Hurricane Katrina’s Forgotten Survivors
Following Katrina, progress rebuilding New Orleans has been uneven. In the Lower 9th Ward, house foundations are still a common sight. Max Becherer/Associated Press When Hurricane Katrina…
Un Manjar: Viral Chilean slang
In Chile, “manjar” is a kind of sweet sauce, similar to dulce de leche or caramel. It’s often used as filling in layer cakes or atop pancakes.…
Tasks for acceleration 2.
Success and failure of the left. Accelerated change via anti colonial and revolutionary movements in the peripheries but the metropolitan left was never strong enough to shake complicity…
Tasks for accelerationists?
The long wait for the transformation of the world: begun with the anti colonial push back against colonialism, itself subjected to cooption and complicity under the new post…
Make the C.V. Great Again: An argument for a short-form C.V.
This is the second post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. Oh god, more title clickbait. I’m going to lose this guest blog gig if…
Grad school has always sucked: “I am sorry to be so discouraging, but the truth requires it”
This is the start of a new series in the history of anthropology where I will document the way that grad school in anthropology has always sucked, there…
The Violence of Capital
by Andrew Sanchez Since 2006 I have conducted research in Jamshedpur, the industrial company town of the Tata Corporation in eastern India. My work interrogates the systemic relationship…
Lynn Davidman, “Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
In Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews (Oxford University Press, 2015), Lynn Davidman, Robert M. Beren Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas, utiliz……
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Udan Agung
We are announcing the first piece in a new series that we will be promoting on the Psycho Cultural Cinema blog on “Visual Ethnographic Marginalia” which are multimedia…
Washington, DC, film screening May 18 of The Anthropologist documentary
Film Screening, “The Anthropologist” Who: The Wilson Center in partnership with George Mason University When: Wednesday, May 18, 2016. 3pm – 5pm Where: The Wilson Center Ronald Reag…
Sexualkunde in der Schule: Wenn Bienchen ins Leben helfen
Wie macht man Sexualkundeunterricht richtig? Eine Frage, die auch in China vermehrt diskutiert wird. Im Netz berichten Lehrer und Schüler aus eigener Erfahrung. Sexualkunde als…
Should Chimps Be Considered People Under the Law?
A New York State Supreme Court ruling in 2014 decided that chimpanzees are not persons with rights because they cannot bear legal duties and responsibilities. But this is…
Building the Great Firewall of Cameron
Deemed the “Great firewall of Cameron”, UK Prime Minister has since 2013 aggressively pursued web censorship in the UK. Without transparent and democratic processes enacted, the government has…
Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: a conference report by Elizabeth Fein
Last September, a group of scholars gathered at the State University of Rio de Janeiro for “Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: A Cross-Cultural Workshop”.…
New publication: Critical and Creative Ethnography After Human Exceptionalism.
I’m pleased to announce that The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, myself & Genevieve Bell, will be published later this year. For…
Shared Sanitation: Bathroom Access and Facilities Around the World
Questions of bathroom access tend to have the greatest impact on the poor and the marginalized. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Shared Sanitation: Bathroom Access and Facilities Around the World
Questions of bathroom access tend to have the greatest impact on the poor and the marginalized. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Focaal Volume 2016, Issue 74: After dispossession
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.co…
Street photography and ethnographic ethics
Our Institute and student society Itiwana recently held their annual photography contest around the theme ‘Street Life: Het leven van de straat’. The broad genre of street photography…
Street photography and ethnographic ethics
Our Institute and student society Itiwana recently held their annual photography contest around the theme ‘Street Life: Het leven van de straat’. The broad genre of street photography…
Racial Disproportionality in the King County Juvenile Justice System
“He’s been shot, you have to go to him. Tell him mom is on the way!” is all I heard as I answered a phone call from my…
Labor Pains and Helpless Infants: Eve or Evolution? (Part I)
Before Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge and shared it with Adam, being human was apparently hunky-dory. However, after Earth’s first two people disobeyed their creator, He…
Why Do We Ask about Race?
In graduate school, I used to get an email from the registrar every year asking me to log into the system and select my race and religion from…
Workshop Circulaciones Icomodas (Mayo 19)
Perspectivas comparadas sobre la producción de jerarquías, fronteras y regulaciones sociales en torno al reciclado y reuso de materia descartada. Jueves 19 de Mayo 2016 SALA 10 –…