Here’s the Rub on the Dove Skincare Ad
The latest rendition of “sorry, not sorry” is not just topping the Billboard charts. It is also a public relations anthem about “missing the mark.” This time, Dove…
Anthropology Matters #AmAnth17
Open Anthropology Matters The October issue of Open Anthropology promotes material linked to the 2017 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Anthropology Matters (November …
Conference Report: An American at the German Anthropological Association
My introduction to the German Anthropological Association was from the podium of the Opening Plenary Panel in the Audimax of the Freie Universität Berlin, looking out at what…
Shifting Perspectives: The Man in Africa Hall at the American Museum of Natural History at 50
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in NY circa 2000. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. The “Man in Africa Hall” at the American Museum…
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum
The action by Decolonize this Place on the steps of the AMNH included veiling the statue of Teddy Roosevelt. Photo courtesy Hrag Vartanian. https://hyperallergic.com/329225/decolonizethisplace-d…
A Defense of the Charlottesville Counter-Protesters
Not all forms of violence are created equal. On August 12, violence unfolded at a white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. President Trump’s immediate reaction…
Introducing a new micro revolution: Students UnDivided
By Dominique van de Kamp UnDivided is a conference on how to explore diversity and promote inclusion in higher education, organised by a group of students…
Lecture: Introduction to Cultural & Social Anthropology
In 2017, the lecture “Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna is organized by Philipp Budka,…
What FoodAnthro is reading now, October 17, 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…
Robin Kimmerer: The Teachings of Grass
Robin Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, has been getting wonderful reviews. A short video (dedicated to the now extinct Passenger Pigeon) if you haven’t picked it up:
Toxicity by Danny Hoffman
1. Toxicity names forces for which there is no remediation. Ibrahim is a tour guide in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. His carefully crafted tour takes you around the…
anthro in the news 10/16.17
School girl, India. Credit: Google Images Commons/Pexels. educated brides sought, but not working wives Japan Today published an opinion piece co-authored by cultural anthropologist Rachael Goodman, p…
A Brexit in the World, and How It Found Its Place
On the relocation of the UK in a time of populist instability. [pquote]Once the formal Brexit process is completed, Britain will no longer be in the same place…
Conferencing: How to be a great Chair
With #AmAnth2017 on the horizon, we’ve been sharing some timely tips for conference goers over the past two posts. Today we are sharing some resources on how to be a…
Ventilation er så uhyre vigtigt
Få den samme temperatur i boligen gennem hele vinteren Bare fordi dagene bliver kortere, så medfører det ikke, at vi skal bo koldere. I et ordentlig isoleret…
Migrants sell sex in flats, or are they brothels?
Why does it matter where you sell sex? Although most photos attached to media stories show truncated women’s bodies standing in dark streets, the news often concerns indoors:…
Benzene, PCBs, and industrial chemistry: A narrative bibliography
How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World in The Atlantic by Rebecca Altman, is a narrative exploration of the rise of organic chemistry, and the industrialization of the branch of chemistry…
Review: Crumpled Paper Boat
By Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani ***Originally published in LSE Review of Books*** Writer James Agee, when commissioned to bring back an enticing story for Fortune magazine about impoverished farmers…
Review of Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals
http://www.depauw.edu/humani…/issue%2017/calarco-iveson.html Or here (PDF): http://www.depauw.edu/…/issue%2…/pdfs/calarco-iveson-pdf.pdf ‘Life and Relation Beyond Animalization’ by …
Mode ist Kunst. Balenciaga, l’œuvre au noir.
Mode ist Kunst. Balenciaga, l’œuvre au noir Zwischen Mode und Kunst besteht heute eine offensichtlichere Verbindung, als es jemals in…