In the Journals – December 2017 by Anna Zogas
Happy new year! This post rounds off Somatosphere’s 2017 “In the Journals,” with articles published in December. Enjoy! Medical Anthropology Quarterly (In)Visibility Online: The Bene…
Food Swamps, Homeopathy, Healthy Soil, and Airplane Food: A New U.S. Food Policy Roundup
By Kelly Alexander Happy New Year and without further ado, here’s the state of U.S. food policy on this second day of 2018: Special United States Edition. In…
BRAZIL’S DICHOTOMOUS TREATMENT OF CORRUPTION – PT 1
PART ONE✓ Brazil is a country saturated with corruption. From the small, family-owned mom and pop neighborhood grocery store to the hallowed halls of the Senate and Congress,…
The IU Gateway Office and Tsinghua University Art Museum (12/8)
This post is about a portion of my recent trip to China. The main focus of this trip was collaborative ethnographic research in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, but…
National Science Fiction Day — 1/2/2018
On this day devoted (by some) to a genre fiction, my thoughts have turned to dystopia and utopia–these are not, however, co-extensive with SF, but see Fredric Jameson’s…
Anthropology in Our Moment in History: Interview with Philippe Bourgois
Robert Borofsky: How did you become an anthropologist? Discovering anthropology for me was like falling in love. I was a freshman in college and I knew nothing about…
Dart’s Instructions of Colonization and Assimilation in 1850
In 1850, the United States passed The Oregon Donation Land-claim Act. This act gave American men 640 acres, one square mile of free land in Oregon, allowed other…
Postindustrial Landscapes, Communities, and Heritage
I’m excited to be in New Orleans this week for the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dan Trepal and I are chairing a session entitled,…
Start an Anthropology Career in 2018
Lets put aside for the moment all the usual warnings about pursuing an academic career. Lets say that you are old enough to take responsibility for your own…
best wishes for 2018!
anthropology in the news is taking a break this week but will return on January 8
Weniger Schulbildung – mehr Erfolg: Das Modell Han Han
Han Han ist in China ein allseits bekannter Blogger, Autor, Rennfahrer und Gesellschaftskritiker. Als Schulabbrecher und literarisches Jugendtalent veröffentlichte er schon früh Thesen zum Bildungssys…
Rejection of the Nineteen 1851 Oregon Treaties
Anson Dart, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, from 1850 to 1852, remains an enigma. His nineteen treaties with the tribes of western Oregon, negotiated by the…
Anthrodendum: 2017 in Review
2017 was a very productive year for Anthro{dendum} and to kick off another year in the anthropology blogosphere, I bring our annual year in review! Our three most popular…
The Battle of Abiqua, Second Battle of the Willamette Valley
The Battle of Abiqua In February 1848, six months after the Whitman Massacre, the settlers in the Willamette valley were very tense, concerned that the tribes would gather…
Sex at the Margins: Beyond Binaries in Trafficking & Sex Work
I’ve been invited to speak at the Human Trafficking Center of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, Colorado. The talk is called…
Arsenic and Old Pelts: Deadly Pesticides in Museum Collections
All museums use pesticides and preservatives, though their health impacts are not always known; ethnographic collections can thus pose a health risk. Here we open one cold case…
An Archaeology Carol… Or How Ghost Hunting Made Me A Better Archaeologist
By April Beisaw Another Christmas has passed without a personal visit from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, or Yet to Come? Same here. In Dickens’ A Christmas…
Economy, Happiness, and the Good Life: An Interview with Edward F. Fischer
GB. England. New Brighton. From ‘The Last Resort,’ 1983-85, Martin Parr. In the second interview for the series ‘The Good Life,’ Jonas Tinius and Johannes Lenhard invited anthropologi…
Economy, Happiness, and the Good Life: An Interview with Edward F. Fischer
GB. England. New Brighton. From ‘The Last Resort,’ 1983-85, Martin Parr. In the second interview for the series ‘The Good Life,’ Jonas Tinius and Johannes Lenhard invited anthropologi…
Populism, Nationalism, Globalization, and Imperialism: A Thick Review of 2017
In memory of Edward S. Herman b. April 7, 1926, d. November 11, 2017 An inspiration that lives on, may he rest in eternal peace. From provoking potential…
On Edge: China’s Frontiers in a Time of Change
In 2011, China’s state-run general content television channel, CCTV-4, launched a monumental 100-part series with a title that translates as “Borderland Journey” (边疆行). The premise of the show is…
Rezension | Systemtheorie. Theorie für die vernetzte Gesellschaft von Christian Schuldt – verfasst von Andreas Schulz
Am 8. Dezember 2017 wäre Niklas Luhmann 90 Jahre alt geworden. Sein Denken und seine Spielart der Systemtheorie beeinflussten die deutschsprachigen Sozialwissenschaften aber auch Disziplinen wie die K…
Web Roundup: Gender and Health by Cinzia Greco
Nothing seems to be more self-evident than gender differences, and yet when we have to establish what these differences are, things seem to become complicated. Is it the…
Inedia with a Grain of Salt
Author: Michael Rose, recently awarded his PhD from ANU. He would be thrilled to hear about any postdoc, writing or teaching opportunities that you might have going. You can contact…