making my way through Hull, a port town located in east Yorkshire. This prompted a reflexive…
Adopt a Canadian: A short story
I wrote this fiction in January 2017, following a series of events on international politics. I felt the need to an alternative-to-anthropology modality of thinking about, and expression…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Preliminary Findings
On November 13th, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her One Size Does Not Fit All series where she provides readers with an overview of her new pedagogical…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Preliminary Findings
On November 13th, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her One Size Does Not Fit All series where she provides readers with an overview of her new pedagogical…
A Touch of the Sepulchral at COP 23
This post by Naveeda Khan is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. Shirley Fiske provides a visceral…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 5
This is part of #theimpossible series The Impossible Will Take A Little While, Chapter 5, Danusha Veronica Goska’s essay “Political Paralysis” This is the last chapter in the first…
No One Right Way to Peace
When the United Nations drafted The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, it established a vision of peak humanity, articulating what the assembly considered appropriate rules for…