Tattoos in China: Von Toleranz und Vorurteilen
In Großstädten wie Shanghai und Peking sieht man sie immer häufiger: Tattoo-Shops. Anhänger dieses Körperschmucks haben es jedoch oft im Alltag nicht einfach, wie sie im Internet berichten.…
Creating Participatory Democracy (Or Trying, Anyway)
In hindsight, the biggest problem with the extraordinary protests in Tahrir Square was the lack of a coherent plan for creating democracy once Mubarak stepped down. I hear that…
Archaeology in Times of Trump
Archaeologists Against Trump is the name of a Facebook group. It can also be applied to the writings and actions by a large number of archaeologists concerned with…
More thoughts from the Archaeology Division of the AAA- Publications, Blogging, and Making Conversations Count
This post is the latest in the November guest blog series by the Archaeology Division of the AAA. This post is by Lynne Goldstein. Lynne Goldstein is a…
Black Lives Matter and Reflections from a Civil War
The Black Lives Matter movement is seeking to put an end to the inequities faced by blacks in the United States. In Sri Lanka, the failure to redress…
#AMANTH2016 WRAP-UP
The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is over, and, with it, the brief spurt of Twitter traffic that marks the event. Here’s a graph of Twitter traffic over…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 11: Jaime Alves “On the right and duty to change the world”
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…
“Pass the stuffing, hold the -isms please”: Engaging Mixed Philosophies and Difficult Conversations at the Dinner Table
By: Caitlyn Brandt, Allison Dudley, Will Lammons, and Aaron Trumbo The holidays are upon us once again, and soon many of us will engage in those family dynamics…
Notes from the Forest: Engaging with a hunter’s world of materials
Thorsten Gieser, Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Kulturwissenschaft, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany A winter’s day, in a forest in central Germany. At dusk, more than fifty hunte…
Prison Abolition Syllabus
(This very impressive reading list from the USA compounds). ((Such scholarship needs to be replicated for other places. And start with the prison support stuff)) http://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-…
Selective access or how states make #remoteness
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or is remoteness a construct of connectivity?…
Über Vorurteile. Alle in einen Topf
Gerfried Sperl skizziert in seiner Kolumne Trump und die Globalisierung des Rückschritts mögliche Folgen eines Wahlsiegs von Donald Trump. Seine Analyse mag zutreffend sein oder nicht, die Einleitung…
Papers on French philosophy, precarity and protest
It’s been a fun year for me (leaving aside here, you know, many disturbing political events, trends, pomps and circumstances, because this isn’t that kind of blog) because some…
Postmortem and Possibilities: Reflections on AAA 2016
After the results of the election, there was a new kind of energy at the AAA’s, a nervousness and a palpable anticipation. There was a sense that this…
Wisnu Genu, Senayan City, Jakarta Fashion Week
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
Wisnu Genu, Senayan City, Jakarta Fashion Week
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
anthro in the news 11/21/16
two views on the Trump win: class or region? An article in The Minneapolis Star Tribune included commentary from two social anthropologists at the annual conference of the…
Wisnu Genu, Senayan City, Jakarta Fashion Week
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
Wisnu Genu, Senayan City, Jakarta Fashion Week
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
Race, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, Trump, Prison Abolition, Welfare Reform, Pulse Orlando: #Teachingthedisaster through Crowdsourced Syllabi
The 2016 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association — or #AAA2016 #amanth2016 — just concluded in Minneapolis. I’ve been attending these meetings since 1993, and this…
Naming and place: What Do You Call the Corner Store?
Depanneur in Quebec This is a fun little piece from Atlas Obscura that teachers might want to bring into a discussion of language: What Do You Call the Corner…
Naming and place: What Do You Call the Corner Store?
Depanneur in Quebec This is a fun little piece from Atlas Obscura that teachers might want to bring into a discussion of language: What Do You Call the Corner…
Displacing Community
In Baltimore development isn’t just about “business getting built”—it’s also about community relations. As I arrived at my office at Coppin State University (CSU) late in the morning…
Over de doden niets dan goeds: historici over het Nederlandse geweld in de vrijheidsoorlog van Indonesië
Balinezen geven zich over aan Nederlandse militairen, 1906. © Museum Bronbeek, via creative commons Door Freek Colombijn De afgelopen maand is er in verschillende media…