Critiquing Anthropological (textbook) Images
Google images: “anthropology textbooks” from Dori Turnstall Think about the typical cover images of anthropology textbooks. Most likely, you are thinking about exotic images of non-Western p…
The Politics of Peace in Captain America: Civil War
By Emma Louise Backe Marvel’s latest superhero juggernaut, Captain America: Civil War (2016) is a tense, tightly paced skirmish. The camera skitters between the ideological poles of Tony…
Moral crises: magical and secular solutions (Gluckman 1964)
via HAU journal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons | © Max Gluckman. ISSN 2049-1115 (Online). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau4.2.025 REPRINT Moral crises Magical and secular solution…
Canadian Anthropology and Cultural Imperialism: Criticisms
Is there a Canadian anthropology or is it just anthropology in Canada? If it is “anthropology in Canada,” then from where has it been imported? If what we…
Unsettling Gender Normativities through Dance and Music
The annual Istanbul LGBT Pride Week will kick off at the end of June in Turkey. For the 24th consecutive year, the event will incorporate the traditional parade which will…
Sahana Udupa, “Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
What role does Bangalore’s private news culture play in shaping the southern Indian metropolis’ ongoing urban transformation? Sahana Udupa‘s new book Making News in Global India: Med… Visit…
Who’s Playing the ‘Nazi Card’ in Anthropology?: Rhetorical Spectres of Anti-Semitism in the BDS Debate by David Rosen
Two recent articles by BDS leaders in anthropology have accused boycott opponents of debasing the debate in anthropology, either by playing the “Nazi card” or by introducing the…
Rethinking Political Agency in the Middle East | Workshop Abstracts
Over the next two days, Allegra will be busy reporting on the international workshop Rethinking political agency in the Middle East: Engaging political anthropology which is taking place…
Roma aus dem Westlichen Balkan: Ursachen ihrer Flucht
Ausgrenzung, kumulative Diskriminierung und ein weitverbreiteter Antiziganismus bestimmen die Lebensumstände der Roma* im Westlichen Balkan (Albanien, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kosovo, Mazedonien, Mont…
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now, May 18 Edition
A selection of items from around the internet of possible interest to readers of FoodAnthropology. If you have items you think our readers should read, send a note…
Anthropology 101: Managing a Blog
With this series, the TGA team had several objectives. One was to share some of our own wisdom and knowledge with those of you who are considering starting to blog.…
It’s the Data, Stupid: What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means
On Tuesday May 17, 2016, SSRN announced that it was being acquired by Elsevier. SSRN, the Social Sciences Research Network, is a widely used repository of scholarly articles…
Europe’s Destructive Spirals of Distrust
On February 6, 2016, thousands of people protested the immigration of Muslims, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and other cities across Europe. Peter Dejong/AP Photo Controversies around minori…
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal life into a story, and stories generally require beginnings, mi…
The reception and consumption of telenovelas in Senegal
This is a fourth set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
Writing from research online
Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne PhD Community Writing Group 2 25 May 2016 Convener: Jolynna Sinanan This month, John Postill will lead the writing group…
Arctic Professorship, Finland, for an anthropologist?
Dear readers, belown seems to be a really promising job opening. For our community of Arctic Anthropologists, of course we would be most interested in getting as many…
A Bibliography for Teaching Flint
This bibliography is designed for professors who want to “teach Flint” in their classrooms. The Flint, Michigan water crisis is an extreme but quintessential case study that shows…
Manufacturing neglect: What happens to drugs once the epidemic has passed? by Jeremy Greene
We like to think that drugs help put an end to disease, although in the aggregate this is seldom the case. However many individual infections and infestations might…
Development tourism without adult supervision-Reflections on Aftenposten’s Sweatshop documentary
I just watched the second season of Sweatshop, a documentary produced for the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten (with English subtitles). Four Norwegian fashion bloggers continue their investigation int…
#Review: The Politics of Humanitarianism: Power, Ideology and Aid
Humanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with transformative moral-political modes of inquiry and praxis. This…