Minimalismus: Weshalb Verzicht so populär ist
Minimalismus ist zurzeit in aller Munde. Unzählige Blogs und YouTube-Kanäle propagieren den minimalistischen Lebensstil, Minimalisten lächeln von Zeitschriften-Covers und diskutieren in TV-Sendungen z…
Protest & Politics: Sounds from Budapest and Beyond
Do you remember your last protest? I do, because I spent the protest alone with my headphones on clutching a sound recorder. I was trying to avoid both…
Political Correctness is Not the Problem, Systemic Racism Is
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of student protests on college campuses in the US and beyond. Many of these protests, inspired by broader contemporary social…
Students for Zero Waste Conference, 2017 (Philadelphia)
Join The Post-Landfill Action Network at the Students for Zero Waste Conference on November 3rd-4th, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA!
First (Virtual) Meeting on Meeting (MoM) #bureaucracy
This summer, Allegra has been particularly inspired by the intricacies of global bureaucracies. Our readers may have already read the report of the workshop ‘The Bureaucratization of Utopia̵…
Second (Virtual) Meeting on Meeting (MoM) #bureaucracy
This is part two of our virtual Meeting on Meeting. Read the Minute of our First MoM here. Date: 12 July 2017 Chair: Julie Billaud (JB), Director of…
Opdateret viden på det danske lånemarked kan spare dig for penge
Optager du kun et lån hvert tredje eller hvert femte år, så risikerer du at takke ja til et ugunstigt lånetilbud, hvis du ikke har sørget for at…
Now Posting on Medium (Medieval Indonesia)
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog, but I wanted to let any readers/subscribers know that I’m now writing on Medium under the name Medieval Indonesia (twitter…
Gareth M. Thomas, “Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic” (Routledge, 2017)
Drawing on an ethnography of Downs syndrome screening in two UK clinics, Gareth M. Thomas‘ Down’s Syndrome and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic…
Kristina Musholt, “Thinking About Oneself: From Nonconceptual Content to the Concept of a Self” (MIT Press, 2015)
When Descartes famously concluded “I think, therefore I am”, he took for granted his ability to use the first person pronoun to refer to himself. But how do…
‘Savage Preservation’ by Brian Hochman
Brian Hochman. Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology. 312pp., 18 b&w photos, 12 color plates, notes, bibl., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2…
“Capitalism Is Just around the Corner…”
A view on tourism and economic development from rural Cuba Expanding private business “Everyone is now crazy for renting,” my friend Julio told me during my last stay…
Sustainable Tourism… for Development?
Not a day goes by without being confronted, one way or the other, with the multiple environmental, societal, and economic challenges that our planet faces. Because it is…
Anthropologists Weigh in on the Sustainability of Tourism
With 1 billion annual tourists worldwide (and rising), the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) declared 2017 the Year of Sustainable Tourism. But how—and if—tourism can be sustainable, particularly as…
Anthropologists need to address the Google memo on its merits. Again.
When Google engineer James Damore wrote his now-infamous memo about how woman are naturally unsuited to work at Google, anthropologists everywhere groaned inwardly. Our discipline’s lot in life…
anthro in the news 8/14/17
Closed due to heat wave. Credit: MTSOfan/Flickr summer in the city The Conversation published an article on heat waves, urban life, and social inequality by Merrill Singer, professor…
Syllabi resources for challenging systemic racism, colonization, and more
In the wake of the horrific, racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, it is important for anthropologists to think about our voice in university classrooms as…
My new book on Global Water Governance with Nathanial Matthews
Very pleased to announce my new book, co-authored with Nathanial Matthews, is now out with Palgrave Macmillan. A description of the book is below (or here) and the…
How we discovered pollution-poisoned crustaceans in the Mariana Trench
A trench amphipod, Hirondellea gigas, from the deepest place on Earth: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (10,890m). Alan Jamieson, Newcastle University, Author provided Alan Jamieson, Newcastle Un…
Do All African Immigrants Arrive Sick, Desperate, and Empty-Handed on the Shores of Europe? Ask Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg!
The lives, status, and image of immigrants may constitute the single-most urgent human issue of our time. In an arresting and captivating new study of Cameroonian mothers now…
Call for Applications: Laurits Andersen PhD position in Business and Organizational Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen
The Laurits Andersen Foundation at the University of Copenhagen has granted funds to the Department of Anthropology for a three-year fully financed PhD position in the field of…