By Julie Brugger, University of Arizona § Looking out across the arid, mesquite- and saguaro-studded landscape of the Tonto Basin District of the Tonto National Forest (TNF) in central…
Today, as citizens, patriots, and protesters descend on Washington DC, to observe, celebrate, or decry the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, we must…
When the Lower East Side’s 155 Avenue C—known as C-Squat—was legalized, many of its squatters became homeowners of sorts. Konstantin Sergeyev I was surprised when I first met…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Anika König Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) where sperm is manually injected into the egg cell. This procedure is predominantly used to overcome…
Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman – the gestational surrogate or…
Mit dem Begriff „Städte der Zuflucht“ können diejenigen Städte beschrieben werden, die eine direkte Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen oder MigrantInnen aus dem Ausland in eine bestimmte Stadt fordern. Momenta…
In the next week or so, many of us will celebrate the year of the rooster. The year of the monkey, which we are just saying good bye…
David Beriss In the weeks following his election, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Andrew F. Puzder to lead the U.S. Department of Labor. There has been…
Hej alle, Jeg hedder Troels og er 36 år gammel. Jeg har altid haft en interesse for sociologi, antropologi og menneskehedens udvikling efter vi opstod som art.…
I’m planning on writing more about French higher education policy in the next few years, since even after my dissertation there’s a lot to learn. For instance, there’s…
(photo by Alma Gottlieb) The doors of our metro car opened and closed, opened and closed with increasingly alarming dysfunction. On any other day, the many more dozens…
The poor showing at Trump’s inauguration, and the massive turnout at the Women’s Marches, together with Trump’s popular vote defeat by nearly 3 million votes, prove that chasing…
I wrote a novel, The Three-Headed Dog, for more than one reason. Here is the first of a series in which I tell why, not in any greatly structured…
Graffiti in Lisbon, 2009Source: Dan Benton, Flickr Commons public anthropology in the time of Trump Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University, published a piece in…
“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world — but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations…
A very interesting article came out in University Affairs for their February (2017) issue – An opinion piece which will surely provoke opinions. In it, Walton advocates for…
A very interesting article came out in University Affairs for their February (2017) issue – An opinion piece which will surely provoke opinions. In it, Walton advocates for…
What should we make of the ever more excessive production of remainders? What spaces of creativity and innovation struggle against, emerge from, or make visible this seemingly hidden…
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Hansjörg Dilger, Dominik Mattes Source: pixabay CC0 1.0. There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer…
Notes from the Field: Regional Connectivity as a Site for the Ethnography of Diplomacy, Afghanistan 6/10/16 – 6/11/16 was originally published on the University of Copenhagen’s Asian Dynamics Blog.…
There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes and Corbett 2009), a phenomenon that Arthur Kleinman…