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Hi all, Long week, but lots to read for you over the weekend ;)! Development news: US peacekeeping cuts; celebrities helping Somalia; celebrities (different ones…) romanticizing poverty; localizing…
Links & Contents I Liked 225
Hi all, Long week, but lots to read for you over the weekend ;)! Development news: US peacekeeping cuts; celebrities helping Somalia; celebrities (different ones…) romanticizing poverty; localizing…
Mit nackter Haut gegen Pelz?
Wie viele Menschen heutzutage bin auch ich der Meinung, dass es nicht mehr nötig ist, Fell zu tragen oder in der Mode zu verwenden. Viele der Tiere werden…
Cotard’s Syndrome: The Disorder That Makes You Think You’re Dead
Cotard’s syndrome (also known as Cotard’s delusion) is an extremely rare condition in which patients believe that they—or parts of their body—are dead. In 1788, the earliest recorded…
CFP: special issue on Organizing and Managing Waste
This special issue aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of business in society research on waste, from the micro-practices of individual waste producers or waste managers to the…
K’aissina! Father, Son, Taboos: Life-Lessons from Ethiopia #REDUX
The Kara of southern Ethiopia are a small population of horti-pastoralists among whom I have worked since 2003. Over the years, I collected in particularly cherished sections of…
Vad har reformationen med antropologi att göra? Reflektioner kring antropologi, kristendom och ett sidoaltare.
av Kristina Helgesson Kjellin I Skärholmens kyrkorum finns det ett sidoaltare, eller ett Mariaaltare, något som inte är vanligt i en protestantisk tradition, men som är desto vanligare…
Applied Food and Nutrition Research, SfAA 2017
Amanda Green Davidson College The 2017 Society for Applied Anthropology meeting (March 28-April 1) in Santa Fe has shaped up to be an incredible showcase of food-related research. In…
Academic conferences as neoliberal commodities (book review)
Donald J. Nicolson’s Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities is a short new book that addresses one of the favorite academic products researchers love to hate. Nicolson’s book offers…
Academic conferences as neoliberal commodities (book review)
Donald J. Nicolson’s Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities is a short new book that addresses one of the favorite academic products researchers love to hate. Nicolson’s book offers…
Natürlich Schön!
Teil 1 Heutzutage kennt das doch jeder, man probiert etwas Neues an oder schaut nur einfach kurz in den Spiegel und sofort fallen all die „offensichtlichen“ Schönheitsmakel auf,…
In the Heart of the City: The Case of Long-Term Refugees in Dakar, Senegal, by Agathe Menetrier (2017)
Worldwide, the majority of refugees now lives in urban areas. Refugee camps have long since become the hallmark of prolonged refugee crises, so that researchers and aid organisations…
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY: THE CASE OF LONG-TERM REFUGEES IN DAKAR, SENEGAL, BY AGATHE MENETRIER
Worldwide, the majority of refugees now lives in urban areas. Refugee camps have long since become the hallmark of prolonged refugee crises, so that researchers and aid organisations…
Wrestling With the Culture of Drug Testing in Sports
Lutte avec frappe, or “wrestling with punches,” the most popular sport in Senegal, adopted international anti-doping rules in 2015. Mark Hann On May 31, 2015, the combat between…
Bullshit! Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data Syllabus
We came across this syllabus the other day and can think of many ways in which these open access materials and their analysis can be used in anthropology…
Security Theatre
This phrase was used on the BBC world service a few times yesterday in reference to the ban on laptops and other devices from some airports on some…
Bullshit! Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data Syllabus
We came across this syllabus the other day and can think of many ways in which these open access materials and their analysis can be used in anthropology…
CFP: Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology & Science
The Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science (WHEATS) brings together graduate students studying the history of the environment, agriculture, science, or technolog…
Yes we can – and this is how! #Fieldwork with kids
Almost exactly four years ago I arrived at Geneva airport – with my two sons then aged 1 and 4. We had set on our journey almost a…
Researching along in the Arctic: from lecture rooms to research fieldwork sites. A workshop on research issues with Tim Ingold
On 23 March 2017, The Anthropology Research Team is happy to invite Professor Tim Ingold to participate as a guest discussant to a workshop that will be held…
Fornello: Connecting to Culture at the Roots
This post was authored by Theresa Felicetti, the Project Coordinator at the John Brown Heritage Foundation and a two time participant in the Fornello project. I come from…
WITH AND FOR OUR SENSES
Atila Rezler start to fell art at a very young age, his great grandfather was an artist that worked with marquetry, the grandfather an exalted designer, so he was born in between many forms of…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 24: Thurka Sangaramoorthy on Decolonizing Anthropology in the Trump Era
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…