Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part XXIII
Here are my articles and interviews from the past week: Trump’s racism is more than rhetoric — it forms policies and ruins lives (1/13/18) — Globe and Mail The…
In an era of climate change, our ethics code is clear: We need to end the AAA annual meeting
Image: United Airlines Boeing 767-200 by Ian Crivellaro. (Via Flickr) By Dr. Jason Hickel I remember when the AAA shifted from the old printed program to the new…
Blaming the victim(s)? Is it the aid industry’s fault when places are labeled ‘holes’?
I was in the process of writing a short response to NPR’s Goats & Soda invitation to comment on How Are Poor Countries Portrayed By Aid Groups And…
Workshop on Ethnographic Methods in Museum Folklore and Ethnology
This post is the next in my series of reports on the trip to China that American museum colleagues and I took in December 2017. The Beijing posts…
La Pista de Baile, PST LA/LA & LACE
I am excited to be collaborating with Colectivo AM (Mexico City) and LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) on “La Pista de Baile.” Below is the description of the…
Where the Whacky Franz Boas Pictures Come From
Ya’ll know what I’m talking about, right? Franz Boas posing for figure in USNM exhibit entitled “Hamats’a coming out of secret room” 1895 or before. Via the Smithsonian.…
Stingy American Settlers of the Willamette Valley
The Kalapuyan tribes of the Willamette Valley have lived here for more than 10,000 years, some 50,000 generations of people. The whole of the valley was owned…
Soft Power: The Over-Determined Politicization of Vulnerable in the #CDC7words by Elizabeth Bromley
At first blush, the inclusion of the word vulnerable alongside words like fetus, evidence-based, and diversity in the list of 7 words discouraged for use in budget documents…
Quinn Slobodian: Against the neoliberalism taboo
Daniel Rodgers has written the latest would-be obituary for neoliberalism as a category of analysis, hot off the press in the first 2018 issue of Dissent magazine. Like…
Neuer Masterstudiengang: Science and Technology Studies
Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt feiert am 18. Januar 2018 mit einer Abendveranstaltung die Eröffnung des neuen Masterstudiengangs “Scie…
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Culinaria Research Center at the University of Toronto
The Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral fellowship in the field of Food Studies. The Culinaria Research Centre is one…
Links & Contents I Liked 265
Hi all, This is a slightly shorter review this week, but it seems that many writers are still getting back to their desks after the holidays; this is…
Nyla’s hair extensions: Caring for artificiality
Mavi, the apprentice at Mastercut, had told me about her side business in hair extensions long ago, but we had never managed to schedule an appointment which I…
Dust by Nick Caverly
The building pictured below sat near Mack Avenue on Detroit’s far east side and, according to the municipal government, was an environmental hazard. Following years of complaints from…
News of the New Year at SAFN
David Beriss President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Happy New Year! We have news of changes here at FoodAnthropology and, more broadly, at the Society…
Job Posting for Food Systems/Food Studies Position
The Culinary Institute of America is looking for a new colleague to teach food studies and food systems. They would be joining a growing program in Applied Food…
What Happened to the American Empire?
Has anything out of the ordinary happened to the US as an imperialist power since the ascent of Trump to office? While the continuities between Trump and his…
Frankfurter Forschertradition: Grabungen im antiken Priene
Die Freundesvereinigung unterstützt seit 20 Jahren die Aktivitäten der Archäologen. In Hochzeiten der Grabungskampagne tragen Frankfurter Archäologen und ihre lokalen Helfer pro Tag bis zu 20 Kisten m…
What I Wish I Knew about Anthropology and Disability: Notes toward a more enabling anthropology
This post was written by Michele Friedner, with Devva Kasnitz, and Zoë Wool. This year, In the wake of yet another remarkably inaccessible and access-ignorant AAA meeting–and as…
The Price of Eggs: Iran’s protests beyond democracy and capitalism
As the dust settles on Iran’s recent bout of protests, the surge of commentary, punditry, and analysis is likely to continue, no longer working to explain these apparently…
Vorsätze zum Jahresbeginn: Warum es sich lohnt, loszulassen
Ich mag Neuanfänge. Und den Jahresbeginn, der jedes Mal geheimnisvoll wie eine frisch verschneite Landschaft in der Sonne glitzert und darauf wartet, dass wir die ersten Fussabdrücke hinterlassen.…
Baby Fat Is About More Than Cuteness
Pudginess in babies offers an evolutionary advantage. Alamy Photos “Aw, you still have your baby fat!” This refrain plagued me throughout my childhood. No matter what I did,…
The Leiden School of Multimodal Ethnography?
In this blog, Mark Westmoreland provides some insights into how the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University engages with multimodal teaching & research. This…
The Leiden School of Multimodal Ethnography?
In part 1 of this blog series on Multimodal Ethnography, I provide a gloss of some of the key issues transforming visual anthropology and other practice-based disciplines. With these…