Anthropology at the Crossroads
This vote is more than a referendum on a contentious political issue. It is a vote that defines our scholarship. In many
Crossing the border, blurring the boundaries: alternative views on human smuggling from the Horn of Africa to Europe
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa have systematically crossed international borders throughout Africa into Europe in the last decade. Among them were over 150,000…
Prevalence of self-harm reflects our social isolation by Chris Millard
Since the late 1980s growing numbers of mental health professionals and media commentators in Britain and the USA have been concerned with a behaviour labelled as ‘self-harm’, ‘deliberate…
Winter/Spring Journal Round-Up
American Anthropologist Interspecies Semiotics and the Specter of Taboo: The Perception and Interpretation of Dogs and Rabies in Bali,Indonesia Yancey Orr The anthropological fields of ethnobiology and…
Bibliography on Action-Based Research Methods
As researchers, we often want to make material and social changes through our work. Regardless of our institutional affiliations and disciplines, there are concrete ways to achieve this,…
Migrant deaths: explaining variations over time and across smuggling routes
Large amounts of economic, political and communication resources are being invested (how effectively is another matter) in trying to deal with the refugee crisis. The same can hardly…
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now: April 3 Edition
April 3, 2016: Hello FoodAnthro readers, the past week has been overflowing with food news. If you have something you’d like to contribute for future weeks, please email…
Heather Kopelson, “Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic” (NYU Press, 2014)
Heather Miyano Kopelson explores how religion, primarily expressed through bodily action, contributed to colonial notions of difference in her recent book Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race… Visit…
‘Humboldt’ Zeitung über das Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung und die Arbeit von Netzwerk Mitglied Joel Glasman
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Hutnyk Books
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IMF plots “credit event” to push Greece to the brink of default
Even though other international events have largely pushed it in the background, the Greek debt drama continues. The IMF and the EU institutions cannot agree on the terms…
The Power of Menstrual Politics
The latest in the abortion wars: “One Indiana woman recently created the Facebook page Periods for Pence where she encourages others to call the governor’s office to report their periods,…
Groundings, or seeing-one’s-feet: An introduction
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Proshant Chakraborty] Over the last year or so, I have found that nearly every academic essay I have written for my courses contains…
Bad Marxism
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34. In search of psychedelia: for a technopolitics beyond institutions
This is the thirty-fourth post in the freedom technologists series This past March 2016 I spent three weeks in Lima (Peru), as well as a few days in…
Origins and Scope of Thick Ethnography
Within a historical context, ethnography attempts to be holistic in nature based in part on emic views. It is written, observational science that provides an account of a…
Special Issues – Insurance and Health Reform; Digitised Medicine by Anna Zogas
In addition to our regular roundup of journal articles, these two special issues were published this month: In Medical Anthropology Quarterly, “Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Re…