How Our Modern Lifestyles Perpetuate Slavery
An immigrant farmworker listens to activist Ethel Kennedy and a representative from the Florida-based human rights organization Coalition of Immokalee Workers speak as part of the Robert F.…
Fieldwork
I’m back in the field so to speak. I’ve begun conducting ethnographic interviews which are the last stage of data collection for my dissertation. 6 down 60 to…
Google Trends as life advice?
[this post first appeared on Medium] I was in Portland last week looking for artisans to interview for the Artisanal Economies Project and stumbled upon a vintage clothing…
CFP: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics
We have received the following call for proposals from David Kaplan, which may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers and researchers: Call for proposals: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural…
Consecrating Science: new book on science, myth, and the Anthropocene by Lisa Sideris
A title soon to be released that is worth adding to your “to read” list from Lisa Sideris, published by University of California Press. A bit of a…
Tweeting religion in Indonesia: when political arenas go viral
Postill, J. and L.C. Epafras forthcoming 2017. Tweeting religion in Indonesia: when political arenas go viral. American Ethnologist (virtual issue) The popularity of social media in Indonesia, combi…
Academics and their Social Media Presence
Thao Nelson from Indiana University wrote an article for Maclean’s entitled Dear students, what you post can wreck your life. In this article, Nelson argues that students should think…
Girls’ Periods, Political Disillusionment and Activist Anthropology: What is happening to research in Uganda?
By Anna Baral Take a woman anthropologist, an online social network and a President who has stayed in power thirty years. Take a country whose governance has been…
Fästingen – en populär liten sjukdomsspridare
Jag hade knappt reagerat på att någon sådan som Fästingen överhuvudtaget existerade innan jag åkte ut till min sambos stuga ute i Åbolands skärgård första gången. Jag skulle…
Combat charities and the mediatization of extreme humanitarian volunteering
I recently shared an article by Milli Lake and Sarah E. Parkinson on political scientists ‘out-dangering’ one another in their field research in fragile states. The ‘exotic’ site…
Interview: Is Berlin done with walls? #MMTW
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) evolves by “settling” into one site after another. In each location, the workshop works with a local institution. For this month’s exhibition…
tri-bolt and nailclimbing
The newly introduced Tri-Bolt and the Nailgun offer climbing techniques in Quake Champions – apart from Rocketjumping. So, in principle all kinds of trickjumping and DeFRaGgery pleasant…
On the Importance of Collaboration (and Remuneration!) in Ethnographic Photography
(C) Dick Powis 2017 “Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do,” [Diane] Arbus wrote. The camera is a…
Let the interviews begin!
It’s finally time…. Tagged: Anthropology, fieldwork, interviews
Book review: Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa by Damien Droney
Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, and Noémi Tousignant, editors Intellect Ltd./University of Chicago Press, 2016,…
World Refugee Day: Free articles from Berghahn Journals
The United Nations recognizes World Refugee Day annually on June 20 to raise awareness of and show support for the millions of refugees who have been forced to flee…
The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes
Postill, J. 2017. The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes. Moment, Journal of Cultural Studies 4(1): 19-43. PDF Abstract In this article I…
The Dark Side of Justice
Our study Over the last two years I’ve had the exciting research experience of working with the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad and Tobago (JEITT). Together we have…
The Dark Side of Justice
Our study Over the last two years I’ve had the exciting research experience of working with the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad and Tobago (JEITT). Together we have…
TAL + SM: Anthropology and Science Journalism, A New Genre?
Click here to check out the podcast This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 3 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins This Anthro Life has teamed…
Anthropology + Science Journalism = A New Genre? w/ Daniel Salas of SAPIENS
Click here to check out the TAL + SM blog post This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and…
Virtual roundtable: “Collaborative dilemmas” in the age of uncertainty
“Collaborative dilemmas” was the title of a workshop held last April at EHESS in Paris under the framework of “UNESCO frictions: heritage-making across global governance” in collaboration with…