DNA and Indigeneity
DNA in the News Rapid developments in genetic technologies are allowing for innovative applications in archaeology and anthropology. Intriguing scientific studies hinting at population origins, moveme…
An Anniversary as a Laboratory #HumanRights
This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental as the theme features…
Refusal as Research Method in Discard Studies
Ethnographic refusal is a practice by which researchers and research participants together decide not to make particular information available for use within the academy. Its purpose is not…
Magic Words: A Numbered List by Vincent Duclos
Boundary Biǎo 表 Interiorization (Inclusion) The Fold Emptiness Pathway Tōng 通 Media/Medium Resonance Excess Immunity/Community 1. Boundary Boundary is such a common-sense concept that it hardly ne…
Introduction: “Translating Vitalities: Spacecraft(ing)” by Judith Farquhar
Medical practice treats the body as an active field. Growth, pathology, healing, immune response, digestion, atrophy, arousal, pain, panic – none of these organic processes is stable, fixed,…
Strategies to Support Your “Typical” Kids
I was thrilled to have a piece published by The Mighty last week. My aim was to reach as many parents as possible with a few key strategies…
Why abstinence-only drug education doesn’t work—in fact, it backfires spectacularly.
I talked to a lot of middle-class recreational drug users for my research. None of them had any idea when they were younger that they’d end up dropping…
Chinas Bildungswesen: Alle Macht der Partei
Die chinesische Regierung übt immer stärkeren ideologischen Druck auf Universitäten und Schulen aus. Wie Chinas Netizens berichten, stößt diese lange überholt geglaubte Politik auf wenig Zustimmung. &…
geräuschkulisse/ mo 21.3./ 21.00
präsentiert im Doppelpack: Der Kapitän segelt nach Amazon (55 Minuten) Feature von SEROTONIN Das ist doch heutzutage ganz einfach, wenn man ein Buch veröffentlichen möchte. Wenn es…
Squeezing one year of fieldwork in New Zealand in three months
By Vivian Mac Gillavry Photo: A. Martineau During the first year of my Bachelor study in anthropology, we were told that the best field research should take at…
Utopian Appetites
Received from one of our alert readers: The 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy: Utopian Appetites Call for Papers The 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy will be celebrated in…
Uarctic in pure diamonds: report from PhD / Masters course “Arctic Extractive Industries”, in Mirny
The Uarctic Logo made by a local employee of the sorting centre of pure diamonds is worth 7 million USD From 15-22 February a group of roughly 20…
Scholarly meetings with a “Disclaimer and Waiver”
I’m guessing that most anthropologists don’t read the Disclaimer and Waiver to which you must consent when you register for conferences through the American Anthropological Association. It…
The Unending Hunger
In order to grasp the significance of these key themes, it is helpful to understand the relationship between what Carney terms the biopolitics of food insecurity and the…
The Unending Hunger
In order to grasp the significance of these key themes, it is helpful to understand the relationship between what Carney terms the biopolitics of food insecurity and the…
In the Journals — March 2016, Part I by Anna Zogas
Here is the first installment of articles published in March. There is a special issue of East Asian Science, Technology and Society on “Body and Enhancement Technology,” and I also…
Exploring Boundaries: From Access to Female Sexworkers to the Question of Research
When designing a research project, a researcher’s initial plans are often interrupted by what data we actually can access. Whether negotiating political structures, cultural taboos, necessary permissi…
Public Statement on Zika Virus in Puerto Rico
This call to action was written by Adriana Garriga-López (Kalamazoo C) and Shir Lerman (U Connecticut), with Jessica Mulligan (Providence C), Alexa Dietrich (Wagner C), Carlos E Rodríguez-Díaz…
Israel’s Foreign Policy in Latin America — Another Reason to Take the Call to Boycott Seriously
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by Les W. Field. Les is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at U New Mexico. He pursues collaborative…
Geertzian moments (or, ‘when ethnographers lose their shit’)
Returning home from hunting on our Husband’s country, fieldwork (2008) There are certain moments during fieldwork that anthropologists refer to as ‘Geertzian moments’ o…
Ghosts in the Machine: Supernatural Podcasts and the Resurgence of Radio Horror
By Emma Louise Backe The problem of nostalgia has become a common refrain among pop culture critics. Many claimed that The Force Awakens’ success could be almost entirely…