[1000 days] of focus and intense care in order to ‘secure’ infants’ future health, [6 months] of exclusive breastfeeding. These brackets of time demarcate periods of intense focus…
Hello Allies! Once again, Aude came up with this wonderful list of events for you, to give you a foretaste of the new academic year about to start.…
Writing is never easy. Writing ethnographically about people who perpetrate violence is exceptionally difficult. Not only does the ethnographer have to cautiously avoid slipping into what we call…
In June we posted an article from The Atlantic on The do’s and don’ts of Cultural Appropriation. In that post I suggested that the article, with its focus…
As stated on its back cover, in this book the influential French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) investigates the state’s ‘extraordinary power of producing a socially ordered world without…
A decade after Nepal’s internal armed conflict came to an end its victims are still campaigning for redress. Krista Billingsley describes recent demonstrations in Kathmandu and charts the…
Victorian Parallels in the New Imperialism “The New Imperialism” is not a very efficient conceptual phrase since it requires a lot of labour to clarify what one means…
Social media platforms can be used to perpetuate the trafficking of animals and animal products such as bear bile, which is commonly harvested from Asiatic black bears. Lee…
“A man…lives not only in the spot which he personally occupies, but in every spot to which he may extend his action, or to which he may conceive…
The UK Brexit vote has reawakened calls for independence in Scotland. Cynthia Mahmood and Emma Simmons share their notes from the field. The Saltire or cross of St.…
Die diesjährige Konferenz der Organisation European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) fand vom 20-23.7. unter dem Titel „Anthropological legacies and human futures“ in Mailand statt. Mit 15…
Governmentality and environmentality can articulate how and why waste becomes a medium through which to understand power and changing human-waste interactions
“Museen ohne Wände” war der Titel einer Tagung am MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst. Sie fand im Rahmen der noch bis zum 11. September laufenden Ausstellung “Das imaginäre…
In dieser Hausarbeit werden die Prinzipien der Bürokratischen Herrschaft und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Universität beschrieben. Dabei stütze ich mich im ersten Teil vor allem auf einen Vergleich…
The 27th African Union Summit, underway in Kigali, Rwanda, is widely expected to adopt one of Dr Donald Kaberuka’s recommendations on how to increase member state contributions…
Hi there pod-pickers, here’s another earful of podcasts for you to squeeze into your drums, freshly prepared by our audiophile associates New Books in Anthropology. As ever each…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Giorgio Brocco Left: Christon Sebastian, one of Ras Six’s producers, showed me one of the soundproofed rooms where he recorded tunes such…
. @DannyAnth speaking at our #EASA2016 #SocialMedia and #kinship panel right now! @EASAinfo @UCLWhyWePost pic.twitter.com/CIpLWzSXrw — Tom McDonald (@AnthroTom) July 22, 2016 The recent meeting of t…
Lesenswerter Kommentar im Standard: Endlich auf der Titelseite: Die Rolle der Medien beim Amoklauf Auch Gisela Mayer, die Mutter einer beim Amoklauf in Winnenden getöteten Lehrerin, spricht im…
Call for Workshops, DGV-Tagung, 2017 (Foto: „One More“ von Jack t. T., CC BY 2.0-Lizenz, Änderungen vorgenommen) Die nächste DGV-Konferenz mit dem Thema „Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, …
Playing a bit part in organising a workshop on academic publishing for PhD students at the next annual conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies, I…
Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt By Jessica Barnes 248pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag (UC Santa Cruz and Aarhus University)…
Cargill, Kima. 2015. The Psychology of Overeating. Food and the Culture of Consumerism. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic (216 pp). Julie Starr Hamilton College In The Psychology of Overeating…