Die under.docs der Universität Wien veranstalten von 20. bis 22. Oktober 2016 eine Fachtagung zu Kommunikation mit dem Schwerpunkt “Kategorien, Typen und Stereotype in den Geistes- und Sozialwis…
I have lots of things to say about Brexit. As a Romanian, holding a French passport, resident of the UK for the past 18 years, whose wife and…
Presidential woes in Afghanistan Source: Adam Ferguson/The New Yorker The New Yorker carried a long piece describing the role of Ashraf Ghani, who trained as a cultural anthropologist,…
An interesting article came out today entitled Bojophrenia: a new word for a new world. Of interest to linguists, discourse analysts or anthropologists looking to describe the ever changing…
During her pregnancy, Puthea went to a private maternity clinic for regular ultrasound exams. This clinic was one of the larger and more popular in Phnom Penh at…
synthetic zero “How did so many of us, Homo sapiens, quite late in our species history, come to live in sedentary heaps of people, grain, and domesticated animals…
The question, when it came, was striking in its simplicity: “should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?” Two boxes.…
Anthropologists have responded to the result of the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union with a mixture of condemnation, despair, and reflection on the conditions that created ‘Brexit’…
For decades, investors in advanced economies (AEs) have shaped the evolution of global markets. Research shows that advanced economy investors tend to hold diversified…
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler (via Philippe Theophanidis) We no longer live in the Holocene. Welcome to the Anthropocene!…
I’ve been rather harshly reminded of late how bad a forum Twitter is for complex discussion, so I’m going to try to work through some tangled thoughts and…
Ten years ago, before I started doing research in France, I wrote my MA thesis about the politics of “bad writing” in the American humanities. Empirically, my major…
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
The Kukama people who live along the lower part of Peru’s Marañón River tell intergenerational myths that recollect the violence and trauma of the rubber era, which peaked in…
Several months ago, Robert Fogarty asked if I wanted to contribute something to a special issue of The Antioch Review called “The Future of Museums.” I did! It’s been…
Hi all, Welcome to an almost Brexit-free link review that focuses on the mundane absurdities, LOLs, but also thoughtful insights that a week in development communication has to…
Canadians — like the authors of anthro everywhere! — are pretty used to hearing English-speakers from the US and elsewhere in the world poke fun at our accents,…
Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category Between 1670 and 1820 focuses on the socio-medical category before its better-known (and more heavily studied) late ninet…
by Jane K. Cowan For me, the UK referendum story began a year ago with another referendum: that of Greece. Elected in January 2015 on a promise to end…