The Personhood and Rights of Apes
I spent the earliest part of my career as an anthropologist studying captive chimpanzees at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, NC. While there, I always made a…
What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
We’ve all been caught unawares by our digestive tract at one time or another. It happened to the Nash family several months ago. We were nearing the end…
Creating a story: Large-scale bioenergy production and its critics in Sierra Leone
‘How thousands of farmers lost everything’ states the title of a recent Dutch newspaper article about the consequences of a large-scale bioenergy project in Sierra Leone. The narrative…
Creating a story: Large-scale bioenergy production and its critics in Sierra Leone
Volkskrant article On 24th March 2018, De Volkskrant, a leading Dutch newspaper, published an article about the bioenergy investments of Addax Bioenergy and its successor Sunbird Bioenergy in…
The Space of Boredom – A conversation with Bruce O’Neill
The Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and practices of homeless men and women left behind…
Prekäre Lebenswelt: Wissenschaft. Eine Blog-Reihe über akademische Minenfelder, unwissenschaftliche Wissenschaftlichkeit und körperloses Flaschengeist-Dasein – verfasst von Nadja M. Köffler
Prekär – prekärer – Wissenschaftswelt? Eine Steigerungsform, die treffender kaum ausfallen könnte, führt man sich die Realität gelebter Wissenschaft im öffentlichen Dienst zu Gemüte: Promotionswut tri…
anthro in the news 4/2/18
Cheapest guns in USA! Union, West Virginia. Credit: Taber Andrew Bain/Flickr the social life of guns The Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester) reported on a symposium held in Rochester,…
Lee Hoffer on the Opioid Epidemic
Last week, the OSU Undergraduate Anthropology Club invited Lee Hoffer, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, to give a guest lecture on the opioid epidemic.…
Assessing damage to indigenous cultures by industrial development with maths?
I just read an interesting post by the Russian news agency TASS (in Russian) announcing proudly the launch of a new method for assessing damage to indigenous culture…
#Adulting and the Disordered State of American Adulthood
[pquote]It is a word apt for the state of social adulthood in the US, where a long-eroding set of markers from the twentieth century are collapsing into a…
Alex E. Chávez on his new book, Sounds of Crossing
https://www.dukeupress.edu/sounds-of-crossing Interview by William Cotter William Cotter: In the introduction to your book you mention that for Mexican migrants, transnational forms of music making c…
Timothy Neale, “Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
In Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), Tim Neale examines the controversy over the 2005 Wild Rivers Act in the Cape…
Gloria Origgi, “Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters” (Princeton UP, 2018)
We all put a great deal of care into protecting, managing, and monitoring our reputation. But the precise nature of a reputation is obscure. In one sense, reputation…
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)
The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin’s On the Origin of…
Victimisation of Mary Prince: Early Rescue-Industry history
I’m always on the lookout for guided walks where I’ll be shown sites and hear histories not in the Establishment’s textbooks. Black History Walks showed me this plaque located in…
Doing Development the Right Way: A Conversation with Charles Piot
Anthropologist Charlie Piot has been conducting research on the political economy and history of rural West Africa for over thirty years. His first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity…
In the Journals, March 2018 by Julia Kowalski
March featured a number of special issues of interest to Somatosphere readers: Anthropology & Medicine has a special issue, “Genomics and Genetic Medicine: Pathways to Global Health?” Contemporary…
Ep. #11 Alternative worlds: Ghassan Hage talks multiculturalism, teaching the enemy, & thinking in public
“Any concept — capitalism, neoliberalism, etc. — leaves an excess that it is the aim of anthropology to unearth. These are spaces that are not dominated by whatever’s…
anthro{dendum} is now anthro{duodenum}!
It has only been a few months since we re-launched “Savage Minds” as anthro{dendum}, but upon further consideration we feel that the site lacks focus. It was one…
The Bitcoin Controversy
Most people have already heard of Bitcoin. However, very few know what it is or how it originated. Many people know that it is some form of “cryptocurrency”…
The Legacy of the Trickster Hare
Let’s consider a different view of the Easter bunny. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Siletz Tribal Council 1876
The year 1876 appears to have been a key year to discuss further reductions of the Siletz Reservation. The original Coast reservation was a Continue reading