In Academia, All You Need is Love
Questions about Exploitation and Invisible Work in Academia It is an open secret amongst academics that universities exploit the labour of their academic staff, and more importantly, that…
‘On paper’ and ‘having papers’: migrants navigating medical xenophobia and obstetric rights in South Africa by Tamuka Chekero
Chekero met Pauline at a local pharmacy in Giyani, a small town in the north-east of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The area is best known to…
Overheating: The TEDx version
In October, 2017, I spoke about Overheating at the annual TEDx event in Trondheim, central Norway. The TED format is ideally short, pithy, eye-catching and jaw-dropping. In other…
Overheating: The TEDx version
In October, 2017, I spoke about Overheating at the annual TEDx event in Trondheim, central Norway. The TED format is ideally short, pithy, eye-catching and jaw-dropping. In other…
Protest Matters! #AAA2017 Installation and Virtual Museum
Protest Matters! is an interactive temporary museum of protest objects that will run in conjunction with the AAA meetings in Washington DC next month. The project invites academics,…
Daromir Rudnyckyj and Filippo Osella, eds., “Religion and the Morality of the Market: Anthropological Perspectives” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice. In…
Google’s early warning of the rise of Trump
[This post first appeared on Medium, October 23, 2017] All social observers should (still) be asking themselves, “How did we miss it? How did we miss the rise…
Johan Fischer: Veg or non-veg? On fieldwork and food in India
Reporting from an ongoing fieldwork in Hyderabad, India, the central topic of this piece is the ways in which the vegetarian and the nonvegetarian are understood, practiced, and…
The AAA Publishing Portfolio Principle: The Rights of the Individual
At is core, AAA’s publishing program is governed by four values: quality, breadth, accessibility, and sustainability. These core values have enabled a rich and enduring portfolio of more…
Watching Ancient Hominins Giving Birth
The movies that Natalie Laudicina makes use the same software that helped create some of the biggest blockbuster hits of the last decade, but her movies won’t be…
Learning and belonging in ladies-only kickboxing
Muslim girls and young women are increasingly active in kickboxing in the Netherlands. While some join mixed-gender sessions, gender-segregated training sessions have lowered the threshold for many wo…
Learning and belonging in ladies-only kickboxing
Muslim girls and young women are increasingly active in kickboxing in the Netherlands. While some join mixed-gender sessions, gender-segregated training sessions have lowered the threshold for many wo…
Ein Blick auf die Modewerbung im Zeitalter von Photoshop
Mode hat einen hohen Stellenwert bei Konsumenten in Deutschland. Laut Statistischem Bundesamt lassen sich die Deutschen Schuhe und Bekleidung jährlich mehr als 70 Milliarden Euro kosten. Das größte…
#MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 1)
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bianca C. Williams. Sunday night, October 15, I watched women across my social media timeline bravely and vulnerably share their stories of sexual assault…
#MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 1)
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bianca C. Williams. Sunday night, October 15, I watched women across my social media timeline bravely and vulnerably share their stories of sexual assault…
Waste by Jennifer Wenzel
Waste is a tricky word. In our meditations in Somatosphere, waste hews toward its concrete sense as discard: material byproducts of some transformative process, metabolic or mechanical; things…
anthro in the news 10/23/17
Credit: Pixabay/Creative Commons clarifying the “Nuclear Deal” The Huffington Post published commentary by William O. Beeman, professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, cla…
Grabung im Nordirak: Sasanidischer Webstuhl entdeckt
Mit vielen neuen Erkenntnissen ist ein Team von Frankfurter Archäologen aus der irakisch-kurdischen Provinz Sulaimaniyah zurückgekehrt. Insbesondere der Fund eines Webstuhls aus dem 3. Jahrtausend vor…
Conferencing: Working the (Reception) Room
#AmAnth17, CASCAinCuba, and SfAA 2018 Sustainable Futures meeting, oh my! Here at #anthroeverywhere!, we’ve used the last number of posts to cover various topics related to best and…
Niger Nightmare: The Cost of Cultural Ignorance
Whenever Niger is in the headlines, the news is never good—drought, floods, epidemics, starving children and now the emergence
Niger Nightmare: The Cost of Cultural Ignorance
Whenever Niger is in the headlines, the news is never good—drought, floods, epidemics, starving children and now the emergence
Niger Nightmare: The Cost of Cultural Ignorance
Whenever Niger is in the headlines, the news is never good—drought, floods, epidemics, starving children and now the emergence
Partnerbörse Shanghai. Oder: weiblich, ledig sucht
Bei gutem Wetter ist der People’s Square Park in Shanghai überfüllt mit Menschen. Vor allem die ältere Generation sitzt auf Bänken, trinkt ihren klassischen Tee aus Plastik-Trinkflaschen, lausch…