Why Is It Significant That the White House Tours Resume?
The tradition of an open house at the White House dates back to the administration of Thomas Jefferson. Why is this an important aspect of the American democratic process?…
Conference Report: Scales of Alimentation between Europe and Asia: Connections, Syncretism, Fusions
Pierre Raffard explaining the doner kebab phenomenon’s relation to labor, ethnicity, religion, and culinary politics. Looking at both instances of culinary incorporation and fusion and the reje…
What is a researcher? A personal manifesto
Thinking in terms of a business and design context, what is a researcher? There is no one path, no one exact job description, no one single approach or…
Neue Arbeitskreise: AK Flucht und Arbeit + AK Flucht und Medien
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Grief: Ritual Finger Amputaion
The death of a loved one can be a traumatic experience and causes emotional pain and suffering. However, in some cultures the loss can result in physical pain…
CFP=Call for Problems
Adapted from Jeremy Tenenbaum/ Flickr CC BY 2.0 Should I take another adjunct position? How do I get through this mound of exam marking? Graduate student healthcare in…
Reclaiming Native Ground
Theresa Dardar stands for a portrait on her dock in Louisiana’s Pointe-au-Chien Indian community in January 2017. Edmund D. Fountain This article was originally published at FERN and has…
Links & Contents I Liked 221
Hi all, I usually don’t start the weekly review with my own stuff, but I worked quite hard on my longer essay on the state of development-there’s even…
Links & Contents I Liked 221
Hi all, I usually don’t start the weekly review with my own stuff, but I worked quite hard on my longer essay on the state of development-there’s even…
From impact to transformation: Do-Gooders, Multicolored Saviors and development as lifestyle
My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…
From impact to transformation: Do-Gooders, Multicolored Saviors and development as lifestyle
My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…
#EVENTS: the past, the present and the future
It’s time for some exciting events!! Let’s go on a little bit of a time travel as we attempt to anticipate the future and reflect upon the past,…
Interview mit Buchautor Christian Röther: Islamfeindlichkeit von AfD und Pegida
Christian Röther (Religionswissenschaft Göttingen) promovierte über die islamfeindliche Szene in Deutschland. Dafür recherchierte er mehrere Jahre über die Szene und führte ausführliche Interviews mi…
Film India archive
Pretty excited to find parts of the FilmIndia archive online, especially 1948 with a (idiosyncratic) review of Sunny’s Mela (stars Nargis and Dilip Kumar). Also I am quite taken…
CFP-Crip Technoscience
While not always engaging with the concept of “technoscience,” scholars of critical, feminist, and crip disability studies often build on the foundational claim of disability studies that natural…
Amy Brown, “A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School (U. Minnesota Press, 2015)
There has been much talk in the news recently about funding for public education, the emergence of charter schools, and the potential of school vouchers. How much does…
On Meetings…
Industrial practices have forged new and creative ways to waste people’s time. Within these practices however, meetings are the most excellent example that I can think of, in…
The Resonance of Earth, Other Worlds, and Exoplanets
How do planetary scientists understand distant places like Mars or planets orbiting another star? A conversation with Lisa Messeri about “resonance” and the anthropology of space. By Michael…
Auf der Suche nach den Erinnerungen
Es war einmal vor langer Zeit in einer fremden Welt … – war es ein Traum? Es fühlt sich so an! Seit einigen Wochen bin ich wieder in…
In a Genocide, Who Are the Morally Upright?
During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, more than 800,000 people were slaughtered over 100 days. Amid the chaos there were heroes—those who put their own lives on the line…
What are Anthropology jobs?
According to at least one Anthropology Department Chair, the two most googled questions students have are, “What is anthropology?” and in a close second, “What can I do…