Tackling the Elephant in the Room
A Guide to Teaching Race after Charlottesville The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville embodied the ongoing racist ideologies that have permeated the United States since its incepti…
What Would A Muslim Brotherhood State Have Looked Like?
It’s one of the greatest controversies of the revolution: What would the state overseen by Egypt’s President Morsi have looked like if he had not been ousted in…
Primate Vocalizations Are Much More Than Gibberish
Chimpanzees use alarm calls to inform each other of danger. Ronald Woan/Flickr A chimpanzee is strolling along a trail through the lush Budongo Forest in Uganda when he…
CFP: Ethnographic Practices and the Temporality of Evidence (CAS 2018, Cuba)
Call for Papers Ethnographic Practices and the Temporality of Evidence CASCA-CUBA: Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting 16-20 May, 2018 Universidad de Oriente – Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Panel Or…
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Hi all, Development news: Louise ‘In Congo’s Shadow‘ Linton is back! Bill Easterly admits that he was wrong! A special section on a ‘Reading The Congo‘; quitting Peace…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, August 25, 2017
David Beriss 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…
The Hunt for the First Flower
All modern flowers are descendants of a single ancestor. We might finally have a sense of what that ancestor looked like — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Mit Handy, ohne Bargeld – Quo vadis, chinesische Konsumgesellschaft?
Mobile-Payment-Dienste sind praktisch: Statt Bargeld in ausreichender Menge mitzuführen oder sich ein Kreditkartenterminal anzuschaffen, reicht das Scannen eines QR- oder eines Barcodes, um eine finan…
THE NIGHT OF THE ETHNO-PROFS – ETHNOLOGEN IN DER ÖFFENTLICHKEIT
Was geschieht, wenn man Ethnologen eine offene Bühne überlässt? Sie nutzen das vollkommen aus und nehmen die Zuhörenden mit ihren Vorträgen mit auf eine Reise in die vielfältige…
Anthropology Podcasting
Heard any great podcasts lately? What about anthropology podcasts? We’ve posted about anthropology and podcasting before on anthro everywhere! as a way of communicating ethnography in a different …
Robert Lowie just destroyed A.R. Radcliffe-Brown in one must-see letter
When it comes to Internet Drama, nothing beats the paper letter. Anthropology’s founders did not lead isolated lives. “American cultural anthropology” corresponded with “Britis…
Teaching Disability Studies in the Era of Trump by Pamela Block
In spring semester of 2017 we (Pam Block and Michele Friedner) co-taught the graduate course “Conceptual Foundations of Disability Studies.” Though the readings were the same as in…
The Pop Garden at Ohio State
One of the projects I’ve been really happy to collaborate on here at Ohio State is the “Pop Garden” outside of Smith Laboratory, where my office is located.…
New book series, Police/Worlds: studies in security, crime and governance
When we started this blog over 8 years (!) ago, part of the motivation was that those of us working on issues of policing from within the discipline…
Bloodshed, Liminality & The Ends Of Egypt’s Revolution
The word “ends” has at least two significant meanings. We can speak of “ends” as goals, aspirations or outcomes. For example, we might ask, “What are the ends…
Call for Papers–Worlds of Resistance: Dystopia and Heterotopia in Fiction and Reality
We find ourselves in a period of worlding and otherworlding, of recognizing that the microcosms in which we operated were not simply illusory but untenable, shielding us from…
Researching John of God, a Brazilian healer with a global following
During this decade-long research project, I sat in meditation for long hours and underwent healing treatments together with other seekers. I witnessed John of God perform countless surgeries…
Researching John of God, a Brazilian healer with a global following
During this decade-long research project, I sat in meditation for long hours and underwent healing treatments together with other seekers. I witnessed John of God perform countless surgeries…
The History behind the King George III Statue Meme
Removing monuments of the confederacy is as much about the people calling for change as it is about the statues themselves — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Job insecurity for ECRs: a round table discussion
Earlier this year I attended a workshop on academic writing. The intent, so I thought, was to explore avenues in academic research to see how our writing could…
Orkideh Behrouzan’s Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran by Dina Omar
Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran Orkideh Behrouzan Stanford University Press, 2016, 328 pages Orkideh Behrouzan’s first ethnographic endeavor, Prozak Diaries (2016), e…