Ebola: Public Safety Issue or Cultural Violation?
Locals observe foreign health officials burying an Ebola victim. WHO Guidelines for Ebola Burials The 2014 Ebola Outbreak claimed about 11,000 lives and transcended country borders. Ebola presents…
Opening Anthropology: An Interview with Keith Hart
Summary A three-part interview with Keith Hart by Ryan Anderson on Savage Minds Blog Part 1 The Open Access (OA) movement is one of resistance to the privatization…
The Key to Survival, In Space
It takes more than rockets to go into space. Becoming a multiplanetary species and not just visiting but living in space, on the moon, and building settlements on…
Body Painting – Eine Art „Kleider aus der Dose“?
Was ist Body Painting? Body Painting ist eine Form der Kunst, bei der man Farbpigmente auf der Haut trägt. Im Gegensatz zu Tätowierung hält die Körperbemalung nicht ewig.…
Fieldwork: preparing for the good, bad, and the ugly
From Anthropology Matters come this article by Amy Pollard: “Field of screams: difficulty and ethnographic fieldwork.” As explained in the abstract, many novice field researchers — here, PhD…
Fieldwork: preparing for the good, bad, and the ugly
From Anthropology Matters come this article by Amy Pollard: “Field of screams: difficulty and ethnographic fieldwork.” As explained in the abstract, many novice field researchers — here, PhD…
Begum Jaan – trailer (remake of Rajkahini, রাজকাহিনী)
For those in need of an alternative to Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, in April 2017 we will get the Hindi film Begum Jaan, I hope soon also for a UK…
Academic work as charity
In so many ways, academic work is hard to recognize as being work in the standard wage-labor sense of that word. It can take place at all hours of day…
Food OpEd Fellowship opportunity in San Francisco
Received from Polly Adema, who is the Director of the Master of Arts in Food Studies Program at the University of the Pacific. Looks like a great opportunity…
Wer is(s)t normal?
„Doch nicht mit den Händen, benutze die Gabel!“ Wie oft habe ich diesen Satz als Kind zu hören bekommen, als meine Mama entsetzt feststellen musste, dass ich mir…
An Alternative Theory Hits Home in Mexico
Proponents of Family Constellations—a fast-growing therapy around the globe—claim it helps participants find strength, clarity, and peace. David Williams/SAPIENS It’s a stormy evening in …
The Docile Ethnographer?
On Self-Censure and Fieldwork “Looking forward to reading more in this series. Would have liked to retweet it, but I’m not touching anything critical until I’m done with…
FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
As you may have noticed, TAL has been on a bit of a break from releasing new episodes. But, the good news is that we have not been…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 23: April Petillo on Being an Arrivant in the Classroom
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…
FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
As you may have noticed, TAL has been on a bit of a break from releasing new episodes. But, the good news is that we have not been…
Free video analysis tools
Free video (& audio) analysis and transcription tools, partly collected via the VISCOM list serv. AQUAD 7 is a software for qualitative coding and qualitative content analysis. ELAN…
We need to think about redefining citizenship in the Anthropocene
The concept of citizenship originally described inhabitants of (probably walled) towns. Some insistence on specificity of place certainly remains, although the concept today generally refers to nation…
The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award
Do you or someone you know do research related to food justice, food security, or food as a human right? It is time to consider applying for this…
Ice Cream and Architecture
Outer Space Podcast Trilogy 3: Ice Cream and Architecture
Reader reviews of The Three-Headed Dog
Reviewers of The Three-Headed Dog have been showing they get it: The detective-narrator is a woman with a complicated and conflicted interior life. It’s about how migrants sneak…
Elementarteilchen der Sprache und ihre Verarbeitung im Gehirn
Prof. David Poeppel, Direktor der Abteilung Neurowissenschaften am neugegründeten Max-Planck-Institut für Empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt, hat gestern einen Vortrag zum Thema „Die Elementarteilchen d…
Anthropology as post-hermeneutics
Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole, by Lawrence Weiner, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1991). by Peter Versteeg The first thing that came…
Difference in the Anthropocene: Indigenous Environmentalism in the Face of Settler Colonialism
Both Todd and Whyte argue that achieving climate justice for and by Indigenous people requires addressing the ways in which global environmental change is intimately connected with— and…