Review of: American Cheddar Cheese-Ways
Edgar, Gordon (2015) Cheddar. A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese and what is can tell us about our history, cultural identity, and food politics. White River…
Thinking about Refugee Integration in Berlin
Aleppo soap. Photo courtesy Inga Treitler Anthropology has had a long and productive conversation around ethics, and the nature of our involvement in the communities we study. In…
The real Ferguson effect: the monetization of murder
For Quartz, I wrote about how Americans who kill young black men not only often go unpunished — their murder is financially rewarded: “The Ferguson Effect” is a…
Guest Podcast: Food Futures: Playing our Way to Conservation? Experimental Economics in the Andean Countryside
Special guest podcast from our friends at the Food Futures Podcast on Beaconreader.com: Corinna Howland interviews Adam Gamwell about experimental games, or field experiments, which NGOs and economist…
The Birth of the “Neanderthals”
When first found, “Neanderthal man” remains were thought by some scientists to be from a diseased modern human. However, upon examining the Gibraltar skull, George Busk argued that…
Review of a Film by Michael Moore: “Where to Invade Next” (2016)
Having seen almost all of Michael Moore’s films to date, I have no difficulty in applauding “Where to Invade Next” as his best film yet. I may have…
Awakenings by Bharat Jayram Venkat
Tuberculosis is curable. Figure 1: Propaganda materials rehearsing the curability of tuberculosis are produced by a variety of institutional actors across India. From left to right: poster from…
Knowledge as Material Movement in Surfing and Anthropology
David Whyte, UCL Anthropology Unpacking at Duggie. Photo: David Whyte “We’re probably going to surf Banna Strand, but the swell might still be a bit small, I just…
Special Issues: Psy Sciences and Healthism by Anna Zogas
In advance of our regular monthly journal round-up, here are two special issues to check out! First, the brand new June 2016 issue of East Asian Science, Technology and…
Stewardship and Heritage: Bringing Archaeology to the Public with Emily Jane Murry
Join TAL’s Ryan Collins and Aneil Tripathy as they interview Emily Jane Murry about her work as a publicly engaged archaeologist in Northern Florida with the Florida Public…
The risks of expertise in studying higher education
I just got home from a great panel on “Re-Creating Universities Through Critical Ethnography” at the Society for Cultural Anthropology Meetings. It was organized by Davydd Greenwood, who…
What is arXiv and how can we get one?
After ckelty’s post on the SSRN/Elsevier merger fellow mind, Ryan Anderson, gave me a shout out in Twitter, ArXiv for social science research anyone? @savageminds @culanth @haujournal @jmtromble…
In the Journals – May 2016
Summer is here and that means that most of us will no doubt be undertaking fieldwork of some sort. But fear not, as we here at In the…
Choosing Paths, Not Roads
By Madhuri Karak, CUNY Graduate Center § Walking in Niyamgiri, in Odisha, India, never ceased to be a sensorial onslaught for me. There are no asphalt roads, only trails…
Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh … and Hominins?
Ligers, tigons, and pizzlies, oh my! What do these critters have in common? They are the offspring of animals that belong to distinct lineages, or populations that have…
Mariya Ivancehva: The revolution will not be criticized? The (im)possibility of left-wing critique in Venezuela
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). After heading the pink tide…
Bärtige Individualisten
Er ist also wieder da: der Bart. Ganz egal, ob als Vollbart, Schnurrbart oder Drei-Tage-Bart. Prinzipiell ist er in allen Altersklassen zu finden, aber momentan maßgeblich bei jungen…
Der Schwarze Mann (Batumi #1)
Batumi 2016 (F:Voell) „Ich bin noch immer da!“ Der Schwarze Mann sitzt bei uns mit am Tisch. Keiner spricht mit ihm, keiner redet über ihn. Im Augenwinkel ist…
Racialisering van moslims schaadt onderzoek en debat
Door Ton Salman en Peter Versteeg Op de Volkskrant-pagina’s speelde recentelijk een interessante en antropologisch belangrijke discussie. Op 7 mei poneerde oud-collega Martijn de Koning de stelli…
‘Vat en sit’: South African men through the eyes of the women?
By Laetitia Simorangkir While conducting fieldwork for my research on the organization of care arrangements in South African communities, I surprisingly often ended up in situations where…
Call for Papers and Visual Submissions: Photography and (con)text/Photography in Academic Research 8-9 September 2016
Via the Royal Anthropological Institute ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to announce a call for papers and visual submissions for a conference on ‘Photography in Academic…
“Snapshots of Change” – How Focusing on Change Affects Perspectives on Research Material
Ever since the multiplication of protest movements that have gained prominence since 2011, the issue of change and its assessment has become a recurring topic in scientific research.…
Flüchtlingsforschung gegen Mythen 3WissenschaftlerInnen diskutieren Behauptungen aus der Flüchtlingsdebatte
Immer wieder stellen Politikerinnen und Politiker sowie Personen des öffentlichen Lebens fragwürdige Behauptungen in den Raum, die durch Medien aufgegriffen und teils zu Stammtischparolen werden. Häuf…
Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham
Are you planning to be in or near London anytime between May 25 and June 6? If so, you may want to head over to Lewisham, where you…