European Brides in the Islamic State
What factors are motivating Dutch women to relocate to Islamic State strongholds at all costs? Three anthropologists set out to find the untold stories behind their emigration. Michelle…
Papers and Panels of Interest at the #AAA2016 Meeting
It’s that time of year again: time for Anthropoliteia’s list of papers and panels pertaining to police, security, crime, law and punishment at the Annual Meeting s of the…
Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
To mark the publication of Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method, author Andrew Causey provides the following thoughts on how drawing can also be used in…
Bibliography of the Egyptian Revolution Updated
The Bibliography resource on the Egyptian uprisings has been updated. The bibliography now includes over 875 references. Updates include articles from such journals as Digest of Middle East Studies, …
maoistroad: Stop Operation Green Hunt! MalkaNGIRI & Bhopal
“Why are some lives cheaper than others? Looking at the brutal extra-judicial killings in Malkangiri and Bhopal In the last few weeks, two brutal killings sent shockwaves through…
Zomia 2.0: Political #remoteness and neoliberal connectivity in two casino towns in Myanmar and Laos
The forested hills where Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and China meet are commonly known as the Golden Triangle, the world’s second largest opium-producing area. A common narrative when it…
Bom dia aus Rio!
Die letzte Woche habe ich in Rio de Janerio verbracht, und auch wenn ich noch mit den Nachwehen zu kämpfen habe (Klimawechsel und viel zu viel, viel zu…
Gone to #AAA2016!
AN will be at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this week. We’ll be back in action soon. If you’re joining the fun in Minneapolis, check out our Annual…
An Interview with Jessica Richardson Smith, Museum Anthropologist and Research Services Librarian at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Jessica Richardson Smith is the Research Services Librarian at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. She pursued three majors—Anthropology, Latin and Greek, and Geology for her Indiana University…
What Now?
chartwell west I’m not a liberal. I’m not a safe space, social crusader. I’m not a sore loser who can’t get over the fact that Hillary Clinton wasn’t…
Christine Wilson Award Winner, Part I
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the winners for our annual Christine Wilson prize. This prize goes to outstanding research papers…
Whiteness, our own
Struggling to openly name race and racism from a privileged white perspective is a symptom of the convergence of many fears and often conflicting feelings. There is the…
anthro in the news 11/14/16
anthropology in the time of Trump Cultural anthropologist Paul Stoller, professor at West Chester University, published an essay in The Huffington Post revisiting his article of March 2016,…
Digital Materialities: Design and Anthropology, Edited by S. Pink, E. Ardevol, and D. Lanzeni
Zachary Hecht, UCL Digital Anthropology I must admit, this review has been a long time coming. I was given Digital Materialities and asked to review it many…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 10: Sameena Mulla on AAA2016
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…
Marc Edelman: The nastiest candidate won: Now what?
In the end it was filmmaker Michael Moore who got it right. It wasn’t Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, with his sophisticated polling models, or Nobel Prize winning economist…
Doing anthropology everywhere
In August we had posted about anthropologists doing work in dangerous contexts, highlighting the imprisonment of Dr. Homa Hoodfar in Iran. While Hoodfar has been released, her story…
Doing anthropology everywhere
In August we had posted about anthropologists doing work in dangerous contexts, highlighting the imprisonment of Dr. Homa Hoodfar in Iran. While Hoodfar has been released, her story…
CFP: Remediation, Restoration and the Environmental Legacies of Extractive Industries in the North
Call for Papers for 2017 ICASS Conference: Umea, Sweden, June 8-12 Session Title: Remediation, Restoration and the Environmental Legacies of Extractive Industries in the North Organizers: Dr. Arn Keel…
Book Forum — Emily Yates-Doerr’s “The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala” by Rebeca Ibáñez Martín
It is a pleasure to convene this forum for The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala. Marianne de Laet, Simon Cohn, and Jeannette Pols,…
Турбулентные периоды истории ямальского оленеводства в рассказах тундровиков /Turbulent periods in the history of Yamal reindeer husbandry in stories of tundra dwellers
This speech was given in November, 10, 2016 in Salekhard (Yamal, Western Siberia) during International Symposium “Preventing the dissemination of infectious animal diseases on climate changeR…
Are explorers the descendants of our past?
by Kevin Karaca As a climber I am fascinated by the wilderness: great empty canyons or vast tundras worthy of expedition, steep tall cliff faces ready to climb.…
Introduction to the week: #Remoteness redux?
For a long time, the direction seemed to be clear: the days of remote areas were numbered and it was only a question of time before they would…