Looking Ahead: University Anthropology Museums Matter
With notices going out from the Program Committee this week, the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting (November 29-December 3, 2017) is coming into focus. Notes that I am…
The duodenum is a noble, noble organ and I am totally, totally willing to own that name.
anthroduodenum /anTHrəˈd(y)o͞oəˈdēnəm/ or /anTHrōˈd(y)o͞oəˈdēnəm/ n 1. an anthropology blog dedicated to breaking down the most important issue facing our discipline. 2. the hard, under-appreciated, b…
What happened on 12 July: A lot.
July 12 was a historic day for net neutrality, with 1.6 million comments sent to the FCC and over 3 million phone calls made to congress. Anthropologists did…
Links & Contents I Liked 241
Hi all, Despite the lack of sun in Sweden, this post still counts as a ‘summer post’… Development news: The war in South Sudan; failing to learn from Biafra…
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – A Report
Our students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our workshop « The Bureaucratization of Utopia: International Governance, Audit…
Can we transform the repetition of virtual development debates into something bigger? And do we have to?
Maybe it was purely coincidental. Or maybe it was because I have more time to engage with digital content during my summer teaching break, but there seems to…
Conversations and Podcasting as Social Technology
This episode is a little different from our normal content. In it we feature a presentation Adam gave for Pivotal Labs in which he explores This Anthro Life’s (and…
How to be a tourist in Ireland
ET: You’ve said that everybody likes the Irish, but they don’t like themselves much. Why is that? DS: Well, Freud (him again) apparently said we have a neurosis but psychoanalysis would…
How to be a tourist in Ireland
ET: You’ve said that everybody likes the Irish, but they don’t like themselves much. Why is that? DS: Well, Freud (him again) apparently said we have a neurosis but psychoanalysis would…
The missing reflection paper on asylum policy
Under pressure after the shock of Brexit, the EU is seeking to reinvent itself. In March 2017, the Commission published a White paper on the future of Europe…
Shitting in Space: Engagements with Cosmic Taboo
Last December, I was asked an interesting question on Twitter: “How much poop is on the moon?” After a quick, panicky, existential reevaluation centered on whether my mountain…
Die guten Menschen von Sichuan: Alles nur fake?
Eine Reihe von guten Taten beschäftigt derzeit die chinesische Netzgemeinde. Ausgelöst wurde die Diskussion von einer Reihe Fotos, die besonders vorbildliches Verhalten chinesischer Bürger in der U-Ba…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
To PhD or not to PhD…
To PhD or not to PhD… this is a question that many prospective and current students haven’t thoroughly considered. As Daniel McCormack notes in “Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe”…
Roundtable: Comment by Dorothy Noyes #CollaborativeDilemmas
Dorothy Noyes, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, responds to the questions Chiara Bortolotto has recently raised in her virtual roundtable on “‘Col…
Today is the day: Help take back the net
It’s July 12th, the day of an Internet-wide day of action. As you can tell from the banner on our landing page, Savage Minds/Anthrodendum is protesting against threats…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, July 11th 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Is Violence Embedded in Our DNA?
Whether we take the perspective that evolutionary selection made humans prone to violence matters to our sense of ourselves. Are we born to be aggressive or peaceful? David…
Mathers Museum Access Ramp Project Photograph
The project to add an access ramp to the Mathers Museum of World Cultures (and to give give the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology a new ramp and…