Fisher v. "Race"-based Admissions
The legal case of Abigail N. Fisher may be an interesting case study to get students thinking about the role of “race” (in quotations here in order to problematize…
Skulls, Skeletons and Shakespeare
Osteology “Boot Camp” What can human skeletonized remains reveal about people’s lives? How can you hold a single human bone and use it to reveal age, sex, ethnicity,…
Alternatives Leben: Chinas neue WGs
Sie teilen alles miteinander: Besitz, Wohnraum und Lebenskrisen. In Zeiten der Sharing Economy findet bei jungen Chinesen gerade ein Umdenken statt. In internationalen Medien wie Financ…
Infant Topography: Baby Body Mapping in Maphisa, Zimbabwe by Min’enhle Ncube
Nomsa, her sixteen month old son Nathi and I met early one morning at the entrance to the open cast mine in Mafuyana, Southern Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Nathi safely…
Modular electronic products and waste
Modularly upgradable product designs have been advocated to offer environmental and economic advantages; however, they are not commonly used in the consumer electronics industry.
UN-Gipfel und New Yorker Erklärung zu Flucht und Migration
Erstmals seit Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention 1951 setzt sich ein hochrangiger Gipfel der Vereinten Nationen am 19. September 2016 mit der Frage des Umgangs mit großen Flucht- und…
UNESCO frictions: Heritage-making across global governance
Destructed under global media coverage, exalted as identity symbol, traded and purchased, heritage is taking on a growing and controversial role in the making of social and political…
Vertretung
Vorher hatte ich eine andere Stelle an der Universität, doch nun war ich Vertretungsprofessor. So stand es in dem Brief des Kanzlers. Für meine frühere Stelle hatte ich…
Decolonization as Care
This entry is part 15 of 15 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Uzma Z. Rizvi What happens to our praxis once we start from a place of…
Colorado Cuisine: From Traditional Food to Porno-Molecular Gastronomy
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Up next for the anthropologies #22 food issue, we have an essay by Fernando Valerio Holguín.*–R.A.…
Orientalism for kids – again
Am gearing up for another round of kiddy tv and hoping there are new programmes since the mind worms of Iggle Piggle and Peppa Pig did their damage. This…
Dialogical Anthropology in an Age of Controlled Equivocation
I’ve been thinking about Dennis Tedlock and reading Marisol de la Cadena’s Earth Beings at the same time lately. Much of Earth Beings is concerned with intimacy, translation, and understan…
Verlaten kerkhoven: over leven en dood
Door Ton Salman We mogen vermoeden dat het de doden niet echt dwars zal zitten: waar ze begraven liggen en hoe eenzaam dat is. Eenmaal dood, is de…
Stable Instability: renewed turmoil in Ethiopia (part 2)
Qilinto prison burning, Addis Ababa 3 September 2016. Opposition voices state that not the fire but the prison guards killed more than 60 inmates, most of them political…
When Cultural Anthropology Was Popular: A Quiz
Guest post by Paul Shankman Cultural anthropologists are often concerned that their work is not getting the public attention that it deserves. Yet just a few decades ago,…
Naresaba: A Fraught History of Fermented Mackerel Sushi
Shingo Hamada Osaka Shoin Women’s University Fermentation is a preservation technology often seen in Southeast Asia and East Asia, including fish sauce and fermented fish. However, naresaba (fermente…
Lesley Gill and Norbert Ross: What’s Class Got to Do with It?
Unsettled by Donald Trump’s bigotry and xenophobia, liberal pundits have struggled to understand his improbable anointment as the nominee of the Republican party. Many have sought answers in…
The Perennial Power of Ritual
A rain dance won’t make water fall from the sky. Casting a spell won’t cure cancer. Tarot cards can’t really reveal the future. Yet rituals like these have…
What Do We Want Our Students to Learn?
Learning Outcomes for Anthropology It is one of those odd, dissociative facts that many of us who get PhDs in anthropology spend the majority of our professional time…