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Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!Development news: Aid agencies & holes; WFP’s data handling problem; sexual harassment in the UN; the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ ranking…
REDUX: Abjected Spaces, Debris of War #Anthrostate
To close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this excerpt from Yael Navaro-Yashin’s last book “The Make-Believe…
In eigener Sache – die Segel neu gesetzt
Hallo und bevor ihr euch fragt, ob das hier eine Fata Morgana ist: Nein, Ethnosphäre ist nicht tot. Nein, nein, das Blog ruhte nur, und wartete auf den…
Signs of Latency
One of the ideas I’ve been playing with over the last few years is the idea of latency in the networked age. As we relate, communicate and move…
The Politics of Grieving in Turkey
The Death of the Maden Family The Aegean Sea is a graveyard. Like its Mediterranean counterpart, its waters are filled with human bodies that wash up on the…
New Special Issue “Im/Mobilities and Dis/Connectivities in Medical Globalization: How Global is Global Health?”
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Dominik Mattes, Hansjörg Dilger The interdisciplinary, politically contested field of Global Health has often been described as a consequence of, and response…
Interaktion – Wissen – Lernen. Zum Sinn und Zweck des Blogs
Auf dem Blog „Alltagswelten. Bonner Perspektiven der Kulturanalyse“ präsentieren Student_innen, Dozent_innen und Forscher_innen der Abteilung Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde der Universität Bonn Geda…
Free Your Mind, the Text Will Follow (Working With Text 1)
While I’ve written a fair amount of software reviews and how to guides in the past, this year I thought I’d do something different. This is the first…
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets” #AnthroState
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs since the Apartheid era. As with the Hillbrow…
The Willamette Valley Treaty Podcast for the Grand Ronde Tribe
The ratified treaties series, just completed today (1/17/2018), was inspired by a request from Dean Rhodes, Media Director at Grand Ronde, for me to tape a podcast about…
Rogue River Treaty of 1854, Negotiated November 15, 1854, Ratified March 3, 1855
The second Rogue River Treaty, that of 1854, was a treaty if peace, and ratifying the joint occupancy of the Table Rock Reservation by many tribes subject to…
Treaty with the Chasta, Negotiated November 18, 1854, Ratified March 3, 1855
The Treaty with the Chasta was signed on November 18, 1854, ceding a good portion of the Illinois and Rogue River areas, west of the Rogue Valley, to…
Texting Like A State: mHealth and the first thousand days in South Africa by Nanna Schneidermann
What does making a new life look like from the perspective of a mobile phone? For the phone of a woman using the public health care system in…
Trumping the Farmers, Taxing the Junk Food, Regulating the Milk, and More: World Food Policy Roundup
By Kelly Alexander In the US: Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016, and to thank them he addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation conference in Nashville. “Oh, are…
The Power of Sports to Change American Ideals
When the now former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt for the national anthem in a preseason game in the summer of 2016, he set…
Why YOU Should Be an Academic Cyborg (and Maybe Already Are)
Although I’ve often been heard to sigh and groan that “technology hates me”, just like any other self-respecting anthropologist, in this post I want to consider just what…
When Evolution Is Not a Slow Dance but a Fast Race to Survive
This young Afghan refugee named Maimuna, photographed in Kabul in 2016, has features that are similar to ancient European hunter-gatherers. Hedayatullah Amid/Epa/REX This article was orig…
Some thoughts and observations on the Liberian presidential and representative elections, by Maarten Bedert (2018)
The second day of Christmas saw the birth of a new President in Liberia. Former football player and current Senator for Montserrado County, George Weah won the presidential…
Some thoughts and observations on the Liberian presidential and representative elections, by Maarten Bedert (2018)
The second day of Christmas saw the birth of a new President in Liberia. Former football player and current Senator for Montserrado County, George Weah won the presidential…
Ray Cashman, “Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border” (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)
How do individuals on national or societal peripheries make use of tradition and to what ends? How can narratives discursively construct a complex worldview? These are some of…
Call for #Reviews: #AnthroState #Africa
As we start into 2018, we seize the opportunity of this post by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan on their influential edited volume States at Work to…
Our Understanding of the Labor Experience Is Overdue for Change
Labor interventions are largely driven by standards set in the 1950s. A growing body of research suggests it may be time for a change — Read more on…
Rogue River Treaty of 1853, Negotiated September 10, 1853, Ratified April 12, 1854
The Rogue River Treaty of 1853 was negotiated at the base of the Lower Table Rock, between the base and the river. Accounts of the treaty signing suggest…