Diversity Audited (A Short How-To Guide)
Since the 1980s, audits have almost become mundane. They have provided means by which employers can increase efficiency and productivity, as well by which the most disenfranchised can…
What Foodanthro is Reading Now, February 6 2018
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
‘Artefacts of History’ by Sudeshna Guha
Sudeshna Guha, Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts. xiii+273 pp., 15 illus., bibl., index. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2015. $59 (hardcover) Sudeshna Guha has written…
Related by Old Man Fisherman, a family of Yoncalla Indians
The Fisherman family of Calapooia Indians are related to the Halo/Fearn family in ways that are as yet unclear to people not from their community. Continue reading
Where is Alexandria? (The East of the City and the Chinese Housing: A Fragment)
[This is a fragment from an article and a book chapter that I’m working on right now and that hopefully will be published in a year or two.…
Where is Alexandria? (The East of the City and the Chinese Housing: A Fragment)
[This is a fragment from an article and a book chapter that I’m working on right now and that hopefully will be published in a year or two.…
How Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology
In creating other worlds, Ursula Le Guin showed the power inherent in constructions of culture and new realities. Marian Wood Kolisch/Flickr This article was originally published at The…
The De-socializing of Jim Kim? by Jon Shaffer
The 12th president of the World Bank Group, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, is arguably the most powerful anthropologist in the world. As the co-founder of the groundbreaking NGO…
anthro in the news 2/5/18
A couscous dish. Credit: Creative Commons the cultural politics of couscous Quartz carried an article on the disputed history of couscous and rising interest in North Africa of…
New Advice for Grad Students page: Conferences
In October 2017, we published a series of posts on essential conferencing skills. We started with a post about how to write an effective abstract or organize a…
Between Expert and Witness: Insider Anthropology and Public Engagement
By Larisa Kurtović Making anthropological expertise public—that is, releasing our insights into the world of non-academic publics—is never easy. Anthropological engagements with media are frequently a…
New Advice for Grad Students page: Conferences
In October 2017, we published a series of posts on essential conferencing skills. We started with a post about how to write an effective abstract or organize a…
From the Field: Mfuwe, Zambia
by Esther Mulders For the past two years, I’ve been volunteering in Zambia with Studio Zambia, a Dutch non-profit organisation that I co-founded in 2016 and currently co-run.…
Bröllopstraditionen ”Något gammalt, något nytt, något lånat, något blått”
Det finns en hel del traditioner, föreställningar och föremål som kopplas till bröllop. Det är inte konstigt eftersom bröllop under många århundraden har varit en viktig händelse i…
Das neue Sonderheft ist da: „Fürsorge-Relationen. Theoretische und empirische Sichtweisen auf Care“
Nach 2012 haben wir nun wieder ein Sonderheft! Es entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bayerischen Forschungsverbund ForGenderCare und befasst sich mit dem sehr sehr aktuellen Thema Fürsorge/Care. Entst…
Conan O’Brien visits Haiti-the remarkable story of how Team Coco is communicating development
When a friend drew my attention to Conan O’Brien’s trip to Haiti following the infamous ‘sh&€hole’ debate which named the island among other countries, I did not see…
Ep. #7 The knowledge we value: Dipesh Chakrabarty talks the contentious politics of knowledge production
“Doing history ideally is like doing anthropology of people who are gone, except that you don’t have native informants, you only have these written fragmentary sources. But the…
Around the Web Digest: January 2018
Now that 2018 is about 8.3% done, it is time for an another Around the Web Digest! Is 3D Technology the Key to Preserving Indigenous Cultures? Using 3-D…
Housework and anxiety on the day before class
It’s a Sunday. The ants are everywhere around the kitchen sink, swarming through the crack in the dishwasher door. Afterwards, every time you feel the tiniest itch, you…
The legacy of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Why ‘great aspiration’ is not quite enough, by Leena Vastapuu and Maria Martin de Almagro
The first elected woman head of state in Africa, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has just stepped down from her office in Liberia. Her successor George Weah assumed the position…
We Have Never Been Digital Anthropologists
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Rebekah Cupitt, contributing the third post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. We Have Never Been…
CFP ASFS Panel in June 2018: Food on the Move
Shayan Lallani and Kerri Lesh are looking for a third panelist who might be able to fit their panel theme of “food on the move.” This is for submission…
They Were of Good Character and Industrious, Kalapuya and Umpqua Off-Reservation Allotments
Indian Off-Reservation Allotments Members of the Halo Family of Yoncalla Indians, were allotted with off-reservation Indian Allotments in 1892. Most…
Food Insecurity and Chronic Malnutrition in Rural Indigenous Guatemala
With the title, “Latinx Foodways in North America,” we aim to put the series in a more international perspective, inclusive of the United States, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America,…