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…
Treaty with the Molala, Negotiated December 21, 1855, Ratified March 8, 1859
The Treaty with the Molala is the last treaty negotiated for western Oregon. Joel Palmer heard late in 1855, in fact in October, that there was a tribe…
Treaty with the Umpqua and Kalapuya, Negotiated November 29, 1854, Ratified March 3, 1855
On November 29th 1854, the tribes of the upper Umpqua River (Umpqua) and Yoncalla Kalapuyans signed a treaty with the United States for their lands. This was the…
Treaty with the Umpqua – Cow Creek Band, Negotiated September 19, 1853, Ratified April 12, 1854
The Treaty with the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua is the first treaty in Oregon to be negotiated and ratified. The treaty establishes the Umpqua Reservation for…
Call for Proposals: #MeToo
As stories of sexual assault and misconduct continue to make news headlines, Anthropology News invites anthropologists to reflect on the #MeToo movement and this particular moment in sexual…
Facetten des Abteilungsalltags
Warum fiel die Entscheidung für die Kulturanthropologie in Bonn? Wo kann man am schönsten in Bonn Zeit verbringen? Und welche Superkräfte sollten entdeckt werden, um den Alltag als…
White House announces end of TPS for El Salvador
The Trump administration announced it will end the Temporary Immigration Status allowing immigrants from El Salvador to work and live legally in the U.S. It recently ended the…
The Willamette Valley Treaty (Treaty with the Kalapuya, Etc.) Signed January 22 & Ratified March 3, 1855
The Willamette Valley Treaty was designed to remove the tribes from western Oregon, from lands desired by American settlers. When the treaty was finally signed, on January 22th,…
Solving a Riddle About the Dawn of Art
Figures of horses in the Atxurra cave system in Spain astounded archaeologist Diego Garate, who shines his headlamp on this previously unknown panel of artwork. Diego Garate On…
Kulturanthropologie im Museum: Interview mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemeyer
Lea Hennrich spricht mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemeyer (Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Tübingen) über Kulturanthropologische Forschungen im Museum. Im Rahmen unserer Vortragsre…
حواران عن الأننثروبولوجيا على يوتيوب Two interviews about anthropology in Arabic
هنا روابط لحواريت طويلين معي عن علم الأنثروبولوجيا وعن عملي العلمي على يوتيوب، الأول قام به أحمد يعد زايد في صالونه الفلسفي في الإسكمدرية في فبراير 2017 والكلام…
حواران عن الأننثروبولوجيا على يوتيوب Two interviews about anthropology in Arabic
هنا روابط لحواريت طويلين معي عن علم الأنثروبولوجيا وعن عملي العلمي على يوتيوب، الأول قام به أحمد يعد زايد في صالونه الفلسفي في الإسكمدرية في فبراير 2017 والكلام…
Book Review: Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties by Becky Yang Hsu
In Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties, Becky Yang Hsu draws upon two microfinance projects in rural China in order to explore the social relations and cultural…
Logging on to the Anthropocene
These days many academics like to talk and write about public scholarship. In my discipline, anthropology, there is no shortage
Logging on to the Anthropocene
These days many academics like to talk and write about public scholarship. In my discipline, anthropology, there is no shortage
Mobile Apps for Ethnographic Research – #RoR2018
Ethnographic research is difficult. It’s a challenge to find the right assistants, get access, recruit the right people, keep a schedule, make time for note-writing and transcription, and…
Revisiting ‘States at Work. Dynamics of African Bureaucracies’
‘States at Work’ aims to contribute to the academic debates on processes of state-building in Africa, and, among development practitioners, on the role of the state in development,…
Flüchtige Leben, gesundheitliche Versorgung: Medizin und Migration – ein Kongress-Bericht
Caroline Meier zu Biesen Über die Grenze. Eine wachsende Zahl Flüchtender erreicht Südtirol. Aufgrund aktueller Migrationsbewegungen intensiviert sich die Debatte um ihre medizinische Versorgung. Bild…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part II
Thanks to some amazing role models in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, where I studied, I have always known that it is possible…
After the Workshop, Before the Fieldwork (12/12)
A photograph of the project team and special guests on the steps of the Anthropological Museum of Guangxi in Nanning. December 12, 2017. Photograph courtesy of the Anthropological…
Beauty by Lynn M. Thomas
In the late 1990s, a group of Japanese researchers set out to investigate whether small-scale gold mining operations near the shores of East Africa’s Lake Victoria were resulting…
Taste and Terroir as an Anthropological Matter – Summary
Happy New Year! Abigail Adams and I are the new co-editors of the SAFN blog. Our heartfelt thanks to David Beriss, the long-time editor and constant champion of…
anthro in the news 1/15/18
Flag of the Republic of Haiti. Credit: Wikipedia Haiti pride The Haitian Revolution defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and established the only country in the world based…
‘Collecting, Ordering, Governing’ by Bennett et al.
Tony Bennett, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis, and Conal McCarthy. Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government. 360 pp., 46 illu…