The Anthro/Zine strikes back!
Anthro/Zine, a venue for undergraduate publication from the team behind Anthropology Now, has entered its second year of publication. The premise behind the project is to provide a…
Conference Report: Ludwik Fleck’s theory of thought styles and thought collectives – translations and receptions by Sandra Lang
Ludwik Fleck’s theory of thought styles and thought collectives – translations and receptions March 10th – 11th 2016 Wrocław, Poland Organizing committee: Paweł Jarnicki (Project Science …
#Review: Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
On 22 March 2016, the Belgian city of Brussels suffered three calculated and co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the name of the so-called Islamic State. As with the Paris…
Should we all radicalize? Anthropology in times of capitalist crises
A response to the inaugural lecture of Dimitris Dalakoglou, Chair in Social Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam. Refugee crisis in Europe, via creative commons By Herbert Ploegman As…
The World Changed Overnight
The European Union is now to be written as a postscript. Thanks to British voters, who were given an extremely rare chance to have a say on one…
Two Euchee (Yuchi) Baskets in the Collections of the Philbrook Museum of Art
The basketry traditions of the Native South have experienced divergent histories from a common regional tradition of work basketry. Among the North Carolina Cherokee, for instance, the indigenous…
Studium nach der Flucht?
Welche Angebote gibt es für Geflüchtete mit Studieninteresse an deutschen Hochschulen und wie werden sie organisiert? Wie werden Geflüchtete bei der Aufnahme eines Studiums unterstützt und wie erhalte…
Vale Edith Turner
Edith Turner — Edie as she was universally known — passed away on 18 June 2016. Perhaps the quickest and least accurate way to describe Edie is “Victor Turner’s wife”.…
From national icon to neoliberal monument
This text began as a radio essay on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015, later developed into a web essay at Versopolis. It chronicles the shift from the mid…
In the Journals – June 2016, Part I by Anna Zogas
Here are some articles published in June that may be of interest. Enjoy! Medical Anthropology Quarterly Cancer and the Comics: Graphic Narratives and Biolegitimate Lives Juliet McMullin Cancer graphic…
Why Are People on the Move?
At the 2016 Folklife Festival AAA asks what objects you would take with you if you suddenly had to move and how you would cope with new surroundings.…
Interplanetary Environmentalism (Part 1)
On Earth we sometimes identify and protect places we recognize as holding special cultural, scientific, religious, political, historical, or heritage value. By doing so, we hope to preserve…
Self-organization in Times of Austerity: The Solidarity Movement in Greece
This paper seeks to contribute to the current discussion in Anthropology concerning austerity in the mediterranean area, see for example Narotzky (2015), Knight & Charles (2015), etc. After…
From national icon to neoliberal monument
This text began as a radio essay on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015, later developed into a web essay at Versopolis. It chronicles the shift from the…
From national icon to neoliberal monument
This text began as a radio essay on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015, later developed into a web essay at Versopolis. It chronicles the shift from the…
Anthropologist, CTO
Is it really that strange to think that an anthropologist would be the best choice for a Chief Technology Officer? According to Susannah Fox, the CTO for HHS…
Rechte Ideologie im esoterischen und neureligiösen Bereich
Eine erprobte PR-Strategie in Überlegungen mit Praktikant_innen bei REMID bestand darin, in einigen Online-Medien eigene Kommentar-Accounts (die dann auch meistens “REMID” heißen) zu unterhalten und …
Participant Observation and PTSD
One of an ethnographer’s most important instruments is his or her body. What has been called an “affective turn” in the social sciences has entailed thinking of the…
#Review: What Kinship Is – And Is Not
To what degree can our biological, genetic and reproductive systems be considered the basis for family relationships? Marshall Sahlins divides his answer to this question into two sections…
An Engineering Anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: I’m very please to announce that the next contributor in the Co-designing with machines edition is Astrid Countee (@ianthro), an anthropologist, software de…
UK should Remain in the EU to stop the global advance of the far right
Tomorrow the British will go to the polls to decide whether UK should stay within the European Union or not. I truly hope that the majority will vote…
The Queer Political is Geopolitical
This month, major cities throughout the U.S. will hold annual gay pride events: parades followed by parties throughout the night and weekend. These kinds of celebrations – for…
Why We Need to Stop Talking about Trans People in the Bathroom
Painted stencil on a sidewalk in Seattle, 2000. Photo courtesy Ann Kakaliouras. In a May 18th 2016 Time magazine article titled “What Science Says About the Bathroom Debate,”…
Never Ending Stories: Narrating Frozen Evidence of Infectious Epidemics Past by Joanna Radin
Early Elegy: Smallpox by Claudia Emerson The world has certified itself rid of all but the argument: to eradicate or not the small stock of variola frozen, quarantined—a…