1. November 2016. Mit einer Bekannten suche ich ein Grab auf. Auf dem Weg dahin, der uns durch die asphaltierten kleinen Pfade eines Friedhofs führt, sehe ich zahlreiche Gestecke,…
Sussex University recently organized a Decolonising Development Studies event.I submitted a short input for discussion, but unfortunately was unable to attend the event in person. Below is a…
By Ronald Niezen When the United Nations General Assembly convened its annual meeting this September, amid growing nuclear tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, U.S. President Donald…
At the beginning of 2017 many Russians living with HIV/AIDS were told by their doctors that there were no antiretroviral drugs for them. They would have to change…
This is part of #theimpossible series The Impossible Will Take A Little While, Chapter 2, an excerpt from Jonathan Kozol’s Ordinary Resurrections The second piece seems to endlessly run…
We take up from where we left off on November 8th when anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her overview of her new pedagogical research project in collaboration…
Here are some of my articles, speeches and interviews from the past three weeks, otherwise known as a millennium in Trump Time… How Data Can Save Us From…
We take up from where we left off on November 8th when anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her overview of her new pedagogical research project in collaboration…
South Africa, 1994. Apartheid before, democracy after. Nonetheless, obstinate continuities stretch across this important rupture. Bisasar Road Landfill, the largest registered landfill on the A…
Chitimacha baskets from Louisiana. Credit: National Museum of the American Indian, Joseph Keppler Collection, gift of Dr. Margaret J. Sharpe. http://tinyurl.com/y9zbwwt4 ancestry rights and wrongs Th…
This piece originally appeared as a Twitter essay I published on November 4, 2017. I am re-posting it here with minimal edits to improve clarity and formatting. fossilized…
This piece originally appeared as a Twitter essay I published on November 4, 2017. I am re-posting it here with minimal edits to improve clarity and formatting. fossilized…
This review of a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology titled, “Exploring the Circular Economy” is a virtual tour of circular economy definitions and current directions.…
Kia ora. Kei to pēhea koutou? For the next ten weeks of weekdays–that’s 55 days in total–I’ll be reading & writing about each piece in Paul Loeb’s edited…
It’s Monday morning and I’m working at home, looking out at the valley, thinking that the year is coming to an end and I don’t know where it…
What is Anthropology? In each generation, the question of “What is Anthropology?” must be answered anew. In 2017, Tim Ingold’s Anthropology and/as Education provides a summation of a…
Urban beauty. I dunno if I am more disgusted by this event with Ivanka or the WP’ article’s failure to do proper comparative memory work – since I…
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and my ancestors. For many years now,…
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and my ancestors. For many years now,…
Video of a talk with Chris Pinney, Rian Hughes and others http://redtape.rca.ac.uk/2012_02.html Local/Global: The role of culture in the creation and reception of visual communication Performing Art L…
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. In 2015, the…
Hi all, Not much to report-the first part of the semester is done and lost of assignments are ready for reading and grading… Development news: Humanitarian Evidence Week;…
Dear Allies, we are happy to share with you the news about the launch of the new journal Public Anthropologist. Founded by our ally Antonio De Lauri and published by…