A clarification and a comment from the editor
We are pleased to have a post from Kerri Lesh, the organizer of the AAA panel on terroir as an anthropological matter. Kerri is doing fascinating work on…
More on taste and terroir
Terroir at its Roots: From Panel to Publication Kerri Lesh, University of Nevada-Reno Amy Trubek began the New Year by writing about the annual meeting of AAA, and…
Berufs(irr?)wege einer Ethnologin – ein Zwischenbericht
Und dabei wollte ich doch nichts anderes als schreiben und davon leben…aber wie so oft, läuft es im Leben eben nicht so geradlinig und vor(her)bestimmt, wie wir es…
Fieldwork: Introduction (12/13-18)
Skip ahead six paragraphs (bypass those marked with an hash mark #) if you want to go straight to the start of the fieldwork stories. If you would…
“Capitalism is So Much Easier!” Learning Savings through Playing a Board Game
By Farah Qureshi and the IMTFI/Loy Loy Team at UC Irvine Loy Loy: The Savings Game in Washington D.C.! Julia had been waiting until the last round to…
Links & Contents I Liked 267
Hi all, Let’s make it short and sweet: Happy Friday! Enjoy lots of interesting readings on development, ICT4D, detoxing your tech mind & decolonize our thinking! New from…
Ursula aK. Le Guin, Interplanetary Anthropologist
By Anand Pandian Sometime early in the year 1980, Ursula K. Le Guin receives a fan letter. And yet the letter isn’t actually addressed to Le Guin, but…
Supriya Choudhury
Originally posted on Talking about cinema: Saddened by the news of the demise of Supriya Choudhury this morning… She was one of those rare beauties to have ever…
#Review: Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity
The book “Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation” by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann is a result of…
Ursula K. Le Guin in the Redwood Zone
Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at the age of 88. On the Internet and social media, people remembered her as a feminist and poet, defender of…
anthro in the news 1/25/18
after an unfortunate delay, anthro in the news is back! Untitled. Credit: Dean Simone/Pixabay good to think: the post-work world The Guardian carried an article about the many…
The development blogging crisis
Initially I wanted to include these reflections in my annual blogging review post. In the end I decided against it partly because I felt a bit like a…
Chile – Einige abschließende Gedanken
Vor etwa zwei Wochen hieß es Abschied nehmen von Chile. Ich hoffe jedoch, dass es nur ein Abschied auf Zeit ist und ich irgendwann wieder nach Chile reisen…
What Really Happened on Easter Island?
The famous statues of Easter Island have long been a source of awe and wonder. John Elk III/Alamy Photos This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been…
Science Museum Group Journal: Writing Award for Early Career Writers
Via Haidy Geismar, UCL The Science Museum Group Journal is a relatively new, and very exciting, open access journal that “provides an innovative voice in discussions worldwide about…
Writing Award: Science Museum Group Journal
Via Haidy Geismar, UCL The Science Museum Group Journal is a relatively new, and very exciting, open access journal that “provides an innovative voice in discussions worldwide about…
What Can Anthropology Tell us about Data in the 21st Century?
Last week I wrote a comment piece for the Corsham Institute’s Observatory for a Connected Society app asking ‘What can Anthropology tell us about data in the 21st…
Wissen/Schaffen: From #Fieldwork to #Exhibition – A photo essay
In 2016-17, I did fieldwork on the materials of scholarship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, an institute of advanced study. For this investigation, I worked with “the stuff…
Two years on: Giulio Regeni
The 25th January marks two years since the Italian PhD researcher Giulio Regeni disappeared in Cairo. His body was found ten days later on the side of the…
Burnsafton
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin’-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye worthy o’ a…
Fat Consequences
Obesity is about more than stigma, it is about exceeding one’s social space. Diabetes foot clinic, Apia, Samoa Looking over the shoulder of Sina, the only podiatrist in…
The Remarkable Paradox of Militant Christians
This post was submitted by Alice Beck Kehoe, professor of anthropology, emerita, at Marquette University. Steve Bannon, Breitbart News. Standoff of a man, his sons and fellows against encroachment…
The Hidden Harm of Surgery
How the data obfuscate surgical outcomes for obstetric fistula. A Niamey fistula center examination room. Alison Heller As the call to prayer reverberated in the thick, dust-filled evening…
Caring in Ancient Times
A new bioarchaeological approach suggests health care has a long human history. Over 4,000 years ago, in a small hunter-gatherer settlement in northern Vietnam, a young man survived…