anthro in the news 9/11/17
Super Mario games follow player character Mario’s adventures in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom. Credit: Pixabay. games, technology, and nostalgia CNBC reported on the revival of some classic vid…
Resources for Anti-Racist Pedagogy
As a scholar who “grew up” in anthropology decades after the crisis of representation debates emerged, I am well aware of the colonizing power dynamics in our discipline’s…
Toxins or Toxicants? Why the difference matters
When we accidentally call toxicants “toxins,” we are also accidentally naturalizing industrially-produced chemicals and their politics.
When the Bulldozer comes – Burning bridges or renaissance in the making?
Kai Roder, University of Leipzig For over a decade the Tanzanian state has tried to enlarge its share of mineral revenues generated by foreign large-scale mining (LSM) companies.…
Review: The Sociology of Food
The Sociology of Food: Eating the Place of Food in Society. Jean-Pierre Poulain. Translated by Augusta Dorr. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University This is a…
Surplus value and care
D.D.Kosambi’s summary of Buddhist political economy circa 500bc. From ‘The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline’ 1964. (P113 1996 reprint by Vikas Publishi…
Die virtuelle Umkleide – Verlockung zum Online-Shopping
Wer kennt es nicht? Man probiert zwei Stunden lang die schönsten Kleider im Geschäft an und läuft trotzdem mit leeren Händen aus dem Laden. Der Albtraum jeder shoppingliebenden…
Leises aus der lauten Stadt
Eine Woche ist es nun her seitdem ich chinesischen Boden betreten habe, nach zahllosen Umstiegen irgendwo in der Nähe der Uni angekommen bin und mich wahnsinnig gefreut habe…
What you can REALLY do with an anthropology degree
The Brooking Institute’s Hamilton Project (because after Hamilton everything has to be named after Hamilton) has a new website examining the relationship between career path and college major &#…
How to convince people that drugs need to be legalized: a guide for getting normies on board.
I’ve developed a really nerdy, but kickass, superpower. Give me twenty minutes of one-on-one conversation time with a person, any person, and they will come out of that…
Beauty’s Knowledge: Hawthorne’s Moral Fable “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Leo Coleman
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a nineteenth-century moral fable that sets the fruits of experimental knowledge against obligations to humanity, and stages a dramatic encounter …
The World Has Lost Its Harmony
Something’s not right in the world. In the US, Hurricane Harvey produced 54 inches of rain that flooded Houston and much
Muslim Dandies
For some Muslim men, dress offers a form of racial and religious resistance and redemption. Typically, when we talk about Islam and fashion the focus is on women.…
The Continuous Labor of Fashion
At New York Fashion Week models, bloggers, and photographers are always on. It’s easy to hate the bloggers. At New York Fashion Week, the premier semi-annual industry event…
Unlaced
A brief tale of corsetry. Corseting in the popular imagination is rife with myths: it was a distinctly upper-class practice; women frequently died from having their laces tied…
To Dwell in Seams
Fashion as Buried Forms of Diasporic Memory I keep returning this one memory. As a kid, I go down the steps to the basement of my parent’s New…
About a Boy and a Wig Curler
Archaeological small finds can tell us a great deal about how status, gender, and identity are situated in and on the body. In December 1759, John Page noted…
The World Has Lost Its Harmony
Something’s not right in the world. In the US, Hurricane Harvey produced 54 inches of rain that flooded Houston and much
The World Has Lost Its Harmony
Something’s not right in the world. In the US, Hurricane Harvey produced 54 inches of rain that flooded Houston and much
Answered With A Question Mark: Researcher Reflexivity in Geek Spaces
BY STEVEN DASHIELL Graduate school has in many ways blessed me with what I call a researcher’s eye, or the ability to view the world in an ethnographic…
How to make a good ad
There are two DNA ads running at the moment. They illuminate the art of advertising today. The first is called Testimonial: Livie and it’s for AncestryDNA.com. This is…
What’s in Your Bag?
As another fieldwork season comes to a close and classes, sabbaticals, and more ventures into the field begin, anthropologists are unpacking and repacking their bags. Anthropology News wants to know…
Is the future of retail human-less?
Asks this article: https://www.raconteur.net/business/is-the-future-of-retail-humanless The answer is: ‘it depends’. Human-less customer interaction might never fly in cultures where personal contact i…