December 2016
Volume 9 | Number 3 | December 2016 Features Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History by Susan Harding and Emily Martin New Articulations…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, December 13, 2016
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Call for Papers: Social Anthropology of ‚Well-Being‘ – Prekäres Leben: Krieg, Flucht, Migration
5.-6. Mai 2017, Institut für Ethnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Organisation: Helene Basu, Natalie Gies-Powroznik, Claudia Lang, Dominik Mattes und Annika Strauss Wir möchten Sie he…
Engaged Anthropology Grant: Carina Heckert
Carina Heckert is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2013 she received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to aid research…
„Wenn es wirklich eine fünfte Grundkraft gäbe, sähe unsere Welt vollkommen anders aus“
“Würde der homöopathische Wirkmechanismus funktionieren”, überlegt Vince Ebert aktuell im “Spektrum der Wissenschaft” unter dem Titel “Alternative Medizin: Das Wunder der Homöopathie” (10. Dez. 2016)…
Gold Glimmers in the Amazon
For centuries, explorers have searched the Amazon for treasures. Today, gold lures thousands who dream of finding their own fortunes, or at least a better life. Michael Klingler…
Gold Glimmers in the Amazon
For centuries, explorers have searched the Amazon for treasures. Today, gold lures thousands who dream of finding their own fortunes, or at least a better life. Michael Klingler…
Fracking, mining, murder: the killer agenda driving migration in Mexico and Central America
Why negotiate with poor Indigenous communities sitting atop valuable oil, water, wood and ore if they can be pushed off their land with hidden criminal, political and misogynistic…
What’s next for #allmalepanel?
I have written about all male panels before and I am regularly following the #allmalepanel hashtag for updates on that topic. I also noticed that three new academic…
What’s next for #allmalepanel?
I have written about all male panels before and I am regularly following the #allmalepanel hashtag for updates on that topic. I also noticed that three new academic…
What’s next for #allmalepanel?
I have written about all male panels before and I am regularly following the #allmalepanel hashtag for updates on that topic. I also noticed that three new academic…
What’s next for #allmalepanel?
I have written about all male panels before and I am regularly following the #allmalepanel hashtag for updates on that topic. I also noticed that three new academic…
What’s next for #allmalepanel?
I have written about all male panels before and I am regularly following the #allmalepanel hashtag for updates on that topic. I also noticed that three new academic…
Insiders, Outsiders, and Intellectual Kinship #UniversityCrisis
Marshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational attributes and thus be linked to diverse others…
Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons In what ways do seeds, soils, bees, microbes, and rivers matter when Native,…
Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons In what ways do seeds, soils, bees, microbes, and rivers matter when Native,…
Electoral College and the Constitutional Duty to Block Trump
Update June 2017: This post was written at a time when the Electoral College should have exercised a duty that they did not. Although the evidence was available…
Constitutional Duty to Block Trump
Electoral College Update June 2017: This post was written at a time when the Electoral College should have exercised a duty that they did not. Although the evidence…
Electoral College: A Duty to Block Trump from Presidency
For most of its modern existence, the US Electoral College has been a mere formality, a procedural endorsement of each state’s popular vote winner. However, the original intent…
Electoral College: A Duty to Block Trump from Presidency
For most of its modern existence, the US Electoral College has been a mere formality, a procedural endorsement of each state’s popular vote winner. However, the original intent…
Electoral College: A Duty to Block Trump from Presidency
For most of its modern existence, the US Electoral College has been a mere formality, a procedural endorsement of each state’s popular vote winner. However, the original intent…
anthro in the news 12/12/16
Comet Ping Pong restaurant in DC, site of recent fake news about child trafficking prompting an armed man to “self-investigate” on December 4Source: Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS sex panic and…