Is There a Social Code for Snow Removal?
Will you have help digging out after a snowstorm or are you the one offering help? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Zum Studium ins Ausland: Nur wohin?
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
A practical guide for Iraqis living in Trump’s USA – or in the Gentile North in general
By: Hayder Al-Mohammad My fellow Iraqis. We are living under unheard of pressures and violence against us. Those of us who carry an Iraqi passport will have experienced…
Zum Studium ins Ausland: Nur wohin?
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
Do You See What I See?
Social scientists have long been fascinated by how people in different cultures perceive and describe color. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS In a Candoshi village in the heart of Peru, anthropolog…
Racialization, Affect, and Refuge
How do we begin to grapple with the racialization of empathy? How do we capture, both ethnographically and politically, the differential allocation of sympathy, compassion, and the kind…
SocArXiv launched
Michael Oman-Reagan just reminded me about an important open access project that’s been in the works for a while now: SocArXiv (thanks @OmanReagan!). I believe @socarxiv has the…
An Anthropologist, a Climate Scientist, and a Geographer walk into NASA…
The joke introduces a recent news article describing a new project that brings together various scientists to study changing patterns of urbanization and land use in the Himalayan…
De Dappermarkt in Amsterdam: ontmoetingsplek en strijdperk
door Freek Colombijn Aristoteles roemde de stad al vanwege haar sociale diversiteit en Hannah Arendt, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett en Setha Low zijn slechts een aantal beroemde sociale…
Did People Actually Bowl at Bowling Green?
Bowling Green has a history that has withstood the test of time — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Did people actually bowl at Bowling Green?
Bowling Green has a history that has withstood the test of time. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Forgotten Refugees at the Tunisian Border with Libya #MeadCompetition
My forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite of the wide-spread European alarmism on the subject…
Fear, Fire, and Solidarity in New Orleans
David Beriss Someone tried to burn down the Flaming Torch restaurant last week. The restaurant, located in my neighborhood in New Orleans, is a French bistro that has…
Call for Reader Letters: Trump & Anthropology (DUE 2/20/17)
In December we published our first installment of our new Reader Letters series. This time around, we’d like to hear what you, our readers, have to say about…
CFP: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science”
Call for Papers: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science” 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK. Citizen science has…
best cultural anthropology dissertations of 2016
amp;h=290 300w, https://anthropologyworksdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/trophyidle.png?w=600&h=580 600w, https://anthropologyworksdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/trophyidle.png?w=150&h=145 150w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” /> Here are my 50 cultural anthropology dissertation selections for 2016. As in past years, my search was…
Luke Cage: A Marvel Take on Black History
By Astrid Countee “Only Forward,” that is the message of Netflix’s latest superhero show, Luke Cage. A message that seems to have shown up just in time for…
Det kvarter, du bor i, siger noget om den, du er
I dette indlæg vil jeg blot fortælle om en lille hverdagsbetragtning, som jeg gør mig igen og igen, og som I sikkert også gør jer. Når man møder…
New Study: 60 Percent of Primate Species Threatened With Extinction
The Philippine tarsier, a small primate that is increasingly threatened by habitat destruction and the pet trade, is just one example of the many primates throughout the world…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 18: Avram Bornstein on the Statistical Geographies of Racialized Policing
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… #038;blog=8589899&%23038;post=4997&%23038;subd=anthropoliteia&%23038;ref=&%23038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ />
Engaged research: should anthropologists be involved in activism?
The question of engagement With the persistence of civil wars, social inequality, violence, and injustice, anthropologists have been struggling with issues of universal rights and cultural relativism…
Waiting w/ Serra Hakyemez
with Aneil and Ryan Special Guest: Serra Hakyemez Is waiting political? Can you cut in line at Starbucks during your hectic morning commute? In this episode of TAL…
When You Can’t Go Home Again #MeadCompetition
A cold, wet, arctic wind graces the concrete skin of the Tenderloin. Pill Hill, the three-block stretch of inner city urbanity, along Leavenworth Avenue and between Turk and…