Akiko Takenaka’s new book looks carefully at Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial, examining its role in waging war, honoring the dead, promoting peace, and building a modern…
Hello dear listeners! Adam hanging with his cow friends outside Puno, Peru Just a quick update on where TAL has been and now is. Adam is back from…
Tracy Teslow. Constructing Race: The Science of Bodies and Cultures in American Anthropology. xiii + 399pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $129 (hardback), $29.99 (paperba…
An Anthropolitical Critique of the “Language Gap” Is language responsible for poverty? If poor and minority parents spoke like rich white parents, would they too become rich and…
Profound uncertainty The profound uncertainty that may undergird living with multiple narratives was conveyed to me during my research on the remaking of everyday life after the devastating…
Tanker fra udvalgsdagen i antropologis introforløb af Adrian og Julie Et åbent benbrud kan lappes sammen. Førnutid på spansk kan sættes på remse. Pytagoras læresætning kan memoreres. En…
This fall I will be talking a lot about the new book series that the Indiana University Press and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures are jointly publishing.…
As part of my sabbatical, I recently spent two weeks with the exceptional researchers in Environmental Humanities at UNSW. My hope was to encounter ideas that would inspire…
As Milwaukee burns and Baton Rouge floods, I wrote about the abandonment of the heartland for Quartz: They come for the chaos. They don’t stay for the banal…
Mit einem tiefen Unbehagen steht man an der Vitrine, in der das „Hexenhemd“ liegt. Die Vitrine hat etwas von einem gläsernen Sarg. Das Kleid liegt darin, der Körper…
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) curates a beautiful fur parka from Barrow, Alaska. The body and hood are made of muskrat fur; the hood is…
Brocher Foundation, May 2016 Introduction This three-day event took place at the Brocher Foundation Institute, Geneva, from May 17-20 2016, and was generously funded by a Brocher Foundation…
*A commentary on Part II of our Engagement thematic series, The Nature of Infrastructure. By Bettina Stoetzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology § In the past few years, the…
When I was an anthropology graduate student, I often found myself in an ambiguous place as someone who isn’t white. I swallowed my words, one too many times,…
I grew up partly in a college town, and I’ve been around college campuses most of my life. One of my favorite times of year is this late-summer empty…
By Steven Dashiell Featured image based on an Creative Commons image by GabboT. I can clearly remember my first time ever going to a comic book convention. It…
Das Anlegen von Kleidung kann einen performativen Akt darstellen, mit dem sich Körper, Identität und Bild nach innen und nach außen verändern. Körper und Kleidung sind eng…
September looms and it’s time to start planning for that important first class with with my new batch of students. That means it’s time to add Timbits and…
African slave heritage underwater Slave Wrecks Project team members with Thiaw, center. Source: The Washington Post/Jane Hahn An article in The Washington Post describes efforts of the Slave…
Hey everyone! Hope you are enjoying the last few days of summer before the academic grind starts for another year. Here are your readings for the week. Akemi…
Takhteyev, Y. (2012). Coding Places: Software practice in a South American city. MIT Press. Notes by Tresa LeClerc Non/fiction Lab and Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), RMIT University, Melb…
Many students struggle with culture shock as they make the transition between high school and post-secondary education. New freedoms for many students living away from home for the…
