Review: A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism
A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat, Eric Holt-Giménez, Monthly Review Press, 2017. Jo Hunter-Adams Working in food studies often means grappling…
Anthropology and the Rashomon Effect
A Reflection on Group Fieldwork. There is a high-fever-pitch limbic sensation of simultaneously registering something you heard or read as wrong, and the antsy, itchy, compulsion to raise…
Anthropology Matters! in Brief
Anthropology News invited members to report on the AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from reflections on a panels, to gonzo-style reporting, to anthropological impressions of the District. …
Justice, Science, and Pedagogy by Myrna Perez Sheldon
As we consider the role of justice in pedagogy and scholarship, I want to ask a simple but difficult question: What is our ethical task? Do we desire…
experiencing fine Indian dining in Mayfair
By Sean Carey “Why do you want to go to a posh Indian restaurant and spend a small fortune when you can go to the Lahore or Needoo’s…
Farha Ghannam: The Gender of Class: Taste and Social Inequalities in Urban Egypt
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1079/ghannam.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Farha Ghannam gave a …
Everything You Thought You Knew about Orphans in Africa Is Probably Wrong
Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril. “AIDS orphans” are commonly imagined as the…
Owen Flanagan, “The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility” (Oxford UP, 2017)
What is it to be moral, to lead an ethically good life? From a naturalistic perspective, any answer to this question begins from an understanding of what humans…
Zek Valkyrie, “Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline” (Praeger, 2017)
Zek Valkyrie teaches at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. His new book, Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline…
Links & Contents I Liked 263
Hi all, Welcome to one of the final link reviews of 2017! It’s an interesting mix this week featuring public lectures, (visual) communication of development & #MeToo reflections…
Archäologie: Per Tortenschnitt in die Vergangenheit
Vorderasiatische Archäologen leisten wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Nordirak. Proben konnte Prof. Dirk Wicke diesmal nicht mitbringen von seiner Grabung im Nordirak. Wegen des Unabhängigkeitsre…
Was ich noch sagen wollte. Ein Abschiedsbrief an China und besonders an Shanghai
Kann es das schon gewesen sein? Das habe ich mich die letzten Tage immer wieder gefragt. Seit dem ersten Semester ist der Auslandsaufenthalt Das Gesprächsthema unter uns gewesen.…
#Precarity everywhere?
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern from November 16-17, 2017.…
Día de furia – Tag des Zorns
Es ist 22:00 Uhr am Donnerstagabend in Buenos Aires, draußen sind noch 28° und ich sitze zwischen einem einzigen Pack-Chaos in meinem kleinen Zimmer. Für morgen Abend habe…
What FoodAnthro is Reading, December 14, 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…
‘Cultures in the Body’: Dance and Anthropology in Revolutionary Cuba
The short documentary Historia de un ballet (History of a Ballet, 1962) dramatizes an ethnographic encounter central to a creative process. Director José Massip followed Cuban choreographer Ramiro…
Anthropology Blogs 2017 & Open Anthropology
A list of anthropology blogs collected by Jason Antrosio of “Living Anthropologically”: https://www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology-blogs-2017/ Including the new anthropology grou…
Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2011)
In Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (Indiana University Press 2011), Sarah D. Phillips offers a compelling investigation of disability policies and movements in Ukraine after… Visit…
The Shameful Persistence of White Supremacy in the United States
So-called alt-right groups, such as these demonstrators at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, have been emboldened by recent political developments in…
Drift by Charne Lavery
The ocean has long been considered the ideal location for the disposal of waste—including, among many other things, treated and untreated sewage poured easily into the sea, the…
After a job interview…
Following up on our post about crafting cover letters from earlier this week, we thought we’d share another career-related resource today: “The Checklist You Need to Run Through…
Third World Quarterly & the case for colonialism debate
This is a curated and regularly updated overview (last update: 18 April 2018) over the events that followed after the publication of Bruce Gilley’s article The Case for…
After a job interview…
Following up on our post about crafting cover letters from earlier this week, we thought we’d share another career-related resource today: “The Checklist You Need to Run Through…
New underwater discoveries in Greece reveal ancient Roman engineering
Underwater excavations at Lechaion, the ancient harbour of Corinth, provide insight into engineering by the Roman Empire New archaeological excavations at the ancient port of Corinth have uncovered…