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…
Why it’s easier for India to get to Mars than to tackle its toilet challenge
In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the United States and the European Union) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars…
Not Getting Closure: Reflecting on the Vindication of Gaetan Dugas by Greg Clinton
Now drowned in the torrent of post-election analysis, on October 26, 2016, the journal Nature published a study which traced genomic data in an effort to map the spread…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, November 21, 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…
On capitalist utopia and the rightful share
by Deniz Seebacher & Julia Büchele The title of James Ferguson’s latest book (2015) draws from (arguably) “the world’s most widely circulated development cliché”: Give a man a fish,…
Banditry and the Politics of #Remoteness in the Highlands of Madagascar
Over the past few years, the resurgence of rural banditry in many regions of Madagascar has been an important topic of public and political debate. Local and national…
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene [review]
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Cthulhu, Great Old One and Special Collections Librarian at Brown University. When the puny mortals at Savage Minds invited me to review the…
Why to Read Winnicott after the US Election, and How by Leo Coleman
Commentary and speculation after this election have focused on voters’ motives and emotional states, and, especially in the day or two after the result, why experts didn’t know…
Links & Contents I Liked 208
Hi all, We enjoyed a great teaching seminar with our students in Paris! Now back to work and Friday blogging… Development news: India’s farm suicide widows; Nepal’s slow recovery;…
Links & Contents I Liked 208
Hi all, We enjoyed a great teaching seminar with our students in Paris! Now back to work and Friday blogging… Development news: India’s farm suicide widows; Nepal’s slow recovery;…