Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts?
Pulling up to a parking spot and finding a shopping cart there can be pretty frustrating. Why do people ignore the receptacle? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Marktown: Industrial Heritage at Risk
I finally got to visit the planned worker community of Marktown in East Chicago this weekend. In 1917, industrialist Clayton Mark hired famed architect Howard Van Doren Shaw…
Steve Reyna: Replacing Lady Liberty: Trump and the American Way
Der Spiegel, a well-thought-of magazine, ran in February 2017 a cover depicting the newly elected President Donald Trump, standing with one arm upstretched brandishing a bloody knife and…
A letter to my culture interns, Jarvis and Donte
I have never had interns before. In fact, I thought there was something wrong with using them. But I now have two. I will call them Jarvis Rochford and Donte Cole.…
Marching for Science in London
An anthropologist joins demonstrators and asks, “What happens next?” A marcher makes their point with a sign at the 2017 March for Science in London. Aneil Tripathy I…
anthropologist by day, comic creator by night
MSU Denver Professor Dr. Jeremy Stoll sits at his comic-cad booth at the DiNK Comic and Art expo in Denver on April 9. Photo by McKenzie Lange •…
Auschwitz: Bijna onvoorstelbaar
We were told we would take a nice shower and we would see each other soon again. When I smelled the dead people I knew we would see…
Carrie Jenkins, “What Love is: And What it Could Be” (Basic Books, 2017)
Carrie Jenkins‘ new book is a model for what public philosophy can be. Beautifully written, thoughtful, and compellingly and carefully argued, What Love Is: And What it Could…
Shopping Through Touch-screen!
Stressfrei. Shopping rund um die Uhr. Shopping ohne Wartezeit. Mehrerer Shop in einem Überblick… Eine Haufen Sachen durch ein paar Klicks bestellt. So kauft man heute die Sachen…
Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Studies – UCL Institute of Archaeology
Location: London Salary: £37,936 to £41,163 per annum (UCL Grade 7), inclusive of London Allowance. Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 24th April 2…
CFP: The Future of Food Studies
We recently received this call for papers for a graduate student conference that should be of interest to our members or their students. At the very end of…
anthro in the news 4/24/17
Credit: Google Images Commons/Youtube government of deconstruct The Huffington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist Paul Stoller, professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. H…
Bringing anthropological ethics into the classroom
With the Canadian Anthropology Society Conference next week comes CASCA’s Spring issue of the network’s newsletter, Culture. One item that caught our eye in this issue was Eric…
Bringing anthropological ethics into the classroom
With the Canadian Anthropology Society Conference next week comes CASCA’s Spring issue of the network’s newsletter, Culture. One item that caught our eye in this issue was Eric…
Repair-scapes
How might thinking through repair in terms of space change how we think about – and practice – repair? In what follows, we describe four cases from our…
Interview: Gabriele del Grande is Free #VisualANTH
Gabriele del Grande is a journalist and human right activist, co-director of the documentary ‘On the Bride’s Side’ and founder of the blog Fortress Europe. He is now…
S. Brent Plate ed., “Key Terms in Material Religion” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
In recent years, several scholars of religion have moved away from the examination of discursive textual domains or the meaning of ritual practices towards analyzing the material worlds…
Call for Papers: Journal for Art Market Studies – Issue on “Translocations and the Art Market”
Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik Deadline abstract (2,000 characters): 15 June 2017 Deadline article (30,000 characters): 31 October 2017 Journa…
Collaborative music video making in the cityscape of Goma (RDC) #VisualANTH
This paper presents a collaborative approach to making music video clips as an ethnographic research tool. The case study is a one-month fieldwork trip in Goma, the Democratic…
Weaving the World in Conversation with Paul Stoller: From Sensuous Scholarship to Public Anthropology
Hide Press Release (11 Less Words) Kristina Dohrn, Britta Rutert, Judith Schühle, Nasima Selim, Mechthild von Vacano Picture 1: Paul Stoller. 11 February 2017. Image published with permission.…
Roman and Greek Necromancy
Necromancy, also known as nigromancy, describes a theoretical magical practice of communicating with the dead. This happens either through raising them by summoning the spirit. Generally, the goal…