Ask Me about My Science
Curious public means many opportunities for biological anthropologists willing to speak up I once took a cast of a Neandertal skull with me on a research trip, packing…
Reimagining Political Horizons
Anthropologists have long been engaged in resistance and activism. “Social movements have been important spaces for generating anthropological theory,” Leith Mullings insisted in her bold 2013 preside…
Good Intentions and Murky Ethics
How anthropology matters in short-term global health travel. According to Volunteer World, an online international volunteer placement platform, “International voluntary work plays a key role in deliv…
Anthropology in Unseen Spaces
Documenting the human costs of the US security-state. This spring, Esperanza, a Salvadoran woman in the small California Central Valley town of Mendota, was on her way to church…
Latinx America and an Anthropology of Dissent
[pquote]Instead of proclaiming and declaring anthropology’s importance, we should step back and ask: What is the matter with anthropology?[/pquote]Our Annual Meeting theme has a problem. “Anthropology…
Links & Contents I Liked 257
Hi all, Greetings from Tbilisi where an excellent ComDev teaching seminar is coming to its end! It is also Friday-so there area links, readings, tweet & more to…
Refuge Europe at its Limits? Limits and Contradictions of the Political and Moral Ideal – Conference report
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves From the left: Prof. Alessandro Monsutti; Prof. Heath Cabot; Žiga Podgornik-Jakil; Prof. Olaf Zenker. Photographer Timur H…
Why you should move from Word to Pages
[This post originally appeared on Medium.] ○ Word is expensive, Pages is free. ○ Pages used to be bad at footnotes (while Word was always superb). Now it’s…
Collecting and Curating Food History for a Hungry Public
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is thrilled to announce our distinguished speaker for the Annual Meetings: Paula J. Johnson is a curator, project director, and…
Mode ist Kunst. Prada macht’s vor.
Prada hatte schon immer ein Faible für eine künstlerische Inszenierung ihrer Mode. Wenn man die Epicenter Stores in New York, Tokio, Los Angeles und Shanghai betritt, erwarten einen…
“That Almost Finished Journal Article” a 2017 Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Jaida Samudra, the organizer…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Anthropological & Pedagogical Research on Mature Students
In a follow up from our post on Monday, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continues to discuss her new pedagogical research project in collaboration with Ms. Silvie Tanu…
Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world
Thomas Hylland Eriksen recently held a lecture in Aveiro, Portugal. Watch the video here.
Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world
Thomas Hylland Eriksen recently held a lecture in Aveiro, Portugal. Watch the video here.
Jeffrey H. Cohen, “Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World” (U. Texas Press, 2015)
Jeffrey H. Cohen, a professor at The Ohio State University, has managed a rare feat: placing anthropology classics like Argonauts of the Western Pacific in the context of…
Tracing Chemical Intimacies
By Sophia Jaworski (University of Toronto) A middle-aged woman in the Greater Toronto Area wears a charcoal mask in her bedroom to prevent asthma spurred by breathing in…
„Warum Definitionen wichtig sind“ – Paganismus, populäre Religion, Ahnenkult und rechtes Denken
Die von der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Schleswig-Holstein (AWO) sowie dem Beratungsnetzwerk gegen Rechtsextremismus mit seinen mobilen Teams organisierte Tagung “Odin mit uns! – Wikingerkult und Rechtsextre…
In the Journals–October 2017 by Julia Kowalski
International Journal of Social Psychiatry (September issue) Becoming a patient-illness representations of depression of Anglo-Australian and Sri Lankan patients through the lens of Leventhal’s illne…
Sprache ist nicht gleich Sprache
Wer, was, wann, wo und wie sind die fünf Frageworte, die wohl einem jeden Bericht zu Grunde liegen. Dies ist bestimmt auch beim Artikel „Ein Haus der Geschichten“…
„Warum Definitionen wichtig sind“ – Paganismus, populäre Religion, Ahnenkult und rechtes Denken
Die von der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Schleswig-Holstein (AWO) sowie dem Beratungsnetzwerk gegen Rechtsextremismus mit seinen mobilen Teams organisierte Tagung “Odin mit uns! – Wikingerkult und Rechtsextremi…
It’s Not Just Your Parents’ Fault
Did you know that your mind is a cesspit of anger, and fear, and unresolved moments from your childhood? It’s not just you. Apparently everyone is living in…
SAFN Events & Panels at AAA 2017
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association is rapidly approaching. The conference will be held November 29-December 3 in Washington DC, mostly at the Marriott Wardman Park…
Article Alert! New Texts in Discard Studies (October 2017)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in…