Workshop: Collaborative dilemmas
Policymaking and implementation across state institutions, international organisations and transnational networks of civil-society organisations are expanding fields of anthropological research. The c…
From the Field: Istanbul
July 2016: Sussex anthropologist Magnus Marsden’s field research for his ERC-funded project, ‘Trust, Global Traders and Commodities in a Chinese International Trade City’ brought him to Istanbul, Turk…
Anthro in the news 9/19/16
Trump’s chimp-style displays A chimpanzee at the Taronga Zoo, Sydney, as Jane Goodall gives a press conference. Source: Getty Images/Jan Waldie Several media, including The Huffington Post, reported…
Chocolate and Crickets: Motivating Students through Food
They say that the way to a person’s heart is through the stomach—I’d say that it’s also the way to the mind. Some time ago, I decided that…
Does academic informality matter?
Since I started teaching at Whittier, I’ve been thinking about how I like my students to address me. There’s something of a local norm of just calling everyone “Professor.” It …
Fisher v. "Race"-based Admissions
The legal case of Abigail N. Fisher may be an interesting case study to get students thinking about the role of “race” (in quotations here in order to problematize…
Skulls, Skeletons and Shakespeare
Osteology “Boot Camp” What can human skeletonized remains reveal about people’s lives? How can you hold a single human bone and use it to reveal age, sex, ethnicity,…
Alternatives Leben: Chinas neue WGs
Sie teilen alles miteinander: Besitz, Wohnraum und Lebenskrisen. In Zeiten der Sharing Economy findet bei jungen Chinesen gerade ein Umdenken statt. In internationalen Medien wie Financ…
Infant Topography: Baby Body Mapping in Maphisa, Zimbabwe by Min’enhle Ncube
Nomsa, her sixteen month old son Nathi and I met early one morning at the entrance to the open cast mine in Mafuyana, Southern Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Nathi safely…
Modular electronic products and waste
Modularly upgradable product designs have been advocated to offer environmental and economic advantages; however, they are not commonly used in the consumer electronics industry.
UN-Gipfel und New Yorker Erklärung zu Flucht und Migration
Erstmals seit Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention 1951 setzt sich ein hochrangiger Gipfel der Vereinten Nationen am 19. September 2016 mit der Frage des Umgangs mit großen Flucht- und…
UNESCO frictions: Heritage-making across global governance
Destructed under global media coverage, exalted as identity symbol, traded and purchased, heritage is taking on a growing and controversial role in the making of social and political…
Vertretung
Vorher hatte ich eine andere Stelle an der Universität, doch nun war ich Vertretungsprofessor. So stand es in dem Brief des Kanzlers. Für meine frühere Stelle hatte ich…
Decolonization as Care
This entry is part 15 of 15 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Uzma Z. Rizvi What happens to our praxis once we start from a place of…
Colorado Cuisine: From Traditional Food to Porno-Molecular Gastronomy
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Up next for the anthropologies #22 food issue, we have an essay by Fernando Valerio Holguín.*–R.A.…
Orientalism for kids – again
Am gearing up for another round of kiddy tv and hoping there are new programmes since the mind worms of Iggle Piggle and Peppa Pig did their damage. This…
Dialogical Anthropology in an Age of Controlled Equivocation
I’ve been thinking about Dennis Tedlock and reading Marisol de la Cadena’s Earth Beings at the same time lately. Much of Earth Beings is concerned with intimacy, translation, and understan…