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…
Blog Medizinethnologie erhält ISSN
Der Blog Medizinethnologie wird ab sofort unter der ISSN 2509-6931 geführt. Diese achtstellige International Standard Serial Number wird für „wissenschaftliche Blogs und Blogs von allgemeinem Interess…
Anthropology Feels Like Home
This post was submitted by Callie Randall, a high school senior and anthropology student interning with the AAA. When I was a little girl, I began to realize…
First words
The first four words of chapter one volume one in Marx’s Capital are ‘The Wealth of Societies’, surely echoing, as Spivak notes, Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the…
Buying plastic sprouts to sell cuteness
Plastic flowers for sale. Photo by Gabriele de Seta.The sight of strollers sporting grass stalks, berries, and lily pads bobbing on their heads did not go unnoticed by…
Buying plastic sprouts to sell cuteness
Plastic flowers for sale. Photo by Gabriele de Seta. The sight of strollers sporting grass stalks, berries, and lily pads bobbing on their heads did not go unnoticed…
Buying plastic sprouts to sell cuteness
Plastic flowers for sale. Photo by Gabriele de Seta. The sight of strollers sporting grass stalks, berries, and lily pads bobbing on their heads did not go unnoticed…
Benjamin Peters’ (2016) fascinating essay on the keyword ‘digital’
A physical copy of the brand new book Digital Keywords (2016) has just arrived through the post. On first inspection, it looks fantastic, and I’ve got the feeling…
When State Replaces God
June 6, 2016 – Vigilers gather outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, NY in support of A Post 9-11 Domestic Human Rights Campaign put on…
One year after the elections: a deceptive calm in Burundi? by Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs
Burundian soldiers patrolling the streets of Bujumbura. Photo by the author The car stops and the driver turns off the ignition and leans back in the seat. Before…
Anthropologies #22: Some thoughts on food, animals, and anthropology
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Here it is: the long-awaited first installment of the anthropologies issue on food. We kick off…
Douglas R. Holmes: No Exit: London, July 2016
I arrived in London on 10 July, a few weeks after the Brexit referendum. I was in Parliament the following day—the day Theresa May was named the new…
Who Is Afraid of CRISPR Art?
By Eben Kirksey, University of New South Wales § Originally published in Somatosphere A crowd-sourced Indiegogo funding campaign that raised over $45,000 for do-it-yourself gene editing kits in Decemb…
Taking Stock of the Now: An Anthropological Persepctive
Right now the human condition is in dire straights. When police murder unarmed African American men, there are calls for