CFP: Media & Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS Arab Media & Society, the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public…
ERDOĞAN HAR GÜLEN UNDER HUDEN!
I desember 2013 ble det klart for alle at Erdoğan var i åpen konflikt med predikanten Fetullah Gülen. Tidligere hadde disse to og deres organisasjoner AK partiet og…
Beyond “Embodiment” in Sport
How weightlifting involves relations between tools and bodies. Gym in Gldani, Georgia before a youth competition in April 2012. Photograph courtesy Perry Sherouse Anthropological writing on spo…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short,…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short,…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it…
Humanitarianism in the Anthropocene by Sverre Molland
The decade has been conceptually rich for anthropologists. From multi-species ethnography to the practice of care, the past several years have seen a flourish of analytical concepts and…
GÜLEN SIN MYSTISKE MAKT
I kjølvannet av kuppforsøket har det i den norske offentligheten vært mest oppmerksomhet om problematiske sider ved de tyrkiske myndighetenes respons, og hvordan kuppet kanskje var rigget av…
HVEM STOD BAK KUPPFORSØKET I TYRKIA?
Tidenes største folkemøte i Tyrkia ble arrangert sist søndag (7. august 2016). 5 millioner mennesker var til stede på den statsorganiserte massemønstringer i Istanbul for å markere demokrati…
Review: Stirring the Pot
Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine. James C. McCann. Ohio University Press. 2009 Mary B. Sundal Washburn University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology As part…
New York City’s “First” Mosque
Muslims in the US are non-assimilationist outsiders. So goes a reigning ideology, which was galvanized after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…
Drought and Culture: From the Yard to the Farm
By Alfred Lopez, Yeng Vang, and Chong Vang, California State University, Fresno § We hurriedly walked through a middle-class Fresno, California neighborhood. The City of Fresno and Fresno County are…
Zika at the Rio Games: Pandemic or Panic?
The World Health Organization stated that there was “no public health justification” to postpone the 2016 Rio Olympics due to the Zika virus. Is the fear of Zika…
Anthropology: Innovation by Another Name
By Astrid Countee Everyone is talking about innovation. Big business wants it, startups want it. Even my grandma wants it. But how do you do it? What is…
Post Doc: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities
Post Doc Opportunity that may interest FoodAnthropology readers: PROJECT INFORMATION Title of project: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors in the social and physical food envi…
Links & Contents I Liked 195
Hi all,TGIF! Time for a fresh link review from the wonderful world of development, digital culture and higher education! Development news: The #allmalepanel gets a thorough feminist academic…
Soccer, Kinship and Migration Dreams in Cameroon
For young men in Cameroon, international soccer dreams and family relations are closely connected. International men’s football (soccer) match: Germany vs. Cameroon. Photo courtesy Wikime…
An Interview with Curator and American Music Specialist Levon Williams
Levon Williams will return to Indiana University in the fall of 2016 to pursue a MA degree in Non-Profit Management in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.…
The Limits of Rations and Cash for Food Programs: Food Related Illness in The Gihembe Refugee Camp by Emily A. Lynch
An elderly woman, whom I will call Mama Solange, walks the narrow, muddy pathway between her home and the neighbors compound in the refugee camp. She takes me…
Virtual Roundtable: Julie Billaud’s response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I started engaging with the notion of political agency in my earlier work…
D. Asher Ghertner, “Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi” (Oxford UP, 2015)
D. Asher Ghertner explores why the ways things look are fundamental for Delhi’s transformation into a “world class”city. Based on deep ethnographic engagement in one of the city̵……
Anthropology outside Anthropology, Part 2
You can find Part 1 here. My patients sometimes present me with an opportunity to reflect on anthropological literature through our brief and yet candid conversations. By rule,…