Paradise – a living hell: mining, power and dispossession
By Hedda Askland, The University of Newcastle The sun was glittering on the Goulbourn River. The cicadas were loudly calling in the 40 degrees heat. The constant hum…
How to Host an Extraterrestrial
Welcome. Come in, please. May I take your coat? If you don’t mind removing your shoes you can place them there. Would you like something to drink? Have…
Call for Guest Editors / Thematic Threads
The year 2017 is set to be a year where critical new insights are needed at all fronts. And Allegra Lab needs you! We are calling for proposals…
Building Out the Rat: Animal Intimacies and Prophylactic Settlement in 1920s South Africa
by Branwyn Polykett, University of Cambridge § In the years between the two world wars another global war was declared, the war on the rat. The rat was a stray…
Nellie’s green lipped mussels #MeadCompetition
One Wednesday afternoon, about four years following my family’s migration from Israel to New Zealand, I was gripped by a sudden urge to bake “challah” (The Friday night…
Syrian refugee family thrives in American south
Courtesy of Square, Inc. by Lesli Davis A short film produced by Square, Inc. tells the story of a refugee family living in Knoxville, TN. Yassin Falafel, as some…
anthro in the news 2/6/17
Bet for Nothing. Source: Hapal. Flickr Creative Commons trumped-up conflict with Iran The Berkeley Daily Planet published an opinion piece by William Beeman, professor of cultural anthropology at…
Telesphore Ngarambe, “Practical Challenges in Customary Law Translation: The Case of Rwanda’s Gacaca Law” (OSSREA, 2015)
The unprecedented crime of the 1994 Rwandan genocide demanded an unconventional legal response. After failed attempts by the international legal system to efficiently handle legal cases stemming from…
Imaginative Ethnography Syllabi (CIE)
The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography has gathered links to a number of syllabi that “attend to some combination of performance, theatre, visual media, writing and ethnography.” This treasure…
D+A #2: What Makes a Protest Successful and How do I get involved?
Today’s D+A minisode follows on the heels of last week’s powerful conversation with Jara Connell on protesting and people-powered forms of resistance. In this minisode Jara offers us…
Border on a Beach
by Sasha Flatau ‘Y aquí, otra frontera’ I’d been walking along a beach called Las Redes in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain with my boyfriend. It was…
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…