Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world
Thomas Hylland Eriksen recently held a lecture in Aveiro, Portugal. Watch the video here.
Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world
Thomas Hylland Eriksen recently held a lecture in Aveiro, Portugal. Watch the video here.
Jeffrey H. Cohen, “Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World” (U. Texas Press, 2015)
Jeffrey H. Cohen, a professor at The Ohio State University, has managed a rare feat: placing anthropology classics like Argonauts of the Western Pacific in the context of…
Tracing Chemical Intimacies
By Sophia Jaworski (University of Toronto) A middle-aged woman in the Greater Toronto Area wears a charcoal mask in her bedroom to prevent asthma spurred by breathing in…
„Warum Definitionen wichtig sind“ – Paganismus, populäre Religion, Ahnenkult und rechtes Denken
Die von der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Schleswig-Holstein (AWO) sowie dem Beratungsnetzwerk gegen Rechtsextremismus mit seinen mobilen Teams organisierte Tagung “Odin mit uns! – Wikingerkult und Rechtsextre…
In the Journals–October 2017 by Julia Kowalski
International Journal of Social Psychiatry (September issue) Becoming a patient-illness representations of depression of Anglo-Australian and Sri Lankan patients through the lens of Leventhal’s illne…
Sprache ist nicht gleich Sprache
Wer, was, wann, wo und wie sind die fünf Frageworte, die wohl einem jeden Bericht zu Grunde liegen. Dies ist bestimmt auch beim Artikel „Ein Haus der Geschichten“…
„Warum Definitionen wichtig sind“ – Paganismus, populäre Religion, Ahnenkult und rechtes Denken
Die von der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Schleswig-Holstein (AWO) sowie dem Beratungsnetzwerk gegen Rechtsextremismus mit seinen mobilen Teams organisierte Tagung “Odin mit uns! – Wikingerkult und Rechtsextremi…
It’s Not Just Your Parents’ Fault
Did you know that your mind is a cesspit of anger, and fear, and unresolved moments from your childhood? It’s not just you. Apparently everyone is living in…
SAFN Events & Panels at AAA 2017
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association is rapidly approaching. The conference will be held November 29-December 3 in Washington DC, mostly at the Marriott Wardman Park…
Article Alert! New Texts in Discard Studies (October 2017)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in…
Is the United Nations Broken?
U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated the United Nations at the 72nd U.N. General Assembly in September. MediaPunch/Associated Press When the United Nations General Assembly convened its…
Yes, it is surely a Oklahoma Cherokee basket; Or my captions, as written
Fellow basketry enthusiasts may have seen the traveling exhibition Rooted, Revived, and Reinvented: Basketry in America. Happily for our musuem the exhibition includes a Sea Island basket from…
Web Roundup: NFL Concussion Risk and our Chronic, Traumatic Entertainment by Kathleen Lynch
As the NFL continues to dominate headlines in both sports and politics, there was a renewed focus this month on CTE and its impact on the lives of…
Axel Rudi: Independence from Whom? The Aftermath of the Kurdish Referendum
In the future, people will say, “On the 16th of October, it happened again.” The Kurds were once again betrayed by the international community. Afraid of losing their…
ethnoGRAPHIC: Extending Anthropology’s Reach, One Comic at a Time
Part of my job as an editor is to convince people to write the books I think they should write, not necessarily the ones they want to write.…
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis…
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis…
Herbstfeldspaziergang I
1. November 2016. Wir halten an dem Parkplatz eines Friedhofs an. Wir sind in einem kleinen südslowakischen Dorf. Ich steige aus dem Auto und schnappe etwas von der…
THE OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY COOPERATIVE: Towards an Online Public Anthropology
We attempt here to explore the relationship between anthropology, social media and public engagement through a web-based network that we helped to found and manage. We argue…
All that is trafficking is rape, and other emotional excesses
A combination of titillation and outrage characterise public rhetoric about commercial sex, along with a tone of moral indignation suited to crusaders. A policeman in Cornwall has just warned…
When the press covers news
Katie Sims / Sun Staff Photographer ROHINGYA Prof Urges Students to Consider Oppression of The Rohingya By Victoria Moore The Rohingya crisis has been termed a “textbook example of…
“Not All Suffering Is Illness; Some Suffering Is Political”: The Ambit of Radical Care
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay. 2016. A Labour of Liberation. Regina, SK, Canada: Changing Suns Press. 68 pages. A Labour of Liberation, published by the new Changing Suns Press, is a…