Central European University Under Threat in Populist Hungary
As guest blogger for the month, I’m going to be talking about Hungary, where I’ve been doing field research in since 2004. In doing so, I also have…
Promession: The Most Ecological Way to Bury Our Dead?
The final product of over 20 years of research and testing from Swedish scientist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, promession is a new, eco-friendly burial option for those wishing for their…
CFP on Waste Materialities & Meaning
AAA 2017 CFP Session Title: Waste Materialities & Meaning: Anthropological Engagements with Reuse, Repair and Care Organizers: Cindy Isenhour, University of Maine Anna Bohlin, University of…
New Call for Paper’s Website Section
M. Ruth Dike University of Kentucky In an effort to centralize Call for Paper’s for the upcoming American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting, we have created a new…
Wer entscheidet, was du kaufst?
Sie drückt dir das Kleid in die Hand und sobald du es angezogen hast, fängt sie an ohne Punkt und Komma zu labern, wie toll es dir doch…
day 4 of kill your darlings, the word hoard is desiccated & gets ever thinner.
For example, cosmopolitan and transnationalising nomad that I am (ahem, I wish) I am at present absent-mindedly watching what I assume to be the show ‘Japan Idol’ on…
In the Journals–March 2017, Part I by Julia Kowalski
Here is Part I of our March article round-up. American Anthropologist A Dog’s Life: Suffering Humanitarianism in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Greg Beckett In the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince,…
Fass mich an – aber richtig II
Nun da wir herausgefunden haben, wo und wann gewisse Berührungen eine Hilfe sein können (Vgl. I. Teil: Fass mich an – aber richtig ), sollten wir uns…
Capitalism, revolution and racism in the US and the world
In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, we would do well to recall Hegel’s maxim that difference-in-sameness moves history. Max Weber used a similar argument to moderate the polarised…
Artisanal Anthropology Workshop
Savage Minds is pleased to announce our first workshop in artisanal anthropology. As we imagine a future for our discipline that is both sustainable and ethical, it is…
Snip – day three casualties. Kill your darlings. Draft paras that did not make the final edit
Of course the screen has long been a global industry with a global logistics, and every ‘international’ production – a movie, drama or news – involves battalions of…
Maintainers II, April 6-9, 2017: Program & Registration
The program is up and registration is open for Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders, which will be held at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ…
Bijeenkomst 10 april – ‘Doe Normaal’ – Over de normalisering van islamofobie
Datum: 10 april 2017 Tijd: 16.00 – 18.00 uur Universiteit van Amsterdam Op maandag 10 april van 16:00 uur tot 18:00 organiseert de UvA, afdeling antropologie, in samenwerking…
Cristina Bicchieri, “Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Humans engage in a wide variety of collective behaviors, ranging from simple customs like wearing a heavy coat in winter to more complex group actions, as when an…
Women as national education chiefs
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is the first woman Minister of Education in France, in office since 2014 in the second half of François Hollande’s presidency. (Before becoming Minister of Education she w…
Web Roundup: Moral enhancement by Jane Roberts
This month’s web round up focuses on notions of treatment as enhancement…or vice versa? I’ve recently come off a stretch of spending quite a lot of time reading…
Don Kalb: The EU at 60: the Treaty of Rome is a smoke screen
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). The…
Links & Contents I Liked 226
Hi all,A busy week wrapped up with a fresh book review and the Friday link collage! Development news: Why do expats earn more than locals? Southern online workers…
Links & Contents I Liked 226
Hi all,A busy week wrapped up with a fresh book review and the Friday link collage! Development news: Why do expats earn more than locals? Southern online workers…
Save Academic Freedom in Hungary: Defend CEU
You may have seen the latest cheerful news from Hungary this week! In a breach of the freedom and autonomy of higher education institutions in Hungary and around…
Failing in the field (book review)
I bought Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book Failing in the field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong as a potential addition to our Research…
Failing in the field (book review)
I bought Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book Failing in the field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong as a potential addition to our Research…
Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church
New religious movements The sweeping generalization that God is disappearing from the Netherlands seems to affirm the idea that modern secular nations like the Netherlands are finally being…