Flüchtlingspolitik in Wahlprogrammen zur Bundestagswahl 2017
Von Jonas Freist-Held, Thore Hagemann, Lucas Rasche und Natalie Welfens Selten wurde auf parteipolitischer und Bundesebene so viel über Migrations- und Flüchtlingspolitik diskutiert wie in den …
How Did Humans Get So Good at Politics?
Then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, hugs his son Donald Trump Jr. during a rally at Ohio University Eastern Campus in St. Clairsville, Ohio, in June 2016.…
Accidental experimental ethnography #Colleex
Researching with social movements (environmental activism, makerspaces) brings ethnography’s nuanced, embodied and collective sense-making to the fore. I also argue that anthropological research…
What we’ve been writing: public anthropology from vic
Check out some recent work by my colleagues in the Cultural Anthropology programme vicanthropology It’s been a while since we’ve posted on vicanthropology, but everyone’s been busy elsewhere.…
The hummingbird shamans of Peru: Excerpt from "Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon"
Abanti blew the tobacco with fast furious puffs. The snuff entered my nostrils as a sequence of chartreuse explosions that expanded in chain reaction and spread backwards and…
The hummingbird shamans of Peru: Excerpt from "Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon"
Abanti blew the tobacco with fast furious puffs. The snuff entered my nostrils as a sequence of chartreuse explosions that expanded in chain reaction and spread backwards and…
Fashion Department Antwerp and the Antwerp six
The Royal Academy of fine Arts, ist eine der ältesten Kunstuniversitäten ihrer Art in Europa – sie wurde welche bereits 1663 gegründet. 1963 wurde ein Modekurs eingeführt, der…
Indian Cinema
Reminder to self. Go back and watch more of the wonderful archive that is https://indiancine.ma Such a bunch of tollylicious fun.Filed under: elephant, film, India
‘Devicing’ fieldwork #Colleex
Collaboration is an epistemic figure resulting from the careful craft of articulating inventive shared modes of doing together with our companions in the field. The field turns into…
CFP: Southern Cultures Special Issue on Coastal Foodways
This is a bit last minute, but seems like it may be of interest to SAFN writers and other readers of this blog: Call for Papers Special issue…
“Are We So Different?”
An excerpt from a longer piece by AAA member Irma McClaurin When the end comes our minute genetic differences will be obliterated. We will be reduced to bones,…
Mothers Matter: Developing the ‘Waiting Mother’ by Kylie Marais
“Waiting indicates that we are engaged in, and have expectations from, life; that we are on the lookout for what life is going to throw our way” (Hage,…
anthro in the news 9/18/17
Scene in Bangladesh. Credit: Wikipedia water problems and cholera alert The Conversation published commentary by medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth, assistant professor in the School of Internatio…
Resources for Understanding Race After Charlottesville
In this time of fake news and alternative facts coming from the White House as well as some media, what can we as scholars contribute to challenge this?…
After 10 years the AAA Race Project is Still Needed Now More Than Ever
By Yolanda T. Moses, University of California Riverside I recently returned from North Carolina Museum of Natural History where the “Race Are We So Different Exhibit” will be…
Charlottesville: Trump, Race and the Logical Utopia/Illogical Dystopia Binary
By K. Nyerere Ture, PhD, Yale University In January 2016, during the Republican primary season, Donald J. Trump, an emergent candidate, characterized his loyal supporters as the smartest Americans…
Resources for Understanding Race After Charlottesville
In this time of fake news and alternative facts coming from the White House as well as some media, what can we as scholars contribute to challenge this?…
Innovative Like Me: Best Practices for Writing Unbiased Job Ads
Below is a post @anthrolens blogger @JennLong3 wrote on LinkedIn. In this post, I write about diversity and bias in Canadian job ads. ————————————————————–…
Review of Richard S. Newman’s “Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present”
Newman’s activists press for environmental change imbedded with critiques of capitalism and industrialization, racial injustice, and its global implications. This view distorts the complexity of histo…
Anticipating Law: The Prognostics of Fear and Hope #LawNet2017
This week Allies will once again be in action – this time at the 2017 EASA LawNet Workshop in Bern on September 19-21! The workshop engages with numerous topical themes…