Risky Business: Crop insurance in rural India
In central India, agriculture is a risky business. As climate change has altered weather patterns and monsoon rains are becoming increasingly unpredictable, a new crop insurance policy promises…
Risky Business: Crop insurance in rural India
A new crop insurance scheme Early in 2016 the Indian Government, with much fanfare, announced a new crop insurance scheme meant to alleviate the growing risks of agriculture and…
Closer to Home: Yiwu in the UK
by Magnus Marsden While conducting research for the TRODITIES project in China, Afghanistan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine I regularly meet traders from Afghanistan who talk about…
Der unwissenschaftliche Wissenschaftler oder: Wie man im universitären Prekariat „richtig“ arbeitet – verfasst von Michael Brandmayr
Es sind Momente wie eben dieser, in denen sich das Prekariat in seiner ganzen Dimension zeigt. Das Blatt ist leer, und das darf nicht sein. Ich habe genau…
Stagaush Tribes remove to Salmon River: Excerpts from a History of the Little Nestucca
This book-length essay is from the Oregon Historical Society Library. It appears to be completely unpublished. The author Alexandra Ley Rock, was none too generous towards her characterizations…
Ep. #13 TFS presents Anthropod: “Podcasts and Pedagogy: audio in the anthropology classroom”
“Storytelling: that’s part of the power of podcasts, and just the power of ethnography in general, to really have people tell their own stories. And I think it’s…
Why is Cooperation So Difficult in the Workplace?
Cooperation may be central to our social evolution but American cultural emphasis on the individual and her successes creates a contradiction. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Marx’s 200th birth anniversary is in a week. what’s planned? [please add what’s on in your city]
Many of these are linking to Facebook, sorry, but the ungated web is gone… Celebrating 200 Years of Karl Marx Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx (born…
Starbucks Enlightenment
Image credit: “Starbucks, Race and ‘Corporate’ Anthropology,” CFM Public Affairs Blog (March 2015). Is Anthropology better than Starbucks? In late March 2018, anthropology rais…
Mushies
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing has written an amazing book. The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015) is all about forests and foraging and revitalising teaching and diasporas…
Fear and Loathing in Atlanta
Content warning: racism, violence, mention of miscarriage. I was on my way to the airplane that would take me back home, to Canada. I boarded the train between…
A Trip to Tillamook, By Way of the Salmon River: the First Journey of Warren Vaughn
I encountered this history, partially unpublished I believe, in the Oregon Historical Society Library. The published book of his journal focuses on the second trip down the coast…
“The View From Flyover Country”: Interviews and reviews
What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and…
Call for Proposals
With our upcoming annual anthropological gathering in San José this November, Anthropology News will focus on all things Silicon Valley. We are inviting proposals for feature articles by…
Teknologi som risiko i bratt skikjøring
Lesetid: 5 minutterNy teknologi og avansert utstyr gir muligheter for flere å dra på topptur, men kan også bidra til flere farlige situasjoner i fjellet. The post Teknologi…
Practicing Anthropology in Design and Business – Portland State University Presentation, March 2018
On March 1st, 2018 I returned to Dr. Jeremy Spoon‘s undergraduate Applied Anthropology class at Portland State University, to give a presentation on doing anthropology in design and business.…
Links & Contents I Liked 279
Hi all, Critical food for thought and uplifting stories from around the #globaldev world from Nepal, Rwanda, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Colombia, the US and the UK and from…
Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method
Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method 11 May 2018, Nottingham Contemporary, UK This one-day workshop brings together photographers, historians, criminologists and anyone interested in questio…
We suck at (academic) politics
Ninety percent of the time if you were to read a blog post about academics and politics it would be a rant about “identity politics.” This isn’t going…
Blueprints of the New Salmon River Highway
All this Salmon river research has led me to the Oregon State Archives. There they have the records of the Oregon State Highway Commission. Commission records go back…
Western Science Is Finally Catching Up to Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Indigenous groups in northern Australia have observed—and even indicated in ceremony and story—kites and falcons, or “firehawks,” deliberately transporting lit sticks in order to spread fire. …
Diet and the Disease of Civilization: An Interview with Adrienne Rose Bitar
In her recently published Diet and the Disease of Civilization, Dr. Adrienne Rose Bitar argues that diet books capture the socio-political concerns of America. Looking at Paleo,…
Book Review: London Youth, Religion and Politics: Engagement and Activism from Brixton to Brick Lane by Daniel Nilsson DeHanas
In London Youth, Religion and Politics: Engagement and Activism from Brixton to Brick Lane, Daniel Nilsson DeHanas offers an illuminating comparison of the lives of Christian and Muslim young people…
