When Sperm Compete, Nature’s Call Leads to Bigger … Testicles
[In humans, the testes] are from an inch and a half to two inches long, about an inch and a quarter from the anterior to the posterior border,…
The politics of migrant material culture
Analyzed as archaeological phenomena, these historical phenomena differ based on the environmental and political nature of the different migrations. But, in both cases, the i…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 23rd Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers, I hope you enjoy this week’s round up. Please send any links you’d like to share to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu. Kathleen Purvis tosses some fighting words at…
Slow Fish
David Beriss University of New Orleans After the festivities of Carnival, we have Lent. Here in New Orleans, even if you are not Catholic, you are surrounded by…
New Earth Politics: new book out soon on politics in the #Anthropocene
Details from MIT Press Here New Earth Politics Essays from the Anthropocene Edited by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah Overview Humanity’s collective impact on the Earth is …
Philadelphia Street Style: Vonnysemaj, Chestnut St
My street style photography has always been circular. I seem to loop back around to a certain core aesthetic, an aesthetic, I might add, that has remained essentially…
Anthropologist pens a best-seller in South Korea
Republished with permission from The University of California “A new book by paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee about human evolution is a best-seller in South Korea.” Photo by Hee-Joong Le…
Kicking Inner City Press’ Matt Lee out of the UN is bad for media & development
News about Matt Lee and his stand-off with UN officials reached me through Twitter on Saturday morning local time and has since gained some momentum, including a longer…
Craig Young: an interview in SF
I did this interview for a project called Automated Anthropologist. (I went to San Francisco and let it be known that I was prepared to do anything anyone…
The First Butchers
Living humans, all 7.3 billion of us, are classified as Homo sapiens. That means we are all part of the same species; our genus is Homo, meaning “man,”…
The Inner Beast released after Ugandan Elections 2016, Marianne Bach Mosebo
The Ugandan Presidential Election in 2016 left many Ugandans frustrated and angry at the election process and the announcement of the incumbent, President Yoweri Museveni, as the winner…
Quo vadis Religionswissenschaft? Wissenschaftliche ‚turns‘ und die Nabelschau Europas
Wenn man “Quo vadis Religionswissenschaft” im Internet sucht, ist zumindest lokal aktuell der dritte Treffer ein Interview im REMID-Blog, “Quo vadis, domine? Eurozentrismus(kritik) in der Religionswi…
Notes on the 7th digital ethnography reading (Garcia et al 2009)
By Tresa Le Clerc PhD candidate Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under digital ethnography reading group The first Digital Ethnography Reading Sess…
REDUX: Scenes of #Gentrification
Scene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer cafes, independent bookstores, second hand antiquaries, esoteric health…
anthro in the news 2/22/16
Food trends in the UK BBC News reported on results from a long-term study of changes in food consumption in the U.K. since the 1970s: Pasta is rising,…
There’s No Shame in Shame
Everyone feels shame somewhat differently. However, new research suggests that the underlying triggers of our shame have much in common. A study published today in Proceedings of the…
“Bioculturalism” — An interview with Benjamin Campbell by Benjamin Campbell
This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related others talking seriously, and thinking practically, about how to synergize biological and social scientific approaches to human health and w…
Philadelphia Street Style: Charlene, Walnut St
I’m taking a break from posting my pictures from New York Fashion Week. After a while, those images start to get old. All flash and no substance. Clothes…
Bud Caddell
Whenever I have the chance to talk to Bud Caddell, I take it. This’s because while I know the future is badly distributed (in Gibson’s famous phrase), I fervently…
In the Journals, February 2016 Part I by Melanie Boeckmann
This month’s reading list, part I American Ethnologist The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Europe: Forum Representing the “European refugee crisis” in Germany and beyond: Deservingness and difference, life…
Build Karma Points on Social Media
Everyday salutations such as ‘Good Morning’, ‘Good Afternoon’, ‘Good Evening’ etc. are common social media interactions of the people of Panchagrami, used to keep …
Feel the heat – Fuel innovation in Ghana
“We call it biochar,” Professor David Millar explains enthusiastically to the delegation of civil servants visiting him at his office. During my visit to our Field School in…
Gentrification, diversification & events – let’s take it SLOW!
Ever so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is ‘slow food for thought‘. Indeed, one of the…