New Food Studies MS Program
We recently received the following announcement of a new Master of Science degree in Culinary Arts and Science from Professor Jonathan Deutsch at Drexel University, which may be of…
Charting Charcoal in Haiti
Estimating and Understanding Annual Charcoal Production and Consumption at the National level in Haiti Anthropologists engage subjects at various scales through a plethora of methods. We may solicit…
Annual Meeting Executive Sessions
From a total of 40 proposed sessions, the Executive Program Committee selected 24 discrete panels and roundtables as Executive Sessions for the 115th Annual Meeting, to be held in Minneapolis,…
Searching for the Origins of the First Americans
Since the 1920s, scientists have debated whether the first Americans arrived from Asia—or somewhere else—some 11,000 years ago, or millennia before. Artifacts such as this Clovis spear point…
How is Pokemon Go Changing Our Relationship with People and Places?
By Nick Mizer and Jared Miracle Pokemon Go, the blockbuster new augmented reality game developed by Niantic, hit the US on July 6. By July 13, estimates of…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
Essential reading on our current global predicament by the anthropologist Thomas H. Eriksen. The Pluto Press Blog – Independent, radical publishing The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and…
Honouring Baroness Young
Today the University of Sussex awards an honorary doctorate to actor and activist Baroness Lola Young. The following are the words of Professor Andrea Cornwall, Head of Sussex’s School…
Tobias Rees’s Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms by Nima Bassiri
Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms by Tobias Rees University of California Press, 2016, 352 pages In the prefatory pages of Plastic Reason,…
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Hi all,Even if it is finally summer in Sweden, there is no break for great readings! Enjoy a sunny weekend-and put critical readings on your devices before you…
Grunwick +40 – 22.7.16
Event not to be missed: Grunwick and Lucas 40 Years On: Union Rights, Workers’ Control Screening of The Year of the Beaver and The Lucas Plan, with discussion…
Nächtliches Joggen: Mehr als ein Sport
Man sieht sie in Wohngebieten, auf den Straßen, im Park und in Geschäftsvierteln: junge Leute, die joggen. Da sie tagsüber keine Zeit haben, joggen sie häufig abends, im…
The Birth of Indonesia’s Cyber Village
In Yogyakarta, one of Indonesia’s culturally rich cities, lies Kampoeng Cyber, or “Cyber Village”—a community that caught the attention of Mark Zuckerberg (right), the co-founder of Facebook, for…
New Project on Street Photography
Taking a break from street style photography for a while. But I am starting a new project on Instagram street photography. Follow its progress at https://www.instagram.com/streetanthropology/.
Where are the ladies, Didier Fassin? #EASA2016 Keynote
It’s hot and humid, and yet circa 1000 anthropologists are determined to enter the main conference room of U6 of the University of Milan & Bicacca. Fortunately the…
Working at a Döner Kebab Shop
Author posing next to two doner kebabs, beef and chicken, rotating on vertical rotisseries. Photo courtesy Oguz Alyanak My research in Strasbourg, France, explores how Muslim Turkish men…
In Congo’s Shadow (book review)
As some regular readers of the blog may know, I do review aid worker’s memoirs, broadly interpreted, as part of my ongoing research in this emerging field of…
The power of language in historical narratives
Representation — the images and language we use to describe our social worlds — matters. “Discovery, settlement or invasion? The power of language in historical narratives” (2016, The Conversat…
Ein Netzwerk für die Ethnologen
40 Jahre war es bei einigen schon her, dass sie ihrer Alma Mater Lebewohl gesagt hatten: Mit der Gründung des Alumni-Netzwerkes haben nun auch ehemalige Ethnologie-Studentinnen und Studenten…
American political dysfunction: a guide for Europeans
Happy to announce I’m going to be covering the US election and other social and political issues for De Correspondent, a Dutch news outlet that broke a record…
America’s growth industry is rage
I’m covering the GOP convention for the Globe and Mail and another outlet, so expect a sequel to this horror story later this month. On last night’s “Make…