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If you are thinking about what you’d like to do with your degree in anthropology (or degrees in anthropology), or are just looking for some good answers to…
More boys are diagnosed with cancer than girls worldwide – why?
The factors that lead to gender differences in cancer rates all affect us later in life, and should not apply to children. Yet the present data shows that…
David S. Jones’s “Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care” by Jennifer Fraser
Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care by David S. Jones The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, 336 pages. My first encounter with David S. Jones’ Broken…
Bride or Child First?
by Fern Adams ROSIE THOMPSON/SAVE THE CHILDREN – http://tooyoungtowed.org In the UK we recognise that people officially become adults when they turn 18. We tend to view that…
Ethnographies of Academia #UniversityCrisis
There is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon. There is hunger for information and a thirst…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, December 5, 2016
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Do you have items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com…
3 Historical Examples of “Fake News”
History is littered with examples where the the facts were altered to suit a specific purpose. Here are three instances where falsified public accounts were used to chart…
3 Historical Examples of “Fake News”
History is littered with examples where the the facts were altered to suit a specific purpose. Here are three instances where falsified public accounts were used to chart…
New online certificate program in Design Ethnography @ Boise State University
The Boise State University College of Innovation and Design, in partnership with the BSU Department of Anthropology, has announced a new online certificate program in Design Ethnography beginning…
CFP: Feminist Food Studies: Exploring Intersectionality
Yet another call for abstracts that will no doubt be of great interest to readers of FoodAnthropology: EDITED COLLECTION CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FEMINIST FOOD STUDIES: EXPLORING INTERSECTIONALITY What…
Teaching and bad affect
I’m teaching an Anthropology of Europe class and I decided we’d end by talking about current events. So the week before this, we talked about the Greek economic…
A World Famous African-American Scientist Puts the Presidential Election in Perspective: “I Am Not Surprised At All”
On Wednesday, the day after our 2017 presidential election, I dreaded having to put on my host face to go out to dinner with Dr. Joseph Graves, our…
Building professional social networks through the American Anthropological Association annual meeting
A few years ago, I’d all but decided I wasn’t going to go to the American Anthropological Association main conference anymore. This was the year it was in…
Rennen voor Erdoǧan, Gülen of Atatürk? De politisering van de Istanbul Marathon 2016
Door Heleen van der Linden Sport verbindt. Toch? Ook als het aan de Nederlandse politiek ligt klopt dat cliché als een bus. “Sport…
„Wenn ein Freund aus fernen Landen kommt…“ – Ausländische Kollegen in China
Das Verhältnis zwischen Ausländern und ihren chinesischen Kollegen ist nicht immer einfach. Es lauern eine Vielzahl kultureller Fallstricke und oft gibt es Berührungsängste. Im Internet tauschen sich …
Green Thumbery: What Can the First Weeds Tell Us?
Weeds are the bane of gardening but they can help us learn how we arrived at agriculture’s doorstep — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Green Thumbery: What Can the First Weeds Tell Us?
Weeds are the bane of gardening but they can help us learn how we arrived at agriculture’s doorstep — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Re-Naming the Savage Minds Blog: Your Suggestions, Please
The editorial collective at Savage Minds has decided to change our name. We have several reasons for this, but mostly feel that the name no longer fits or…
香港的筆記 Notizen über Hong Kong
Dieser Blogeintrag ist eigentlich keiner, der an den Schluss gehört. Es sind diese Kleinigkeiten, die einem auffallen und die darauf warten zu einer größeren Geschichte zu werden. Daher…
CFP: FOOD IN CANADA AND BEYOND
We recently received notification of the looming deadline (January 15, 2017) for this conference, which may be of interest to SAFN members and FoodAnthropology readers. The Canadian Association…