Review: The Psychology of Overeating
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…
#DakarFutures 2016
In June 2016 academics, professionals, practitioners and students gathered in Dakar for a conference on “Innovation, Transformation and Sustainable Futures in Africa.” For nearly two decades, there ha…
Interview: Marked with a burning flame: “Naevus Flammeus” a photography project by Linda Hansen
Profile: LINDA HANSEN Fine Art Photographer. Studied at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography, Denmark. Her work : “I am Linda Hansen”, “Portraits of women”, “NoPainNoGain”, “Life in plas…
Interview: A glimpse on Women’s Rights in South America (Perú)
This time we interview: Estefania Pomajambo. Peruvian Sociologist. Graduated from the National University of San Marcos. Lima, Perú. Has worked with gender related projects for different NGO’s in Pe…
Interview: Marked with a burning flame: “Naevus Flammeus” a photography project by Linda Hansen
Profile: LINDA HANSEN Fine Art Photographer. Studied at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography, Denmark. Her work : “I am Linda Hansen”, “Portraits of women”, “NoPainNoGain”, “Life in plas…
Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, “Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Mark R. E. Meulenbeld’s new book looks closely at the relationship between vernacular novels and vernacular rituals in Ming China. Focusing on a particular novel called Canonization of…
Anthro in the news 7/25/16
Mass killings are local and global Source: Creative Commons Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of medical anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, published an article in Counterpunch (U.S….
Lost or Found? A Stick Chart From the Marshall Islands
In a recent blog post, I focused on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and mused on how we ever got along without high-tech navigational aids. GPS units became…
A Question of Politics, not Agency
My as work has an anthropologist in Brazil has drawn me into an historically layered matrix of racial, class-based, and gendered violence that I did not sufficiently understand…
Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Alessandro Zagato: Teachers struggles and low intensity warfare in the south of Mexico
The teachers’ campaign in defense of public education and against the neoliberal reforms being introduced by the Mexican government has ignited a new cycle of social struggles and…
Fractal Kinship: Europe 2016
Political conflict can create deep turmoil within families. Marina lost her only son to fighting in eastern Ukraine. He died while fighting in a Ukrainian airborne division that…
Teaching Decolonizing Methodologies
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Paige West For about a decade I have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology…
Feminist Futures in Africa?
“Je suis feministe!” (I am feminist!) declared renowned Senegalese sociologist Fatou Sow (Université Cheikh Anta Diop) to a packed, energized room at the ASA/AAA Dakar Conference. “I am…
Reflecting on Métis identity
This post comes from the âpihtawikosisân blog. The author, Chelsea Vowel, describes herself as “Métis from the Plains Cree speaking community of Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta. She currently lives…
Messianic Medicine: Treating Disease in the Time that is Left by Janina Kehr
In “The Time that Is Left”, Giorgio Agamben sketches the problem of messianic time. He writes that the messianic is “not the end of time, but the time…
Call for Workshops: DGV-Tagung 2017 zum Thema „Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, moralische und politische Praxen in einer vernetzten Welt“ (Berlin)
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, …
Weapons of the Syrian War
For an animated video of the weapons used by all sides in Syria, click here. by Ben Watson, Defense One, July 19, 2016 From chlorine gas to Kalashnikovs,…
Eine globale Aktionsplattform und -fonds für Zwangsmigrant_innen: Ein Vorschlag
Von T. Alexander Aleinikoff und Sarah Cliffe Die Weltereignisse des letzten Jahrzehnts haben das internationale Flüchtlingssystem stark unter Druck gesetzt. Zu den Herausforderungen zählen ein …
A Global Action Platform and Fund for Forced Migrants: A Proposal
By T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Sarah Cliffe World events of the past decade have put the international refugee system under great stress. The challenges include a dramatic increase in…