Gastbeitrag zum “Salzburger Nachtstudio” von Eva Kalny
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! Als Auslandsösterreicherin höre ich regelmäßig und mit großem Interesse Ö1 und schätze die oft hochqualitativen Beiträge. Mit umso größerer Bestürzung habe ich das…
Die Ausdifferenzierung von Arbeitskleidung
Warum tragen Menschen Arbeitskleidung? Die augenscheinliche und historisch gesehen plausibelste Antwort auf diese Frage bildet wohl der Schutz, welcher Kleidung im Allgemeinen und im Speziellen bei de…
American Anthropological Association Votes Against Resolution to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
Elizabeth Redden reported today about the American Anthropological Association’s close vote against a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. She writes:A total of 2,423 AAA members voted …
Lao Camp Food (Part 2)
This is the second installment of a food journal I kept during several days in February camping with a bomb clearance team in Laos. If you missed my…
Where Has SARS Gone? The Strange Case of the Disappearing Coronavirus by Robert Peckham
The emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in China’s Guangdong Province in the winter of 2002 was an exemplary spillover event: it marked the passage of a…
A Little Social Science Cheerleading
In case anyone anywhere is looking for reasons why social scientists are needed in a societal sense or are arguing for the value of their degree, check out…
Teaching AAA 2016: Indexes and Icons
TEACHING THE 2016 AAA ANNUAL MEETING THEME: EVIDENCE, ACCIDENT, DISCOVERY Have you considered linking your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery? This new blog…
KÖRPER MIT GEWICHT #3
Dicke Mode-Vlogger Dass es einen breiten Alternativdiskurs zu den vorherrschenden dünnen Körperidealen gibt, zeigt ein weiterer Blick in die sozialen Medien. Dort finden sich unzählige Blogs und Vlogs…
Taiwans Präsidentin Tsai: Ein Statement für Demokratie in China
Tsai, die seit Mai 2016 das Präsidentenamt innehat, erklärt sich in einem öffentlichen Facebook-Post gegenüber der Demokratiebewegung, die gewaltsam von Regierungstruppen 1989 in Peking niedergeschlag…
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film entitled “Challenging the Dark…
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film entitled “Challenging the Dark…
A Decolonial Turn in Anthropology? A View from the Pacific
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Lisa Uperesa Over the past two decades, non-White and non-Western scholars have posed serious challenges…
India’s Uber Dilemma: Entrepreneurship or Exploitation?
Uber is part of a “gig economy” trend in India and elsewhere—an economy partially powered by self-employed workers on short-term jobs. While it offers flexible schedules for its…
Why are conferences in Africa excluding African scholars?
Savage Minds is excited to present this invited blog from Ellen E. Foley, an Associate Professor in International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University. She was also the…
Kriminalstatistik 2015: Eine unverändert hohe Gefährdungslage durch „Flüchtlinge“?
Nein, die Zahlen der Kriminalstatistik 2015 halten keine Überraschungen bereit. Weder für die Befürworter, noch für die Gegner von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkels Flüchtlingspolitik. Jeder kann und wir…
‘Coming of Age in Chicago’ edited by Hinsley and Wilcox
Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox (Editors). Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World’s Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology. 624 pp., illus., tbls., apps., bibl.,…
Roundtable Report: “Globalization of Asian Cuisines”
To celebrate the publication of “Globalization of Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Culinary Contact Zones,” three of the edited volume’s authors—Stephanie Assmann, James Farrer, and David Wa…
A guide to academic conversations
It can be a little daunting to approach a speaker after an academic talk. We’ve all been there at one time or another. You’ve just heard an inspiring…
Review: Teaching Food and Culture
Teaching Food and Culture. Edited by Candice Lowe Swift and Richard Wilk. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015. 209 pp. US$39.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-62958-127-9. Review by…
Trump’s VP pick
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about how, if elected, Trump will outsource the day-to-day work of the presidency to the VP — most likely to be…
Ramadan Diaries: Introduction
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…
A Brief History of Anti-Capitalism, Pulled from a Dumpster
By Alex V. Barnard “Seeing all the waste exposes very clearly the priorities in our society, that making a profit is more important than feeding people, than preserving the…
Extractivism, Refusals, and the Mining of Failure by Teresa Velasquez
Is ethnographic research analogous to a gold mine project, an extractive industry that makes a social and material landscape knowable, and hence governable? Is knowledge construction a veil…