“First Strike”
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
GRIL – Stoler “Duress”
A glitch in child sleeping patterns, and unemployment, means I’ve had a lot more time to think (and rethink) and of late get to read. So much so,…
Anthropology and Environment Society at the 2016 AAA Meeting
Anthropology and Environment Society Panels and Events at AAA 2016 INVITED SESSIONS Friday, November 18, 2016 10:15 – 12:00 pm UNCOMMON TERRITORIES OF THE ‘COMMON GOOD’ (Oral session…
Kunsten at give slip
Koncert med Simon Kvamm, der for godt et år siden flyttede vest på: fra Vesterbro til klitmøller. Sange og snakke om det enklere liv. Og om at nyde…
Casting out Violence
In New York queer youth ask how art can combat violence. To exist is to resist. We have heard this phrase uttered by activists representing marginalized communities, from…
Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 3: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic…
Chinesischer Film: Interview mit Regisseur Wang Xiaoshuai
Im September 2016 kam der chinesische Film „Red Amnesia“ 闖入者 in die deutschen Kinos. Kurz nach der Aufführung hat SAC mit dem Filmmacher Wang Xiaoshuai王小帅 über seine Werke, sowie den…
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Hi all, Don’t leave the office or desk without clicking through your favorite development content summary 🙂 Development news: Chemonics discriminated against 124 African-American applicants; Bono-man,…
Links & Contents I Liked 206
Hi all, Don’t leave the office or desk without clicking through your favorite development content summary 🙂 Development news: Chemonics discriminated against 124 African-American applicants; Bono-man,…
American Confederates and the Origins of Archaeology in the Amazon Basin
When Confederate immigrants began growing crops in the Brazilian Amazon, they found fertile soils that offered a window into pre-contact Amerindian peoples and their way of life. Nicholas…
Methods for Conducting Community Based Participatory Action Research in Schools and Communities: AAA 2016 Workshop Highlight
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AAA 2016. This post was submitted by…
A Gift of Giving with PIFFT
November 4, 2016 Dear Members, I write with great excitement to announce the launch of the Palestine-Israeli Fellowship Fund for Travel (PIFFT), a project that emerged as one…
Milieuvriendelijk gedrag in de VS is niet zo makkelijk
Door Freek Colombijn Europeanen staan vaak snel klaar om de Amerikanen te bekritiseren om hun milieuonvriendelijke gedrag. We hebben maar ten dele recht van spreken, want veel beter…
You Can’t Please all! Some observations on the controversy about the Bhupen Khakhar exhibition at Tate Modern, London
Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky, Anthropologist, Heidelberg University Recently I visited the exhibition You can’t please them all – a retrospective of modern Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) at…
Hizmet in Tansania und Deutschland: Feldforschung in der Bewegung des Fethullah Gülen
Gerade relativ aktuell hat Ilja Trojanow in einem Gastbeitrag der FAZ Sufismus als den “größten Feind des islamischen Extremismus” skizziert (19. August 2016) als Antwort auf Stefan Weidner…
Syllabus: Nature/Culture Now! by Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
Nature Culture Now!, an upper division anthropology lecture course at the University of Michigan, traces the trajectory of nature/culture debates in American anthropology through modules on race, sex,…
Bonded labour in Pakistan
The most common pattern for bonded labour in Pakistan is for a landlord or an employer to extend a loan to labourers, in advance of the work done,…
The election and the threat of white supremacist violence
If you’re going to read anything I write about the election this week, make it this piece for De Correspondent — on white supremacist mobs, political violence, and…
Conspiracies and machinations: what’s going on with the FBI?
For about a year, I have been arguing that Trump is trying to pull fringe movements to the center and mainstream extremism — and has succeeded thanks to the…
What’s next for Uzbekistan? Karimov’s legacy and Mirziyoyev’s challenges
I wrote a 3000-word essay for World Politics Review on Uzbekistan’s history as an independent state, the rise of Islam Karimov, the death of Karimov, and the challenges for…
Douglas Rogers, “The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism” (Cornell UP, 2015)
Ever since the accidental discovery of oil in Perm in 1929, the so-called “Second Baku” has been known to be an industrial hub as well as the home…
On the Backs of Other Mothers
I had no idea I was singing the saddest song about motherhood of all time. It all started when I became curious about a lullaby my grandmother used…