Rethinking Pedagogy of Race in Anthropology, Part 2
[Continuing from Part 1] Thinking about my experience of teaching race, I feel that I fell short when it came to conveying to my students what “race” has…
What does it mean to decolonize anthropology in Canada?
This entry is part 14 of 14 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Zoe Todd I have an ambivalent relationship to Anthropology. And an even more ambivalent relationship…
A Funny Thing Happened at the Shaolin Temple. . .
How a tourist kept pace with the martial arts experts. It is a fairly standard trick-of-the-trade. A group of highly trained athletes and artists perform for tourists, who…
Teaching Decolonizing Methodologies
This essay first appeared on the website Savage Minds. For about a decade I have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology at Columbia University called “Decolonizing Methodology”…
CFP: Changing Secondhand Economies
This special issue aims to present the best of ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship on historical and contemporary processes involved in the flow of secondhand objects and materials, their transforma…
Anthropology and Organisational Change: Gillian Tett’s The Silo Effect
Classification and world making are the core concerns of anthropology. In- groups and out- groups, borders and boundaries are the frameworks of social and political order. Sorting Things Out,…
Simanti Dasgupta, “BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India” (Temple UP, 2015)
What links a water privatization scheme and a prominent software company in India’s silicon city, Bangalore? Simanti Dasgupta’s new book, BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, … Visit…
Islamkritik und Rassismus. Ein Briefwechsel über einen Essay von Ahmad Mansour
In der linksliberalen Taz veröffentlichte Ahmad Mansour am 9. Juli 2016 einen Essay “Linke und Muslime – Wir sind nicht eure Kuscheltiere”, mit dem Untertitel: “Das linksliberale Spektrum…
#Review: What Kinship Is – And Is Not
While Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’ 2013 monograph What Kinship Is – And Is…
Mobbing in China: Viele Betroffene, keine Lösung
Gewalt in der Schule ist ein viel diskutiertes Thema in China. Unter chinesischen Jungen und Mädchen ist Gewalt gegen Körper und Seele immer schlimmer geworden. Solche Verhaltensweisen zu…
Anthropology Beyond the Tap: From Flint, Michigan to California’s Central Valley
By Alexa Becerra-Almendarez, Emily Wolff, and Lemual Wheatley § Imagine you are thirsty. You go to the sink to pour yourself a glass of water, but you stop abruptly;…
Memes Brazilians are sharing about the Olympics
One of the stars of the Olympic games in Rio have been the crowd. It has attracted the attention of the foreign press (NYTimes, BBC), and particularly of…
Do the Olympics Make Economic Sense?
The 2016 Rio Olympics cost an estimated $11.46 billion. Most would say the Olympics don’t make financial sense. So why do countries want to host them? Felipe Dana/Associated…
The Good DPO
The editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Olly Owen with a dispatch from fieldwork with police in Nigeria. Olly Owen is ESRC research fellow at Oxford University’s Department of International Develo…
Sian Lazar: Learning to live with crisis: How Brexit brought Latin America home to me
The European Union is a free trade area that enables multinational corporations to take advantage of low tax regimes for their head offices and of low labor costs…
Archiving for the longue durée (Tools we use)
Do you backup? Good. But not good enough. First, lets talk about backup. A good backup strategy should be regular, redundant, and involve multiple locations. Regular, so that…
Argentine Rugby Gets Professional
How Maradona’s support for the Pumas signals a change in the culture of Argentine rugby. Footage of Diego Maradona, the globally famous Argentine ex-soccer player, dancing in the…
#Review: Women without Class: Girls, Race and Identity
The tile of the book itself informs its readers that it is an interrogation of women as class ‘subjects.’ Although studies of class are not new in Sociology,…
Paraguay – and the longterm consequences of the coup d’etat
It is now four years ago that the democratically elected President Fernando Lugo was removed from office by means of a parliamentary coup. The consequences of the coup…
Rethinking Pedagogy of Race in Anthropology, Part 1
Every time I see articles/essays about racial issues on media news, I often read through the comments posted from other readers to see what folks out there are…