Anthropology’s heterodoxy
“Flowers” by Claude Monet By Ton Salman In the following blog, Ton Salman reacts to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, titled “Is Anthrop…
Following persimmon around the world
Ten years ago, when we were still living in Boston, in the days before the large Korean supermarket chain, H Mart, made sourcing Korean produce a breeze, my…
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?…
The Importance of Mortuary Rituals
Written by Saher Fatteh After listening to the podcast How Stuff Works in which Dr. Stutz discusses mortuary rituals and their importance, I thought of a specific scene…
Dealing with Dead Bodies
Written by Saher Fatteh During class on Tuesday, we watched a short film called The Undertaking. The movie investigates the life and work of Thomas Lynch, the director…
Human Sacrifice in Maya Culture
Death is already an uncomfortable topic to talk about, let alone the idea of human sacrifices. From the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifices were pretty common in Maya culture.…
Around the Web Digest- February 13
It is 66ºF in the middle of February in Chicago and I am appreciating the warmth while writing this before climate change destroys us all. With that I…
Beast of Contention: The Polar Bear as National Symbol and Emblem of Conservation
Invited post by Michael Engelhard* The Icelandic artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir painted this outline on Langjökull Glacier to draw attention to activists’ demands to reduce the amount of CO2…
What is Trinketization
Originally posted on trinketization: For an explanation of Trinketization – never fully codified as yet – you might start with the following old posts such as: Note 33: Trinketization…
A Relic of the Past Soars Into the Final Frontier
In 2014, Steve Lee, a space scientist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), approached me with an interesting proposition. An astronaut friend, Kjell Lindgren, was…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 20: Sameena Mulla on Policing Mental Health and Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis
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…
Dublin-Transfers: Darf man sich nur auf gravierende Menschenrechtsverletzungen berufen?
Die Entscheidung C.K. des EuGH zur Menschenrechtskonformität von Dublin-Transfers letzte Woche hat einiges Aufsehen erregt. Zu kurz kommt bei der Debatte aber eine wichtige Unterscheidung: die zwische…
CFP: Discarded & Queered Life: Exploring Urban Political & Queer Ecologies of Value and Exclusion
We consider how zones of exclusion, zero tolerance zones and other similar geospatial “exclusionary regimes” emphasize “the undeserving and the unreformable nature of deviants” (Becket and Weston 2001…
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Grounding the Ecocritical: Materializing Wastelands and Living on in the Middle East (3/ 1)
2017-18 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowship The Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (JINELC) at Washington University in St. Louis invites application…
On Extroverted Expertise, One-Handed Scientists & Dirty Laundry #REDUX
In 2014, Vincent Ialenti wrote about deflated optimisms among European scientists grappling with political questions about their legitimacy, the capitalization of their expertise, and the frustrations…
No, These Are Not the Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations
Since 2009, the blog AnthropologyWorks has created an annual list of the “Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations.” Being included on this list seems as if it might be a…
Mild Apocalypse – Feral Landscapes in Denmark: Reflections on an Exhibition
By Nathalia S. Brichet, Frida Hastrup, and Felix Riede § From the late 1930s until 1970, low-grade brown coal was extracted at Søby in mainland Denmark. This activity carried out largely…
Grab ‚em by the Scarf: Der #MuslimBan für Millionen muslimischer Frauen in Europa
Folgender Gastbeitrag stammt von Fabian Goldmann, Journalist und Islamwissenschaftler, Autor des Blogs “Schantall und die Scharia” über “Islamophobie in Deutschland und überall sonst”. Ursprünglich e…
The Hub Award: Collaborative Residency at the Wellcome Institute
via Alice Carey, Wellcome Institute We are delighted to announce that Wellcome is now accepting applications for a new group of residents in The Hub, beginning at the end…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, February 21, 2017
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
Teach America Great Again
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the #teachingthedisaster series. By Rucha Ambikar The day after Trump won the election, I went into my class as usual.…
APLA Book Prize Announcement
From our colleagues at the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, a book prize competition that may be of interest to SAFN members and other readers of this…