Muzo: Colombia’s Emerald Kingdom
By Bram Ebus Muzo, Colombia – It is here where clouded forests overgrow the mountain slopes in which world’s most valuable emeralds are hidden. For much of history,…
Heuchlerisches Doppelspiel der Europäischen Union in LibyenHilfen für einen desolaten Staat
Aktuelle Berichte über Sklavenmärkte in Libyen, auf denen Asylsuchende und Migrant_innen verkauft wurden, haben zu einem Aufschrei unter Mitgliedstaaten der EU und AU sowie zu raschen Reaktionen gefüh…
The European Union’s hypocrisy in LibyaTraining and blaming local authorities?
Recent reports on migrant slave markets in Libya led to a joint outcry amongst EU and AU leaders and to quick hypocritical reactions: vulnerable asylum seekers are (planned…
The uncanny predictability of precarious existence #precarity
EASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the University of Bern. The two-day seminar, organis…
Five years after deadly factory fire, Bangladesh’s garment workers are still vulnerable
by Geert De Neve and Rebecca Prentice (Previously posted on The Conversation UK.) Five years ago last month, in November 2012, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory…
Human Rights in an Age of Immorality and Unreason
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
The boss knows everything
Innovation and culture? According to McKinsey’s innovation report of 1,400 executives, 94% of CEOs recognised the importance of culture and employees as the most fundamental aspects of innovation….
The boss knows everything
Innovation and culture? According to McKinsey’s innovation report of 1,400 executives, 94% of CEOs recognised the importance of culture and employees as the most fundamental aspects of innovation….
Advice From the Frontlines: DC-Based Human Rights Defenders
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
Fish by Jennifer Lee Johnson
If you’ve seen Hubert Sauper’s (2004) documentary film Darwin’s Nightmare you may remember the stark contrast he draws between the sterile disassembly line of a factory producing Nile…
Language, Human Rights, and Social Justice
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights, now represented on the Members’ Programmatic,…
Book Review: Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair by Emma Tarlo
In Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, Emma Tarlo explores the hidden networks through which human hair circulates around the world, tangling together the local and the global through diverse…
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Hi all, Happy Friday-the holidays are almost here :)! Development news: #AidToo; Ed Sheeran, War Child & well-deserved radiator awards; against charity; visualizing life in the camps in…
Luisa Del Giudice, ed. “On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose” (U. Utah Press, 2017)
On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose (University of Utah Press, 2017) is a collection of thirteen essays by women, all in the second…
Video: Kinship and Belonging – Part IV of #FutureCentralAsia
In this panel, the three discussants, David Montgomery (Washington), Julie Billaud (Geneva), and Judith Beyer (Konstanz) are discussing the following three books: Eva-Marie Dubuisson. 2017. Living l…
Kekri – föregångaren till årsslutets samlade festligheter
Vi har just firat allhelgona, kommit ihåg våra döda och haft den numera årliga diskussionen om Halloweens antågande i Finland. Sen börjar advent och väntan inför julen med…
The UN Declaration of Human Rights and the 2017 US Tax Bill: Reflecting on the Anthropological Response
This post is the first in a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights, now represented on the Members’…
#AmAnth17 Wrap-Up: Anthropology Matters?
On Monday, I downloaded #AmAnth17 tweets. This proved in many ways elusive and piecemeal. First, the conference hashtags continue to shift. Last year, the AAA finally discovere…
Focaal Volume 2017, Issue 79: Exploring the urban commons
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.com/foc…
A Belated Homecoming for Missing U.S. Marines
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Growing up, writer Clay Bonnyman Evans had heard all sorts of stories about his mother’s father, 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr. Evans’ grandfathe…
Race Reconciled – Review by Jason Antrosio
Bloggers Rhiannon Mosher and Jennifer Long wanted to point readers to an important blog post on Living Anthropologically called “Race is not an accurate or productive way to describe…
Race Reconciled – Review by Jason Antrosio
Bloggers Rhiannon Mosher and Jennifer Long wanted to point readers to an important blog post on Living Anthropologically called “Race is not an accurate or productive way to describe…