Kenneth Schaffner, “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
In the genes vs. environment debate, it is widely accepted that what we do, who we are, and what mental illnesses we are at risk for result from…
Mikroaggresjoner, kjerringer og sensitive kjipinger
Av Sigrid Øvereng Vi kjenner til følelsen, men begrepet er mindre kjent. Det er den lille følelsen som sier “Det … More
Is writing composition or improvisation?
In my corner of the academy, one isn’t really taught much about writing. One is taught constantly to produce texts and to judge texts, but that isn’t the same thing, because writing is…
Khanty activists Agrafena Sopochina travelled to Lapland
Together with with my friend and colleague Agrafena Semjonovna Sopochina and her daughter Marija Launonen travelled recently through northern Finland and Norway, to Tallinn and to St. Petersburg…
Tensions in Post-Coup-Attempt Turkey
Kurdish participants in politics face concerted challenges, some of their own making. In the days after the failed coup against the Turkish government on July 15, 2016, top…
Special Issue! Nonsecular Medical Anthropology by Anna Zogas
Ian Whitmarsh and Elizabeth F. S. Roberts have edited a Special Issue of Medical Anthropology called “Nonsecular Medical Anthropology.” Here is an excerpt from their introduction to the i…
Gustolab Spring 2017 Opportunity
We recently received this notice from Salem Paulos, of Gustolab, of an opportunity that may be of interest to our readers: We are still accepting applications for the…
„Die Vermessung des Unmenschen“: Zur Darstellung von Rasse und Rassismus in einer Dresdner Ausstellung
Hide Press Release (11 Less Words) Forschungsgruppe Anthropologie globaler Ungleichheiten, Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin Ausstellungsansicht „Die Vermessung des Unmenschen: …
CFP: Analytics for the Anthropocene: Socioecological futures and scale
We would like to bring political ecologists’ attention to (and questioning of) scale to the conversation on socioecological futures, and are interested in work sitting at the intersection…
Designing for People
A new course bridges anthropology and technology teaching to develop design solutions. In this picture, we see a student team “The Nutter Butters” working on their class project.…
Concept map: Ethnographie des Cyberspace (nach Ackermann, 2000)
Diese Concept Map visualisiert die wesentlichsten Punkte einer “Ethnographie des Cyberspace” nach Ackermann (2000). “Für die Ethnologie sind die sozialen Phänomene des Cyberspace ins…
Tarek Elhaik’s The Incurable Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts by Christopher Fraga
The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts by Tarek Elhaik Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 198 pages Tarek Elhaik’s first book—an ethnographic examination of multi-media a…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus, Week 2: Elizabeth Chin on bell hooks (and Sidney Mintz, Voltaire, and Kara Walker)
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…
Paleolithic Ax Debunks Colonial Myth
Earlier this year, a team of Australian researchers led by Peter Hiscock from the University of Sydney published new findings about a fragment of a ground-edge ax—which might…
Twitter Images of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: New Journal Article
Images have a semiotic density quite different from that of words, So if “a picture is worth a thousand words” how many tweets is it worth? And is…
Slow Politics, Slow Media and Slow Teaching: Toward a More Perfect Union
To quote from a Grateful Dead lyric: “Speed Kills.” As I have written again and again, the widely broadcast childish character
Slow Politics, Slow Media and Slow Teaching: Toward a More Perfect Union
To quote from a Grateful Dead lyric: “Speed Kills.” As I have written again and again, the widely broadcast childish character