Videos from the Closing Conference
The Closing Conference of Overheating was held June 1, at the House of Literature in Oslo. The event was streamed live and is now available to watch in…
Positioning science: Post-truth, back to the facts, or morality?
Politics and/or knowledge There is lively debate about the authority of knowledge. Several movements within universities argue that academic knowledge is a form of colonisation. At the University…
Military heritage in the trenches
Figure 3. Remains of one of the POW camp’s features. Photo by Dawid Kobiałka.Trench art is not, as the name might suggest, a piece of art found or…
Military heritage in the trenches
Figure 3. Remains of one of the POW camp’s features. Photo by Dawid Kobiałka. Trench art is not, as the name might suggest, a piece of art found or made…
#EVENTS: Semiotics, Activism, Creativity and more…
The coming academic year is beginning to take shape and it looks very promising. Discussing gender in Europe, devising creative and innovative approaches in education, or exploring the…
Is the Developed World We’ve Created Giving Us Cancer?
The toxins in cigarettes are known to cause lung cancer, which is depicted here in CT scans. But determining what other toxins cause cancer is less clear-cut and…
TAL + SM: The Stories Bones Tell
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 4 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you…
The Stories Bones Tell w/ Kristina Killgrove
Click here to read our blog post on Savage Minds This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and blog…
teen pregnancy reduction campaigns in Brazil may be backfiring
Teen pregnancy reduction campaigns in Brazil may be backfiring (iStock) Efforts to reduce teen pregnancy rates in Brazil have shown mixed results, and new research from Vanderbilt University…
The Voice of Hunger, Part 1
A Two Part Series on Lives Sacrificed under Turkey’s State of Emergency For Nuriye, Semih and many other brave souls who choose to carry on… Part 1: The…
Pride in Resistance
In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Pride marches and parades are taking place against a backdrop where taking to the streets has been resignified as a potent,…
Not afraid of the ruins: Call for submissions for science fiction and utopian imaginaries
The goal of this new section will be to regularly showcase new, original, creative and critical reflections to foster intimate and productive conversations across the intellectual and creative…
anthro in the news 6/26/17
Parliamentary election exit poll results 2017. Source: News.com.au electability over vision The New Statesman published commentary by David Graeber, professor of social anthropology at the London Scho…
What’s At Stake in Speculation? by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
We’ve long been thinking about health, well-being, illness, sickness, and disease, in relation to risk. That things might not be maintained at their present levels, either individually, among…
Focaal Volume 2017, Issue 78: Boredom after the global financial crisis
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.co…
Ein Tag ohne haptische Wahrnehmung- Eine Dystopie
Wie wäre es aufzuwachen und die Fähigkeit verloren zu haben, etwas zu spüren? 7:30 Uhr: Der Wecker klingelt. Ich wache auf und fasse noch im Halbschlaf zur Seite,…
‘Fredrik Barth’ by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography. xi+249 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. London: Pluto Press, 2015. $99 (cloth), $35 (paper) Fredrik Barth was a creative and…
Why We Post: Anthropologists take on Social Media
In response to our posts last week about the presence and role of anthropologists and other academics on social media, I stumbled across the Why We Post, Social…
Living with the End
By Peter Versteeg Recently Chris Cornell, singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died. Soundgarden is probably best known for their early nineties song ‘Black Hole Sun’, whic…
Videos: The Adventures of the Master Class Reconsidered
Here we return to the theme of the previous feature on “reality tourism,” and the promotional materials produced by the Razor’s Edge company. With this, we complete our…
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – An international Workshop
The twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the United Nations, a project…