Alles anders seit dem Tag X?
Der Gastkommentar erschien am 29.08.2016 in der Presse. Alles anders seit dem Tag X? Gastkommentar. Auch nach dem Sommer 2015 führen die meisten Menschen ihr normales Leben weiter.…
In the Journals – August 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. We are…
Material Vernaculars: Institutional Role, Review, Authors, and Genres
The new Material Vernaculars series is co-published by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures with a huge amount of heavy lifting from our partner, the Indiana University Press.…
New Site – Nirleka, an Indonesian history & prehistory blog
I’ve started a new blog specifically about Indonesia. It’s called Nirleka, and I’ll be migrating some of the posts from this site over there over the…
New Site – Nirleka, an Indonesian history & prehistory blog
I’ve started a new blog specifically about Indonesia. It’s called Nirleka, and I’ll be migrating some of the posts from this site over there over the…
New Site – Nirleka, an Indonesian history & prehistory blog
I’ve started a new blog specifically about Indonesia. It’s called Nirleka, and I’ll be migrating some of the posts from this site over there over the…
Pokémon Goes Everywhere: Nur nicht nach China?
Seit über 20 Jahren erfreuen sich die kleinen Monster auch in China größter Beliebtheit. Nur erlaubt sind sie nicht – ebensowenig wie die mobile Version, die kürzlich auf…
Plethora of Patrons and Programs Prompts Parking Progress
(Sorry about that headline. I could not control myself.) This fall there will be an extraordinary number of programs at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. We hope…
Persian Muscle Men
Following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the sporting activities in the Zurkhaneh were declared inappropriate. Nowadays, however, they have become a symbol of Iranian national pride. Persia’s …
Creating and debating Harari identity over the internet
This is the tenth (10th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
The “Good-Enough Anthropologist” by Elizabeth Durham
“Where are all the anthropologists?” The question came from public health worker Douglas Hamilton on the first day of the Princeton-Fung Global Forum on Ebola, held in November…
AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference, June 14-17, 2017
It is time for the annual call for abstracts from the best food studies conference in North America. This year it will be hosted at Occidental College, in…
Graffiti Bombing in U.S. National Parks
Graffiti in U.S. national parks has become increasingly common. Carving into rocks or writing and painting on them leaves images and impressions that are difficult to remove—forever changing…
My New Podcast about College Life
I have launched a new project – a “This American Life”-style podcast about college life. It is my favorite endeavor of the past 12 years. I hope you…
No One’s Laughing: The Killing Joke Still Doesn’t Do Justice to Barbara Gordon
*Trigger Warning: This piece discusses rape and sexual violence. Alan Moore’s 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke is perhaps one of the bleakest stories in the DC…
Anthropoliteia in American Anthropologist’s review of Public Anthropology
In the most recent (September) issue of American Anthropologist, Angelique Haugerud has an excellent review of “Public Anthropology in 2015” which features both our series “#Ferguson…
Links & Contents I Liked 197
Hi all,Development news: JK Rowling takes on voluntourism; MSF, Kayla Mueller and caring for humanitarian aid workers; let’s talk fraud, NGOs! The overworked nonprofit employee is the new…
Advancing Equity in Higher Education
We must address issues of access and success for our students. It is a summer afternoon and I am sitting in my office with one of my students,…
This Present Darkness (book review)
As my academic summer break is coming to its end, I am keen on sharing another book review with you. This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised…
Al-Nuwayri on the Pleasures of Life
A post about the famous 14th century Mamluk text of al-Nuwayri, with a new English translation of excerpts from this classic compendium now available.
Improving Access to Scholarship: Material Vernaculars as Milestone and Experiment
First the take away, then the story. While produced in very nice and reasonably priced hardback, paperback, and ebook editions, works in the new Material Vernaculars series are…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…