More than Scenery: National Parks Preserve Our History and Culture
Antoinette Jackson talks with former president Jimmy Carter about the nearly vanished town of Archery, which occupied part of Carter’s boyhood farm. Photo courtesy of the USF Heritage…
China im Disneyfieber: Massentourismus wider Willen?
Letzten Monat hat Walt Disney seinen ersten Freizeitpark auf dem chinesischen Festland geöffnet. Während für einige ein Traum in Erfüllung geht, erleben andere den Park als Inbegriff des…
Save the Date!
Received from our friends at the Association for the Study of Food and Society, a heads up for next year’s big Food Studies conference: Save the date for…
Will GMOs Put an End to Hunger? Ask the Hungry
When it comes to food, few topics are as contentious and polarizing as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Hyperbole is rampant in this debate. GMOs are everything we…
Soccer as Ethnography
Some student soccer players challenge a team of Kurdish asylum seekers to a game. How can cultural identities be studied ethnographically through playing soccer? In the summer of 2014…
„Eine Ästhetik für das Miteinanderleben“: Elisabeth Hsu über Chinesische Medizin, akademische Lernkulturen und die Rolle der (Medizin-)Ethnologie im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Transformationen
Zur Ästhetik des Miteinander-Lebens (im muslimischen Indischen Ozean) (rechts: E. Hsu) | Elisabeth Hsu Frau Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Hsu ist Professorin am Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology…
Lisa Bjorkman, “Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai” (Duke UP, 2015)
Mumbai is in many ways the paradigmatic city of India’s celebrated economic upturn, but the city’s transformation went hand-in-hand with increasing water woes. In Pipe Politics, Contested ……
Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)
Over the past quarter-century, scientists have been mapping and exploring the human genome to locate the genetic basis of disease and track the histories of populations across time…
Top of the Heap: Zoë H. Wool by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Zoë H. Wool, who is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor at Rice University in…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Journey between Two Languages
By Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher Mehari As a non-native learner and speaker of Amharic, English, and Swahili, I have taken several journeys between these languages and my mother tongue, Tigrinya.…
‘The Ethnographic Experiment’ edited by Hviding and Berg
Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg (Editors). The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908. 320 pp., illus., bibl., index, apps. New York and Oxford:…
Ramadan Diaries: Week Three
[Note: Ramadan is long over, but due to some technical difficulties, our weekly entries were interrupted. With this entry on not fasting during Ramadan, we pick up where…
Teaching AAA 2016: Teaching evidence in medicine
This is the fourth post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
Anthro in the news 8/1/16
Listen to the data: Police in the U.S. fatally shoot more blacks than whites Source: Creative Commons, Lorie Shaull The Chronicle of Higher Education carried an article describing…
Portrails 2016
Portrayal – a depiction of someone or something in a work of art or literature; a picture Trail – a mark or a series of signs or objects…
Who will be our ethnographic hero?
There is now only one path to the White House for Donald Trump. There has to be a Brexit-type surprise in November. This is the hope of the…
Birth of the Pharmaceutical
In his highly original work, Birth of the Clinic, Foucault focuses his attention on the human experience and the rational for its continued homogenous reality. He discusses…
Race and Cricket Narratives in the West Indies
Adnan Hossain asks who the best fast bowlers are, and why race matters in West Indies cricket. In the Caribbean, cricket is not only a sport but…
The emotional toll of masculinity
This personal essay published in the Washington Post’s Parenting section, provides a lot of insight into the powerful norms and ideals of masculinity in (North) American society. In…