What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now: April 27th Edition
April 27th: Hello FoodAnthro readers, after a few weeks away, we have quite a collection of food news for your Wednesday: In the New York Times, Chef Dan…
In the Journals – April 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at some of the many recent publications on the law, sovereignty, security and the state. As winter is now well…
Event in DC: Talk on Urgent Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History
The Legacy of Urgent Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution 50th Anniversary of the Smithsonian ‘Urgent Anthropology’ Conference, April 1966 Who: Adrianna Link, Johns Hopkins University When: Thu…
Rebecca Lemov, “Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity” (Yale University Press, 2015)
Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths…
Make Ethnography Better
Ethnography has grown in the last couple of decades from a moody, friendless method in the social sciences to the bell of the business ball. But clearly it has…
The New Old National Pastime
I attended my first spring training 50 years ago this month as a rookie in the Detroit Tigers organization. The 91-acre Tiger Town complex in Lakeland, Florida, had…
Sounding Home
Syrian Musicians in Istanbul How might music produce of a sense of home for displaced Syrians in Turkey? What is the role of displaced Syrians in the preservation…
Das lernen sie schon selbst: Die Rolle chinesischer Eltern in der Sexualaufklärung
Sexualkunde steht eher selten auf der Erziehungsagenda chinesischer Eltern. Auf die Frage, wo sie den herkämen, geben Eltern oft Antworten wie: “Du bist vom Himmel gefallen.” oder “Wir…
Article Alert! Table of Contents for new texts in Discard Studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
Book Forum––Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps by Todd Meyers
Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is a story of the influenza pandemic that never…
Migrant Deaths: Data, Trends and Possible Causes
In a recent article published at Allegra, Ferruccio Pastore addresses some of the problems related to counting migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Furthermore, while stressing the arduousness of…
Teaching tools via Cultural Anthropology
In case you missed it: Since going open-access Cultural Anthropology has created some really interesting resources, including their Fieldsights and Teaching Tools pages (both listed in the sideba…
Revisiting field interviews
I’ve been going back lately to my interviews with French philosophy teachers and students. I just never had time to transcribe or work on most of them during…
Elusive Caimans and the Anthropologist as Devil
books and arts Lucas Bessire. 2014. Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 296 pages. Dust In this poignant and…
Remains of the Day: A Native American Burial Discovered in San Francisco Is Shrouded in a Fog of Acrimony
Computer visualization of the burial arrangement as discovered, working from generic photographs of bones. Courtesy of Peter Colby. On February 25, 2014, at eight in the morning, the…
The CRISPR Hack: Better, Faster, Stronger
Genetic testing technologies, which enable parents to create multiple embryos and then select the “best” for implantation, are already ubiquitous. Image by Jacopo Werther. Licensed under CC Attrib…
April 2016
Volume 8 | Issue 1 | April 2016 This issue includes: Features The CRISPR Hack: Better, Faster, Stronger by Eben Kirksey Remains of the Day: A Native American…
Humanitarian Ownership
Hillary Clinton: Dibs on Women, Children, and Dead People Listening to Hillary Clinton debate Bernie Sanders on April 14, 2016, convinced me of one thing: she owns women,…
On the Brazilian crisis, Pentecostalism and thinking out of the bubble
Pentecostal service in the Brazilian field site. Photo by: Juliano Spyer Brazil is in the midst of a heated national debate between people in favour of, and those contrary…
A Moment of Truth: On the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this timely and poignant essay by Mick Taussig, calling us to a moment of truth in the discipline. Addressing…
Stone Age Site Saved
A Stone Age archaeological site in South Africa has been saved from the threat of diamond mining. The site, called Canteen Kopje, is renowned for its cache of…
Democratic Reflection: Evaluating Real-Time Citizen Responses to Media Content
What has always impressed me about this next method for ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ series is the way in which research participants were able to develop…
David J. Meltzer, “The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of Americas Ice Age Past” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
David J. Meltzer‘s new book is a meticulous study of the controversy over human antiquity in America, a dispute that transformed North American archaeology as a practice and…