Can the Hunt for Skeletons Help Heal a Nation’s Wounds?
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS The abandoned Nicosia airport in Cyprus is a strange place for an anthropology lab. But there I was—at the end of a humid spring day…
Living and F*cking with Acronyms: A response to Dennis Altman’s call to rethink LGBTI
Last week Australian academic Dennis Altman published a provocative piece in The Conversation, suggesting that it was time to re think the label LGBTI. In the place of…
Positionalities: How my partner did field-work with me
I was standing in front of one of the work stations at Mastercut, the hairdressing salon I did my ethnographic fieldwork at. Two or three weeks in the…
Washing Out Trump’s Mouth with Haitian History
A Haitian artist responds to the “shithole” remark. The day after President Trump referred to Haiti and the continent of Africa as “shithole countries,” Jerry Rosembert Moïse, a…
Defining “Social Justice” at the Academic Medical Center by Marco A. Ramos
I am delighted to contribute to this series on the Critical Histories and Activist Futures: Science, Medicine, and Racial Violence Conference. As captured by the submissions published here…
9. bis 11.2. / Ausstellung „R UND LÄUFE UND KREIS GÄNGE“
Für den jährlich stattfindenden Rundgang öffnet das Institut für Kunstpädagogik am Donnerstag, den 8. Februar 2018, wieder seine Tore. Auf dem gesamten Gelände der alten Fabrik des Unicampus…
Why we can’t abolish “best”
In my email right now, there are 10,364 messages signed with American academia’s standard valediction: Best, I have always found best an incredibly alienating sign-off. So alienating that…
Pre-Brexit: There is such a thing as a free lunch
Credit: Sean Carey I have just been to my local bank in St Albans, a commuter town not far from the suburbs of north London, and am walking…
anthro in the news 1/29/18
São Paulo’s 18th annual LGBT Pride Parade 2014. Credit: Ben Taverner/Wikimedia Commons LGBT murder rate in Brazil The Guardian reported on the rising rate of murder of LGBT…
Somewhere Between Here and There: Goldilocking Between Fieldwork and Academia
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Crystal Abidin, contributing the second post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. Somewhere Between Here a…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Saying yes to the project
Over the past few Mondays, we have been posting on the recent case-study research project I worked on with OCWI. Working with OCWI on this short-term project was…
Beach by Meg Samuelson
Beaches are good places to think with about waste and ruination. They were once generically places of waste (in the etymological sense of “unoccupied, uncultivated”) while recognized as…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Saying yes to the project
Over the past few Mondays, we have been posting on the recent case-study research project I worked on with OCWI. Working with OCWI on this short-term project was…
Zoe Wool, “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed” (Duke UP, 2015)
Zoe Wool‘s ethnography of rehabilitation After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Duke UP, 2015) describes how soldiers injured in the war on terror are pulled…
Web Roundup: Grand Not-So-Unified Theory of Birth Control Side-Effects by Anika Jugovic-Spajic
Recently, a number of news outlets reported the results of a new research study on the correlation between hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer. The study analyzed data from…
Snömaskar
Något jag ofta fick höra i lågstadiet av många föräldrar och lärare var att inte äta snö. Starkast rörde förbudet snö som lagt sig. Om man råkade fånga…
Union revitalisation and women workers at the intersection of gender and class
by Hannah Loosley **A version of this post was published at ecnmy.org.** Women working in care, catering, cleaning, cashier and clerical jobs (the 5 Cs) have long been…
An export industry in ‘defence’ is a croc of shit – Turnbull comes the raw prawn.
Just in, the BBC misses the opportunity to call bullshit on Australia, which they can’t do of course because they also export ‘defence’ weaponry. Both as daft as…
Europäische Soziologie als „Public Good“. Interview mit Prof. Dr. Frank Welz, Präsident der European Sociological Association (2015-2017)
Frank Welz lehrt Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt soziale und politische Theorie an der Fakultät für Soziale und Politische Wissenschaften der Universität Innsbruck. Von 2015 bis September 2017…
Miniaturization is trinketization.
This looks great and would have been a good thing to attend, but my diary window – and budget – is far too small: *Small Interventions: Studies in…
New year, new research
I’ve much to update on the site in the next few weeks, but first I thought I’d share something I’m super excited about: a new research project, funded…
Text-laundering (Working With Text 3)
Ever copy and paste something that should be a solid paragraph of text, which should look like this: Consuetudium lectorum Mirum est notare. Eodem modo typi qui nunc…
On Madhava Prasad
an overdue appreciation. Read the rest of the review here, or below: In Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in South India, film studies becomes politics, but also society,…
Differential Immigration and Citizenship in the 19th Century in Oregon
The immigration debate that is being discussed nationally, has cause me to think about what immigration was like in the…