The Power of Public Scholarship
As the mass shootings in Orlando suggest, we are at a social tipping point. The time has come for scholars, guardians of truth and wisdom, to step up…
The Power of Public Scholarship
As the mass shootings in Orlando suggest, we are at a social tipping point. The time has come for scholars, guardians of truth and wisdom, to step up…
The Power of Public Scholarship
As the mass shootings in Orlando suggest, we are at a social tipping point. The time has come for scholars, guardians of truth and wisdom, to step up…
The Power of Public Scholarship
As the mass shootings in Orlando suggest, we are at a social tipping point. The time has come for scholars, guardians of truth and wisdom, to step up…
Making Sense of Finance: Boundaries, Institutions, and Power with Caitlin Zaloom
Join TaL’s Aneil Tripathy and Caitlin Zaloom, NYU Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, as they discuss Zaloom’s research on futures markets and most recently student debt.…
Basketmaker Viki Graber on The Weekly Special
Last year, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures presented the exhibition Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker to great success. Happily we are staying connected with Viki in many…
Islamofobie & De racialisering van moslims – Een toelichting / 3
Enige weken geleden publiceerde ik een essay als commentaar op de heruitgave van Fortuyns ‘Tegen de islamisering van onze cultuur’. In dit essay laat ik zien hoe Fortuyns…
Corporate Fashion – Wie Arbeitskleidung heute sein muss
Eine neuartige Arbeitskleidung stellt die sogenannte Corporate Fashion dar. Wie am Namen zu erkennen ist, hat sie ihren Ursprung in der seit den 1970er Jahren entstehenden Idee der…
The Ultimate Proletarian and the Neoliberal Condition
“Proletarian” has acquired many layers of meaning over the centuries, possibly in part because the many, historically changing situations of proletarians became more complex. Since the advent of…
Call for Papers: Visual Anthropology and The City
Via Barbara Knorpp, UCL Institute for Archaeology/Museum Studies Photo: Paola Catrica Photo: Paola Catrica Visual Anthropology and the City is a one-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together anthrop…
Creating African Fashion Histories
Via Helen Mears, Keeper of World Art, Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton A conference hosted by Royal Pavilion & Museums, with the Sussex Africa Centre / University of Sussex, and…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I
Recently I started a new research project looking at the social impacts of three Sistema-inspired orchestral music education programmes operating in low decile schools in the Wellington region,…
What we learned from #anthroboycott
Please join me in reading responsively We learned that Boycott supporters felt silenced and intimidated by the anti-Boycott sentiment in their departments while on the other hand anti-Boycott…
Der Fall Lei Yang: Tod in Polizeigewahrsam
Ein Sprung aus dem Polizeiwagen, eine nicht funktionierende Überwachungskamera und eine Quittung von einer Prostituierten? Die Todesumstände Lei Yangs erregen Misstrauen. Der Fall sorgt im Netz für vi…
Working-class in academe
When the Minnesota Review changed editors a few years ago, the old back issues disappeared from their website. Fortunately, one of my favorite essays, Diane Kendig‘s “Now I Work In…
The Uninvited Invitados
Soon after Jeffrey Cohen and his wife, Maria, arrived in Oaxaca, Mexico, they were invited to a wedding. This experience, over two decades ago, ushered in their fieldwork…
Körper positiv denken!
Der Duden definiert den Begriff ‚Ideal‘ als „Idealbild; Inbegriff der Vollkommenheit“ oder „als ein als höchster Wert erkanntes Ziel; Idee, nach deren Verwirklichung man strebt“. Schönheitsideale gab …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, June 10 Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers. If you have articles you’d like to share in future round-ups, please send the link and a brief description to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu. Thanks to the readers…
Cultural constructions of illness
“The Diseases You Only Get if You Believe in Them” (2016, The Atlantic) looks at certain forms of illness that are culturally specific. In this piece, Julie Beck…
Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim?
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been dead for decades during a ceremony (read about…
Sadeq Rahimi’s Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia in Turkey by Ayşecan Terzioğlu
Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia in Turkey By Sadeq Rahimi Routledge, 2015, 248 pages This book is issued by “The International Society for Psychological…
Links & Contents I Liked 186
Hi all, Greetings from Berlin! While catching up with friends I am finalizing this week’s link review.Development news: Global aid spending is a mess; an overview over adaptive…