Anthropology Students of Color
When I was an anthropology graduate student, I often found myself in an ambiguous place as someone who isn’t white. I swallowed my words, one too many times,…
Whittier College at the end of summer
I grew up partly in a college town, and I’ve been around college campuses most of my life. One of my favorite times of year is this late-summer empty…
Con-Men: Understanding the Gendered Language of the Comic Book Convention
By Steven Dashiell Featured image based on an Creative Commons image by GabboT. I can clearly remember my first time ever going to a comic book convention. It…
Ein performativer Akt: Das Anlegen des Schleiers und des Kopftuches
Das Anlegen von Kleidung kann einen performativen Akt darstellen, mit dem sich Körper, Identität und Bild nach innen und nach außen verändern. Körper und Kleidung sind eng…
Talking Timbits and Double Doubles: First Day Conversations in Anthropology 100
September looms and it’s time to start planning for that important first class with with my new batch of students. That means it’s time to add Timbits and…
Anthro in the news 8/22/16
African slave heritage underwater Slave Wrecks Project team members with Thiaw, center. Source: The Washington Post/Jane Hahn An article in The Washington Post describes efforts of the Slave…
Around the Web Digest- August 14
Hey everyone! Hope you are enjoying the last few days of summer before the academic grind starts for another year. Here are your readings for the week. Akemi…
Notes on the 13th digital ethnography reading (Takhteyev 2012)
Takhteyev, Y. (2012). Coding Places: Software practice in a South American city. MIT Press. Notes by Tresa LeClerc Non/fiction Lab and Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), RMIT University, Melb…
Resource: Transitioning from high school to post-secondary education
Many students struggle with culture shock as they make the transition between high school and post-secondary education. New freedoms for many students living away from home for the…
Flavour was not supposed to die…, by Andrew Jefferson
It’s raining in Freetown and the traffic is, as usual, slow on the road through Congo Town towards Kroo Town Road. The radio announcer is going through the…
Paul Friedrich, Dennis Tedlock, and Generational Change in Anthropology
It seems like I’ve been writing a lot of obituaries lately. Between Elizabeth Colson, Edie Turner, and Anthony Wallace and Raymond Smith, I’ve spent a lot of my time…
Humanitären Flüchtlingsschutz entwicklungsorientiert gestalten?Erfahrungen aus Uganda
Welche Rolle kann Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im humanitären Flüchtlingsschutz spielen? Während in den vergangenen Monaten häufig diskutiert wurde, wie Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zur „Fluchtursachenbek…
A seat at the bar: Issues of race and class in the world of specialty coffee
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the Anthropologies #22 series. For the third installment of the anthropologies food issue, we have an essay from William Cotter…
Third Wave Coffee and the Formation of Taste (and Value)
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
Third Wave Coffee and the Formation of Taste (and Value)
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
Third Wave Coffee and the Formation of Taste (and Value)
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
Third Wave Coffee and the Formation of Taste (and Value)
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
Broccoli, Anthropology, and the Humanities
Broccoli, Anthropology, and the Humanities: Caitlin Patton discusses how the work of Ted Fischer, an anthropologist focused on food culture, specifi…
Broccoli, Anthropology, and the Humanities
Broccoli, Anthropology, and the Humanities: Caitlin Patton discusses how the work of Ted Fischer, an anthropologist focused on food culture, specifi…
Food, Space, Place–Edited Volume
An intriguing call for papers of potential interest to FoodAnthropology readers: Initial Call for Abstracts Food, Space, Place–Edited Volume Editor: Carlnita P. Greene, Ph.D. Ranging from public…
Trump and Putin: A Bad Bromance
For Quartz, I looked over years of Russian-language coverage of Trump, which long preceded his campaign, and reflected on their relationship and their collaborative white supremacist bases: While…