Conversations and Podcasting as Social Technology
This episode is a little different from our normal content. In it we feature a presentation Adam gave for Pivotal Labs in which he explores This Anthro Life’s (and…
How to be a tourist in Ireland
ET: You’ve said that everybody likes the Irish, but they don’t like themselves much. Why is that? DS: Well, Freud (him again) apparently said we have a neurosis but psychoanalysis would…
How to be a tourist in Ireland
ET: You’ve said that everybody likes the Irish, but they don’t like themselves much. Why is that? DS: Well, Freud (him again) apparently said we have a neurosis but psychoanalysis would…
The missing reflection paper on asylum policy
Under pressure after the shock of Brexit, the EU is seeking to reinvent itself. In March 2017, the Commission published a White paper on the future of Europe…
Shitting in Space: Engagements with Cosmic Taboo
Last December, I was asked an interesting question on Twitter: “How much poop is on the moon?” After a quick, panicky, existential reevaluation centered on whether my mountain…
Die guten Menschen von Sichuan: Alles nur fake?
Eine Reihe von guten Taten beschäftigt derzeit die chinesische Netzgemeinde. Ausgelöst wurde die Diskussion von einer Reihe Fotos, die besonders vorbildliches Verhalten chinesischer Bürger in der U-Ba…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
Anti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote about this years ago and note that, despite…
To PhD or not to PhD…
To PhD or not to PhD… this is a question that many prospective and current students haven’t thoroughly considered. As Daniel McCormack notes in “Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe”…
Roundtable: Comment by Dorothy Noyes #CollaborativeDilemmas
Dorothy Noyes, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, responds to the questions Chiara Bortolotto has recently raised in her virtual roundtable on “‘Col…
Today is the day: Help take back the net
It’s July 12th, the day of an Internet-wide day of action. As you can tell from the banner on our landing page, Savage Minds/Anthrodendum is protesting against threats…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, July 11th 2017
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
Is Violence Embedded in Our DNA?
Whether we take the perspective that evolutionary selection made humans prone to violence matters to our sense of ourselves. Are we born to be aggressive or peaceful? David…
Mathers Museum Access Ramp Project Photograph
The project to add an access ramp to the Mathers Museum of World Cultures (and to give give the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology a new ramp and…
Chris Hann: Hayek versus Polanyi in Montréal: Global society as markets, all the way across?
The workshop “Geographies of Markets”—hosted over three days in mid-June 2017 by the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University, Montréal—gave scholars from a wide range…
Liebe Schweiz, manchmal nervst du tierisch!
Die Menschentraube am Check-in-Schalter bugsiert mich langsam vorwärts. Es ist brütend heiss in der Halle, die Luft riecht nach Sonnencrème, Schweiss und Ferienende. Das Flugticket nach Basel klebt…
Of Memorials, Sacrifice, and Hope in Turkey
This post was submitted by Dr. Sumi Colligan, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Service-Learning Co-Coordinator at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. On the road in Turkey again this past …
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – The video!
“The Bureaucratization of Utopia: International Governance, Audit Cultures and Administrative subjectivities in the 21st Century” was a workshop organized at the Graduate Institute in Ge…
Call for applicants: Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia (deadline July 15)
The ACP will last four days. It is built around four main seminars (each participant will choose 2), and includes a fieldwork day exploring Delaware Valley sites.
‘The right to vote’ and Catalan independence
A battle of words A group of 30 honours students (3rd year) of Leiden University’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences paid a 4-day visit to Barcelona. The aim…
Hobby Lobby’s Antiquities Trouble
The Department of Justice’s case against Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is one of only a few instances in which illegal antiquities were confiscated, but investigations into smuggled artifacts…