Graduate Scholarships in Solid Waste Research (USA)
The Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) is one of the largest sources of solid waste research funding in the U.S., allocating approximately $1 million annually in research…
A Hero of Solitude #MeadCompetition
The person I wish to present in the following, a 72-year-old man named Herman, has withdrawn from almost all human contact. But to what extent could we accept…
If You Can’t Cheat Death, Why Fake It
Recently, I feel as if I have been paying special attention to death much more than usual. What I have noticed is that death itself is constructed and…
Christianborg, det nye landdistrikt?
Læste for nyligt, at Center for Landdistriksforskning mister sin bevilling ud fra det argument, at alle “midler inden for Landdistriktspuljen skal konkurrenceudsættes”, som erhvervsministe…
Frühlingsfestgala: Tradition am letzten Abend des Jahres
Im Jahr 1983 wurde die CCTV-Frühlingsfestgala zum ersten Mal in ganz China ausgestrahlt. Obwohl die Programmqualität dieses TV-Events häufig heftig kritisiert wird, verzeichnet sie jährlich 1 Milliard…
Frühlingsfestgala: Tradition am letzten Abend des Jahres
Im Jahr 1983 wurde die CCTV-Frühlingsfestgala zum ersten Mal in ganz China ausgestrahlt. Obwohl die Programmqualität dieses TV-Events häufig heftig kritisiert wird, verzeichnet sie jährlich 1 Milliard…
Being a grad student with ADHD: An ode to constant ontological uncertainty.
[Hi. I’m back. I’m digressing from my usual topics to get a little cathartic and personal for a bit. Don’t worry, for the next post we’ll be back…
CFP: The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
Got students? Do they do ethnographic research and write papers about it? Check out this CFP, which may not be directly about food and nutrition…but could be. Let…
Special Issues! The Publics of Public Health in Africa | Anthropological Interrogations of Evidence-Based Global Health by Anna Zogas
I’d like to highlight a pair of Special Sections in the early 2017 issues of Critical Public Health. The first is “The Publics of Public Health in Africa,”…
Links & Contents I Liked 218
Hi all, Something strange has happened throughout this week. For the first time since I started my link review I struggled a bit to compile a meaningful digest…
A Journey to Experience: Tanzania-Kenya-Uganda
Door Ottla Lange In my first week of studying cultural Anthropology I had been told to write down everything I observe, when in a new or…
Our Lives with Electric Things: Call for Contributions
Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh Call for Contributions (max 300 words) In: Cultural Anthropology / Theorizing the Contemporary Our lives with electric things are positively charged with meanin…
From the Ivory Tower to Open Classrooms to #ModernDayMargaretMeads
Empowering the Next Generation of Digital, Public Anthropologists In Yorkshire, England with a backdrop of bleating sheep and patchwork fields, archaeologists-in-training investigate, explore, and exp…
What Is the “Environment” in Gene-Environment Interaction Research?
The central plaza in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (photo by Bill Dressler). The notion that nature and nurture interact to produce the phenotype of an individual is a very…
chimps’ behavior following death disturbing to ISU anthropologist
Iowa State Anthropologist Jill Pruetz describes the disturbing behavior following the death of a chimpanzee at her research site in Senegal. She and her colleagues captured what happened…
Refugees, Immigrants, and Trump’s Executive Order: Six Anthropologists Speak Out
By: Catherine Besteman, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Carole McGranahan, Nomi Stone, and Marnie Thomson The Racist Gift of Immigration and Citizenship Bans, Again Catherine Besteman…
The Mysterious Power of Arrogance
In the community of Urapmin lives a man named Kinimnok—a boastful, loud, and often angry public figure—whose role in society may help us understand some Americans’ love of…
Neanderthals, racism, science
This New York Times article offers an interesting discussion about how Western European scientific racism also played a significant role in how we classified and described Neanderthals. “Neanderthals…
Intellectuals and the Responsibilities of Public Life an Interview with Noam Chomsky May 27th, 2001
Intellectuals and the Responsibilities of Public Life An Interview with Noam Chomsky May 27th 2001 THE MORAL ROLE OF INTELLECTUALS Robert Borofsky: You write, in Powers and Prospects, that…
Illogical Objects and What they Tell Us #MeadCompetition
Most objects in our households have a purpose. They clothe, seat, feed or transport us. Some object do extra duty; they communicate something about us that we want…
Hypothetical Archaeology: Knowledge Production in the Era of Alternative Facts
In the summer of 2015, in collaboration with a diverse collective of artists and ecologists known as Chance Ecologies, I was invited to help perform an excavation of…
AFHVS/ASFS Deadline Extension
A quick update! The deadline for submissions to the AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference has been extended to February 6, 2017, at 9pm PST. AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference, June 14-17,…
the U.S. inauguration 2017 from the ground through foreign eyes
The blue ticket for the 2017 Inauguration Source: Crystal H. Rie On January 20th 2017, Donald J. Trump became the 45th President of the United States. This was…