GONE FISHING! #holiday
With summer in full swing and the heat slowing down our brains we felt that creative spirits were in need of some rejuvenation, and thus went for a bit…
In the Sand: Water, Land, and Infrastructure in Informality
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town suburb where more…
A Letter to the AA Regarding its World Anthropology Section on Israel
[Savage Minds welcomes the following invited post by Matan Kaminer. Matan is a doctoral candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is working…
50 Jahre Kulturrevolution: Aufarbeitung im Stillen
1966 begann Mao Zedong eine Auslöschkampagne gegen seine Feinde. In der Folge starben Millionen von Chinesen, doch heute schweigen Medien und Politik in China dazu. Im Netz aber…
Held in Suspension: Reflections on “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed”
Savage Minds is delighted to present this invited book review by Lauren Cubellis, a Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis. In this engaging first book, Zoë…
Anthro in the news 5/30/16
Because he can Schema of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb blast displayed in the Peace Memorial Museum. Source: Micha Rieser, Creative Commons The Daily Mail reported on U.S. President…
In the Journals May 2016 Part II by Melanie Boeckmann
Part I can be found here. Social Science & Medicine Where the lay and the technical meet: Using an anthropology of interfaces to explain persistent reproductive health disparities…
In the Journals May 2016 Part I by Melanie Boeckmann
Following Anna’s post on current special issues, here are abstracts from this month’s journal outputs. American Ethnologist Skill and masculinity in Olympic weightlifting: Training cues an…
Technologies of Care: Administering Donated Breast Milk in a South African Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Miriam Waltz
This is the third installment of the series from the University of Cape Town’s First Thousand Day Research Group. My research traces out the pathways of donated milk…
On parasitic professionalism
Last month I received an email from an “associate” working at a research institution that caters to the biggest development agencies worldwide: DFID, UN, Worldbank, Australian Aid –…
10 must-reads on the Angelina Jolie-LSE-professor debate
Hi all, Since I shared my post on the topic, lots of other interesting posts, comments and hints at previous academic contributions have been shared and in the…
Wearables – Modetrend als kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld
Das Internet ist heute aus der Lebenswelt vieler Menschen nicht mehr wegzudenken. Fast jeder Erwachsene hat schon einmal etwas im Internet gekauft oder Bankgeschäfte online abgewickelt. Soziale Netzwe…
Arabic Writing before Islam
In most world history survey courses, Arabia is introduced for the first time only as backstory to the rise of Islam. We’re told that there was a tradition…
Advancing Critical Food Systems Education through Service Learning
David Meek, Author In anthropology departments across the country, food systems courses are becoming increasingly prevalent. Their rapid growth makes sense, because there is significant overlap betwee…
Election Coverage
Since March, I’ve been covering the 2016 presidential election for a variety of outlets. The highlights: How state politicians are quietly working to steal the US presidential election…
Chinesische Fernsehserie Ode to Joy: Unterhaltung für die Mittelschicht
Ode to Joy, eine auf dem gleichnamigen Buch basierende Fernsehserie, schlägt derzeit hohe Welle in China. Seit Wochen führt sie die Liste der „Hot Topics“ des sozialen Netzwerkes…
geräuschkulisse am Montag, 30.5.
… im TIPI – Westwerk, Karl-Heine-Str. 93, 1. OG Wie kann das Ungedachte gedacht werden? Wie stellt man sich etwas radikal Neues vor, das es noch nicht gibt?…
Wenn die Interviewpartnerin weint
Als Kulturantropolog_innen werden wir im Feld mit einer Vielfalt an Emotionen und Reaktionen konfrontiert. Besonders wenn Interviews zu emotional belasteten Themen geführt werden, können die Forschend…
Review of The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Evens & Handelman 2006)
The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. T.M.S. Evens & Don Handelman (eds). 2006. Oxford/New York: Berghahn. x + 334 pp. JOHN POSTILL Ethnos: Journal of…
He doesn’t hold back his criticism
I was looking at one of my interviews with philosophy professors and was struck by this little explanation of why he had not picked someone as his dissertation supervisor (directeur in…
Affiliation is power (without irony)
As many of my readers probably know, the big controversy in my field this year (in American cultural anthropology) has been about a proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions, essentially…
Italian Football Hooligans and Little Shoes
Markus Bell In Italy, many working class men feel that the EU and the Italian government have abandoned them. In such desperate times, these men cling to each…