Ankara’s Long Arm: Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
By Matthias Teeuwen Last Thursday Professor Thijl Sunier gave a lecture on the backlash in the Netherlands of the coup attempt in Turkey in July. The room was…
Building the Next Generation of Anthropological Archaeology
Welcoming the AD to Amerind in June of 2016. Photo courtesy Annie Larkin and Jane Eva-Baxter American archaeology has long found its home both structurally and intellectually within…
US presidential elections: nothing to celebrate
I do sincerely hope that we won’t wake up tomorrow morning with the terrible news of a Trump presidency. Having said that, the world is already an awful…
SAFN 2016 Distinguished Speaker Lisa Heldke
Please join us for the SAFN reception and distinguished speaker on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 7:45pm at the AAA conference in Minneapolis. This year our distinguished speaker is…
Making #AAA2016 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
It’s officially November and we all know what that means: #AAA2016 is right around the corner. The panic around getting desks cleared and papers/presentations written, comingled with the…
Beyond ‘Trump or Hillary’: a travelogue
You will find no scientific truth in any of the following as I made a personal collection of brief encounters during a summer holiday. In 2016, I drove…
Beyond ‘Trump or Hillary’: a travelogue
You will find no scientific truth in any of the following as I made a personal collection of brief encounters during a summer holiday. In 2016, I drove…
Does #Evidence Matter?
Evidence, whether in law, in natural or social science, or in belief systems, is about establishing certainty. Evidence has thus been central to law, to science, and to…
101 Things We Learned from WikiLeaks’ Podesta Emails
US voters have been given a rare, even unprecedented opportunity to look at the machinery inside an electoral campaign and a foundation, as presented by the insiders themselves.…
Post No Bills: The Ancient Romans Had a Version of Lawn Signs Too
The American history of the political yard sign may date back to 1824 when John Quincy Adams had signs printed for his presidential run. Our current wireframe version…
Jigsaw Anthropology: Do the pieces fit together?
This post is the second in our November guest blogging effort reporting on the AAA Archaeology Division meetings at Amerind that explored the relationship between archaeology and anthropology.…
Teaching AAA 2016: Multimodality, Accidenticality and the Possible Futures of Anthropological Research
This is the seventh post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
Trump and the Echo of Amache
The barracks that once stood at the site of Amache were home to more than 7,000 Japanese-American internees during World War II. Esteban M. Gómez In the southeastern…
Anthropology of Food, the Journal
The latest issue of Anthropology of Food is now available. The theme is “Food Cultures and Territories” and it includes articles by and interviews with SAFN members. This…
anthro in the news 11/7/16
not all hair is equal BBC News reported on the research of social anthropologist Emma Tarlo tracing the global industry in human hair, especially wigs, weaves, and…
In the Journals – October 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly look at some of the many different publications on crime, law, security, and the state. With the fall semester coming…
The Anthropology of Trump: turning an ethnographic lens on Trumpland
Way back in March we posted about The Anthropology of Trump: It’s getting political in here (16 March 2016). In this earlier post, Jenn reviewed Paul Stoller’s analysis…
The Anthropology of Trump: turning an ethnographic lens on Trumpland
Way back in March we posted about The Anthropology of Trump: It’s getting political in here (16 March 2016). In this earlier post, Jenn reviewed Paul Stoller’s analysis…
Patrick Wolfe, “Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race” (Verso, 2016)
Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, a structure, not an event. In…
Configurations of diagnostic processes, practices, and evidence: a conference report by Natassia Brenman
Every two years the Medical Anthropology at Home network organises a conference to present and discuss recent work. The ninth conference, held in June 2016 in Northern Norway,…
Cultural #evidence and the law
How do we decide whether or not to accept the evidence of our senses, or to put our faith in the statements of others? These are questions we…