Thesis Review: Placing the Apple
Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or would like to review one, you…
Falling in Love with Anthropology
Each year we kick off our Anthropology Day celebration by asking individuals from across the field to share how they fell in love with anthropology. This year’s post…
Women’s Career Pathways in Academia: From Leaky Pipeline to Rube Goldberg Machine
In 2016, Aileen Fyfe, Ineke De Moortel and Sharon Ashbrook of St. Andrew’s College in Scotland wrote Academic Women Now: experiences of mid-career academic women in Scotland. I…
Women’s Career Pathways in Academia: From Leaky Pipeline to Rube Goldberg Machine
In 2016, Aileen Fyfe, Ineke De Moortel and Sharon Ashbrook of St. Andrew’s College in Scotland wrote Academic Women Now: experiences of mid-career academic women in Scotland. I…
LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 Preview: ‘Why We Need a Citizen’s Basic Income: A New Edition or a New Book?’ by Malcolm Torry
75 years after the publication of the Beveridge report, LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 (Mon 19 Feb – Sat 24 Feb 2018) offers a week of public engagement activities exploring the ‘Five Giants’…
Storm over beelden
Door Thijl Sunier Er is iets raars aan de hand met de discussie over historische standbeelden, de ‘vaderlandse geschiedenis’ en de ‘nationale identiteit’. Even de feiten op een…
Vem lurar i bäcken?
Nu när gossen såg den muntra fålen, Gick han sakta lockande till honom, Grep i hast hans man och sprang på ryggen, Lysten att en glädtig ridt försöka;…
Komplexitätsreduktion. Rezension von „Systemtheorie – Theorie für die vernetzte Gesellschaft“ von Christian Schuldt – verfasst von Christian Leineweber
Dass der Soziologe und Systemtheoretiker Niklas Luhmann am 8. Dezember des vergangenen Jahres 90 Jahre alt geworden wäre, weckte in jüngster Vergangenheit das Interesse medialer Berichterstattung (vgl…
Conference Transcript: “Slipping Into Darkness: Recruiting and Student Understanding of Anthropology as a Field and Major”
This is the transcript for the talk I gave at Skeletal Biology in the Carolina conference. You can see the PPT here: Slipping into Darkness Slide 1 Introduction Slide…
The Desire and Fear of the Immortal
A phrase from the immensely popular series, A Song of Ice and Fire, valar morghulis is translated as “all men must die,” an idea prevalent in human culture. …
The force of race in a Missouri college town
Back in 2011 I went for a bike trip in southern Illinois and made it just across the river to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I wrote about my trip…
War on the Umpqua Tribes and Removal to the Umpqua Reserves
Much has been written and published of the Rogue River, Modoc, and Yakima Wars in the Oregon Territory. These wars were, by-and-large, reactions of the Continue reading
Zeit, Zukunft und Anthropologie: Interview mit Dr. Felix Ringel
http://alltagswelten-blog.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/InterviewRingel040218.mp3 Victoria Huszka spricht mit Dr. Felix Ringel (Department of Anthropology, Durham) übe…
Business is Booming for Business Anthropology
This post was submitted by Robert J. Morais and Elizabeth K. Briody. In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott disparaged the return-on-investment (ROI) of an anthropology degree: “We don’t…
Let’s all write shorter letters of recommendation
If you are an academic who is in a secure, full-time position then , let’s be honest, no one in the precariate wants to listen to you complain…
Celebrate World Anthropology Day with Your Voice! – This Anthro Life
In celebration of World Anthropology Day (Feb 16) send us a brief tweet (@thisanthrolife) with #whyweanth OR an audio clip (no more than 30 seconds) of why anthropology…
Heike Becker: “Global 1968” on the African continent
Fifty years after student protests shook much of the Cold War world, in the “West” and in the “East,” “Global 1968” has become the catchphrase to describe these…
Links & Contents I Liked 269
Hi all, This is really a great link review if I may say so myself! 🙂Quite a dialectical discussion on positive & negative examples of communicating development, opportunities…
Masterclass: Migratie, Huwelijk en Zelfbeschikking
Door Edien Bartels. Naema trouwde toen ze vijftien was. Haar vader had haar huwelijk geregeld. Ze zag haar man voor het eerst op haar trouwdag. Ze dacht: “oh…
#MeToo: Stories in the Age of Survivorship by Emma Backe – This Anthro Life
Welcome to Story Slamming Anthropology. This series features both innovative narrative and audio performance drawing on the deep toolkit and methods of anthropology. The goal with Story Slamming…
AGU: My concern with the anthropocene
In this series of posts, I provide an account of my new relationship with the American Geophysical Union (the largest community of earth & space scientists) as an…
On Fat Tuesday, Break an Egg Over Someone’s Head
A group of hard-working young market traders in Antigua, Guatemala, take a break to smash cascarones over each other’s heads. Dawn Starin Right now, families throughout the Americas…
Teaching and timelessness
As I write, night is falling slowly and heavily, like a train gaining momentum gracelessly. It’s easy to feel sleepy when I come home after the all-day heat,…