We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Jeff Martin, AAA’s director…
We have the pleasure to host at the anthropology team Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. She is doing research on kin-based forms of care, an…
As if Human Trafficking weren’t an already over-used, ambiguous, confusing term for a raft of phenomena, some influential characters want to replace the term with Modern Slavery. I…
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Caroline Meier zu Biesen Report on the workshop “Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion”, convened on…
British “explorer” Benedict Allen made news recently by being rescued from a failed attempt to cross the central mountain range of Papua New Guinea and paddle downs stream…
British “explorer” Benedict Allen made news recently by being rescued from a failed attempt to cross the central mountain range of Papua New Guinea and paddle downs stream…
Danish tavern decked up to start second innings in Serampore Ajanta Chakraborty| TNN | Nov 21, 2017, 04:53 IST KOLKATA: The double-storey Denmark Tavern, which was in a shambles till a…
This post by Shirley Fiske is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. The conference itself exuded “green”…
[no-caption] Colin Knowles/Flickr This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. “You said that you’re afraid of dying. What are you …
In Twitterspace, the lead-up to the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is generally quiet, but I’ll start my analysis this year one week ahead of the game. Here’s…
by Maaike van Nus
By Rachael Wakefield-Rann, University of Technology Sydney § Source: http://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/04144722/supermarket-skin-care-buys1.png The choreography of daily life dic…
This post by Naveeda Khan is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. I decided to stay home…
Michael Brian Schiffer. Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World. 397 pp., 38 b&w photos, notes, refs., index. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. $26.95 (paper), $22…
Eine Besonderheit der kulturanthropologischen Forschung ist es, sich nicht nur auf das eigene Forschungsinteresse zu fokussieren, sondern die Augen für alles offen zu halten, das einer_m begegnet. So…
Einladung zum Vortrag in Regensburg am 22.11.2017 Studium Generale „Challenging the iconic turn“ Lioba Keller-Drescher (Tübingen/Berlin): Moden und Trachten. Eine Bild-Diskurs-Analyse Uni …
Viewers in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which was briefly renamed “Eclipseville” for the eclipse. Photo courtesy Nicole Erwin, WKMS. Total solar eclipses are magnificent, dramatic visual colli…
Übersetzung von Elena Radwan – An diesem Mittwochmittag, nachdem Cedric* mir die Haare geschnitten hatte, verbrachte ich einige Zeit in der Küche von Mastercut, als ich bemerkte, dass…
For the Tansy Point Treaties, Dart worked to get all the land from the tribes. By this time the tribes had already heard rumors of the treaties, and…
A week or so ago we posted a listing of the panels sponsored by SAFN at the upcoming meetings of the American Anthropological Association. It is a glorious…
For colonial officials in British East Africa, African excrement endangered public health because Africans were reckless defecators. The world was their toilet, and they simply went where they…
How does a group become defined as white? And does that group define themselves that way as well? Neda Maghbouleh‘s new book, Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and…
In A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (The University Press of Mississippi, 2014), Ian Brodie, an associate professor of folklore at Cape Breton University, brings…
This day, a Wednesday noon after Cedric* had cut my hair, I spend some time in the kitchen of the salon, when I realized that Reiner was in…