The Breakfast Economy
Whether or not breakfast actually is the most important meal of the day, the real emphasis seems to be on keeping weekday breakfast as low-key as possible —…
The Breakfast Economy
Whether or not breakfast actually is the most important meal of the day, the real emphasis seems to be on keeping weekday breakfast as low-key as possible. —…
Exchange with Alex Foti on nettime
Alex Foti to nettime, 17 December 2016 Dear Vahid, for the very little it’s worth i’ve been campaigning to save Aleppo since the siege and furiously since the…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part II
Here are some of my articles and interviews from the past week: The fake war on fake news (12/15/16) — Globe and Mail Donald Trump, Russia, and the…
Noah Salomon, “For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State (Princeton UP, 2016)
In popular discourse today, few concepts are more sensationalized and maliciously caricatured than that of the Islamic State. In his fascinating new book For Love of the Prophet:…
Pamela McElwee, “Forest are Gold: Trees, People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
Forests are Gold: Trees, People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam (University of Washington Press, 2016) begins with two related puzzles: why does Vietnam simultaneously plant and cut trees…
Exchange on an anti-trafficking hotline
High Hopes for refuge for human trafficking survivors seemed like just another story about small Rescue-Industry projects getting big funding and providing founders with lots of good feelings…
Links & Contents I Liked 212
Hi all, Only one more week before a short holiday break! Development news: Holiday giving the right way; UNICEF in pictures Then & Now; Wonder Woman retires from…
Links & Contents I Liked 212
Hi all, Only one more week before a short holiday break! Development news: Holiday giving the right way; UNICEF in pictures Then & Now; Wonder Woman retires from…
Links & Contents I Liked 212
Hi all, Only one more week before a short holiday break! Development news: Holiday giving the right way; UNICEF in pictures Then & Now; Wonder Woman retires from…
Links & Contents I Liked 212
Hi all, Only one more week before a short holiday break! Development news: Holiday giving the right way; UNICEF in pictures Then & Now; Wonder Woman retires from…
Links & Contents I Liked 212
Hi all, Only one more week before a short holiday break! Development news: Holiday giving the right way; UNICEF in pictures Then & Now; Wonder Woman retires from…
Steven Sampson: Angry white males as suffering subjects
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain…
Steven Sampson: Angry white males as suffering subjects
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain…
Steven Sampson: Angry white males as suffering subjects
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain…
Steven Sampson: Angry white males as suffering subjects
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain…
Zwischen „eigen“ und „fremd“ – Interview mit Mamadou Diawara
Der Ethnologe Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara ist als „teilnehmender Beobachter“ und „Feldforscher“ viel in der Welt unterwegs. Der aus Mali stammende Wissenschaftler versteht sich als Brückenbauer zwischen…
Book Forum––Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary by Todd Meyers
Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary is many things — a carefully curated selection of classic texts ranging from Immanuel Kant’s “An Answer to the…
Match-making – the Pakistani way
by M. Amer Morgahi Migration has its own dynamic of bringing people together in situations or locations where they otherwise might not have thought of. However, migration sometimes also…
#AnthroForward Post-Election Resources
On December 7th the AAA asked our members to join us in a live discussion on Twitter to share post-election resources and suggest ways we can proactively engage in…
Faculty work, librarian work, and life balance
Tis the season. As my professor friends hustle to write final exams and grade them, only to press through to letter grade submission and finally revel in winter…
My Year in Mansplaining
My year in Mansplaining Posted on December 31, 2013 December 29, 2013 — My year in Mansplaining Mansplain– delighting in condescending, inaccurate explanations delivered with rock solid confide…
That Person at your office
That person at your office Posted on May 6, 2014 As a professor who teaches and serves as a mentor to university undergraduates, MA and Ph.D. students, and junior faculty,…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 14: Graham Denyer Willis on Taylor’s #BlackLivesMatter to “Black Liberation”
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…