anthro in the news 11/6/17
Credit: Pixabay the casting couch The Guardian published commentary by David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, about his awakening to the pervasiveness of…
Urban by Claudia Gastrow
In July 2015 a Facebook campaign entitled selfie lixo (garbage selfie) was launched in Angola. It asked people to pose in front of piles of uncollected garbage in…
Four Stories, A Lament, and an Affirmation
Alisse Waterston’s Presidential Lecture at the 116th AAA Annual Meeting No doubt these are dark times. What of us, as anthropologists, in these times? How will we pass…
Did I plagiarize? A flow chart
For teachers and students alike, early November is the heart of the mid-term assignment swamp. As we wade through various assignments, questions of how to maintain academic integrity…
Von ‚Erstaufnahmelagern‘ zu ‚Abschiebezentren‘ – Oberstes Verwaltungsgericht Griechenlands sieht Türkei als sicheren Drittstaat an
Von Clara Bünger und Robert Nestler Das Oberste Verwaltungsgericht Griechenlands hat am 22. September 2017 in zwei Verfahren von syrischen Schutzsuchenden, die über die Türkei auf den ostägäisc…
Review: Digital environments: Ethnographic perspectives across global online and offline spaces
Budka, P. (2018). [Review of the book Digital environments: Ethnographic perspectives across global online and offline spaces, by U. U. Frömming, S. Köhn, S. Fox & M. Terry].…
Marx on the future and present ‘collective worker’.
From capital vol 1 p490 Filed under: capitalism, Marx
The Socio-Cultural Problem with Sandals
Why doesn’t the PM speak and listen to sociologists as much as he does economists? The Problem with Sandals What do Donald Trump, Theresa May, and Keith Rowley all…
The Socio-Cultural Problem with Sandals
Why doesn’t the PM speak and listen to sociologists as much as he does economists? The Problem with Sandals What do Donald Trump, Theresa May, and Keith Rowley all…
Im Reisefieber
Dieser Blogeintrag ist schon seit Langem überfällig und Charlotte ist mir natürlich schon zuvorgekommen – zumindest was den Teil in Chile betrifft. Ich meine natürliche unsere Reisen in…
Call for Blogs
Call for Blogs Als Arbeitsgruppe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie verbindet die AG Ethnologische Bildung Ethnologie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin und Bereiche der Kinde…
Laura Assmuth: Translocal life ways in the Nordic mobility space: towards a grounded transnationalism
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1071/assmuth.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Laura Assmuth (Univer…
Othered by Anthropology: Being a Student of Color in Anglo-cized Academia
[Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Savannah Martin.] It is both impressive and depressing how frequently scholars of color are Othered by anthropology. For many, the tales of alienation are…
Othered by Anthropology: Being a Student of Color in Anglo-cized Academia
[Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Savannah Martin.] It is both impressive and depressing how frequently scholars of color are Othered by anthropology. For many, the tales of alienation are…
2017 Thomas Marchione Award Winner!
We are very happy to announce the 2017 winner of the Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award. This annual prize is awarded to a student whose work continues and…
Sex work in fiction: Gorky Park, Moscow prostitution doesn’t exist
Militia detectives are at Kazansky Station in Komsomol Square, in Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Gorky Park. Cartier-Bresson’s 1954 photo shows the station at the left and surrounding traffic. …
The hair clipper: One or two thoughts about a mundane artifact
The gender of an object – For a seminar session on “gendered objects”, my colleague and I asked the participants to bring to class an object that they…
Ask Me about My Science
Curious public means many opportunities for biological anthropologists willing to speak up I once took a cast of a Neandertal skull with me on a research trip, packing…
Reimagining Political Horizons
Anthropologists have long been engaged in resistance and activism. “Social movements have been important spaces for generating anthropological theory,” Leith Mullings insisted in her bold 2013 preside…
Good Intentions and Murky Ethics
How anthropology matters in short-term global health travel. According to Volunteer World, an online international volunteer placement platform, “International voluntary work plays a key role in deliv…
Anthropology in Unseen Spaces
Documenting the human costs of the US security-state. This spring, Esperanza, a Salvadoran woman in the small California Central Valley town of Mendota, was on her way to church…
Latinx America and an Anthropology of Dissent
[pquote]Instead of proclaiming and declaring anthropology’s importance, we should step back and ask: What is the matter with anthropology?[/pquote]Our Annual Meeting theme has a problem. “Anthropology…
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Hi all, Greetings from Tbilisi where an excellent ComDev teaching seminar is coming to its end! It is also Friday-so there area links, readings, tweet & more to…
Refuge Europe at its Limits? Limits and Contradictions of the Political and Moral Ideal – Conference report
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves From the left: Prof. Alessandro Monsutti; Prof. Heath Cabot; Žiga Podgornik-Jakil; Prof. Olaf Zenker. Photographer Timur H…