by Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani ** Review first published on LSE Review of Books ** Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities. Donald J. Nicolson. Palgrave Pivot. 2017. While rarely interrogated…
Auf einer kleinen Feier spielte eine Person ein Youtube-Video ab: “Charly[!] Chaplin – Selbstliebe – Gedicht”. Irritierend war nicht nur die seltsame Mischung aus gebräuntem Jugendporträtfoto, einer …
Food in EcoME is mostly vegan and vegetarian in order to be able to host people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Many participants love it, others have…
Plötzlich war alles anders. Ein flüchtiger Blick in den Spiegel hatte der Angst die Eingangspforte zu meiner Seele geöffnet. Jetzt sass sie mir im Nacken. Nein, genau genommen…
Während die einflussreiche First Daughter im Western oft mit Kritik zu kämpfen hat, wird sie im Reich der Mitte von Frauen wie Männern als „Göttin“ angehimmelt. Erst…
Recently a friend of mine discovered a picture of her grandfather in one of the ethnographic books about the Sherpas. Underneath the picture, next to his name, it…
Door Edien Bartels en Lenie Brouwer. “Wat nemen Marokkaanse Nederlanders mee op vakantie naar Marokko? Kaas en pindakaas!” Dit vertelt Mohammed Abdel, een Marokkaanse Nederlander uit Rotterdam, enthou…
INTRODUCTION This article covers the crucial role of reading to critical thinking. If you don’t understand the benefits of reading or why it is useful to you and crucial…
Indiana University has connections and partnerships all around the world. This week, special attention is being directed to Spain and France, where IU President Michael M. McRobbie is…
Lawrence Block is a successful mainstream writer whose plotlines often include sex workers, in a normalising way (call girls, mostly). Matthew Scudder, the detective protagonist in one of Block’…
Cheating is not fun for anyone, except perhaps for the student who does not get caught. At my university I have only one class I teach for non-majors,…
Hi all, A long week comes to a summery, sunny conclusion! Development news: Once more: Does aid work?! Media & democracy in Afghanistan; Cameroon’s ‘auntie army’; do women in…
Hi all, A long week comes to a summery, sunny conclusion! Development news: Once more: Does aid work?! Media & democracy in Afghanistan; Cameroon’s ‘auntie army’; do women in…
-Picture courtesy New York Times Catherine Clarke University College London (UCL) Editor’s Note – Although not explicitly discussing narratives of sustainability, this essay examines the political su…
The Quad Damage powerup can decide “Quake Champions” deathmatch. Hence it is most satisfying to frag the Quad carrier. You even are awarded with a medal called…
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) is a wide-ranging history that upends a long tradition of…
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE MAJOR CONFERENCE: ART, MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATION BRITISH MUSEUM/SOAS 1st-3rd JUNE 2018 CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS We are very pleased to announce the call for panel…
[This essay first appeared in Medium. It has been lightly edited for presentation here.] In the world of documentary filmmaking, it feels like there’s the era “Before Ken…
“Populism” conflates widely disparate political projects under one conceptual category. The term demands closer anthropological analysis. “The new enemy.” In a recent column in El País, the Peruvian…
What rising white nationalism says about race in the 21st century US. On November 12th, 2016 TheDailyStormer.com, a neo-Nazi website with a monthly viewership over two million, lead…
Protesters disrupt Pegida-inspired rallies with their own rowdy demonstrations. The sound of a man yelling rapidly and angrily into a microphone pierced the silence in my car as…
David Beriss The time has come to vote in the annual AAA elections. (And this posting is not about food, apologies to non-anthropology readers.) The Society for the…
One of the topics that certainly makes a mark on this year’s academic research, public engagement and publishing trends is the critical engagement with new social movements, forms…
One of the topics that certainly makes a mark on this year’s academic research, public engagement and publishing trends is the critical engagement with new social movements, forms…