Free Your Mind, the Text Will Follow (Working With Text 1)
While I’ve written a fair amount of software reviews and how to guides in the past, this year I thought I’d do something different. This is the first…
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets” #AnthroState
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs since the Apartheid era. As with the Hillbrow…
The Willamette Valley Treaty Podcast for the Grand Ronde Tribe
The ratified treaties series, just completed today (1/17/2018), was inspired by a request from Dean Rhodes, Media Director at Grand Ronde, for me to tape a podcast about…
Rogue River Treaty of 1854, Negotiated November 15, 1854, Ratified March 3, 1855
The second Rogue River Treaty, that of 1854, was a treaty if peace, and ratifying the joint occupancy of the Table Rock Reservation by many tribes subject to…
Treaty with the Chasta, Negotiated November 18, 1854, Ratified March 3, 1855
The Treaty with the Chasta was signed on November 18, 1854, ceding a good portion of the Illinois and Rogue River areas, west of the Rogue Valley, to…
Texting Like A State: mHealth and the first thousand days in South Africa by Nanna Schneidermann
What does making a new life look like from the perspective of a mobile phone? For the phone of a woman using the public health care system in…
Trumping the Farmers, Taxing the Junk Food, Regulating the Milk, and More: World Food Policy Roundup
By Kelly Alexander In the US: Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016, and to thank them he addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation conference in Nashville. “Oh, are…
The Power of Sports to Change American Ideals
When the now former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt for the national anthem in a preseason game in the summer of 2016, he set…
Why YOU Should Be an Academic Cyborg (and Maybe Already Are)
Although I’ve often been heard to sigh and groan that “technology hates me”, just like any other self-respecting anthropologist, in this post I want to consider just what…
When Evolution Is Not a Slow Dance but a Fast Race to Survive
This young Afghan refugee named Maimuna, photographed in Kabul in 2016, has features that are similar to ancient European hunter-gatherers. Hedayatullah Amid/Epa/REX This article was orig…
Some thoughts and observations on the Liberian presidential and representative elections, by Maarten Bedert (2018)
The second day of Christmas saw the birth of a new President in Liberia. Former football player and current Senator for Montserrado County, George Weah won the presidential…
Some thoughts and observations on the Liberian presidential and representative elections, by Maarten Bedert (2018)
The second day of Christmas saw the birth of a new President in Liberia. Former football player and current Senator for Montserrado County, George Weah won the presidential…
Ray Cashman, “Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border” (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)
How do individuals on national or societal peripheries make use of tradition and to what ends? How can narratives discursively construct a complex worldview? These are some of…
Call for #Reviews: #AnthroState #Africa
As we start into 2018, we seize the opportunity of this post by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan on their influential edited volume States at Work to…
Our Understanding of the Labor Experience Is Overdue for Change
Labor interventions are largely driven by standards set in the 1950s. A growing body of research suggests it may be time for a change — Read more on…
Rogue River Treaty of 1853, Negotiated September 10, 1853, Ratified April 12, 1854
The Rogue River Treaty of 1853 was negotiated at the base of the Lower Table Rock, between the base and the river. Accounts of the treaty signing suggest…
Treaty with the Molala, Negotiated December 21, 1855, Ratified March 8, 1859
The Treaty with the Molala is the last treaty negotiated for western Oregon. Joel Palmer heard late in 1855, in fact in October, that there was a tribe…
Treaty with the Umpqua and Kalapuya, Negotiated November 29, 1854, Ratified March 3, 1855
On November 29th 1854, the tribes of the upper Umpqua River (Umpqua) and Yoncalla Kalapuyans signed a treaty with the United States for their lands. This was the…
Treaty with the Umpqua – Cow Creek Band, Negotiated September 19, 1853, Ratified April 12, 1854
The Treaty with the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua is the first treaty in Oregon to be negotiated and ratified. The treaty establishes the Umpqua Reservation for…
Call for Proposals: #MeToo
As stories of sexual assault and misconduct continue to make news headlines, Anthropology News invites anthropologists to reflect on the #MeToo movement and this particular moment in sexual…
Facetten des Abteilungsalltags
Warum fiel die Entscheidung für die Kulturanthropologie in Bonn? Wo kann man am schönsten in Bonn Zeit verbringen? Und welche Superkräfte sollten entdeckt werden, um den Alltag als…
White House announces end of TPS for El Salvador
The Trump administration announced it will end the Temporary Immigration Status allowing immigrants from El Salvador to work and live legally in the U.S. It recently ended the…
The Willamette Valley Treaty (Treaty with the Kalapuya, Etc.) Signed January 22 & Ratified March 3, 1855
The Willamette Valley Treaty was designed to remove the tribes from western Oregon, from lands desired by American settlers. When the treaty was finally signed, on January 22th,…