Can Medical Anthropology Solve the Diabetes Dilemma?
Social factors contribute to a person’s risk for developing diabetes and shape choices surrounding the management of the disease. Nivaldo Júnior/ALES/Flickr Mary (a pseudonym) was 18 year…
Mit Parallelen zu islamistischen Ideologien: „Christlicher Extremismus in Deutschland“
REMID engagiert sich schon länger für eine Kritik der Begriffe, mit denen Religionen in der Öffentlichkeit verhandelt werden, wie zum Beispiel dem der “Sekte”. Unser satzungsgemäßes Ziel, „ein…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part XVI
My latest articles and interviews: The Trump ship may finally be sinking (8/21/17) — Globe and Mail Steve Bannon may be a bigger asset to the White House outside…
Erstaunliches oder Wohnungssuche auf argentinisch
In eine Stadt zu kommen, die groß, laut und unübersichtlich ist, das ist ja sowieso schon eine mittelgroße Herausforderung. Doch in eine neue Stadt kommen und nicht zu…
Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung Newsletter Nr. 26, August 2017
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As the summer winds down…GET OFF MY LAWN!!
At the beginning of the summer, Krystal D’Costa wrote an intriguing piece about The American Obsession with Lawns. Don’t think you’re interested in green, gardening? This post has…
Data overload
How do we proceed to live in a world in which data overwhelms us? At every point we seem to be participating in capture schemes that reduce us…
The forgotten story of how a toxic spill and a book launched Britain’s environmental movement
When in 1963 some farm animals in the parish of Smarden in Kent became sick and died, suspicions fell on a nearby pesticide factory run by a division…
Historical Eclipse Fake-Outs
Public memory can be problematic. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Path of Climate Change
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Courtney Cecale. In the 1980s the Pastoruri glacier was one of the greatest adventure tourism destinations in South America. Over 100,000 people visited…
Von Hunden, Selfies und Räucherstäbchen
Letztes Wochenende habe ich meine erste Reise innerhalb Chiles unternommen. Oder sollte ich besser sagen: Meine erste Flucht aus dem Großstadtchaos Santiagos? Wie auch immer, es war eine schöne…
Follow up: #Tinder as a research method
Following the unexpected popularity of my May article Tinder as a Methodological Tool I was asked by Allegra to write a follow up expanding on the subject and…
Teaching in place: fostering relationality and reciprocity in the classroom in 2017
view of the Rideau River from Carleton University campus, Ottawa, Canada It’s that time of year again when professors like myself are editing, updating, or drafting syllabi…
The Church of the Solar Eclipse
Extreme eclipse chasers travel the world roughly every 18 months to witness a total solar eclipse from inside the path of totality. Murray Anderson-Clemence/Getty Images Glenn Schneider r…
Links & Contents I Liked 246
Hi all, August still seems to be a bit quieter as we are slowly getting into gear for a new semester and new academic adventures! Nonetheless, there’s always…
Erste Eindrücke aus Südafrika oder The Fear Of Missing Out
The Fear of Missing Out; kurz: FOMO; deutsch: die Angst, etwas zu verpassen – ein Gefühl, das ich schon seit meiner Kindheit gut kenne, das ich aber immer…
Great anthropologists who fought fascism
Some of you who — unlike me — have not had family members murdered by nazis or had every synagogue in their home town firebombed in the same…
Reproducing the Speculative: Reproductive Technology, Education, and Science Fiction by Kaitlyn Sherman
Walter, a Synthetic, quietly makes his rounds in the brightly lit, pristine interior of the Covenant, a Weyland Corporation Spaceship. Fingers pressed to the translucent, impermeable glass, he…
Affären-Jäger: Eherettung oder unmoralisches Angebot?
In der Vergangenheit hat man sich in Würde voneinander scheiden lassen, wenn ein Ehepartner eine Affäre hatte. Heutzutage ist dies nicht so einfach wie früher, da das Interesse…
Jediism as Religion: Anthropology for a Changing World
Last Thursday, anthroeverywhere! wrote about Gillian Parrish’s post on Jedi-training in the classroom, which they use as a means to teach implicit skills such as empathy to students. Today, w…
A Moment of Bad Faith
Two days ago we learned the true nature of Donald Trump’s beliefs. He is an apologist for the KKK and American neo-Nazis