Mutterschutz in China – Hoffnungen und Ängste
Auch in China bleiben viele Mütter und Väter nach der Geburt eines Kindes für eine Weile zu Hause. Diese Zeit ist für viele nicht nur mit schönen Erfahrungen,…
More on the bees, and Avatar
Really? Heh heh. From the Bee Movie: And from Avatar: Nothing if not populist. Who said kids wouldn’t pour over this speech for years to come? Course they…
Material as opposed to what? Three recent ethnographies of welfare, biological labor, and human dignity by Leo Coleman
Catherine Fennell. Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Kalinda Vora. Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of O…
Erik W. Davis, “Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia” (Columbia UP, 2015)
In his recent monograph, Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia (Columbia University Press, 2015), Erik W. Davis explores funerary ritual in contemporary Cambodian Buddhism and th… Visit New…
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Hi all, Just pretend it’s a normal Friday…at least there are plenty of interesting stories that should distract you from other news today…Development news: Capitalism created charity ‘fat…
Links & Contents I Liked 216
Hi all, Just pretend it’s a normal Friday…at least there are plenty of interesting stories that should distract you from other news today…Development news: Capitalism created charity ‘fat…
Population #ReadIn
“Racism” is such an unwieldy concept. Living in a world in which racism is one of the fundamental building blocks that shapes all our relationships, calling someone racist…
The creation of a “lessons learned place” – Notes on doing research in the coal mine area of Tete, Mozambique
By Nikkie Wiegink, Utrecht University “More studies, more studies! Ok, it is necessary to do those studies, but to what end?!” Carlos (a pseudonym) was furious. It is…
Reviewing the #Review Process
As Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think and talk a lot with authors and editors…
And Our Winners Are . . .
Many thanks to the 1,152 people who entered our publisher’s Amazon Giveaway to receive free copies of A World of Babies, and to Cambridge University Press for sponsoring…
Call for Proposals: Populism Rising
As the US inaugurates a new president, AN will turn an eye toward the rise of populism from a global perspective. We’re seeking proposals for feature articles, notes…
A Field Guide to Trump’s Swamp
The president-elect has populated “the swamp” with power brokers who are marred by potential conflicts of interest. Andrew Harnik/Associated Press For me, a social anthropologist who has …
What does knitting sweaters for kittens or filming fetish porn in your basement have in common? An Activity for second semester student introductions
What are you we doing in the classroom besides trying to make one another think about things? Or think about things in a new way or create new…
What does knitting sweaters for kittens or filming fetish porn in your basement have in common? An Activity for second semester student introductions
What are you we doing in the classroom besides trying to make one another think about things? Or think about things in a new way or create new…
#REVIEW: THE TROUBLE WITH MARRIAGE: FEMINISTS CONFRONT LAW AND VIOLENCE IN INDIA
Politics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To study marriage― what it is across cultures, how…
What EM Is Thinking
Frequent FoodAnthropology book reviewer Ellen Messer has sent us this eclectic collection of comments and insights into recent food and nutrition related news. We hope to be able…
Going Public: Resistance In The Age Of Trump
Here’s the rub, if that knowledge is produced but not consumed, it will have little impact on the quest for global social
The Dying Days of Liberalism
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project What a sight to behold. These are the dying days, counting down soon to the final hours,…
Going Public: Resistance In The Age Of Trump
Here’s the rub, if that knowledge is produced but not consumed, it will have little impact on the quest for global social
The Partial Truths of Big Data
Last July I was using R to do some social network analysis of Instagram tags. After lots of package downloads, App Developer’s applications, etc., I couldn’t get it…