Van wie is Nederland?
Door Thijl Sunier Vorige week zondag 25 september organiseerde #ieder1 – een initiatief van acteur Nasrdin Dchar – een demonstratieve tocht in Amsterdam met als motto dat de…
Spirit-Monsters and the Curse of the Chicago Cubs
Superstition is a funny thing. As an anthropologist, I’m not terribly superstitious. I try to be a scientist, after all. But science is fallible, and supposedly rational behavior…
Acknowledging Indigenous Territory at Universities
Every year in recent memory, the opening of the annual Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) conference begins with an acknowledgement that the meetings are taking place on Indigenous territory.…
CFP: Informality, legitimacy and authority in the age of the “Circular Economy” (AAG)
This panel seeks to add to the growing critical scholarship on the green economy and invites researchers studying discards, recycling, repurposing and allied processes from a critical perspective…
CFP: Trash Postgraduate Symposium (Vienna)
The 2017 symposium – which anticipates an international conference to take place in 2018 – seeks to explore the range of themes covered under the heading of ‘trash’…
“Det biologiske spillet” – En samtale med Lena Trydal om kjønn, sex og kroppshår
Av Hilde Katrine Egeland Lena Trydal er en 22 år gammel kunstner fra Kristiansand. I 2016 har hun vært aktuell med … More
Immigration Corbyn
How does JC superstar reconcile this week? Is it that he is crafting soundbites for different audiences (or as preparation for conference did he finally read ch 25…
The soft bigotry of Trumpian expectations
More on the presidential debate for Quartz: That is the difference between skepticism and nihilism. The latter is what some elite journalists did by declaring Trump the winner…
Undergraduate Intellectual Engagement through Conference Posters
Conference posters are much more interactive and engaging than podium papers. Posters are also less intimidating than papers and, thus, an ideal format for undergraduate students to begin…
Wahlen in Hongkong: Ein Fest für Zensur und Propaganda
Hongkongs Bevölkerung hat vor kurzem eine neue Legislativversammlung (LegCo) gewählt. Sowohl auf dem Festland als auch in Hongkong wurden mediale Berichterstattung und Netzbeiträge jedoch stark zensie…
Kr til landdistrikterne
Er startet på et kursus i fundraising. Lærer om Thinking Hats, Radikal innovation, private og offentlige fonde, EU strukturfonde…og alt sammen i skønne omgivelser.
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 4: Gina Athena Ulysse on “Race: The Power of an Illusion”
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…
Review and Interview: Nurturing Masculinities
Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food and Family in Contemporary Egypt. Nefissa Naguib. University of Texas Press. 2015. Katharina Graf (SOAS, University of London) Nefissa Naguib’s book ‘Nurturing Masc…
Sara Shostak’s “Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health” by McKenze M. Sigler
Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health by Sara Shostak University of California Press, 2013, 312 pages “Genetics loads the gun, but the…
3 PhD positions in “Hazardous Travels: Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy”
The Emmy Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels. Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy” is nviting applications for three funded positions for doctoral candidates. The project “Hazardous Travel…
Making Homeland (Haciendo Patria): Agrarian Change, Nationhood and Inter-Ethnic Relations at the Frontier of Colonial Expansion in Chile
By Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile § As are many other valleys in the southern Andean region of Chile, Coilaco was the setting of some of the last…
Give and Take
This entry is part 16 of 16 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Leslie J. Sabiston and Didier M. Sylvain … did i see that right? my skull is…
Brewing Disaster in Post-Earthquake Nepal
Climate change and global capital compound suffering for local communities. We are taking a short break from walking the narrow, steep paths around the Saipu Village of Ramechhap…
Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: A World on the Move Event
Submitted by Leslie Walker, project manager, AAA public education initiatives. On August 25, 2016, the AAA hosted our second book reading in conjunction with our public education initiative, World…
Natural Disasters Are Less Natural Than You Think
Road infrastructure, hydroelectric development, and climate change all factored into the floods and landslides that struck the Indian Himalayas in 2013, killing at least 5,748 people. Paul Co…
Hillary Clinton destroyed Trump in the debate
My take on last night’s presidential debate for Globe and Mail: Last night, Hillary Clinton, the daughter of a drape maker, revealed the man behind the curtain. Combining…