Head Transplants: the next medical feat?
The Idea Professor Sergio Canavero wants to be the first surgeon ever to perform a head transplant. He claims that this could happen within the next year and…
Is There a Social Code for Snow Removal?
Will you have help digging out after a snowstorm or are you the one offering help? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Book Forum — Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 by Todd Meyers
Andrew Brandel has organized an extraordinary and diverse set of commentaries on Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (Duk…
New Project on Street Photography
I am no longer updating this blog. After 5 years, a book, and who knows how many thousands of pictures, this project has come to an end. Follow…
New Project on Street Photography
I am no longer updating this blog. After 5 years, a book, and who knows how many thousands of pictures, this project has come to an end. Follow…
New Project on Street Photography
I am no longer updating this blog. After 5 years, a book, and who knows how many thousands of pictures, this project has come to an end. Follow…
on cinematic anthropology, the use of sensation in ethnographic filmmaking
Professor Lisa Stevenson at the event. Source: Claire Avisar To most people, the image of a farm on the outskirts of Montreal, the routine of a professional bodybuilder,…
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Hi all, A long week is finally winding down-and there is great content curated for you!Development news: What do we need a World Development Report for? More inconvenient…
Sexwork and migration fiction, part 3: Location and nation
Every reviewer has to mention a different defect in the book under review: That was my conclusion when reviews of Sex at the Margins were proliferating. Some of…
Is Anthropology the most Humanistic of the Sciences and the most Scientific of the Humanities?
Still Life with Flagon, Glass, Jug and Bridle, by Johannes Torrentius, 1614 By Matthias Teeuwen The epithet in the title, commonly attributed to Alfred Kroeber, is often used…
Crossing the Border
by Iris Ruyu Lin When I returned to the U.K. from Norway on 15th of January, it was my first trip back to the country since moving to…
Rivers is Our Forgotten Founding Father
The true history of British social anthropology’s origins, seen through the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres strait (CAETS) [1] Three centuries of anthropology. Between evolution and…
Buenos Aires Subway #Soundtrack
The city rattles, rustles and roars unremittingly. In Buenos Aires you hear the constant medley of restless mechanical noises and the humming of millions of lives. The central pitch of this soundsca…
What anthropologists really do
Two books published in 2002, The Best of Anthropology Today and Exotic No More, taken together, provide a chance to find out what anthropologists are up to these days. The…
50 years of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington
Save the date and join us for our 50th anniversary of anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington #038;d=identicon&%23038;r=G’ class=’avatar avatar-32′ height=’32’ width=’32’ />vicanthropology In 2017 Cultural Anthropology at…
Is There a Social Code for Snow Removal?
Will you have help digging out after a snowstorm or are you the one offering help? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Zum Studium ins Ausland: Nur wohin?
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
A practical guide for Iraqis living in Trump’s USA – or in the Gentile North in general
By: Hayder Al-Mohammad My fellow Iraqis. We are living under unheard of pressures and violence against us. Those of us who carry an Iraqi passport will have experienced…
Zum Studium ins Ausland: Nur wohin?
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
Do You See What I See?
Social scientists have long been fascinated by how people in different cultures perceive and describe color. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS In a Candoshi village in the heart of Peru, anthropolog…
Racialization, Affect, and Refuge
How do we begin to grapple with the racialization of empathy? How do we capture, both ethnographically and politically, the differential allocation of sympathy, compassion, and the kind…
SocArXiv launched
Michael Oman-Reagan just reminded me about an important open access project that’s been in the works for a while now: SocArXiv (thanks @OmanReagan!). I believe @socarxiv has the…
An Anthropologist, a Climate Scientist, and a Geographer walk into NASA…
The joke introduces a recent news article describing a new project that brings together various scientists to study changing patterns of urbanization and land use in the Himalayan…