The “Good-Enough Anthropologist” by Elizabeth Durham
“Where are all the anthropologists?” The question came from public health worker Douglas Hamilton on the first day of the Princeton-Fung Global Forum on Ebola, held in November…
AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference, June 14-17, 2017
It is time for the annual call for abstracts from the best food studies conference in North America. This year it will be hosted at Occidental College, in…
Graffiti Bombing in U.S. National Parks
Graffiti in U.S. national parks has become increasingly common. Carving into rocks or writing and painting on them leaves images and impressions that are difficult to remove—forever changing…
My New Podcast about College Life
I have launched a new project – a “This American Life”-style podcast about college life. It is my favorite endeavor of the past 12 years. I hope you…
No One’s Laughing: The Killing Joke Still Doesn’t Do Justice to Barbara Gordon
*Trigger Warning: This piece discusses rape and sexual violence. Alan Moore’s 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke is perhaps one of the bleakest stories in the DC…
Anthropoliteia in American Anthropologist’s review of Public Anthropology
In the most recent (September) issue of American Anthropologist, Angelique Haugerud has an excellent review of “Public Anthropology in 2015” which features both our series “#Ferguson…
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Hi all,Development news: JK Rowling takes on voluntourism; MSF, Kayla Mueller and caring for humanitarian aid workers; let’s talk fraud, NGOs! The overworked nonprofit employee is the new…
Advancing Equity in Higher Education
We must address issues of access and success for our students. It is a summer afternoon and I am sitting in my office with one of my students,…
This Present Darkness (book review)
As my academic summer break is coming to its end, I am keen on sharing another book review with you. This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised…
Al-Nuwayri on the Pleasures of Life
A post about the famous 14th century Mamluk text of al-Nuwayri, with a new English translation of excerpts from this classic compendium now available.
Improving Access to Scholarship: Material Vernaculars as Milestone and Experiment
First the take away, then the story. While produced in very nice and reasonably priced hardback, paperback, and ebook editions, works in the new Material Vernaculars series are…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
What exactly are Anthropology MAs doing with their anthropology?
This post was authored by AAA summer intern Chrislyn Laurore, a recent graduate of the anthropology program at Mount Holyoke College. It took all of thirty minutes into my Intro to…
The Man Who Was Mistaken for a Homo sapiens in a Hat
In 1939, anthropologist Carleton Coon used an artist’s reconstruction of the Neanderthal specimen La Chapelle aux Saints in a hat to argue that people’s impressions of differences between grou…
Creating classroom culture on "Syllabus Day"
In this Vitae piece, Kevin Gannon argues that “Syllabus Day” is The Absolute Worst Way to Start the Semester (2016). Instead, course instructors are encouraged to employ a “a mindful…
Connecting Materialities / Material Connectivities
International Symposium at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU Munich, 9–11 February 2017 Convened by PHILIPP SCHORCH AND MARTIN SAXER Call for Papers Deadline: 31 October 2016…
comics on culture on Charlie Rose
Yesterday, the Charlie Rose Show repeated interviews with comics Billy Eichner, Amy Pohler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and Seth Meyers. A couple of comments jumped out.…
Out With The Old: Gentrifying Seoul’s Noryangjin Fish Market
By Markus Bell and Jieun Kim In 1998 an article in Seoul’s Kyeonghyang newspaper described a visit to Seoul’s Noryanggin Fish Market as follows: “Arriving in the…