anthro in the news 1/13/17
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…
Donald Trump vs. Cultural Imperialism
“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…
Opinion on an Op-Ed: Academic Underperformers Must be Called Out by Gerald Walton
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…
Opinion on an Op-Ed: Academic Underperformers Must be Called Out by Gerald Walton
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…
Special Issue of Techniques & Culture on Réparer le monde/Fixing the world: Excess, Leftover and Innovation
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…
Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health”
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…
From the Field: Herat
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.…
Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health” #MedTech
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…
CASS/ЦЕСИС
В Европейском университете в Петербурге появился новый исследовательский центр – Центр социальных исследования Сибири и Севера, aka Center for Arctic Social Studies. Для тех, кто читает по-русск…
Imagining Northern Sea Route: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Supporting Coastal System
This is a new joint project by Tyumen State University and European University at Saint-Petersburg planned for 2017–2019 and funded by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Background…
Mutterschutz in China – Hoffnungen und Ängste
Auch in China bleiben viele Mütter und Väter nach der Geburt eines Kindes für eine Weile zu Hause. Diese Zeit ist für viele nicht nur mit schönen Erfahrungen,…
More on the bees, and Avatar
Really? Heh heh. From the Bee Movie: And from Avatar: Nothing if not populist. Who said kids wouldn’t pour over this speech for years to come? Course they…
Material as opposed to what? Three recent ethnographies of welfare, biological labor, and human dignity by Leo Coleman
Catherine Fennell. Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Kalinda Vora. Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of O…
Erik W. Davis, “Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia” (Columbia UP, 2015)
In his recent monograph, Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia (Columbia University Press, 2015), Erik W. Davis explores funerary ritual in contemporary Cambodian Buddhism and th… Visit New…
Links & Contents I Liked 216
Hi all, Just pretend it’s a normal Friday…at least there are plenty of interesting stories that should distract you from other news today…Development news: Capitalism created charity ‘fat…
Links & Contents I Liked 216
Hi all, Just pretend it’s a normal Friday…at least there are plenty of interesting stories that should distract you from other news today…Development news: Capitalism created charity ‘fat…
Population #ReadIn
“Racism” is such an unwieldy concept. Living in a world in which racism is one of the fundamental building blocks that shapes all our relationships, calling someone racist…
The creation of a “lessons learned place” – Notes on doing research in the coal mine area of Tete, Mozambique
By Nikkie Wiegink, Utrecht University “More studies, more studies! Ok, it is necessary to do those studies, but to what end?!” Carlos (a pseudonym) was furious. It is…
Reviewing the #Review Process
As Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think and talk a lot with authors and editors…
And Our Winners Are . . .
Many thanks to the 1,152 people who entered our publisher’s Amazon Giveaway to receive free copies of A World of Babies, and to Cambridge University Press for sponsoring…