First RAI Photo Salon
Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology and Chair of the R.A.I Photo Committee On December 8, 2016, the Photography Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute convened its first Photo Salon.…
Weg vom Eurozentrismus!Ein Plädoyer für eine nachhaltige EU-Migrationspolitik in Afrika
Von Sebastian Prediger und Franzisca Zanker Die aktuell von der EU verfolgte Migrationspolitik in Afrika basiert im Wesentlichen auf Abschottung und Bekämpfung der Symptome, statt der Ursachen…
Special Issue! Between Biopolitical Governance and Care: Rethinking Health, Self, and Social Welfare in East Asia by Anna Zogas
The first issue of Medical Anthropology in 2017 is a special issue, “Between Biopolitical Governance and Care: Rethinking Health, Self, and Social Welfare in East Asia.” Enjoy! Between Bio…
The Rail Strikes: The Unheard Voices of Train Drivers
by Kate Longland **A shorter version was published 24 January 2017 at http://www.ecnmy.org/engage/asked-southern-rail-drivers-theyre-strike/** The Southern rail strikes have been quite a hot to…
China’s East Wind Blows… To Barking, London
by Magnus Marsden Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibañez Tirado anticipate the arrival of the ‘East Wind’ freight train in London from the Chinese city of Yiwu. As much…
Assistant/Associate Professor Food Studies/Sociology
Assistant/Associate Professor Food Studies/Sociology The University of Southern Maine is seeking applicants for a two-year (the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years) non-tenure tra…
Cryonics and Death
A few months ago, there was a story in the news that relates to an interesting aspect of death— cryonics. Cryonics is the science of using…
Only bad news are good news?
Sehr geehrter Herr Kim Son Hoang, sehr geehrte Standard-Redaktion, „Flüchtlinge: 90 Prozent halten Demokratie für die ideale Staatsform“ oder „Flüchtlinge: 82 Prozent sind für die Gl…
Nach Hause für die Feiertage: Suche Mitfahrgelegenheit
Stundenlang mit einem Fremden ans andere Ende des Landes fahren? Suchanfragen für die kostengünstigste Heimreisevariante fanden sich in den vergangenen zwei Wochen häufig in chinesischen sozialen Netz…
Nach Hause für die Feiertage: Suche Mitfahrgelegenheit
Stundenlang mit einem Fremden ans andere Ende des Landes fahren? Suchanfragen für die kostengünstigste Heimreisevariante fanden sich in den vergangenen zwei Wochen häufig in chinesischen sozialen Netz…
Resources on digital (visual) anthropology and ethnography
A helpful set of media and digital anthropology resources for teaching and learning. This is a selection of resourceson digital visual anthropology & digital ethnography, collected via the…
U of Toronto Food Studies Post Doc Opp
The Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral fellowship in the field of Food Studies, to work directly with the range…
How to Read Donald Trump Like Donald Duck
If an alien were to land on Earth, and listen only to Donald Trump, the impression the alien would get is that a great, powerful, and cruel nation–Mexico–was…
Neujahrsfest 2017: Im Zeichen des Hahns
In China beginnt am 28. Januar 2017 das Jahr des Hahns, welcher gemäß dem Zyklus der Tierkreiszeichen den Affen ablöst. Was verbinden die Menschen im Reich der Mitte…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 27, 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Neujahrsfest 2017: Im Zeichen des Hahns
In China beginnt am 28. Januar 2017 das Jahr des Hahns, welcher gemäß dem Zyklus der Tierkreiszeichen den Affen ablöst. Was verbinden die Menschen im Reich der Mitte…
Free trade and protection: not alternatives, but always complementary
Sir James Steuart was a Jacobite exile who brought the term ‘political economy’ from Continental Europe to Britain. Almost a decade before The Wealth of Nations he published…
Being engaged with the Middle East
Sheila Carapico (chair), Marina de Regt and Erika Cortes. By Erika Cortes. Anthropology is a way of life. It, if I may, is life. It can present us…
Migrants in novels: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
It wasn’t always all called trafficking. Whether or not migrants were officially or sentimentally designated refugees, they were portrayed as taking action. Getting screwed – certainly …
Links & Contents I Liked 217
Hi all, Another Friday! New student are settling in, calendar filling up with appointments and so much interesting stuff to read! Development news: World Vision tests humanitarian boundaries…
The BBC-Myth of a Public Service (book review)
Tom Mills’ book The BBC-Myth of a Public Service is a book for which the slightly over-used phrase of a ‘timely contribution’ is actually very fitting. His interesting…
The Immortal Memory: John Bryden’s Burns Supper Speech, Stockholm 2017
My old friend’s speech for January 28th this year. “Burns is one of the reasons I am proud to be a Scot, a socialist, a nationalist, and an…
The New Gambia, by Niklas Hultin
President Adama Barrow greeting the people. Photo by Katarina Höije It finally became clear on January 21, 2017, that Yahya Jammeh, the long-serving autocratic president of The Gambia…