New Book by Jay Murphy on Antonin Artaud
This is it – Jay Murphy’s book is out. Use the pavement site because postage is included… Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies without Organs by Jay Murphy…
Review: Chickenizing Farms and Food
Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Farmers and Consumers. Ellen K. Silbergeld. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2o16. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) Silb…
Reader Letters #2: Call for Submissions (Due 12/20/16)
A few weeks ago we published our first installment of our new Reader Letters series. We want to hear more. Send us your letters! Please keep the following…
Review: What’s So Controversial about Genetically Modified Foods?
Editor’s Note: This is the first of two reviews I have planned of this important new book. What’s So Controversial about Genetically-Modified Foods? John Lang. Reaktion Publishers. 2016…
Run, Hide, Fight
On campus violence, language, and the climate of fear. Monday was my birthday. I was taking a walk along the river near my house when my phone buzzed. I…
Allein: Chinas Einzelkinder und ihre sorgenvolle Gegenwart
Zu Hause allein sein, wenig Begleitung, selbstständiges Leben – als Einzelkind erlebt man in China nicht nur das. Die gegenwärtige wie auch die zukünftige Altersstruktur der Gesellschaft bergen…
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…
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…
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…