What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, June 17 Edition
We have a global and eclectic collection of readings for you this week, with a lot of hidden treasures among the links. See below. If you are inspired…
Bard Kartveit, “Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians” (Brill, 2014)
Bard Kartveit‘s Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians (Brill, 2014) is an outstanding book, which carefully describes the constraints faced by Palestinian C… Visit New…
The best advice on Twitter trolls was written by al-Ghazali in the 11th century
As I posted on Twitter earlier today, the best advice I’ve seen on dealing with Twitter trolls comes from the 11th century Sufi philosopher al-Ghazali and his text…
Trump’s Muslim Bashing
The Atlantic (June 16) has a powerful piece by Uri Friedman on Donald Trump’s rampant Muslim bashing with responses by six Muslim commentators and scholars. It is well…
“The Clinic in Crisis” – Special Issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry by Anna Zogas
Adia Benton and Sa’ed Atshan have edited a special issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry called The Clinic in Crisis: Medicine and Politics in the Context of Social Upheaval. Here…
Call for Proposals: Research Methods
What Research Methods Are You Using This Summer? This summer, Anthropology News would like to hear about the creative or innovative methods that you are using in your…
What does the election mean for Poland and Polish-Americans?
Last week the Polish news outlet Onet.pl did a long Q & A with me about the US election, its relevance for Poland, and its relevance for Polish-Americans. A…
Why do brands lose their chill? How bots, algorithms, and humans can work together on social media
Editor’s Note: The fourth contributor to the Co-designing with machines edition is Molly Templeton (@mollymeme), digital and social media expert, Director of Social Media at Everybody …
Why Dwarfism?
In the immortal words of Lennon and McCartney, “I read the news today, oh boy.” By now, you have probably read the news, too, about the discovery of…
Want to have a career like Hillary’s? You’d best be born like Chelsea
For Quartz, I wrote about the sexism that Hillary Clinton has faced throughout her career, and the economic barriers that prevent young aspiring female politicians from emulating her…
Call for Proposals: Mass Shootings
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Mass Shootings What can anthropology offer to public conversations about and understandings of mass shootings? In the wake of the attack in Orlando, AN is…
Links & Contents I Liked 187
Hi all, Time flies…it’s Friday again and you expecting your fix of interesting links and readings for the weekend… Development news: Save The Children’s Saudi connection; the dark…
Autos „Made in Germany“: Symbol für hohe Qualität?
Vor dem VW-Abgasskandal erfreuten sich deutsche Autos großer Beliebtheit in China. Was sagen chinesische Verbraucher heute über Fahrzeuge „Made in Germany“? Frau Ouyan wohnt in der Provinzstad…
Thom van Dooren’s Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction by Eva Giraud
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction by Thom van Dooren Columbia University Press, 2014. 208 pages. Flight Ways begins with a question: at what moment should…
Mindful Algorithms: the new role of the designer in generative design
Editor’s Note: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Che-Wei Wang, (Alicia Dudek (@sayway), is a designer and architect who runs CW&T, a design study with his partner…
Lou and Cee Cee prepare for fieldwork in the future: a world where robots conduct ethnography
Editor’s Note: Kicking off our Co-designing with machines edition is Alicia Dudek (@aliciadudek), Innovation Insight Lead & Design Ethnographer at Deloitte Digital Australia. Using …
Americans are rejecting capitalism — because capitalism rejected them
My latest is for Foreign Policy: Imagine that you’re twenty years old. You were born in 1996. You were five years old on 9/11. For as long as…
SAFN at the ASFS Scarborough Fare
SAFN is a co-sponsor of the Association for the Study of Food and Society conference that will be held in Toronto next week from June 22-25. A number…
Workshop: Opening the Bin – New perspectives on waste, culture and society from the humanities and the social sciences
The purpose of this two-day transdisciplinary workshop is to gather scholars from the social sciences and the humanities together with a few practitioners to critically discuss the places,…
Zoë Goodman: What’s the point of the “Mauss haus”? The gift and anthropology today
On 30 April 2016, a group of anthropological heavyweights congregated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), under the aegis of a workshop…
Consumption, Performance and Identity in Cosplay
By Emma Louise Backe Every year, hundreds of thousands of fans congregate at conventions like San Diego’s Comic Con, Atlanta’s Dragon Con and Emerald City Comic Con, to…