CFP: Consuming In, and Consumed By, a Trump Economy
The CFP below is for a mini-conference the day before the next annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. It may be of interest to SAFN members and…
anthro in the news 2/26/18
Panorama of Bois Cheri Tea Plantation in Mauritius. Credit: Vincent Lim Show Chen/Flickr happy 50th birthday, Mauritius African Arguments published a piece by Sean Carey, honorary senior research…
How to frame your career transition
Today we are revisiting some still sound advice on How to Explain Your Career Transition that The Harvard Business Review first published back in 2013. This advice is especially…
How to frame your career transition
Today we are revisiting some still sound advice on How to Explain Your Career Transition that The Harvard Business Review first published back in 2013. This advice is especially…
How does anthropology help Google UX? Interview with Fatimah Richmond
In six months’ time, one of the most pioneering and innovative events in applied anthropology of Europe will be held. Why the World needs Anthropologists: Designing the Future,…
Rachel Sherman, “Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence” (Princeton UP, 2017)
For her new book Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence (Princeton University Press, 2017), Rachel Sherman conducted in-depth interviews with fifty wealthy New Yorkers—including hedge fund fi… Visit…
Generation Terrorists: The Politics of Youth and the Gangs of Freetown, by Kieran Mitton
Youth at Risk – Youth as Risk On the evening of the 15th February, six leading presidential candidates for the Sierra Leone presidential elections took to the stage.…
#PrecAnthro in support of #USSstrike: once the pension dispute is won UCU should prioritise the fight against casualisation
On the 22nd of February 2018 University and College Union (UCU), the largest academic union in the world with over 100,000 members went on an unprecedented long strike,…
Horeskäver, trolltallar och magiska föreställningar – smöjning som folklig sjukdomsbot
Människans relation till skogen sträcker sig långt bak i tiden, när övernaturliga väsen ännu bodde i våra skogar. Det fanns många olika folkliga föreställningar om trädens magiska kraft…
Rezension | Industrie 4.0 und „der Mensch“ verfasst von Peter Schadt
Ein reicher Fundus an empirischem Material In zwölf Kapiteln erklärt Walter Huber anhand der größten Automobilhersteller Deutschlands ausführlich die Veränderungen durch die Industrie 4.0 in der Autom…
Reversed rushes? Expulsion as a dominant feature of gold miners’ mobility in Guinea and Mali
By Matthieu Bolay, Université de Neuchâtel When I was carrying out fieldwork in Guinea and Mali between 2010 and 2014, some ministry officials, with whom I discussed the topics…
Dark side of the Souvenirs
From ‘Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols’ by J Cave, D Buda – The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018
Exploring the Arctic at Venice International University
Scholars, indigenous activists and students from both sides of the Atlantic (or Pacific?) met at the small Venetian island of San Servolo from 14th to 19th of January…
Petty Nationalism and the Right’s War on Language
This post was submitted by Phillip M. Carter, an associate professor of linguistics at Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute The French Revolutionaries, compelled as they were by…
A Hot Bed of Disease and Death, Anson G. Henry Physician at Grand Ronde
In 1857, Doctor Anson G. Henry wrote a report on the health conditions at Grand Ronde. A few days before he had written another report, Continue reading
Call for Proposals: Awkward Moments
For National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN would like to hear about your awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field: Have you accidentally uttered…
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Hi all, Development news: Justin Forsyth, Save The Children & abuse; don’t send stuff in humanitarian emergencies! ‘Poor, but happy’ in India; Chinese monkey suits; blockchain summit; brutally…
Jerry Flores, “Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wrap-Around Incarceration” (U California Press, 2016)
What are the lives of young incarcerated Latinas like? And what were their lives like before and after their incarceration? In his new book, Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance,…
After #oxfamscandal: Tough trade-offs ahead for the aid industry
By the time you read this post my bibliography of the #oxfamscandal will have reached 100 entries. Once the political momentum has slowed down a bit and the…
Anthropologists on the Strike
Yesterday, lecturers began 14 days of strikes in over 60 universities across the United Kingdom. Nominally, the strikes are to oppose pension changes proposed by university employers that would end…
Deactivism: The Pleasures of Life without Social Media
Finally, on February 21 (2018), I decided to completely withdraw myself from the two main social media accounts that had kept me busy online for nearly a decade:…
Be Right Back
Black mirror is a popular Netflix original anthological series that examines the dark aspects of modern society with countless casts and stories, from political satires to future dystopias.…
Marc Edelman: Sacrifice zones in rural and nonmetro USA: Fertile soil for authoritarian populism
Sacrifice zones—abandoned, economically shattered places, with growing social and health problems—are spreading in historically white rural areas and small towns across the United States. Rural declin…
Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part I
By Mónica Salas Landa, Lafayette College § Oil infrastructure, Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico. Image by author. ‘‘How do you feel living right across from the oil and gas complex?’’ I…