Psychoactive Drugs: A Change in End of Life Practices
Humans seem to have both a strong anxiety and fascination with death, having a profound awareness of our own mortality from a young age. We seem…
Squatting and Concepts of Property Ownership in the Netherlands
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon in Rotterdam with a friend, local, and part-time Detroiter, and I learned a lot about housing policy and the long, complex history of…
The Importance of Grave Robbery during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Statues from Freedman’s Cemetery Memorial in Dallas, Texas. This cemetery is one of the African American cemeteries that was often robbed. Image courtesy of Maribel Rubio Grave robbing…
Jazz Funerals
New Orleans is well known for its spectacle and pageantry of civic ritual, represented in festivals like Mardi Gras. The spectacle display is also seen in their funeral…
Melissa Chakars, “The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia” (Central European UP, 2014)
In The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Central European University Press, 2014), Melissa Chakars reveals not only how Soviet policies disrupted traditional Buryat ways…
Michaela DeSoucey, “Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food” (Princeton UP, 2016)
A heritage food in France, and a high-priced obscurity in the United States. But in both countries, foie gras, the specially fattened liver of a duck or goose,…
Bourdieu on UC Santa Cruz
I just came across Pierre Bourdieu’s curious comment on American universities and their set-apartness from society: American universities, especially the most prestigious and the most exclusive,…
Links & Contents I Liked 225
Hi all, Long week, but lots to read for you over the weekend ;)! Development news: US peacekeeping cuts; celebrities helping Somalia; celebrities (different ones…) romanticizing poverty; localizing…
Links & Contents I Liked 225
Hi all, Long week, but lots to read for you over the weekend ;)! Development news: US peacekeeping cuts; celebrities helping Somalia; celebrities (different ones…) romanticizing poverty; localizing…
Mit nackter Haut gegen Pelz?
Wie viele Menschen heutzutage bin auch ich der Meinung, dass es nicht mehr nötig ist, Fell zu tragen oder in der Mode zu verwenden. Viele der Tiere werden…
Cotard’s Syndrome: The Disorder That Makes You Think You’re Dead
Cotard’s syndrome (also known as Cotard’s delusion) is an extremely rare condition in which patients believe that they—or parts of their body—are dead. In 1788, the earliest recorded…
CFP: special issue on Organizing and Managing Waste
This special issue aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of business in society research on waste, from the micro-practices of individual waste producers or waste managers to the…
K’aissina! Father, Son, Taboos: Life-Lessons from Ethiopia #REDUX
The Kara of southern Ethiopia are a small population of horti-pastoralists among whom I have worked since 2003. Over the years, I collected in particularly cherished sections of…
Vad har reformationen med antropologi att göra? Reflektioner kring antropologi, kristendom och ett sidoaltare.
av Kristina Helgesson Kjellin I Skärholmens kyrkorum finns det ett sidoaltare, eller ett Mariaaltare, något som inte är vanligt i en protestantisk tradition, men som är desto vanligare…
Applied Food and Nutrition Research, SfAA 2017
Amanda Green Davidson College The 2017 Society for Applied Anthropology meeting (March 28-April 1) in Santa Fe has shaped up to be an incredible showcase of food-related research. In…
Academic conferences as neoliberal commodities (book review)
Donald J. Nicolson’s Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities is a short new book that addresses one of the favorite academic products researchers love to hate. Nicolson’s book offers…
Academic conferences as neoliberal commodities (book review)
Donald J. Nicolson’s Academic Conferences as Neoliberal Commodities is a short new book that addresses one of the favorite academic products researchers love to hate. Nicolson’s book offers…
Natürlich Schön!
Teil 1 Heutzutage kennt das doch jeder, man probiert etwas Neues an oder schaut nur einfach kurz in den Spiegel und sofort fallen all die „offensichtlichen“ Schönheitsmakel auf,…
In the Heart of the City: The Case of Long-Term Refugees in Dakar, Senegal, by Agathe Menetrier (2017)
Worldwide, the majority of refugees now lives in urban areas. Refugee camps have long since become the hallmark of prolonged refugee crises, so that researchers and aid organisations…
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY: THE CASE OF LONG-TERM REFUGEES IN DAKAR, SENEGAL, BY AGATHE MENETRIER
Worldwide, the majority of refugees now lives in urban areas. Refugee camps have long since become the hallmark of prolonged refugee crises, so that researchers and aid organisations…
Wrestling With the Culture of Drug Testing in Sports
Lutte avec frappe, or “wrestling with punches,” the most popular sport in Senegal, adopted international anti-doping rules in 2015. Mark Hann On May 31, 2015, the combat between…
Bullshit! Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data Syllabus
We came across this syllabus the other day and can think of many ways in which these open access materials and their analysis can be used in anthropology…