Vale Ben Finney
I was deeply saddened to hear that Ben R. Finney passed away around noon on 23 May 2017. Ben was a professor in the anthropology department at UH…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 32: Christen Smith on Afro-paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil
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…
Negligent NGO with happy parents: Voluntourism and the voice of the local beneficiaries
The NGO is located in little town in the peripheries of Arequipa Pauline van der Valk I have always had a keen interest in the local beneficiaries’…
Links & Contents I Liked 234
Hi all, This is actually blog post #502! Wow…and it’s actually still one of the fun parts of the work week 🙂 This week features a lot of…
Links & Contents I Liked 234
Hi all, This is actually blog post #502! Wow…and it’s actually still one of the fun parts of the work week 🙂 This week features a lot of…
Fake news in conservation: Overfishing or over-reacting?
Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti University College London I started my career as a conservationist in the Pantanal, Brazil. I remember the first thing I heard was that the local…
#EVENTS for the summer!
Summer is coming… And with it, a brand new list of fabulous events! A workshop in Switzerland? A summer school in Romania? How about making a film? This…
Worker declines rescue in Magdalen Nabb: Sex work in fiction
Efforts to save migrants and sex workers also appear in ordinary fiction (by which I mean not melodramas produced by moral crusaders) and some authors have a fine-tuned…
Worker declines rescue in Magdalen Nabb: Sex work in fiction
Efforts to save migrants and sex workers also appear in ordinary fiction (by which I mean not melodramas produced by moral crusaders) and some authors have a fine-tuned…
Inside Kashmir—A Heroic Fight for Justice
Over the last three decades, India’s occupation of a large portion of Kashmir has brought political strife, widespread oppression, and violence. David Williams/SAPIENS On a hot sunny day…
Teaching Resource: Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy
As anthropologists, we frequently teach about power dynamics and social inequality in our classrooms. Especially in the context of efforts to decolonize anthropology, many of us reflect on…
Teaching Resource: Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy
As anthropologists, we frequently teach about power dynamics and social inequality in our classrooms. Especially in the context of efforts to decolonize anthropology, many of us reflect on…
Stability as a Utopia: Revisiting Egyptian youth as they grow older, and the future tense as time passes
“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
Stability as a Utopia: Revisiting Egyptian youth as they grow older, and the future tense as time passes
“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
Being an intern at Allegra Lab: An epilogue
Before my internship at Allegra Lab, I was unaware of most of the online platforms for anthropology. I had heard of sites such as Savage Minds, but I…
Misguided exclusivity: On the Anthropology News commenting policy
I’ve been exceptionally dismayed this year by the retrograde, anti-open-access, profit-oriented publication philosophy at the American Anthropological Association. Earlier this year they announc…
Notebooks (Artaud’s for example)
Rereading Jay Murphy’s book Artaud’s Metamorphosis and thinking about the 30,000 pages of notes Marx is said to have written in the last ten years of his life –…
Dag van de Antropologie: over solidariteit, ethiek en epistemologie
Door Matthias Teeuwen Bij de openingsvoordracht van de ABv Dag van de Antropologie 2017 over solidariteit kreeg ik het gevoel dat ik dit allemaal eens eerder heb gehoord.…
Alfredo Saad-Filho: “Fora Temer—eleições diretas já!”: Brazil’s political rupture and the left’s opportunity
This post is tied to our 2016 series on the Latin American pink tide, and it originally appeared on openDemocracy on 23 May 2017 (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Brazilian Workers’…
Alleinerziehend in China: Von gesellschaftlichen und staatlichen Hindernissen
Es gibt in China 10.000 Scheidungen pro Tag. Dass bei diesen Zahlen auch viele Kinder betroffen sind, die danach bei nur einem Elternteil aufwachsen, ist klar. Die Betroffenen…