Mǎma hūhu
Obwohl ich mir eigentlich vorgenommen hatte wöchentlich einen Blogeintrag zu schreiben, ist es nun doch schon wieder eine ganze Weile her. Zwischen Uni, Kontakte knüpfen (und halten), Chinesisch…
History, Ethics, and the Environmental Archive by M. X. Mitchell
In Marshallese culture the environment itself is sacred.[1] Yet American colonizers used ancestral environments in the Marshall Islands for devastating nuclear weapons testing and related environmenta…
Visual Anthropology Of The Egyptian Revolution (And Beyond)
A special issue of the journal Visual Anthropology brings together seven scholars exploring visual aspects of political contestation in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring. The issue …
Every Image Has A Story
By Aniek Santema Around 2 million Syrian refugees who fled the war have been stranded in Lebanon and many of them live in harsh…
Conferencing: Tips for Moderators
In keeping with our post last Thursday on Writing better Conference Abstracts and crafting better Posters, and with #AmAnth17 next month, I thought it timely to share this article on Ti…
CFP: Pervasive Powers: Corporate Authority in the Shaping of Public Policy (Paris)
This conference is based on the idea that, not only has this power varied among industries, countries and different periods, but also that the way in which it…
Please Hold the Handrail. Oder: Erziehungsmechanismen im öffentlichen Raum
Diesen Eintrag will ich nun schon eine ganze Weile schreiben. Es soll um ein Kulturphänomen gehen, das mir von Anfang an aufgefallen ist. Bevor ich mich endgültig daran…
September 2017 Table of Contents
Volume 9 | Number 2 | September 2017 Features Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum by Emily Martin and Susan…
Presence to Influence: Examining the Politics of Representation in Global Environmental Governance
By: Kimberly Marion Suiseeya (Department of Political Science, Northwestern University)[1] Laura Zanotti (Department of Anthropology and Center for the Environment, Purdue University)[2] Kate Haapala …
Review: The Taste Culture Reader (2nd Edition)
The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink. 2nd edition. Carolyn Korsmeyer (ed). Bloomsbury, 2016. Greg de Sant-Maurice (University of Toronto and EHESS) Taste is of interest to…
The Restitution of the Dead
On the 7th of September 2017, Syrian national Mouaz Al-Nass, a singer and drummer, recorded and then uploaded a video of himself reciting the adhan, the Islamic call…
Recovery Workers, Latinx Foodways, and Small-Business Development in New Orleans
Blog Editor’s note: This is the first installment in FoodAnthropology’s new series on Latinx foodways in North America. We welcome contributions from researchers in this area. More details…
The Decade of Contact: Isolated indigneous people in the 21st century [excerpt]
José Carlos Meirelles, a retired field agent from Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, refers to the current moment for isolated indigenous people of the Amazon as “The Decade…
The Decade of Contact: Isolated indigneous people in the 21st century [excerpt]
José Carlos Meirelles, a retired field agent from Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, refers to the current moment for isolated indigenous people of the Amazon as “The Decade…
Learning to Trust Machines That Learn
Imagine lying on a hospital bed. Doctors with grave expressions hover. One leans down to tell you that you are terribly sick and says they recommend a risky…
Latinx Foodways in North America: A Blog Series
Sarah Fouts, series editor Postdoctoral Fellow Latin American and Latino Studies Program Lehigh University From threats of “taco trucks on every corner” and immigration raids in restaurants to…
Teaching Trouillot
Contemporary Anthropological Theory This guest post on “Teaching Trouillot in Contemporary Anthropological Theory” is by Elizabeth Ferry, Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. …
Teaching Trouillot
Contemporary Anthropological Theory This guest post on “Teaching Trouillot in Contemporary Anthropological Theory” is by Elizabeth Ferry, Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. …
The Yin and Yang of Design Anthropology with Dr. Elizabeth Dori Tunstall
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and guest host/TAL correspondent Matt Artz explore the world of Design Anthropology with the help of Dr. Elizabeth…
The Paranoid Style of Climate Change Denial
How Conspiracy-driven theories help the Trump administration reject science. After the unprecedented flooding in Houston due to Hurricane Harvey, Michael Mann, a leading scientific voice on climate ch…
Beyond ABC: Sexual Mobility in Uganda
by Esther Platteeuw
“Born again” – Interview mit den Herausgebern des Handbuchs Evangelikalismus
Die Religionswissenschaft als Disziplin folgte zur Zeit ihrer Entstehung einem Kompromiss mit den christlichen Theologien, der auch den missionswissenschaftlichen Interessen der letzteren geschuldet …