Schizophrenia’s Tangled Roots
Symptoms of schizophrenia and related disorders likely arise from a perplexing interplay of social, environmental, psychological, and biological factors. Apfelsaft123/Flickr Jacqui Dillon…
Surfing vs. the commodification of everything
Tom Curren, logo-free, 1991. Photography by Tom Servais. Do you ever think about the first time a concept really stuck for you? Not the first time you heard…
A Peak at Two “Miao Albums” with a Group of SIMA Colleagues
Working with the graduate students participating in the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is a pleasure. The students who are attending in order to gain skills for their…
Is History Over? How Can Power be Soft? Ask Ulf Hannerz
The end of history The clash of civilizations The coming anarchy Soft power We’ve all heard these trendy mottos, and most of us have probably cringed. Anthropologists…
The Detroitists
Reflections of Detroit Ethnographers at the Anniversary of the 1967 Rebellion “The case of Detroit confirms that redevelopment had strong negative repercussions for racial minorities, here represented…
SAFN Award Deadlines Extended!
SAFN is pleased to announce that we are extending the deadlines for both the Christine Wilson Award and the Thomas Marchione Award to July 28, 2017. Thomas Marchione…
Tischtennis in China: Die Mannschaft geht vor
Ende Juni 2017 zogen sich die drei besten Tischtennisspieler Chinas vom nationalen Meisterschaftsturnier zurück. Sie protestierten gegen die Versetzung des Nationaltrainers und forderten damit das chi…
Speculation, Certainty and the Diagnostic Illusory: The Tricorder and the Deathless Man by Thierry Jutel
In the paragraphs which follow, we will be discussing the ways in which two pieces of speculative fiction, the science fiction film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,…
Did human women contribute to Neanderthal genomes over 200,000 years ago?
A new Neanderthal mitochondrial genome supports a remarkable hypothesis – that there was interbreeding with an extremely early migration of African hominins Keeping pace with new developments in…
Een rechtvaardige academische cultuur: vertrouwen, vrijheid en veiligheid voor allen
Afgelopen donderdag presenteerde de UvA het auditrapport naar het onderzoek ‘Chatting about marriage with female migrants to Syria’. De UvA had tot deze reflectie audit besloten na eerdere…
‘Our Indigenous Ancestors’ by Carolyne Larson
Carolyne R. Larson. Our Indigenous Ancestors: A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877-1943. 232 pp., 29 illus., notes, bibl., index. University Park: Penn State…
Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung Newsletter Nr. 25, Juni 2017
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anthro in the news 7/17/17
Brazil Law Blog/Google Images Commons. labor rights in Brazil under attack An article in the Los Angeles Times reported that Brazil’s Senate approved an end to unemployment insurance,…
Remembering & Memories: there’s an app for that…
As we’ve posted about before, the adoption of new media and technology in our lives has an impact on our social lives in many interesting ways. In many…
Pristine paradise to rubbish dump: the same Pacific island, 23 years apart
Remember, this is not waste that was dumped directly by human hands. It was washed here on ocean currents, meaning that this is not just about one beach…
Only looking forward?
“In front of the office of the NGO stood a traditional ‘hanok’ house which caved in just a few days before I took this picture.” By Maaike van…
“To Peace, Because the Awful Alternative is the End of All Life”: Build Bomb–Explore Space(s)–Save World! (Part 1)
This two-part post is a collaborative authorship between Taylor R. Genovese and Martin Pfeiffer, a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. For more on…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XIV
Hey do y’all believe me now about that whole “Russian inference” thing I’ve been writing about for over a year? Anyway, here are some of my articles and…
Nader Hashimi and Danny Postel, eds. “Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East” (Oxford UP, 2017)
The term ‘sectarianism’ has dominated much of the discourse on the Middle East and dictates that much of the unrest in the region is due to religious and…