Some Pig
David Beriss What is it we fear most in our food supply in the post-industrial West? Food shortages? Industrialized food? Genetic manipulation? Ecological disaster? Globalized food systems? The…
Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?
Most animals would never need braces even if they could get them. Monica y Garza/Flickr This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative…
The Four Dimensions of Ethnographic Films
In my last post I argued that rather than choosing between overly narrow (“closed”) or overly broad (“open”) definitions of ethnographic film, it would be better to follow…
Call for Posts: Toxic Bodies
“A pigeon trap”. By Provincial Archives of Alberta. (No restrictions, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44059615) Epigenetics, developmental biology, and feminist science and…
An RX for Social Darwinism
The Republican controlled US Senate just voted to proceed to debate Trumpcare—a major step in the repeal and/or replacement
An RX for Social Darwinism
The Republican controlled US Senate just voted to proceed to debate Trumpcare—a major step in the repeal and/or replacement
An RX for Social Darwinism
The Republican controlled US Senate just voted to proceed to debate Trumpcare—a major step in the repeal and/or replacement
Some Baskets at Work in Zanzibar
Marsha MacDowell and Kurt Dewhurst kindly shared these photographs of work baskets in Zanzibar. The images were taken while they were visiting Tanzania as part of a large…
Adriana Helbig, “Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration” (Indiana UP, 2014)
In 2004, during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Adriana Helbig saw African musicians rapping in Ukrainian and wearing embroidered Ukrainian ethnic costumes. Her curiosity about how these musicians…
Huashan: Höhenangst und Massenrummel auf dem Heiligen Berg
Wer Lust auf das Abenteuer hat, einen 2.000 m hohen Gipfel mit senkrechten, nackten Felswänden zu besteigen, den wird der Berg Huashan华山 nicht enttäuschen. Wegen der einzigartigen Landschaft voll…
Retiring Your Library (Part One)
Landfill or Foreign Donation? More than five decades have passed since I entered graduate school at Cornell University to pursue a doctorate in anthropology. During my long career…
Wuhan: Glutofen mit Kirschblütencharme
Wuhan, die Hauptstadt der geschichtsträchtigen Provinz Hubei, überrascht mit vielen Widersprüchen: Aufgrund der extrem hohen Temperaturen im Sommer bekannt als einer der Glutöfen Chinas, präsentieren …
‘A bit of a compromise’: Coming to terms with an emergency caesarean section by Terena Koster
During the midwife-hosted antenatal class Cath attended in a private hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, where she would eventually give birth, pregnant women were encouraged to name…
anthro in the news 7/24/17
University of Wisconsin students protesting Trump’s presidency and proposed policies. Credit: The Badger Herald/Google Images Commons. run for it: anthropologists in politics The Huffington Pos…
Sophie Egan, “Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are” (William Morrow, 2017)
In Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are (William Morrow Books, 2017), food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on…
What’s in Your Bag?
As the summer fieldwork season winds down, Anthropology News wants to know what you take with you in the field. Whether at an archaeological dig, on big city…
Learning from colleagues in design research
One thing I love about my job is the privilege of working with other design/user experience researchers and learning from the variety of approaches they take in their…
Anthropologists everywhere! Alternative Anthro Careers
There have been quite a few posts on this blog where we discuss not-so-run-of-the-mill jobs that anthropologists find themselves in (click on our label ‘what can anthro do?’,…
Vom Keller in die Welt der Kunst
Dr. Richard Kuba verwaltet die Felsbildsammlung des Frobenius-Instituts und bringt die Bilder mit Ausstellungen ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit. Die prähistorische Kunst hatte auch großen Einfluss auf di…
The Happiness Fetish Revisited
In response to several surveys that attempt to quantify happiness, Ryan, Adam, and Aneil spend this episode of This Anthro Life exploring happiness through the lens of fetishism.…
We can’t recycle our way to ‘zero waste’
Why is recycling low on the waste hierarchy?
Chaotic borderlands: Libya’s porous borders after Qadhafi
Porous borders What has happened on Libya’s borders in recent years? Here are some examples: During the insurgency and civil war in Mali in 2011 and 2012, weapons…