Links & Contents I Liked 211
Hi all, One moment you are reading an interesting story-the next moment it’s already time for the Friday link review! Development news: UK reviews development consultant spending; Compassion…
Beyond Miracles: How Traditional Chinese Medicine Establishes Professional Legitimacy in Post-colonial Macau by Loretta I.T. Lou
[Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article appeared in Imponderabilia: The International Student Anthropology Journal (2014). This piece is updated with new data and photos collected bet…
Life In Trumpland: A Third Open Letter To Our Students
Dear Students, The meandering flow of Ms. Hughes’s comment speaks for itself. Is Trumpland destined to become the real world
Towards a Heterodox and Reflexive Economics
After the 2008 financial crisis, the call for a more heterogeneous approach to studying and teaching economics intensified. But how can heterodoxy take up a more prominent place…
Towards a Heterodox and Reflexive Economics
After the 2008 financial crisis, the call for a more heterogeneous approach to studying and teaching economics intensified. But how can heterodoxy take up a more prominent place…
Life In Trumpland: A Third Open Letter To Our Students
Dear Students, The meandering flow of Ms. Hughes’s comment speaks for itself. Is Trumpland destined to become the real world
Antiheroism: the underdog’s survival tactic #UniversityCrisis
“Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the bad job market. The growth of precarious labor…
Conference Report: 6th annual Asian Food Study Conference, Kusatsu, Japan
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference that I found particularly useful and inspiring: the…
Über Grenzen
In meinem zweiten Semester der Kulturanthropologie hatte ich das schöne Seminar zu den “Methoden der Feldforschung”, in dem wir am Ende unser gelerntes Wissen natürlich praktisch “im…
CFP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art
The conference will address ‘technical lands’, sites where global knowledge practices and aesthetic categories have converged to literally transform the physical geography of the land. Harvard, April…
“Just the Tip”
So, since October I’ve been accompanying Savage Minds’ social medias, trying to keep everything updated and making sure we have a continuum of posts on Facebook and Twitter.…
Ebola: why has the previous existence of Ebola in the Mano river region not been discussed?
Empty Ebola Treatment Center at ELWA outside Monrovia. November 1, 2016 Passage from a medical journal from 1982: The results seem to indicate that at least Liberia…
Books I Liked 01 (short book reviews)
One of the things I realized this year is that I am actually reading more interesting books than I am able to review individually for the blog. To…