The Ethnic Costume Museum at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (12/9)
In the previous post in this series, I described how my traveling companions and I visited Beijing’s 798 Art Zone. (For the series in order, see 1, 2,…
Racism, Circumcision, Suicide Bombing: The most viewed posts in 2017
Unfortunately no new content was published here last year. Nevertheless, this blog received lots of visitors. Looking at last year’s statistics about the most viewed posts and pages,…
Beijing’s 798 Art Zone, Revisited, Again (12/9)
After visiting The Museum of Women and Children (See part 3 here), our group checked in with the Beijing arts neighborhood known as 798. (For background on 798,…
Leadership for the Ecozoic: Call for PhD students (McGill/Vermont)
See the link below for PhD opportunities regarding a new program jointly produced by McGill University and the University of Vermont…a follow up to their partnership on the…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part XXII
I took a couple weeks off from writing articles to finish up some book projects — I’m involved in three books coming out in 2018. My 2015 essay…
MENA Dialogues – Esra Özyürek on Religion, Secularism and Nationalism in Turkey and Europe
A conversation for STATUS/الوضع, between Esra Özyürek of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Nazlı Özkan, a PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology and Middle East…
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method[1] Keith Hart[2] Abstract This blatantly introspective essay seeks to trace a path from the postulation of an informal economy as…
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method[1] Keith Hart[2] Abstract This blatantly introspective essay seeks to trace a path from the postulation of an informal economy as…
New book from Christopher Preston: The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
I’ve long enjoyed reading Christopher Preston’s work on environmental ethics and look forward to this new book with MIT Press out later this spring. The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning…
Unpicking an (A)moral Anthropological Stance: Ongoing Violence in Myanmar
REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain Introduction by Maaike Matelski In June 2015 the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology organized a seminar on account of the increasing number of Rohingya refug…
Links & Contents I Liked 264
Hi all, Happy New Year! Welcome to the first link review of 2018! We are reviewing some developments of 2017, add a few challenges that will be with…
Beyond “Banned Words”: The CDC, Trump’s Anti-Science, and Anthropological Outrage by Charles L. Briggs
I am delighted that anthropologists joined the debate unleashed by a story published in the Washington Post on 15 December 2017, in which health reporter Lena Sun and…
New book published! “Can Behaviour Be Controlled? Women in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
New book published. “Can Behaviour Be Controlled? Women in Post-Revolutionary Egypt“. This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women’s everyday lives in post-revolut…
Big conference coming up on “Race in Contemporary Denmark”
“Race in Contemporary Denmark” is the theme of our upcoming conference at Aalborg University Copenhagen from January 18th to 19th 2018. Read more Conference website Programme …
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork in Tourism
By Mari-Elina Ekoluoma I have on many occasions felt a need to ponder upon the tension between the concepts of “work” and “leisure”. This is certainly not something…
Anson Dart and the Willamette Treaty Commission
Many scholars of Oregon tribal history have assumed, as have I, that Anson Dart, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon from 1850 to 1852 was responsible for…
April Mayes, “The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race and Dominican National Identity” (U. Press of Florida, 2014)
In a perceptive challenge to longstanding assumptions about Dominican anti-Haitianism, April J. Mayes finds fresh ways to think about the production of race in late 19th and 20th…
Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists
Here’s something fun for back to class: the relatively new tumblr Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists! Alex Golub posted about his new project on anthro{dendum} back in November, but…
Privilege: White, American, or Imperial?
To the extent that “white privilege” continues to exist in the US, is it the highest form of privilege? How might a focus on domestic race relations misdirect us from an…
Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists
Here’s something fun for back to class: the relatively new tumblr Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists! Alex Golub posted about his new project on anthro{dendum} back in November, but…
Book Review: Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart edited by Rowland Atkinson, Lisa McKenzie and Simon Winlow
In Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart, editors Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie and Simon Winlow make a compelling moral case for the social sciences to challe…
Somatosphere in 2017 by Eugene Raikhel
As 2018 begins we pause to briefly look back at the posts that appeared in the past year on Somatosphere. Last year we were happy to publish a…
Rezension | Klassiker der Soziologie: Eine illustrierte Einführung von Ansgar Lorenz und Nektarios Ntemiris – verfasst von Bianka Plüschke-Altof
„Mit leichter Kost“ (S. 138) einen Einblick in die Soziologie zu eröffnen, das haben sich der Soziologe Nektarios Ntemiris und der Illustrator Ansgar Lorenz in ihrer Monographie „Klassiker…
The Museum of Women and Children | 中国妇女儿童博物馆 (12/9)
This is the third 2017 China trip post. As in the two (1, 2) previous posts, it reports on adventures in Beijing with Jon Kay (my MMWC colleague)…