What students say education is for
Sometime earlier this spring I asked the students in my Digital Cultures class to each write down a sentence (on a post-it) about what education was for. “Education is…
anthropology/global health class explores durham ghost bikes
Ghost bike memorializing cyclist Tony Turner at the intersection of Roxboro Street and Chateau Road in Durham, North Carolina. What are the relationships between body, health, mobility and…
How Do You Count Without Numbers?
For those of us who live in numbers-oriented cultures, anumeric societies shed light on the unreal nature of seconds, minutes, and hours. Jane Barlow/Associated Press This article was…
Autónimos: nosotros y ellos
Primero que nada les ruego que reparen en la primera palabra del título. Es autónimo, no autónomo, así que este artículo no habla de ese héroe de nuestro…
Homo naledi genome: Will we ever find this elusive key to human evolution? | Jennifer Raff
Despite the recent announcement of a new haul of Homo naledi fossils, recovering ancient DNA is still proving as difficult as ever Despite what many people believe, paradigm-shifting…
Megha Amrith, “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2016)
If you’ve been hospitalized in Europe, North America, Australia or the Middle East in recent years, chances are that at some point a nurse from the Philippines has…
Ellroy’s Black Dahlia as a B-girl: Sex work in fiction
A typical paperback cover from the heyday of pulp fiction makes convention girls look carefree and glamorous. Some might have been and still be, but picking clients up…
anthro in the news 5/22/17
Mexico-U.S. border at Tijuana. Credit: Tomas Castelazo, http://www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons a wall is not the answer A piece in TIME magazine on the U.S. Mexico border quotes…
“Kinder statt Inder” – Lecture by Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria
Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria gave the “Zukunftskolleg Lecture” at the University of Konstanz in Germany on May 4, 2017. Prof. Randeria is Rector of the Institute for Human…
Photographing African Migration to Sicily
Refugees of the neoliberal global economy, unaccompanied African minors are leaving for Europe in search of a brighter future. [pquote]This series of photographs—both bleak and hopeful—sheds light on…
Undergrad & MAs career paths
If you’re familiar with anthro everywhere! you might know that we have a special page addressing where and how people are Applying an anthropological perspective outside of university. …
Undergrad & MAs career paths
If you’re familiar with anthro everywhere! you might know that we have a special page addressing where and how people are Applying an anthropological perspective outside of university. …
Powerful supermarkets push the cost of food waste onto suppliers, charities
Our research into the issue of corporate social responsibility and wastage of fresh fruit and vegetables has identified a number of tensions and contradictions, despite leading Australian supermarkets…
Review: Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities
by Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani ** Review first published on LSE Review of Books ** Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities. Donald J. Nicolson. Palgrave Pivot. 2017. While rarely interrogated…
Charlie Chaplin und die ‚Wahrheit‘ der „alternativen“ Medien
Auf einer kleinen Feier spielte eine Person ein Youtube-Video ab: “Charly[!] Chaplin – Selbstliebe – Gedicht”. Irritierend war nicht nur die seltsame Mischung aus gebräuntem Jugendporträtfoto, einer …
Dreaming of Falafel Country: A Glimpse on Israeli, Palestinian and Foreign Visitors’ Perceptions of an Ecological Peace Project
Food in EcoME is mostly vegan and vegetarian in order to be able to host people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Many participants love it, others have…
Wenn ein Leberfleck alles ändert: Ein Protokoll der Angst
Plötzlich war alles anders. Ein flüchtiger Blick in den Spiegel hatte der Angst die Eingangspforte zu meiner Seele geöffnet. Jetzt sass sie mir im Nacken. Nein, genau genommen…
„Göttin Yi Wan Ka“ – Ivanka Trumps märchenhafte Beliebtheit in China
Während die einflussreiche First Daughter im Western oft mit Kritik zu kämpfen hat, wird sie im Reich der Mitte von Frauen wie Männern als „Göttin“ angehimmelt. Erst…
Looking in the Mirror (Part 2 of 3)
Recently a friend of mine discovered a picture of her grandfather in one of the ethnographic books about the Sherpas. Underneath the picture, next to his name, it…
Kaaskop in Marokko
Door Edien Bartels en Lenie Brouwer. “Wat nemen Marokkaanse Nederlanders mee op vakantie naar Marokko? Kaas en pindakaas!” Dit vertelt Mohammed Abdel, een Marokkaanse Nederlander uit Rotterdam, enthou…
Critical Thinking Series: Reading As The Arena Of Critical Thinking
INTRODUCTION This article covers the crucial role of reading to critical thinking. If you don’t understand the benefits of reading or why it is useful to you and crucial…
The Basketry of Blaise Cayol: A Mathers Museum Connection to Southern France on the Occasion of the Indiana University Visit to Marseille
Indiana University has connections and partnerships all around the world. This week, special attention is being directed to Spain and France, where IU President Michael M. McRobbie is…
The girlfriend experience in Lawrence Block: Sex work in fiction
Lawrence Block is a successful mainstream writer whose plotlines often include sex workers, in a normalising way (call girls, mostly). Matthew Scudder, the detective protagonist in one of Block’…
Can There Be a Cheat-Proof Exam?
Cheating is not fun for anyone, except perhaps for the student who does not get caught. At my university I have only one class I teach for non-majors,…