Chinas Dialekte: Vom Aussterben bedroht
Im Land der Mitte werden heute immer mehr regionale Dialekte vom Hochchinesischen verdrängt und geraten in Vergessenheit. Viele sehen in dieser Entwicklung Vor- aber auch Nachteile. Eine Bestandsaufna…
Was ich eigentlich noch schreiben wollte…
Ich gebe es zu: 3 Blogeinträge in 4,5 Monaten – ziemlich schlechte Bilanz! Dabei hatte ich doch so viel zu erzählen!? – Naja… Um ehrlich zu sein, ist…
anthro in the news 1/11/17
Toman Sasaki, a genderless danshi, at a Japanese shopping mall where he performed with his band, XOX. source: Ko Sasaki for The New York Times gender blending in…
Verdammtes Hinterland
Lang lang ist es her, dass ich es geschafft habe, einen Artikel zu schreiben. Die Ausreden sind die üblichen: Erst waren da die Finals Anfang Dezember, dann kam…
Jessica Dempsey on Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics
A great new book from Jessica Dempsey (UBC Geography). Description below and a short animated video from her website. The publisher’s description does not do the book justice…
The poor state of development journalism: Daily Mail, BBC & ‘Ethiopian Spice Girls’
The Daily Mail campaign against ‘wasteful’ foreign aid is in full swing (see my earlier reflections in my 2016 blogging review) and in the latest example we can…
The poor state of development journalism: Daily Mail, BBC & ‘Ethiopian Spice Girls’
The Daily Mail campaign against ‘wasteful’ foreign aid is in full swing (see my earlier reflections in my 2016 blogging review) and in the latest example we can…
“He’s the least racist person I know”: Racism, the Mad Butcher and Empathy
Great piece by my colleague Catherine Trundle. vicanthropology We’ve all been reading about the celebrity New Zealand businessman the Mad Butcher (Peter Leitch) and his so-called ‘friendly banter’.…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 10, 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Native by Design
Who has the right to manufacture, sell, wear, or display objects and designs that come from or are inspired by Native Americans? Alannah Giannino/Flickr In March 2016, Denver,…
Interview: Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets by Roman Sieler
Roman Sieler’s Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a fine-grained ethnographic study of varmakkalai–the art of vital spots,…
Seismograph der Sprachgemeinschaft
Fremdwörter gehören zum Sprachwandel. Immer wieder hat es in der Sprachgeschichte Wellen fremdsprachiger Einflüsse gegeben, und immer wieder treten als Reaktion darauf die Fremdwortgegner auf den Plan…
Familiar with Graphic Anthropology? Didn’t think so… by David Johansson
During the second part of this spring sociologist Ugo Corte and I will teach a new master course in the Ethnography of the senses here at Uppsala University.…
Medicine, Technology, and the Ever-Changing Human Person
Though we often take for granted that humans are persons, they are not exempt from questions surrounding personhood. Indeed, what it means to be a person is largely…
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva, “The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2013)
The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) by Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva casts a new look at the traditional…
Eine Art Résumé
Nachdem ich wohl einige Blogeinträge über mein verrücktes Wohnheim an der Lignan University geschrieben habe und vielleicht der Eindruck entstanden ist, dass ich mein Auslandssemester nur negativ bewe…
Blogging for research
There are many reasons why anthropologists and other social scientists choose to blog. For instance, anthro everywhere! began as a way to share resources with instructors, students, and othe…
Blogging for research
There are many reasons why anthropologists and other social scientists choose to blog. For instance, anthro everywhere! began as a way to share resources with instructors, students, and othe…
The Three-Headed Dog: Sexwork and Migration Mystery
Despite how it might look to those who’ve known me only since Sex at the Margins, I’m not making a sudden switch to fiction. It’s one of the…
3400 Jahre altes Gold von Bernstorf keine Fälschung
Mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) entstandene Publikation weist Fälschungsvorwurfe überzeugend zurück: Die Goldbleche von Bernstorf, um die seit Jahren eine intensive wissen…
Marx in Algiers again
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
From the Field: American Textile Mill
by Caitrin Lynch **Originally published on The Standard-Times and on SouthCoastToday.com.** In response to calls for increased empathy after the divisive national election, many Americans will be maki…
Interview: The Pariah Problem by Rupa Viswanath
The so called “Pariah Problem” emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and “upper”caste landlords, among others, struggled to understood the situation…
Enter to Win a Free Copy of “A World of Babies”–Deadline, Jan. 12, 2017!
Win a free copy of “A World of Babies”! To celebrate the official publication of the book, which is January 2017, our publisher is sponsoring an Amazon Giveaway.…