Angus Deaton does not like aid-but he likes the World Bank of 1996
In a long interview with the Swiss Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) (in German) Noble laureate Angus Deaton confirms that he does not like aid. But one paragraph struck…
Jamala, Eurovision, and Human Rights
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Greta Uehling] Many Savage Minds readers will be aware of the victory of Jamala at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. As part of…
African-Americans returning to Ghana: A photo blog
Plague on the wall of the W.E.B Du Bois Museum By Marije Maliepaard. My Master’s research is about African-Americans who return to Ghana after their ancestors got enslaved…
Language learning
Although more and more anthropology students choose to research in sites ‘at home’ where they are already familiar with the language, it has been a long tradition in…
Care on Display
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths College Thursday 23 June 2016 06:30pm – 08:30pm, Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic fi…
Sustainability Is Not a Number – Climate Crisis and Human Cultural Evolution
Meet two of the world’s leading scholars on the relation between biological and cultural evolution – David Sloan Wilson, SUNY Binghamton and Terrence W. Deacon, UC Berkeley. S…
Climate Wars
Fiji’s human history is directly linked to the ebbs and flows of climate change—particularly of sea-level rise. Throughout the Pacific Islands, fluctuating environmental conditions resulting from…
Kirk A. Denton, “Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Kirk A. Denton‘s recent book explores the role of the state in China in shaping particular visions of the past through work in and with museums. Focusing on…
Dance the City
How might an anthropologist use dance to study cities? How about dance ethnography as method? The Liquor Store Theatre project (LST) is a series of choreographed dance performances…
Anthropology Newspaper (beta)
If you felt a little overwhelmed by the wonderful (and extensive!) variety of current anthro blogs posted in the 2016 Anthropology Blog Report last week, you might want to check…
Gleichheitssatz und Religionsgemeinschaften: „Man fühlt sich anerkannt“
Schon vor einiger Zeit interviewten wir Dr. Georg Neureither zu Religion und Weltanschauung aus staatskirchenrechtlicher Perspektive und brachten von Dr. Arno Schilberg Religionsrecht und Religionspo…
Storage and stockpiling as techniques of preparedness: Managing the bottlenecks of flu pandemics by Frédéric Keck
In the last twenty years, influenza has been considered by global health experts as a model for the emergence of new pathogens from animal reservoirs. In the logic…
An Interview with Rachel Tavaras, Indiana University Graduate and Collections Manager at the Museum of Miniature Houses in Carmel, Indiana
Rachel Tavaras grew up in the Chicago area and earned undergraduate degrees in History and Anthropology, both in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University (IU),…
D.A.T.T. Critical Thinking Series
Last summer was the first time that I decided to run the freedom school. I designed a syllabus, held the twitter chats, & I and my comrade Arash…
Die Wei Zexi-Affäre: Ist Baidu ein Totengräber?
Der an Krebs erkrankte Wei Zexi stirbt nach einer auf der Suchmaschine Baidu recherchierten Behandlung. Der Vorfall berührt die Menschen und eine Diskussion über die Schuldigen an Zexis…
Ramadan Diaries: Week One
Ramadan Diaries takes you into the Ramadan experience of two students of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Oguz Alyanak and Dick Powis. They will be fasting…
Tools for Dismantling the Master’s House
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Daniel M. Goldstein “The master’s tools,” Audre Lorde (1984) famously said, “will never dismantle the…
A Food Anthropologist at the John Dewey Kitchen Institute
Rachel Black President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Connecticut College Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the John Dewey Kitchen Institute at the University…
The Prominence of Consent
Is understanding consent as “simple as tea?” Increasingly, we have begun to think that it is common sense to see rape and other forms of sexual assault almost…
Vortrag: Mikroserielles Erzählen bei Heinrich von Kleist
„Mikroserielles Erzählen“: Prof. Torsten Hoffmann untersucht in seinem Vortrag die Selbstthematisierung des Narrativen in Heinrich von Kleists „Unwahrscheinliche Wahrhaftigkeiten“. 16. Juni, 18 Uhr, R…
DNA Discovery and Taking a Trip around the World
There is a very interesting project happening through Momondo right now. It’s called the DNA Journey. As explained on Bloghizzle‘s website:We are currently populating an earth that is…
Did Women and Children Exist in Prehistory?
Stone tools, like Acheulean hand axes, remain well-preserved for eons because they are stones first, tools second. Fired ceramics remain well-preserved for millennia because they are, in essence,…