professors contextualize conflict in syria
Though Syrian communities pre-date the modern world, Syria’s national identity is only about 72 years old. Since 2011, the country has been involved in a civil war with Sunni…
How does it feel to be a problem? – W.E.B. du Bois on Race and Double Consciousness
What African-American scholar W.E.B. du Bois called the condition of ‘double-consciousness’, the ambivalence and ambiguities that come with a position of liminality, refers not only to being caught…
Abortion Rights Are Being Eroded
After Tea Party activists won decisive seats in the 2010 midterm elections, controversial abortion legislation has been passed throughout the country. Pressure to rescind abortion rights reached …
City Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with Children
In Egypt, children are subject to a conservative and hierarchical public educational system. Underfunding, overcrowded classrooms and precarious infrastructure make the Egyptian school a place full of…
Abra, Cadaver, Alakazam!
Source: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3376/3652860950_1f5fc7e2bd_b.jpg On April 17, Dr. Daina Barry of the University of Texas-Austin delivered the 2017 Grace Towns Hamilton lecture at Emory Universi…
SOMAA Research Roundup
Roundup of medical anthropology research in Aotearoa New Zealand. SOMAA Welcome to our first SOMAA research roundup. Here you’ll find brief summaries and links to recent publications by SOMAA members…
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca Part 7
Conclusion: It’s all fun and games… As I mentioned in the first post of my series, anthropologists and ethnobiologists have played an outsized role in studying and popularizing…
More Questions than Answers? statistics and stories. Columbia 21.4.17
Would really like to go to this but would probably not be able to endure the visa ordeal (damn those pesky busts and dodgy associations – also boycotting). …
Replik auf „Gender-Studies: Die Geschlechterillusion“ von Axel Meyer
Sehr geehrte NZZ-Redaktion, sehr geehrter Herr Axel Mayer, In Ihrem Diskussionsbeitrag „Gender-Studies: Die Geschlechterillusion“ vom 04.04.2017, zeigen Sie die unumstößlichen Naturgesetze auf und ver…
Spring (northern hemisphere) Anthropocene books out now or soon…
A few recently released or soon to be released titles (not counting my own) on various aspects of the Anthropocene. Clive Hamilton’s Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part VIII
My latest articles and interviews, on Trump, Russia, North Korea, Syria, and more: Globe and Mail: Trump craves praise. We praise him for bombings. What could possibly go wrong? (4/13/17)…
anthro in the news 4/17/17
Pro-“Yes” protests outside the Dutch embassy in Turkey. Credit: Wikipedia macho-man Erdogan BBC News reported on how Turks in the Netherlands feel about Turkey’s controversial referendum on Ap…
Water Politics Syllabus & Resources
We have been seeing some very interesting discussions and resources emerging around water politics recently. Image from “The Rights of the Whanganui River” (Peeps) In addition to the…
Water Politics Syllabus & Resources
We have been seeing some very interesting discussions and resources emerging around water politics recently. Image from “The Rights of the Whanganui River” (Peeps) In addition to the…
Hackonomy
April 2017 at Hartwick College featured a lecture by award-winning e-commerce marketing executive and television personality Bonin Bough. Bough discussed “Hackonomy: Lessons from the Largest Bra…
Hackonomy
On Monday, April 17 at 7:30pm in Anderson Center for the Arts at Hartwick College, award-winning e-commerce marketing executive and television personality Bonin Bough will discuss “Hackonomy: Le…
Hackonomy
Hackonomy April 2017 at Hartwick College featured a lecture by award-winning e-commerce marketing executive and television personality Bonin Bough. Bough discussed “Hackonomy: Lessons from the L…
Review of ‘Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present’
Richard S. Newman’s recent book offers a new history of Love Canal, the neighborhood near Niagara Falls that became notoriously contaminated by buried chemical waste. As residents became…
Don’t post direct links to your new journal article!
This has become a pit of a pet peeve of mine, but I am getting increasing annoyed when colleagues announce new publications and only include a direct link…