#FreeHoma: Anthropologists in dangerous contexts
Anthropology is a discipline that was born out of colonial encounters and systems of power. Anthropologists have historically been complicit in supporting the people, systems and ideas through…
#Review: Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
When the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple horror of the image suddenly made the refugee…
An Open Letter to My Students
Consider the challenges you will face? 2. Climate Change. One of the rationally induced inconvenient truths that scientific
An Open Letter to My Students
Consider the challenges you will face? 2. Climate Change. One of the rationally induced inconvenient truths that scientific
Rethinking Pedagogy of Race in Anthropology, Part 2
[Continuing from Part 1] Thinking about my experience of teaching race, I feel that I fell short when it came to conveying to my students what “race” has…
What does it mean to decolonize anthropology in Canada?
This entry is part 14 of 14 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Zoe Todd I have an ambivalent relationship to Anthropology. And an even more ambivalent relationship…
A Funny Thing Happened at the Shaolin Temple. . .
How a tourist kept pace with the martial arts experts. It is a fairly standard trick-of-the-trade. A group of highly trained athletes and artists perform for tourists, who…
Teaching Decolonizing Methodologies
This essay first appeared on the website Savage Minds. For about a decade I have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology at Columbia University called “Decolonizing Methodology”…
CFP: Changing Secondhand Economies
This special issue aims to present the best of ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship on historical and contemporary processes involved in the flow of secondhand objects and materials, their transforma…
Anthropology and Organisational Change: Gillian Tett’s The Silo Effect
Classification and world making are the core concerns of anthropology. In- groups and out- groups, borders and boundaries are the frameworks of social and political order. Sorting Things Out,…
Simanti Dasgupta, “BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India” (Temple UP, 2015)
What links a water privatization scheme and a prominent software company in India’s silicon city, Bangalore? Simanti Dasgupta’s new book, BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, … Visit…
Islamkritik und Rassismus. Ein Briefwechsel über einen Essay von Ahmad Mansour
In der linksliberalen Taz veröffentlichte Ahmad Mansour am 9. Juli 2016 einen Essay “Linke und Muslime – Wir sind nicht eure Kuscheltiere”, mit dem Untertitel: “Das linksliberale Spektrum…
#Review: What Kinship Is – And Is Not
While Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’ 2013 monograph What Kinship Is – And Is…
Mobbing in China: Viele Betroffene, keine Lösung
Gewalt in der Schule ist ein viel diskutiertes Thema in China. Unter chinesischen Jungen und Mädchen ist Gewalt gegen Körper und Seele immer schlimmer geworden. Solche Verhaltensweisen zu…
Anthropology Beyond the Tap: From Flint, Michigan to California’s Central Valley
By Alexa Becerra-Almendarez, Emily Wolff, and Lemual Wheatley § Imagine you are thirsty. You go to the sink to pour yourself a glass of water, but you stop abruptly;…
Memes Brazilians are sharing about the Olympics
One of the stars of the Olympic games in Rio have been the crowd. It has attracted the attention of the foreign press (NYTimes, BBC), and particularly of…
Do the Olympics Make Economic Sense?
The 2016 Rio Olympics cost an estimated $11.46 billion. Most would say the Olympics don’t make financial sense. So why do countries want to host them? Felipe Dana/Associated…