Some Old Javanese/Old Sundanese Resources
Halo semua! It’s been a while. Things have been a bit hectic. I got married in Gibraltar last August and moved to the Netherlands with my wife,…
Collection of interviews with Indian documentary makers.
With a funky graphic interface (this screenshot does not do it justice – click through to the site) – Anand Patwardhan, Shyam Benegal, Paromita Vohra and more: Filed…
What Can Lunch Tell Us about Job Satisfaction?
The fictional financial supervillain Gordon Gekko once proclaimed, "Lunch is for wimps." But lunchtime habits in your workplace can actually tell you a lot about the health of your……
Saibaba ‘given’ life = court takes life from a nice guy in awful #repressive state anti #maoist trumped up show trial.
One of Indian Judicial Systems Most Shameful Decisions since 1947 : DU professor GN Saibaba and four others get life sentence for ‘Maoist links’ Democracy and Class Struggle…
What can lunch tell us about job satisfaction?
The fictional financial supervillain Gordon Gekko once proclaimed, "Lunch is for wimps." But lunchtime habits in your workplace can actually tell you a lot about the health of your……
#SoComplicatedSyllabus – Check it out and please contribute! by Deborah Levine
“I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject…Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” said Donald J. Trump on Monday, February 27, at a…
VOR°URTEIL
VOR°URTEIL > ist ein VOREILIGES URTEIL > ist meist ABWERTEND > hat ein besonderes Merkmal: dass man an ihm FESTHÄLT, >>> AUCH WENN DAS GEGENTEIL BEWIESEN IST (aus: Ursula Berte…
Focaal Volume 2017, Issue 77: Nonrecording states
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.co…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, March 7, 2017
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
presentation explores dangers of crossing the border
A young Mexican national climbs on a section of old pedestrian barrier fencing on the U.S. and Mexico border near Rancho Anapra, Chihuahua Mexico Tuesday, May 6, 2008.…
Visualising Facebook by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan
Today marks the publication of a new book called Visualising Facebook, which I have written with Dr Jolynna Sinanan. It is available as a free download from UCL Press…
Why the “Big, Beautiful Wall” Is Doomed to Fail
The barriers that are already in place along hundreds of miles of the U.S.-Mexico border have done little to stem the flow of migrants into the United States.…
‘Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange’ by Marc Flandreau
Marc Flandreau. Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. 421pp., 12 halftones, notes, sources, works cited, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. …
Pre-doctoral Fellowship in nuclear waste in Japan (US citizens only)
The project would be to assist in research on solutions to the problem of nuclear waste disposal in Japan, and the associated proliferation risks posed by Japan’s reprocessing-only…
CFP: Food Packaging: Uncovering the History (December, Tokyo)
We invite proposals for papers examining material culture, technology, the business of food packaging and so on, both in the past and in the present.
Reclaiming Nature? Indigenous Homeland and Oil Sands Territory
Tara Joly, University of Aberdeen § Settler colonial relations construct the Athabasca region as extractive oil sands territory, yet the region remains homeland for Indigenous peoples, including Méti…
Editing Wikipedia > Writing Letters to the New York Times
Various bits of social media began vibrating rapidly recently when it was discovered that white supremacists had fooled Google into providing inaccurate information about Boas and cultural relativism…
Translation and Materiality: The Travels of European Porcelain (2017 Bauman Lecture)
News of the upcoming Richard Bauman Lecture in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University is now circulating on campus. Here are the details about this year’s talk…
Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon’s The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology by Casey Golomski
The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology Edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon Routledge, 2016, 393 pages. This is not a run-of-the-mill medical anthropology r…
Bruce Kapferer: Ideas on populism: The paradox of democracy and the rise of the corporate state
“All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.” — Karl Marx, Critique…
Understanding hipsters – scholarly and otherwise
Are “hipsters” on their way out, or have they become so normalized in our popular culture that we don’t really notice them anymore? (And, if the latter, is…