Rethinking chronic illness and ethnography
by Luke Walker Since my diagnosis with Crohn’s disease in 2015, I have started to re-think the relationship between chronic illness, disability, and protest in a series of…
#Review: White Faces. Reframing memory #PerformanceArt
“It was so special” appears in simple white letters on a black screen while the performer Yadgar Bakir is speaking in a calm voice about childhood events that…
Rezension | Die notwendige Kritik an einer Soziologie des Sockenstopfens verfasst von Christopher Wimmer
Wer im ersten Satz eines Buches bereits die Kernthese seines Werks vorwegnimmt, läuft Gefahr, dass das Lesen nach diesem Satz eingestellt wird und Diskussionen sich lediglich darauf beziehen.…
Henry B. Nichols recalls the Calapooians, 1903
Henry Brainard Nichols, was a school teacher and state legislator from Benton County, in Oregon. He was born 1821 in Lyme, Connecticut, and attended Wesleyan University at Middletown.…
The Speaking Fence
The technological sophistication on the fence includes different structures, automatic lights, speakers and cameras. From the official Facebook page of the Hungarian government. Retrieved from ht…
Yellow Water: Rupture and Return One Year after the Gold King Mine Spill
Figure 1. A view of Animas Creek taken one year after the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill that discharged three million gallons of acid mine water toward…
Ep. #6 Golden Globes allyship, thinking sick, health gaps, and working slow: this month on TFS
This month, Jodie (00:53) points to what the men didn’t say at the Golden Globes, and the problems of performing allyship. “So if we’re looking at the men…
Lissa and the Graphic Novel Form: An Appreciation
Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution tells a tale in graphic novel form of two (fictional) girls, one American and one Egyptian, who each faces…
Studieren auf chilenisch
Ich bin wieder zurück in Deutschland, zumindest physisch. Psychisch bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher. Die letzten Tage in Santiago sind wie im Flug vergangen und plötzlich…
This Does Not Represent the Views of the University
I know that I am not the first person to ask this, but when did universities start having “views”? When some professors indulge their rights to free speech…
Matti Eräsaari: Value, measure and standard: time in the Helsinki Timebank
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1090/matti%20erasaari.MP3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Matti Eräsaa…
Teaching Medical Anthropology by Thomas A Williamson
I am grateful to those who have shared their medical anthropology syllabi here and thought I would add mine to the mix. There is so much one could…
Culture when it takes us captive
[This post was originally published on Medium.] Every organization operates out of an idea of itself. (We call this idea several things: our “business model,” our “value proposition,”…
Colossal: The 2017 Monster Movie About Abuse You Might Have Missed
By Emma Louise Backe 2017 was a year for grappling with monstrosity, the deeds and discourses perpetrated by private citizens and public officials, as well as the explosion…
Alison Gerber, “The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Is making art a job? This question is central to The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Stanford University Press, 2017), the new book by Alison Gerber,…
Leo Coleman, “A Moral Technology: Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi” (Cornell UP, 2017)
We take electricity for granted. But the material grids and wires that bring light to homes and connect places are also objects of moral concern, political freedoms and…
Private Messages From The Field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest bloggers Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta who will be editing a series of blogposts in their collection Private Messages From The Field. To kick off the…
Book Review: The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology by John Smyth
In The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology, John Smyth offers a critical reading of the pathological state of higher education today, diagnosing this as th…
Links & Contents I Liked 266
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!Development news: Aid agencies & holes; WFP’s data handling problem; sexual harassment in the UN; the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ ranking…
REDUX: Abjected Spaces, Debris of War #Anthrostate
To close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this excerpt from Yael Navaro-Yashin’s last book “The Make-Believe…
In eigener Sache – die Segel neu gesetzt
Hallo und bevor ihr euch fragt, ob das hier eine Fata Morgana ist: Nein, Ethnosphäre ist nicht tot. Nein, nein, das Blog ruhte nur, und wartete auf den…
Signs of Latency
One of the ideas I’ve been playing with over the last few years is the idea of latency in the networked age. As we relate, communicate and move…
The Politics of Grieving in Turkey
The Death of the Maden Family The Aegean Sea is a graveyard. Like its Mediterranean counterpart, its waters are filled with human bodies that wash up on the…
New Special Issue “Im/Mobilities and Dis/Connectivities in Medical Globalization: How Global is Global Health?”
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Dominik Mattes, Hansjörg Dilger The interdisciplinary, politically contested field of Global Health has often been described as a consequence of, and response…