Circulating Ebola in the Anthropocene
As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are outpacing modern medical solutions. Contributors to …
Of Farmers and Fowl
Investigating Bird Flu in Vietnam As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are outpacing modern m…
So wait, are there racial disparities in US policing or not? (Answer: YES!)
If you’re like me, you may have had two academic articles with seemingly conflicting arguments run through your Facebook feed lately. The first, an article by Cody T.…
The Museum of Corruption
During the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, protestors streamed into the residence of former President Yanukovich at Mezhyhirya reclaimed it. The hat thief who became Head of State…
Our Imprisoned Friend
Anthropologist Homa Hoodfar has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a month. An Iranian-Canadian professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Homa travelled to Iran in February…
Zimbabwe in Turmoil: People Rise Up Against the Government
Credit: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters By Simba J. Hungwe On Wednesday 6 July, while international mainstream media focused on South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ sentence for murder, Zimbabweans engaged …
Zimbabwe in Turmoil: People Rise Up Against the Government
Credit: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters By Simba J. Hungwe On Wednesday 6 July, while international mainstream media focused on South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ sentence for murder, Zimbabweans engaged …
Zimbabwe in Turmoil: People Rise Up Against the Government
Credit: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters By Simba J. Hungwe On Wednesday 6 July, while international mainstream media focused on South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ sentence for murder, Zimbabweans engaged …
Anthropology, #Brexit and Xenophobia in Europe
The decision of people in Britain to leave the European Union has come as a surprise, even a shock to most of my friends and colleagues who work…
Zimbabwe in Turmoil: People Rise Up Against the Government
Credit: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters By Simba J. Hungwe On Wednesday 6 July, while international mainstream media focused on South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ sentence for murder, Zimbabweans engaged …
Flucht und Vertreibung in AfrikaCamps, Kontrollen und Konventionen
Ein Viertel der weltweit 65,3 Millionen Geflüchteten befinden sich heute in Afrika. Dazu beherbergen Länder wie Kenia, Äthiopien und Tansania die vier größten Flüchtlingslager der Welt. Im globalen…
Press Release: Arbitrary Detention and Imminent Deportation of 147 Cubans
Press Release No. 2 | July 6, 2016 – 22:00 Quito-Ecuador Today in the early morning, between 2am and 3am, the Ministry of Interior Affairs and the Ecuadorian…
Anthro in the news 7/11/16
Attack in Dhaka News coverage of the attack in the Gulshan neighborhood of Dhaka. Source: Creative Commons The Pioneer (Bangladesh) reported on the background of most of the Gulshan…
Gaensheimer ist Honorarprofessorin der Goethe-Universität
Die Direktorin des MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, ist neue Honorarprofessorin der Goethe-Universität. Die renommierte Kunsthistorikerin und Kuratorin ist der …
Podcasting (ethnography) in the classroom
Anthropologist Lindsay A. Bell has written a two-part post for Teaching Culture on “her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast based on student research”…
Mara Buchbinder’s “All In Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain” by Joanna Kempner
All In Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain by Mara Buchbinder University of California Press, 2015, 256 pages Pain has a famously intangible quality. To paraphrase…
A Love Letter to my #Brexit Lover, from Europe
BERLIN, 28 JUNE 2016. I admit I was angry when you decided to leave. I knew it was the worst part of you speaking, but I looked at…
Phaedra Daipha, “Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
Phaedra Daipha’s thoughtful new book uses a careful sociological study of a particular community of weather forecasters to develop a sociology of decision making. Based on fieldwork conducted…
Musik fra provinsen
Sidder her og nyder morgenkaffen og i Politikens kultursektion læser jeg det her: Det er om bandet Maja og de sarte sjæle. Duoen kommer hhv fra Tinglev og…
Danger and the Rio Olympics
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Kristen Drybread.] The 2016 Olympics in Rio are fast approaching. For the past two months, people I haven’t seen in years—and people I…
A Screed for 7/7/16
Police violence at a #BlackLivesMatter protest in New York City. Overshadowed by a different sort of violence, a vigilante-payback murderous sort of protest, in Dallas. Heartbreak. Horror. Anger.…
A Screed* for 7/7/16
Police violence at a #BlackLivesMatter protest in New York City. Overshadowed by a different sort of violence, a vigilante-payback murderous sort of protest, in Dallas. Heartbreak. Horror. Anger.…
It’s Never “Just a Symbol”
Symbolic anthropologists, take note. What’s in a symbol? Everything, when it comes to politics. Especially, election-year politics. And especially when a major political candidate claims ign…