Auslandsstudium: Dank der Eltern – aber auch für sie?
Mit einem abgeschlossenen Studium im Ausland stehen chinesischen Studenten alle Türen offen. Daher ist oft die ganze Familie involviert – nicht zuletzt finanziell. Dass diese Unterstützung nicht…
How Molecular Clocks Are Refining Human Evolution’s Timeline
Our cells have a built-in genetic clock, tracking time—but how accurately? Mauro Hiroshi Cannas/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished u…
CfP: Hazardous Time-Scapes: How to Make Sense of Toxic Landscapes from Multiple Timed, Spaced, and Embodied Perspectives?
The workshop Hazardous Time-Scapes seeks to understand human-environment relationships through the lens of multiple overlapping time, space, and body regimes as they have (and continue to) play out…
If Mary Beard is right, what’s happened to the DNA of Africans from Roman Britain?
There are many reasons why a genetic legacy might not be seen in contemporary populations – Mary Beard was right to defend the BBC’s cartoon If you have…
Introducing the 2017 AAA Interns!
Palmyra Jackson It was mid-February in India and the morning cool had just started to wane off in favor of the afternoon heat. Seated at the dining table,…
New Associate Editor
Dr. Katharina Graf (kg38@soas.ac.uk), who recently received her DPhil in the Anthropology of Food from SOAS-University of London, will be joining SAFN as Associate Book Review Editor for…
It’s not hip to be square
I see shows like Star Trek as emblematic of a transitional period in American masculinity — at least on TV. The 50’s would have been pure Kirk, with…
Coding Culture IV: Code-phobia and Making the Most of Fear, Failure, and Tiny Victories in Digital Anthropology
This is the fourth and final post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. In the first…
anthro in the news 8/7/17
Credit: Canadian Liver Foundation/Google Images Commons. undetected, untreated, deadly The Washington Post published an article co-authored by medical anthropologist Paul Farmer, the Kolokotrones Univ…
Review: Bitter and Sweet
Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning and Modernity in Rural China. Ellen Oxfeld. University of California Press, 2017. David E. Sutton Southern Illinois University The residents of Moonshadow Pond,…
Perspectives: checking out the new #OpenAccess textbook
In a recent post, Anthrodendum (formerly Savage Minds) highlights the new open-access teaching resource Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology. This new, open-access textbook is a pr…
Your city could be exporting deadly air pollution – here’s why
Goods and services produced in one region for use by another region are responsible for 22% (762,400) of air pollution-related deaths worldwide.
Transnational Scientific Projects and Racial Politics: The KEMRI Six Case Against the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Contemporary Kenya
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Denielle Elliott The Supreme Court of Kenya: Lawyer Ogutu, Sam Gwer, Lawyer Chigiti, Michael Mwaniki, and Moses Ndiritu (left to right), taken…
Searching for Solutions to Climate Change Risks in the Peruvian Andes
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Courtney Cecale Climate change has arrived in the Cordillera Blanca. Since 1970, this mountainous region with the largest concentration of tropical glaciers in…
Ilana Gershon, “Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Labor markets are not what they used to be, as Ilana Gershon argues in Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work…
A Southwest Central Indiana Collaboration: The Art with a Purpose Exhibition at the Brown County Art Gallery
This afternoon the Brown County Art Gallery in Nashville, opened the exhibition Art with a Purpose: Brown County Baskets. The exhibition is a homecoming, of sorts, because it…
Language contacts in the Arctic
August 31 is the deadline for paper submissions to a congress in Moscow. Judging from the keynote speakers, this should be also very interesting for us anthropologists, because…
Re-materializing the Immaterial Economy: Sareeta Amrute’s Encoding Race, Encoding Class
(This occasional post is a book review that comes to us from Alisha Wilkinson and Meg Stalcup. Meg Stalcup is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Ottawa,…
In the Journals – July 2017 by Danya Glabau
American Quarterly Queer History, Mad History, and the Politics of Health Regina Kunzel Among the central themes of the eclectic field of mad studies is a critique of…
CFP: “Food and …” Texas Tech, March 29-31, 2018
Upcoming conference of possible interest to SAFN members. Call for Papers “Food and . . . ” Conference March 29-31, 2018 Humanities Center at Texas Tech The Humanities…
On Queer Amnesia
The AQA exists as a dedicated home for queer anthropology within the larger discipline. Nonetheless, in these pages, on the AN website, and in their own work, AQA…