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Hi all, It’s Friday again-and it has been quite a busy week link-wise! Development news: In addition to the story of the week that MSF pulls out of…
Photography: Between Anthropology and History
Photography: Between Anthropology and History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 20-21 June 2016 Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @PHRC_DeMontfort Conference …
Call for papers: Foolish things, clever stuff? The material side of nursing and care.
Call for Papers: Foolish things, clever stuff? The material side of nursing and care. 18th– 20th January 2017, Heidelberg Nursing is more than an interpersonal rapport in which…
Fictional #Fictions between China and Arstotzka
One interesting way to (momentarily) close this thematic week about living fictions (one that could also speak to many other thematic weeks here on ALLEGRA, e.g. smugglers; being…
Fasching als ‚doing gender‘? – Die Hexe in der Fastnacht
Als kleines Mädchen drückte ich mich vor den Faschingsumzügen im südwestdeutschen Raum – aus Angst vor den bösen Hexen. Sie sind immer wild, raufen, wälzen sich auf dem…
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…
The teacher’s body
I used to have a pretty decorporealizing view of teaching, back when I was starting out as a classroom ethnographer. I mainly paid attention to the teacher’s voice,…
Gustolab Summer Internship
A note from Salem Paulos, Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies: After last year’s successful internship program, Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies is pleased to lau…
Dark Value, a new book published today
I wrote this brief book in 2015 and promptly put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Then a couple of days ago (May 3, 2016), Virginia Postrel posted…
Spaces of Waiting
Unable to access quality emergency obstetric care, millions of women across the global south, and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, shoulder the burden of health care systems that are…
Nieuw leiderschap, andere organisatie? Niet-westerse vrouwen in internationale NGOs
Door Georgette Veerhuis Al sinds de jaren 90 stellen kritische studies van ontwikkelingswerk een hardnekkig probleem aan de kaak. Iets dat diepgeworteld zit in de filosofie van ontwikkelingswerk zelf…
Graduate Student Response to “When It’s Time to Vote, Don’t Boycott Academics–Cut the Purse Strings” by Emma Shaw Crane
As graduate students and new members of the American Association of Anthropologists, we approach the academic boycott resolution vote with hope. We write today in response to “When…
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff has not kicked off a ‘new era of corporate social activism’
I never planned this when I started my blog, but it is interesting how one of the themes that keeps (re-)emerging here is topic of how new forms…
On Chinese Pedagogical Legalism (and its Anthropological Ghost) #fictions
“You have already been incredibly faithful towards the man. And you have been following all the relevant rules for establishing a co-operative. Now, what you need to do…
Ontofuckry
The pseudo-dominant hype that comes alongside ontological thinking: a kind of extension of postmodernism’s apolitical arabesques, which then moved into the digital. This most likely reflects a l…
Trinkets…
The analysis of trinkets, objects, souvenirs or commodities remains wholly bourgeois if things are not seen as first up, against the grain, the embodiment of social labour power…
passive aggression 101
Am continually amazed at the truly fucked up and arrogant entitlement of the middle class Brit – especially those of that middle class which still claims some distant…
Why Donald J. Trump Will Be the Next President of the United States
Trump often emerges on stage from behind a dark navy curtain. That is a symbolically rich move, and it is a symbolism whose deeper meaning and importance throws…
May The Fourth Be with You!
How do anthropologists celebrate May the 4th? By reading anthropological articles of course! Head over to Anthropology News to read May The Folk be With You, a piece on…
May the Folk Be With You
In 1979, on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s first UK general election victory, an advertisement appeared in London’s The Evening News. Paid for by the party, the half-page…
Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the Election Hunger Games
With Donald Trump defending the size of his hands, Ted Cruz dropping out of the race the week after recruiting former opponent Fiorina as a running mate, Hillary…
I like to move it? Von Fitness-Apps und dem freiwilligen Zwang zur Bewegung
„PLANE ES. TU ES. ZEICHNE ALLES AUF. TEILE ES“[1], dazu fordert die Trainings-App miCoach des Sportartikelherstellers adidas auf. Die App dokumentiert zurückgelegte Distanzen in Kilometern und zählt v…
Dumping or Trumping
Bright side of the current reaction. The decline of the European powers was bolstered by the land grab that was the USA – basically the oppression of indigenous…