Over ‘anders’ zijn als politicus
Foto: Marcel van Leeuwen door Menno van den Bos Begin dit jaar werd Khadija Arib voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer. De reacties op internet liepen uiteen. Pakweg de…
Boilerplate Clauses as Pragmatic Knowledge Practices #pragmatisms
Prompted by the invitation to participate in this thematic week on #pragmatisms for Allegra, I would like to share some reflections from my ethnographic reading of a concrete…
A poem for my Grandmother
Rest in Peace Bing, my paternal Grandmother, who passed away peacefully on Saturday just gone. I will always remember her at her happiest on the farm…
Making Knowledge Stick: Virtual Badges and Real Life Stickers
“Better than Digital Chocolate”—that’s what drew me in. It was the title of a post that found its way somehow across one of my social media feeds and…
På feltarbeid blant indianere i Peru
Det hele begynte med at jeg sommeren 2015 satt på stranda og leste Anders Kroghs bok «Med jaguarens kraft» – om reisen hans til Iquitos og Amazonas, der…
A Presidential Affair
This article first appeared on the Stanford University Press blog. In January of 1998 news leaked that President Bill Clinton had engaged in ‘improper’ relations with White House intern Monica…
Cold Enough for Ya?
Every winter, on either the first or second cold snap, I hear the question “Cold enough for ya?” as I get on the bus, exit the Metro, or…
Human Trafficking: a growing epidemic
Some sources claim that one out of every 236 people becomes a victim of human trafficking. Even more startling, sources state that every 30 seconds another person becomes…
Fünf Jahre Fukushima
Seit der Dreifachkatastrophe am 11. März 2011 in Fukushima – einem starken Erdbeben folgte ein Tsunami, der zu schweren Störfällen in einem Kernkraftwerk und zur Freisetzung von radioaktiven…
Christopher Bondy, “Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2015)
“You are a member of a minority group but do not know it. How is this possible?” Christopher Bondy’s new book explores this question in a study of…
The Absent Stone
Via Sandra Rozental, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City The Absent Stone (2013) is a documentary film that combines contemporary ethnographic filmmaking, animation and a wide …
Knowing Economies, Doing Economies: How Sociologists of Markets Have Acknowledged the Legacy of #Pragmatism
In her new book, South Korean Civil Movement Organisations: Hope, Crisis and Pragmatism in Democratic Transition, Amy Levine shows us how a commitment to American pragmatism crosses disciplinary…
Food Insecurity in a Globalized World: The Politics and Culture of Food Systems
This conference, taking place at Middlebury College on March 4-6, will be live streamed and recorded. The conference schedule is posted below. More information can be found here: http://www.middlebury…
Review of Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (eds.) (2014) Marx at the Movies
This very good review by Bruce Williams in Film-Philosophy. of Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (eds.) (2014) Marx at the Movies: Revisiting History, Theory and Practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan.…
The launch of Why We Post
Released today: ‘How the World Changed Social Media’ After years of work and planning, we have today launched Why We Post, which represents the results of our project.…
Talking Hands
Talking with our hands is one of the most human things we do. While commonly used to add emotional emphasis to spoken language, hands have the unique ability…
anthro in the news 2/29/16
Prisoners attending a prison concert which is meant to be a positive activity for them. Source: Noisey Inmates take control in many Mexican prisons Quartz reported on the…
Philadelphia Street Style: Aubrie, Chestnut St
I could see Aubrie’s vintage Liz Claiborne scarf from hundreds of feet away, that classic color-blocked patchwork that Claiborne has made so synonymous with her brand. Funny how…
Web Roundup: How Do You Feel Today? by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
New Facebook reactions, the expansion of “like” options to include “love,” “sad” and “angry” emoticons (among others), is just one way affect has collid…
CFP: Circles, flows and dead ends: re-calibrating socio-material relations and the rise of the ‘circular economy’ (3/11/16)
This session invites contributions that explore themes related to ideas of recalibrated material flows and their socio-political and geographical implications.
The Enclosed Case by Elizabeth Lewis
The case that follows illustrates an ethnographic flashpoint in my work on disability. Here, I offer an account of a single morning during my first research trip in…
#Pragmatisms as Historical, Holistic, Total Social Facts
The theme of #pragmatisms comes from my fieldwork with a handful of civil movement organisations in Seoul during the mid-2000s. It was a buzzword in South Korea and…
Free e-seminar: ‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists
‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists: On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice Working Paper to the EASA Media…
Anthropology at the Crossroads
In many West African societies, the crossroads is place of danger. It is where the social and spirit worlds intersect. Among the Songhay people of the Republic of…