Italian Football Hooligans and Little Shoes
Markus Bell In Italy, many working class men feel that the EU and the Italian government have abandoned them. In such desperate times, these men cling to each…
Ceci N’est Pas un Contact: the Fetishization of Isolated Indigenous People [Excerpt]
Words matter. Peruvian legislation recognizes two categories of indigenous peoples with little or no interaction with outsiders and the state: “peoples in voluntary isolation” and “peoples in initial…
Ceci N’est Pas un Contact: the Fetishization of Isolated Indigenous People [Excerpt]
Words matter. Peruvian legislation recognizes two categories of indigenous peoples with little or no interaction with outsiders and the state: “peoples in voluntary isolation” and “peoples in initial…
Ceci N’est Pas un Contact: the Fetishization of Isolated Indigenous People [Excerpt]
Words matter. Peruvian legislation recognizes two categories of indigenous peoples with little or no interaction with outsiders and the state: “peoples in voluntary isolation” and “peoples in initial…
Ceci N’est Pas un Contact: the Fetishization of Isolated Indigenous People [Excerpt]
Words matter. Peruvian legislation recognizes two categories of indigenous peoples with little or no interaction with outsiders and the state: “peoples in voluntary isolation” and “peoples in initial…
Democracy after Sanders: building a progressive alternative, beyond social media and mass rallies
Check out my latest piece on Sanders and the US presidential race, published by openDemocracy on 26th May. Here is a short summary: “The US presidential primaries have…
Links & Contents I Liked 184
Hi all, Welcome to a jam-packed end-of-the-week link review! Development news on Professor Angelina; #allmalepanel; finding a new WHO Director; the holy grail of ‘less paperwork’; UN bureaucracy;…
Being Seen: An Interview with Anlor Davin by David Platzer
Introduction In the early years of the 21st century, Ian Hacking wrote a series of essays on the theme of autistic subjectivity. These eclectic, occasional essays were, he…
#EVENTS from misconception to transformation
Let’s conclude this Allegra week with another one of our monthly events’ post! No thematic focus this time but a few opportunities to further explore the topics of…
Anorexia’s Deadly Deceit
Anorexia is commonly associated with body image issues. But more significant influences may be how people diagnosed with anorexia perceive and experience food—and how they associate eating practi…
Canberra’s loss is Mānoa’s gain as the ANU walks away from decades of excellence
I do not normally write about my duties as a professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa on this blog, since the blog isn’t associated with UHM…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: May 26th EditionMay
May 26, 2016: Hello FoodAnthropology Readers, We have a short but worthwhile round up for you this week. As always, if you have a link you’d like to…
Militär und Seidenschleifchen
„Camouflage trifft auf Satinschleife, und Seide glänzt in Khaki: Military-Details brauchen jetzt weibliche Besänftigung“, untertitelt das Modemagazin Glamour in ihrer Januar-Ausgabe 2016 die Mod…
Times of Security: Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future
The editors of Anthropoliteia present to you the latest in our occasion series Interrogations, in which authors of recent volumes of interest to our readers discuss their work.…
Lao Camp Food (Part 1)
I recently spent several days camping with a bomb clearance team in southern Laos. Quick history: Laos, per capita, is the most heavily bombed country on Earth. Between…
Domestic Policy: The Resolutions Will Not Be Televised
This is the fifth post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. Given that we as a discipline seem to feel empowered to develop a foreign…
Why you should be critical of Professor Angelina Jolie Pitt’s LSE gig
The message of Angelina Jolie’s appointment as Professor of Practice in LSE’s new MSc course on women, peace and security has probably been shared and commented on more…
Who closed the border between Finland and Russia? A reply to The Independent Barents Observer
The saga about the Northern migrant route for asylum seekers wishing to reach a European country recently got a new turn: Since April 2016 the Russian-Finnish border in…
Anthropocene Adjustments: Discarding the Technosphere
The technosphere refers to a new layer on the planet made up of “the interlinked set of communication, transportation, bureaucratic and other systems that act to metabolize fossil…
Shopping is Civil War (with videos)
Here from the NoOrient site is my commentary on some recent shopping trips… Filed under: commodity, music, trinketization
ICPA 2016: 18th International Conference on Political Anthropology
My heart skips a beat, more than once. Finally, a conference in the one place I wanted to return to since my happy childhood years – a place…
Don’t hate the dual-screen
We’ve all done it – the knee-jerk judgement passed on the person starting intensely at their phone at dinner, at a movie, among friends. And certainly, it is…
Avoiding gendered bias… for instructors
Writing a reference letter for a student? The Feminist Philosophers blog has shared a handy infographic from the University of Arizona that will help instructors write great reference letters…
Review of: American Cheddar Cheese-Ways
Edgar, Gordon (2015) Cheddar. A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese and what is can tell us about our history, cultural identity, and food politics. White River…