Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers
By Sabine Luning, Leiden University My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the field’. How is it that the…
Around the Web Digest- September 12
Hello everyone! Hope the first few days of Fall are treating you well. Here are some readings to keep you company as the temperature drops. The fashion industry…
Who Cares About Craft as Traditional Knowledge?
This fall has been a particularly busy season for research-based programs at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. An an outgrowth of our Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years…
In the Journals – September 2016, part one by Aaron Seaman
Welcome to part one of September’s journal post. We start off with a few special issues, which have been highlighted earlier, followed by a great batch of interesting…
Undergraduate-Paper-Grading-Ophobia
At times, student writing activities and assignments seem like more of a chore for instructors than the students (although I hear them complain too). In a recent article…
Jason Pierce, “Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West” (UP of Colorado, 2016)
The West, particularly the mountain West of states like Colorado, Utah, Idaho, has long had an image as a land of white men. This image dates to the…
Anthro in the news 9/26/16
Mother, mother: On police violence and race in the U.S. At the 50th Anniversary JFK March in 2014. Source: Google Images/Creative Commons The Huffington Post carried an article…
Anthropology and Photography
Anthropology & Photography (ISSN 2397-1754) is a new open-access RAI publication series edited by the RAI Photography Committee. Emerging from the international conference of the same name organiz…
Musings on the Materiality of Health Care by Cristina A. Pop
Nightstand in a psychiatry hospital from Alba-Iulia, Romania. The picture was taken by Odeta Catana in November 2014, as part of a project initiated by the Center for…
CFP: Beyond the ‘end of Cheap Nature’: The production of waste-based commodity frontiers (AAG)
This session traces the shift from waste-as-externality to waste-as-resource, and focuses on the production of waste-based commodity frontiers.
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, September 26, 2016
Here’s a rundown of some interesting stories we’ve been reading recently! We also like to call it How to Make Reading Articles on the Internet Seem Less Like Procrastination.…
Daniel Carasso Prize/Premio Daniel Carasso
Just ran across this prize announcement from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. It seems like there ought to be some solid nominees among SAFN members! Note the…
Economic Citizenship and Resource Nationalism
What is resource nationalism, and why is it important? One of Wikipedia’s shortest entries, “resource nationalism” nonetheless appears in 372 files published by WikiLeaks. Resource nationalism seems t…
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Anthropology and the MacArthurs
The 2016 MacArthur Fellows were announced yesterday and — unlike some years — there were no anthropologists on the list. Established back in 1981, the grant was intended…
The terrible new gun law of Missouri/Missourah
For Quartz, I wrote about Missouri’s terrible new permitless carry law and our state’s cultural divide: Gun culture, in Missouri, is indeed ubiquitous: that Kander, running as a Democrat…
Going Native
A picture may be worth a thousand words, a cartoon even more. Bernard Perley combines his professional training in fine arts, architecture and anthropology with his Native…
Third International Conference on Food History and Cultures
Recently received conference announcement and call for sessions that should be of great interest to FoodAnthropology readers! Call for sessions Third International Conference on Food History and Cultu…
When Did Sex Become Fun?
There are multiple answers to the question of where we come from: early hominins, monkeys, primordial goo, or the Big Bang, to name a few. Today’s answer, though,…
Reflections on The Mind is a Collection
On September 22, 2016 Indiana University’s Center for Eighteenth Century Studies held the 2016 Kenshur Prize celebration at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The museum was an…
Links & Contents I Liked 200
Hi all, This is officially the 200th link review, but last week’s post already marked the official anniversary of curating development, ICT4D and higher education content since 2011.…