Links & Contents I Liked 224
Hi all, I’ll keep it short and simple as I’m more than ready to leave the office this Friday afternoon…enjoy your readings!Development news: Humanitarian Dating; breaking the hunger…
Links & Contents I Liked 224
Hi all, I’ll keep it short and simple as I’m more than ready to leave the office this Friday afternoon…enjoy your readings!Development news: Humanitarian Dating; breaking the hunger…
Locking Up Families Is Inhumane—and Unconstitutional
Existing family detention centers can hold more than 2,000 mothers and children. In the current anti-immigration climate, the number of families detained will likely increase exponentially. E…
CFP: Toxic legacies, global pollutants (June 2017, Durham University)
Contributions are invited from anthropology, history, and the critical humanities that engage with the legacy of Eurasian and other toxicologies to reflect on the continuing polyvalence of poison…
We are all Helen Zille. Or, why the West thinks that colonialism was not all bad
Check out my latest piece in Africa Is A Country on South African prominent white politician Helen Zille’s tweets in defence of colonialism. I talk about southern African…
Joan Maya Mazelis, “Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor” (NYU Press, 2017)
A number of recent events (the Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign) have brought inequality and poverty into national conversation. In an age of…
Liz Conor, “Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (UWA Publishing, 2016)
In an activist application of her scholarly discipline, Dr Liz Conor’s Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (UWA Publishing, 2016) acknowledges its dual potential to disturb and…
Open Access and Anthro in Community Colleges: HELLZ YES.
I was originally going to title this post #OA & @SACC : HELLZ YES, but I was afraid that would be too hard to understand. But what isn’t…
Panel Proposal, AAA 2017: Interdisciplinary Work in Food and Nutrition
This is an abstract for a panel for the AAA 2017 meetings in DC. Click here to see the CFP for the conference from SAFN and here for…
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…