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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…
Aboot the Canadian "about"
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,…
Book Forum––Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria by Todd Meyers
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…
On the UK Referendum
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…
#Brexit, Europe and Anthropology: time to say something
Brexit means trouble, that is for certain; what is less certain is what kind of trouble. Some might sympathise with the immediate response of Chris Gregory (ANU): “I…
Racing for what? #Slow
In this post, Ruth Mueller explores how the compulsion for speed in academia plays out in the lives of postdocs. Slow science is interesting for me because I…
The myth of millennials
My latest for Quartz is on the danger of generalizing generations: Three years ago, TIME magazine published a cover story called “The Me Me Me Generation—Millennials are lazy,…
Web Roundup: Ethical Technology, Moral Medicine by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
Researchers at MIT have launched Moral Machine, a web project to help gauge human perspectives on “moral decisions made by machine intelligence.” The project comes in the wake…
Brexit: a View From Scotland
By John Bryden On Thursday 23 June, two of the four constituent nations of the formerly United Kingdom – England, and Wales – voted to leave the EU,…
Brexit: a View From Scotland
By John Bryden On Thursday 23 June, two of the four constituent nations of the formerly United Kingdom – England, and Wales – voted to leave the EU,…
Brexit: a View From Scotland
By John Bryden On Thursday 23 June, two of the four constituent nations of the formerly United Kingdom – England, and Wales – voted to leave the EU,…
Anthro Blogging 101: Allegra Lab
In this edition of Anthropology Blogging 101, we welcome Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Julie Billaud, Editors in Chief at Allegra Lab. Tell us a little about Allegra Lab. How did it…
Brexit: a View From Scotland
By John Bryden On Thursday 23 June, two of the four constituent nations of the formerly United Kingdom – England, and Wales – voted to leave the EU,…
Nick Cheesman, “Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Working against the tendency to conflate the analytic categories “rule of law,” and “law and order,” Nick Cheesman’s Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts … Visit…
Was bedeutet der Brexit für Flüchtlinge?
Großbritannien blieb weitgehend abgeschottet von der Flüchtlingskrise, die im vergangenen Jahr viele andere Länder Europas erschüttert hat. Geschützt durch die Geographie und den Status außerhalb des …
In the Journals – June 2016, Part II by Anna Zogas
We have three special issues to conclude our highlighting of new articles in June! Here they are: Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, in Body & Society Perspectives on patienthoo…
Charting New Territory
The Intersection of Language and Geography When most people think about linguistic geography, if they think of it at all, they think of dialect atlases such as the…
Treasure from trash: how mining waste can be mined a second time
Mines typically follow a set path from prospecting, to development, to extraction and finally closure as the finite resources are exhausted. But does that really need to be…
New research article on ritualized conference spaces & the evolution of peace research professionalism in Germany
As it often happens in academic journal publishing my latest article From Social Movement to Ritualized Conference Spaces: The Evolution of Peace Research Professionalism in Germany has been…
Book Review: My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin
Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology My Life With Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin, 2016. Duke University Press. My Life with Things is an engaging, quirky, auto-ethnography detailing key…
Is #Slow Academia Conservative?
In this post, Heather Mendick argues that some calls for slowing down scholarship mask a conservative politics. Last July I blogged about how, despite my love for online communication,…
Reading Capital in Nottingham – every wednesday, 11am-2pm, from July 20 until 28 Sept, 2016
20 Jul 2016 – 28 Sep 2016 Join us for a ten-week course on Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 1 Reading and writing with Professor John Hutnyk, in collaboration…
La science-fiction et l’anthropologie : des récits entrecroisés / 1
Des origines aux livres-univers[1] Par Martin Hébert Ce texte a d’abord été publié dans la revue Solaris (2013, no 183). Si l’on compare l’histoire des sciences sociales et celle des…
Review: Sacred Rice
Davidson, Joanna. (2016). Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in West Africa. Oxford University Press. (249 pp.) Reviewed by Mark Dailey Green Mountain College, Poult…