Ken Burns, an anthropological portrait of an artist and the edge
[This essay first appeared in Medium. It has been lightly edited for presentation here.] In the world of documentary filmmaking, it feels like there’s the era “Before Ken…
Whose Populism? Which Democracy?
“Populism” conflates widely disparate political projects under one conceptual category. The term demands closer anthropological analysis. “The new enemy.” In a recent column in El País, the Peruvian…
When White Nationalism Became Popular
What rising white nationalism says about race in the 21st century US. On November 12th, 2016 TheDailyStormer.com, a neo-Nazi website with a monthly viewership over two million, lead…
Populist Protest and Counter-Protest in Germany
Protesters disrupt Pegida-inspired rallies with their own rowdy demonstrations. The sound of a man yelling rapidly and angrily into a microphone pierced the silence in my car as…
VOTE!
David Beriss The time has come to vote in the annual AAA elections. (And this posting is not about food, apologies to non-anthropology readers.) The Society for the…
Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa (book review)
One of the topics that certainly makes a mark on this year’s academic research, public engagement and publishing trends is the critical engagement with new social movements, forms…
Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa (book review)
One of the topics that certainly makes a mark on this year’s academic research, public engagement and publishing trends is the critical engagement with new social movements, forms…
Caremotions 2017
CAREMOTION –noun- finding balance between the care of others and self, and the emotions during video making. Etymology-(coined Canterbury 2017) a synthesis of care, motion, emotion, motion picture…
Anthropology Under My Skin
This entry is part 20 of 20 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Lorena Gibson How we can reclaim anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand and stake out a…
Islamophobia is Racism Syllabus
Adding to the impressive list of open access teaching resources, the Islamophobia is Racism Syllabus provides texts for “Teaching & Learning about anti-Muslim Racism in the United States.” The…
Islamophobia is Racism Syllabus
Adding to the impressive list of open access teaching resources, the Islamophobia is Racism Syllabus provides texts for “Teaching & Learning about anti-Muslim Racism in the United States.” The…
Ebola Prevention Caught in the Bushmeat Trap
Questions about the safety of eating “bushmeat” were front and center during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. SarahTz/Flickr In 2015, as an Ebola epidemic raged in…
The Anthropology of Mortality: Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ by Damien Hirst, photo by bloggers.it By Matthias Teeuwen We had the pleasure to listen to prof. Mi…
When Anthropologists Act as Artifacts: A conversation between an Ancient Hairpin (Alec Balasescu) and a Gold Horse (Olga Sezneva) #MMTW
This post is the third installment of our thread on the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW), a project that explores migration and mobility by developing artwork, exhibitions, performances…
Michel Foucault’s attitude towards women
One could write numerous things about masculine domination in French philosophy, and many have done so. Right now, for instance, I’m engrossed in Michèle Le Doeuff’s programmatic 1977 essa…
“There Are No Straight Lines in Nature” – Making Living Maps in West Papua
Droning destruction — aerial view of deforestation in Merauke. Source: Sophie Chao. (Un)settling the Scene Alongside melting glaciers, marine oil spills and sinking islands, large-scale monocrop p…
Surveilling Trump: A Call to Action
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Gage Skidmore. Trump Watch For better or worse,…
Hustling and cruising with John Rechy: Sex work in fiction
You know how it is when you are staying at someone’s house and you finish your own book and have to look around the alien shelves for something…
America’s water whiplash
This was originally published on the NYU Press Blog From the Square. Jerry Brown must sometimes wonder why he isn’t called the water governor. In the 1970s he…
LAVC Anthropology Day Diversity Wall 2017: “Name Your Culture, Name The Issue”
Written by Alfonso DiLuca, Vice-President Los Angeles Valley College Anthropological Society In science, perhaps more than in any other discipline, humans rest on prior experiences to advance a…
Borgward in China: Mit deutschem Markennamen zum Erfolg?
Chinesische Investoren haben 2014 die Rechte an der traditionsreichen deutsche Automobilfirma Borgward gekauft. Das Know-How kommt bisher überwiegend aus China. Um die Frage „wie deutsch“ dieses Auto…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 31: Adia Benton on Public Health, Ebola and Black Lives on Both Sides of the Atlantic
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
On the Craft of Writing w/ Dr. Anita Hannig
How do academics write for a variety of audiences? Is routine a necessary part of creating? How many times will Ryan mention Stephen King? In this episode of…
On the Craft of Writing w/ Dr. Anita Hannig
How do academics write for a variety of audiences? Is routine a necessary part of creating? How many times will Ryan mention Stephen King? In this episode of…