Neujahrsfest 2017: Im Zeichen des Hahns
In China beginnt am 28. Januar 2017 das Jahr des Hahns, welcher gemäß dem Zyklus der Tierkreiszeichen den Affen ablöst. Was verbinden die Menschen im Reich der Mitte…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 27, 2017
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…
Neujahrsfest 2017: Im Zeichen des Hahns
In China beginnt am 28. Januar 2017 das Jahr des Hahns, welcher gemäß dem Zyklus der Tierkreiszeichen den Affen ablöst. Was verbinden die Menschen im Reich der Mitte…
Free trade and protection: not alternatives, but always complementary
Sir James Steuart was a Jacobite exile who brought the term ‘political economy’ from Continental Europe to Britain. Almost a decade before The Wealth of Nations he published…
Being engaged with the Middle East
Sheila Carapico (chair), Marina de Regt and Erika Cortes. By Erika Cortes. Anthropology is a way of life. It, if I may, is life. It can present us…
Migrants in novels: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
It wasn’t always all called trafficking. Whether or not migrants were officially or sentimentally designated refugees, they were portrayed as taking action. Getting screwed – certainly …
Links & Contents I Liked 217
Hi all, Another Friday! New student are settling in, calendar filling up with appointments and so much interesting stuff to read! Development news: World Vision tests humanitarian boundaries…
The BBC-Myth of a Public Service (book review)
Tom Mills’ book The BBC-Myth of a Public Service is a book for which the slightly over-used phrase of a ‘timely contribution’ is actually very fitting. His interesting…
The Immortal Memory: John Bryden’s Burns Supper Speech, Stockholm 2017
My old friend’s speech for January 28th this year. “Burns is one of the reasons I am proud to be a Scot, a socialist, a nationalist, and an…
The New Gambia, by Niklas Hultin
President Adama Barrow greeting the people. Photo by Katarina Höije It finally became clear on January 21, 2017, that Yahya Jammeh, the long-serving autocratic president of The Gambia…
An Option with no Choice? The Role of Preventive Technologies in (Dis-)Locating a Malaria Epidemic
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) René Umlauf This photo was taken 31st of August 2016. It shows the compound of Gulu’s District Health Administration, which was used…
An Option with no Choice? The Role of Preventive Technologies in (Dis-)Locating a Malaria Epidemic #MedTech
In August 2016, during a science-meets-policy summit in Kampala’s famous Serena Hotel, a presentation on the (in-)effectiveness of so-called long-lasting insecticide-treated nets against malaria spark…
Understanding the Presidency as a Brand
Nothing can escape marketing–even the Romans knew this. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Understanding the Presidency as a Brand
Nothing can escape marketing–even the Romans knew this. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Disrupting Nativism (Part One)
We must confront the nativism, xenophobia, and racism that youth in our “diverse classrooms” experience head on. I began writing this article in June 2016. At that time,…
Digital visual anthropology
This is a selection of digital visual anthropology resources which were collected via the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Visual Anthropology Network’s (VANEASA) mailing li…
‘Mohawk Interruptus’ by Audra Simpson
Audra Simpson. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life across the Borders of Settler States. 280pp., 4 illus., app., notes, refs., index. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. $89.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper…
New Book from Kath Weston: Animate Planet
Great looking new title from anthropologist Kath Weston published by Duke (details here). From the website: Description In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans,…
Who Started the First Fire?
Neanderthals were able to manipulate fire well before they came into contact with Homo sapiens. Starting fire, however, was an entirely different matter. David Williams In the 1981…
Teaching ethnography
The anthro everywhere! authors recently came across an intriguing article written for the online magazine Quillette entitled “Tyranny of the Ethnography: How Lived Experience Corrupts t…
Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Bo Kyeong Seo A new tertiary hospital building is under construction in Chiang Mai. / Photo: B.K. Seo When new epidemics hit…
Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand #MedTech
When new epidemics hit us, calls for infrastructural development are renewed. More investment in hospital facilities, medical staff and the development of effective protocols for disease control is…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part III
Hello! I’ve been too busy to update this site due to our nation’s continuing collapse. Anyway, here’s the latest since the last time I posted: Donald Trump: Our…
Writing Resistance In The Age Of Trump
You can’t fight big lies with little truths.