Heritage Destruction in Cholula, Mexico
Heavy machinery working next to the Guadalupe psychiatric hospital at the base of the Great Pyramid of Cholula and sanctuary to the Virgen de los Remedios. Photo courtesy…
LeserInnenbrief zu Sozialhilfe für Bigamisten
Sehr geehrte Redaktion, wir erlauben uns, darauf hinzuweisen, dass das Bild von Muslimen und Musliminnen sowie Geflüchteten, Ihr Blatt propagiert, falsch ist und diskriminierende Tendenzen aufweist. E…
Changing the Media
Yesterday I did an “Ask Me Anything” with the site Wiselike and got a lot of interesting questions. One of them, on problems with the US media, was…
A close-up look at Chinese social media platforms
Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang introduce China’s social media platforms Chinese social media is remarkable because despite extensive media coverage and academic research, these platforms remain s…
Everybody’s an Ethnographer!
Dhruv Sharma has a background in anthropology, has worked in various countries as an ethnographer, and also holds a master’s degree in design ethnography from Dundee University. His doctoral …
Landdistriktsvækstpiloter og 15 andre veje til vækst
Så har regeringen åbnet endnu en låge i projekt vækst og udvikling i hele Danmark. Nå, men erhvervs- og vækstminister Troels Lund Poulsen (V) lader til at balancere på et…
The Half of the World That Doesn’t Make Out
When the South African Thonga peoples first saw Europeans kissing in 1890, their reaction was disgust at such gross behavior. The same thing happened 100 years later for…
Walter Benjamin in Palestine
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to offer this reflection on a Walter Benjamin conference in Palestine by David Lloyd, ally of anthropology and…
Care Comes Home
Hydrangeas flourishing in my grandmother’s garden. Photo courtesy of Alison Witchard I have spent most of the past year thinking about and engaging with anthropological literature on care…
Article Alert! Elevent recent publications in discard studies
The following ten articles and one book are recent publications from diverse disciplines, but they all relate to the study of waste, pollution, and externalities. Cooper, D. R.,…
REDUX: The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!* #UniversityCrisis
Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories and reflecting on the growing casualization of academi…
Feelings into words: Harvest Festival Part 2
Describing, in words, what it’s like to be at a rave is one of the most difficult things I’ve had to do for my research. How can one…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 9th Edition
February 9, 2016: Hi FoodAnthropology readers, We have a reader contribution to kick us off this week: Food, Art, and History at the Getty Center: If anyone is…
Smoke + Mirrors: Marie Henein’s lawyerly tactics in defense of Ghomeshi
[Feb 9, 2016. Some thoughts on the Ghomeshi trial, as the third complainant’s testimony and examination is completed, and as we wait for Judge Horkins to rule on…
Does Early Intervention Promote Recovery?
Director of NIMH Leaves for Google to Develop New Technologies There is a growing trend among large companies in the private sector to join in health promotion efforts,…
“Throw Me Something, Mister!”
The parade crowds were already forming as I held on to my oversized cowboy hat and made my way to the krewe’s meeting spot. I could see our…
Small Methods for Big Data
[Image via GIPHY] We are currently soliciting contributions to the March/April edition of EthnographyMatters. The aim of the edition is to document some of the innovative methods that are bei…
anthro in the news 2/8/16
On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…
New Developments in Drone Proliferation: How Africa was Deployed to Rescue Drones, by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Debates on global drone proliferation tend to assume that adoption and adaptation of drones follow a universal logic and that the drone industry is a singular thing, geographically…
What’s the matter with Ethnography?
Robert Potts is a filmmaker, lecturer, designer, and PhD candidate at the HighWire Centre for Doctoral Training who takes special interest in a diverse range of subjects including shared narr…
Führung durch die Abguss-Sammlung der Archäologie am 9. Februar
Die Archäologin Dr. Ursula Mandel bietet eine Führung durch die Abguss-Sammlung der Klassischen Archäologie zum Thema „Mann und Kind“ an. Die Sammlung ist nahe den Räumlichkeiten der Abteilung…