Ethno everywhere! Workshop
The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting hosted a workshop on November 16th about Ethnographic Writing. In this workshop, Ruth Behar from the University of Michigan and Marcia Ochoa…
Feldforschung in anarchistischen Projekten
Die eigene Abschlussarbeit führt viele Studierende der Ethnologie in ihre erste, selbstorganisierte Feldforschung. Wie fühlt es sich an, allein in einem zunächst unbekannten sozialen Umfeld unterwegs …
Information and Communication Technology and Wellbeing in the Merchant Marines
Annamaria Dall’Anese, PhD student, UCL Anthropology If the informal use of the internet through personal devices on board merchant vessels encounters barriers due to patchy infrastructure and weather…
‘Ordinary people’ and the problem of populism
The Trump election has once again centered attention on the metaphorical figure of the ‘ordinary person’, which plays a key role at the current moment in history –…
Urban development and the resistance of archaeology #newtonloss
By some estimates, one in ten thousand people in Turkey is an unemployed archaeologist. In an alternative café while on a last-minute contract in Istanbul, I got talking…
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…
Around the Web Digest- November 21
So after a week of visiting family for Thanksgiving and slowly accepting the crushing weight of neoliberalism that came crashing down in 2016. I come back with readings…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, November 30, 2016
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…
The Anthropology Of Us: A Second Open Letter To Our Students
4. Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony. Last week The White House live streamed the ceremony during which President Obama
The Anthropology Of Us: A Second Open Letter To Our Students
4. Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony. Last week The White House live streamed the ceremony during which President Obama
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 12: Kevin G. Karpiak on the critical potential of an anthropology of police
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
‘Race and Photography’ by Amos Morris-Reich
Amos Morris-Reich. Race and Photography: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980. 320pp., 72 halftones, notes, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. $97.50 (cloth), $32.50 (…
GW event today Nov 30
Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies today at the GW Elliott School of International Affairs for Partition Stories: Memory, History, and Legacies of the 1947 Partition of…
What Did Hosni Mubarak Mean By “Democracy”
That democracy means different things to different people is a truism so obvious as to be banal. But the intercultural problem that raises remains perpetually interesting: what do…
Focaal Volume 2016, Issue 76: Adivasi and Dalit political pathways in India
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.co…