Im Reisefieber
Dieser Blogeintrag ist schon seit Langem überfällig und Charlotte ist mir natürlich schon zuvorgekommen – zumindest was den Teil in Chile betrifft. Ich meine natürliche unsere Reisen in…
Call for Blogs
Call for Blogs Als Arbeitsgruppe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie verbindet die AG Ethnologische Bildung Ethnologie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin und Bereiche der Kinde…
Laura Assmuth: Translocal life ways in the Nordic mobility space: towards a grounded transnationalism
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1071/assmuth.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Laura Assmuth (Univer…
Othered by Anthropology: Being a Student of Color in Anglo-cized Academia
[Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Savannah Martin.] It is both impressive and depressing how frequently scholars of color are Othered by anthropology. For many, the tales of alienation are…
Othered by Anthropology: Being a Student of Color in Anglo-cized Academia
[Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Savannah Martin.] It is both impressive and depressing how frequently scholars of color are Othered by anthropology. For many, the tales of alienation are…
2017 Thomas Marchione Award Winner!
We are very happy to announce the 2017 winner of the Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award. This annual prize is awarded to a student whose work continues and…
Sex work in fiction: Gorky Park, Moscow prostitution doesn’t exist
Militia detectives are at Kazansky Station in Komsomol Square, in Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Gorky Park. Cartier-Bresson’s 1954 photo shows the station at the left and surrounding traffic. …
The hair clipper: One or two thoughts about a mundane artifact
The gender of an object – For a seminar session on “gendered objects”, my colleague and I asked the participants to bring to class an object that they…
Ask Me about My Science
Curious public means many opportunities for biological anthropologists willing to speak up I once took a cast of a Neandertal skull with me on a research trip, packing…
Reimagining Political Horizons
Anthropologists have long been engaged in resistance and activism. “Social movements have been important spaces for generating anthropological theory,” Leith Mullings insisted in her bold 2013 preside…
Good Intentions and Murky Ethics
How anthropology matters in short-term global health travel. According to Volunteer World, an online international volunteer placement platform, “International voluntary work plays a key role in deliv…
Anthropology in Unseen Spaces
Documenting the human costs of the US security-state. This spring, Esperanza, a Salvadoran woman in the small California Central Valley town of Mendota, was on her way to church…
Latinx America and an Anthropology of Dissent
[pquote]Instead of proclaiming and declaring anthropology’s importance, we should step back and ask: What is the matter with anthropology?[/pquote]Our Annual Meeting theme has a problem. “Anthropology…
Links & Contents I Liked 257
Hi all, Greetings from Tbilisi where an excellent ComDev teaching seminar is coming to its end! It is also Friday-so there area links, readings, tweet & more to…
Refuge Europe at its Limits? Limits and Contradictions of the Political and Moral Ideal – Conference report
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves From the left: Prof. Alessandro Monsutti; Prof. Heath Cabot; Žiga Podgornik-Jakil; Prof. Olaf Zenker. Photographer Timur H…
Why you should move from Word to Pages
[This post originally appeared on Medium.] ○ Word is expensive, Pages is free. ○ Pages used to be bad at footnotes (while Word was always superb). Now it’s…
Collecting and Curating Food History for a Hungry Public
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is thrilled to announce our distinguished speaker for the Annual Meetings: Paula J. Johnson is a curator, project director, and…
Mode ist Kunst. Prada macht’s vor.
Prada hatte schon immer ein Faible für eine künstlerische Inszenierung ihrer Mode. Wenn man die Epicenter Stores in New York, Tokio, Los Angeles und Shanghai betritt, erwarten einen…
“That Almost Finished Journal Article” a 2017 Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Jaida Samudra, the organizer…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Anthropological & Pedagogical Research on Mature Students
In a follow up from our post on Monday, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continues to discuss her new pedagogical research project in collaboration with Ms. Silvie Tanu…
Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world
Thomas Hylland Eriksen recently held a lecture in Aveiro, Portugal. Watch the video here.
Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world
Thomas Hylland Eriksen recently held a lecture in Aveiro, Portugal. Watch the video here.
Jeffrey H. Cohen, “Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World” (U. Texas Press, 2015)
Jeffrey H. Cohen, a professor at The Ohio State University, has managed a rare feat: placing anthropology classics like Argonauts of the Western Pacific in the context of…