Clothed-Minded Views on Burqinis
In late August, a Muslim woman on a beach in Nice, France was forced to remove her top and was allegedly fined for wearing a burqini, a modest…
Gender and Disaster Beyond Men and Women
Over the past two decades, considerable attention has been given to the multiple interactions between gender and disaster. Yet the study and integration of gender in disaster and…
Charlie Rose vs. George Lucas
Charlie Rose recently interviewed George Lucas. And at the 16 minute mark, we see these two great men gently cross swords. It’s a really good talking point for those…
GULLKLOKKE OG FRYKT: UTRENSKNING AV GÜLEN-BEVEGELSEN I SVARTEHAVSREGIONEN
Det er nå en og en halv måned siden kuppforsøket i Tyrkia. Tre måneders unntakstilstand begynte 20. juli. Vi hører fremdeles om fengslinger, stenging av universiteter og masseoppsigelser…
In the Journals – August 2016 by Anna Zogas
Here are some of the articles published in the journals in August 2016. This post includes the abstracts from a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine, “Medical Pluralism and…
Introducing: The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project
The editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome Dr. Sameena Mulla to introduce our newest project, The Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogic…
Zambia’s Peaceful Reputation Undermined by Political Violence
Campaign truck for President Lungu and the ruling party, PF. Credit: Patience Mususa Part 1 of 2 – The unusual silence on a minibus in Lusaka By Patience…
Zambia’s Peaceful Reputation Undermined by Political Violence
Campaign truck for President Lungu and the ruling party, PF. Credit: Patience Mususa Part 1 of 2 – The unusual silence on a minibus in Lusaka By Patience…
Zambia’s Peaceful Reputation Undermined by Political Violence
Campaign truck for President Lungu and the ruling party, PF. Credit: Patience Mususa Part 1 of 2 – The unusual silence on a minibus in Lusaka By Patience…
An Evolutionary Anthropology Master Syllabus
With the Fall Quarter/Semester fast approaching, many of us are scrambling to organize course syllabi. Whatever the specific course you teach, the required reading list likely reflects a carefully…
Zambia’s Peaceful Reputation Undermined by Political Violence
Campaign truck for President Lungu and the ruling party, PF. Credit: Patience Mususa Part 1 of 2 – The unusual silence on a minibus in Lusaka By Patience…
Communicating development in a post-factual world: How to win against the Daily Mail
This weekend the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday was quite chuffed: This makes conservative commentator Ian Birrell quite happy, of course, and he is quick to compliment Priti Patel,…
Personenkult in China: Eine Frage der Perspektive
Die Mao-Ära gilt in China sowie im Ausland als Blütezeit des Personenkultes. Gibt es auch 50 Jahre später in China noch Vergleichbares? Diskussionen hierüber flammen im chinesischen Internet…
Siyazama: Traditional Arts, Education, and AIDS in South Africa
Get all the details by checking out the new press release announcing the Mathers Museum of World Cultures’ programs and activities in support of the exhibition Siyazama: Traditional…
Around the Web Digest- August 21
Hi everyone! Hope your first days of class are going well! (If your first week of class is not going as well as you hope…may I suggest becoming…
Uzbekistan’s president may be dying. Here is all my research on Uzbekistan.
I’ve been studying Uzbekistan for over a decade. As both an MA and a PhD student, I studied the country extensively, and was the first scholar to study…
Iconic Fossil Assigned Probable Cause of Death: A Big Fall
John Kappelman, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues conducted a paleoforensic analysis on Lucy, the celebrated 3.18-million-year-old hominin skeleto…
Mortality Among High-School Educated Whites in the U.S.: An Anthropological View
Fig. 1. All-cause mortality, ages 45–54 for US White non-Hispanics (USW), US Hispanics (USH), and six comparison countries: France (FRA), Germany (GER), the United Kingdom (UK), Canada (CAN),…
Pregnancies, high-school drop-outs and personal struggles: The joys of anthropological fieldwork
Laetitia Simorangkir. Now that I completed my thesis (on care arrangements in South African communities), I can really say that I love anthropology and do research. But there…
Fieldwork then and now: from graduate student to professor
Dr. Weaver interviews a woman whose garden is the only consistent source of fresh vegetables for purchase in the Brazilian study community. I just returned from two fieldwork…
Decolonial Atlas
This blog — The Decolonial Atlas — is a really interesting tool for discussions of representation. As the authors explain, The Decolonial Atlas, started in 2014, is an…
Everyday violence, mobility and access to antenatal care by Nicole Ferreira
I met Libby on a cold winter morning at the clinic. She was a short woman with a strong voice and slow walk. Libby was 35 years old…
Neubürger_innen EuropasZur Figur des Flüchtlings in der Debatte über Staatsbürgerschaft
Die Proteste derjenigen, die nicht zu den Staatsbürger_innen des Landes gehören, in dem sie sich aufhalten, und dennoch Forderungen an Staat und Gesellschaft stellen, nehmen in Europa zu.…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, August 29 edition
This week many food scholars are meeting here in Cape Town for the World Nutrition Congress, so I thought it would be a good moment to highlight the…