Sexwork and migration fiction, part 3: Location and nation
Every reviewer has to mention a different defect in the book under review: That was my conclusion when reviews of Sex at the Margins were proliferating. Some of…
Is Anthropology the most Humanistic of the Sciences and the most Scientific of the Humanities?
Still Life with Flagon, Glass, Jug and Bridle, by Johannes Torrentius, 1614 By Matthias Teeuwen The epithet in the title, commonly attributed to Alfred Kroeber, is often used…
Crossing the Border
by Iris Ruyu Lin When I returned to the U.K. from Norway on 15th of January, it was my first trip back to the country since moving to…
Rivers is Our Forgotten Founding Father
The true history of British social anthropology’s origins, seen through the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres strait (CAETS) [1] Three centuries of anthropology. Between evolution and…
Buenos Aires Subway #Soundtrack
The city rattles, rustles and roars unremittingly. In Buenos Aires you hear the constant medley of restless mechanical noises and the humming of millions of lives. The central pitch of this soundsca…
What anthropologists really do
Two books published in 2002, The Best of Anthropology Today and Exotic No More, taken together, provide a chance to find out what anthropologists are up to these days. The…
50 years of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington
Save the date and join us for our 50th anniversary of anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington #038;d=identicon&%23038;r=G’ class=’avatar avatar-32′ height=’32’ width=’32’ />vicanthropology In 2017 Cultural Anthropology at…
Is There a Social Code for Snow Removal?
Will you have help digging out after a snowstorm or are you the one offering help? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Zum Studium ins Ausland: Nur wohin?
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
A practical guide for Iraqis living in Trump’s USA – or in the Gentile North in general
By: Hayder Al-Mohammad My fellow Iraqis. We are living under unheard of pressures and violence against us. Those of us who carry an Iraqi passport will have experienced…
Zum Studium ins Ausland: Nur wohin?
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
Do You See What I See?
Social scientists have long been fascinated by how people in different cultures perceive and describe color. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS In a Candoshi village in the heart of Peru, anthropolog…
Racialization, Affect, and Refuge
How do we begin to grapple with the racialization of empathy? How do we capture, both ethnographically and politically, the differential allocation of sympathy, compassion, and the kind…
SocArXiv launched
Michael Oman-Reagan just reminded me about an important open access project that’s been in the works for a while now: SocArXiv (thanks @OmanReagan!). I believe @socarxiv has the…
An Anthropologist, a Climate Scientist, and a Geographer walk into NASA…
The joke introduces a recent news article describing a new project that brings together various scientists to study changing patterns of urbanization and land use in the Himalayan…
De Dappermarkt in Amsterdam: ontmoetingsplek en strijdperk
door Freek Colombijn Aristoteles roemde de stad al vanwege haar sociale diversiteit en Hannah Arendt, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett en Setha Low zijn slechts een aantal beroemde sociale…
Did People Actually Bowl at Bowling Green?
Bowling Green has a history that has withstood the test of time — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Did people actually bowl at Bowling Green?
Bowling Green has a history that has withstood the test of time. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Forgotten Refugees at the Tunisian Border with Libya #MeadCompetition
My forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite of the wide-spread European alarmism on the subject…
Fear, Fire, and Solidarity in New Orleans
David Beriss Someone tried to burn down the Flaming Torch restaurant last week. The restaurant, located in my neighborhood in New Orleans, is a French bistro that has…
Call for Reader Letters: Trump & Anthropology (DUE 2/20/17)
In December we published our first installment of our new Reader Letters series. This time around, we’d like to hear what you, our readers, have to say about…
CFP: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science”
Call for Papers: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science” 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK. Citizen science has…
best cultural anthropology dissertations of 2016
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