The Big Business of Europe’s Migration Crisis
Governments have erected numerous barriers to stem the tide of migrants and refugees flowing into Europe. These obstacles fuel a system that exploits migrants and puts their lives…
Changing economic cultures
The inscription says “No to the new deal, No to the Debt No in the EU.” All set for the big victory celebrations. Photo by Stamatis Amarianakis.On the…
Changing economic cultures
The inscription says “No to the new deal, No to the Debt No in the EU.” All set for the big victory celebrations. Photo by Stamatis Amarianakis. On…
#Review: Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
The second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and a rewrite of their 1996 publication, Anthropology, Development…
Changing economic cultures
The inscription says “No to the new deal, No to the Debt No in the EU.” All set for the big victory celebrations. Photo by Stamatis Amarianakis. On…
Decolonizing Anthropology Textbook Covers
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall and Jennifer Esperanza As young anthropology students in the 90s we heard Dr.…
Anthro in the news 6/20/16
Gun speak is louder than words National Public Ratio (U.S.) interviewed Robert Myers, a professor of anthropology and public health at Alfred University in New York, about his…
With ‘Cold War Anthropology’ David Price brings his trilogy on anthropology and American power to a powerful conclusion
Price, David H. 2016. Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology. Duke University Press. A few years ago, I had a…
Zum Glück gibt’s Kobuk
Der Medienwatchblog hat sich die Mühe gemacht und Österreich-Schlagzeilen über die ach so hohe Kriminalität im Land mit der Kriminalstatistik verglichen – und siehe da: Während Österreich allenthalben…
Philadelphia Street Style: Laura, Sansom St
“You caught me at my most slobbish,” Laura said to me when I stopped her at the corner of Sansom and 17th. “Then I’d love to run into…
Review: The Ethnic Restaurateur
Ray, Krishnendu. 2016. The Ethnic Restaurateur. London; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Reviewed by Rafi Grosglik Department of Sociology, Brandeis Universi…
The human-side of artificial intelligence and machine learning
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Steven Gustafson (@stevengustafson), founder of the Knowledge Discovery Lab at the General Electric Gl…
The hidden story of how metrics are being used in courtrooms and newsrooms to make more decisions
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: The next author for the Co-designing with machines edition is Angèle Christin (@angelechristin), sociologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Data & Soci…
Focaal Volume 2016, Issue 75: In/visible—In/secure
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.c…
Bernie Sanders’ new task is to convince his supporters to back Hillary Clinton
Check out my latest piece on Bernie Sanders and the US presidential race, published today in The Independent. Here is an extract: “Many who voted for the Vermont…
“Trafficked Children and Adolescents in the United States: Reimagining Survivors” A World on the Move Event
The evening of June 7, 2016, marked the inaugural book reading for AAA’s public education initiative World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration. Our first author,…
Globale Trends: Flucht, Flüchtlingsschutz und (fehlende) Lösungen
Am 20. Juni 2016 veröffentlichte UNHCR den Global Trends Report 2015, in dem die internationalen Entwicklungen von Zwangsmigration, Flüchtlingsschutz und Lösungen verdeutlicht werden. Aus dem Bericht …
Anthropology and Public Health Policy
Medical anthropologist (and medical student) Dave Campbell outlines “Anthropology’s Contribution to Public Health Policy Development” (2011) in this accessible (and open access) piece published in the…
Top of the Heap: Anna Waldstein by Hannah Gibson
[For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Anna Waldstein, who is an ecological anthropologist and lecturer in medical anthropology and ethnobotany at…
Call for Papers: Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History
Via Barbara Kirschenblatt Gimblett Museums of history face a particular challenge in societies that have experienced conflict and violence in recent memory and radical geopolitical and ideological cha…
#Review: The Color of Modernity. São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil
The Color of Modernity. São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil is an ambitious effort to rethink the formation of a regional identity and perceptions…
Looking forward to a week of #Reviews
During my recent fieldwork in Myanmar, I fell in love with books allover again. Myanmar is a country where everyone reads all the time, and with pleasure. The…
‘In Defense of Anthropology’ by Herbert Lewis
Herbert S. Lewis. In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology. xvii + 244 pp., bibl., index. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2013. $69.95 (hardcover) For years, Herbert…
The Business of Homelessness
by Joe Baldwin Homelessness in Brighton, UK ‘is so in your face…you just can’t avoid it,’ said one frontline worker at a volunteer-run day-centre for homeless people. The organisation…