On My Shelf: The Lost City of Z
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White Anthro Nonsense, Episode 1: Dr. Sahlins’s Facebook Rant
Earlier this week, the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory Facebook page posted a rant on behalf of Marshall Sahlins. It was annoyingly Euro-centric. It was colonial. And it was…
What Anthropologists Really Do
The Summary The new anthropologist is a self-appointed people’s representative in the double sense of writing them up and acting as their advocate. And anthropology is a sort…
Pollution is Colonialism
Colonialism in Canada is an ongoing structure whereby settler society and government assert sovereignty over lands already occupied by Indigenous peoples.
Carwyn Jones, “New Treaty, New Tradition: Reconciling New Zealand and Maori Law” (U. British Columbia Press, 2016)
In New Treaty, New Tradition: Reconciling New Zealand and Maori Law (University of British Columbia Press, 2016), Carwyn Jones, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Victoria…
Links & Contents I Liked 248
Hi all, We welcomed close to 200 new students this week in our ComDev program and both the US and large parts of South Asia experience disastrous flooding…
Shanghai tanzt
Vor genau einer Woche bin ich in Shanghai gelandet, habe mich, angekommen an meiner Metrostation, wahllos für einen der 16 Ausgänge entschieden und bin zu laut dröhnender Musik…
Castle of the Sealand kings: Discovering ancient Iraq’s rebel rulers
British and Iraqi archaeologists identify the first known settlement built under the enigmatic Sealand kings The Kings of the Sealand sound like they come straight out of a…
The Struggle to Protect a Tree at the Heart of Hopi Culture
To Hopi traditionalists—Hopis who practice traditional culture—the humble one-seed juniper tree has deep cultural meaning. Mark Sykes A rumbling, low boom unfurled over the land like a cu…
Thinking about careers outside of the Academy: NIH’s OITE Careers Blog
The American National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a thorough Career Services blog providing a wealth of advice that will be of use for recent grads and graduate students.…
Fighting a silent killer in the slums
By Vera van Rijn Although the media frequently reports on African children dying from malaria or HIV, it is actually pneumonia that is the biggest killer in…
Zwischen akutem Fernweh und antizipiertem Heimweh
Hallo liebe Leser, So, nun ist es tatsächlich soweit. Morgen Nachmittag fliege ich als Letzter von uns auch in mein Auslandssemester. Langsam bin ich auch tatsächlich ein wenig…
New articles in Discard Studies (July/August)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in…
America Needs Some Perspective
I used to think that Americans like me who had a strong point of view on topics related to positive social change all had some sort of elevated…
Westliche Astrologie in China: “Steinböcke sind die besten Liebhaber”
Wenn Chinesen von Horoskop sprechen, meinen sie normalerweise die zwölf Tierkreiszeichen gemäß dem chinesischen Mondkalender: Drache, Schwein, Hahn, Ratte und Co. Doch in letzter Zeit interessieren si…
Erfolgreich oder (er)folgsam? Gedanken zum Erfolg
Was ist Erfolg? Die Antwort ist vermeintlich einfach. Gemeinhin assoziieren wir Erfolg mit sozialem Status und materiellem Wohlstand. Erfolgreich ist demnach, wer eine gute Ausbildung und ein prall…
Reading #Harvey through a #globaldev lens
In 2013 I posted some readings that I found particularly helpful in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines. Many articles are still relevant in the…
Understanding The Power of Comfort Foods
The comfort food premise may be a very deliberate social construct. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What a Brown Recluse Spider Has Taught Me
After having recently received a venomous bite by a brown recluse spider in NYC, I’ve spent some time researching my arachnid attacker and discovering how to recover from the…
Why the Famous Folsom Point Isn’t a Smoking Gun
Remember the iconic Folsom point? The one that I said, in my last post, changed the future of archaeology? To recap: On August 29, 1927, paleontologists from the…
Patricia Sloane-White, “Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
The relationship between religion and economic activity has attracted generations of scholars working in myriad settings. In recent years, many have turned to questions of how Islamic ideas…
What do Cultural Anthropologists do? "Decode" Human Behaviour
According to a recent article (August 3, 2017) in the Financial Post, Martin Birt discusses the work of Johanna Faigelman, CEO and founding partner of Human Branding. In answer…