Around the Web Digest: Week of January 24th
Happy Monday, dear readers! Don’t forget to send me any links to feature here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. Incredibly (or not so incredibly, given the power of his name as…
Survival of the Socially Fittest
Humans (Homo sapiens) may have caused the extinction of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) because of our greater talent for social innovation and tool creation. This new conclusion makes a…
Special Focus: History of the History of Anthropology Newsletter
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Sapiens: Good (Maybe Great) But Not Transformational (So Far)
Last week marked the launch of Sapiens, a brand new website bankrolled by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The unveiling is especially welcome to those of us who think about public…
From fish lives to fish law: learning to see Indigenous legal orders in Canada by Zoe Todd
“The necessity of respecting game is still widely acknowledged by Inuit. The awareness, that the continuity of society depends on the maintenance of correct relationships with animals and the…
anthro in the news 2/1/2016
Source: Creative Commons U.S. football violence Cultural anthropologist William Murphy, lecturer in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University, published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun Ti…
Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume “Theorising Media and Conflict”
Theorising Media and Conflict Editors: John Postill (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)) Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash University) In a recent survey of th…
Global Warming: trends and consequences
Recently, health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a travel alert for Central, South America and the Caribbean, some 14 countries and territories exposed to…
(Re)Konstruktion von gender im Exotensport Jugger
Wie soziale Prozesse Geschlechterkategorien reproduzieren – soziale (Re)Konstruktion von gender im Exotensport Jugger 1 Einleitung „Drei, zwei, eins – Jugg!“ so beginnt ein jeder Spielzug, der von rhy…
CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict
John Postill (RMIT) Philipp Budka (Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash), eds. In a recent survey of the interdisciplinary literature on media and conflict, Schoemaker and Stremlau (2014) found that…
Charlotte’s stockings, Emily’s walking stick, Anne’s handkerchief
Samantha Ellis at the Times Literary Supplement reviews a new book by Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in nine objects. This book is partly an attempt to…
Piping as poison: the Flint water crisis and America’s toxic infrastructure
Over the past few decades, we have met with much success in curbing some of Americans’ exposure to lead. Yet they have struggled to contain this continuing danger…
A Short List of Articles on the Impact of Intersectional Hegemony on the lives of Black People In The US
“5 Black Women Share Their Experiences With the Police” by Darnell Moore – http://mic.com/articles/122714/5-black-women-share-their-experiences-with-the-police “The Pay Gap Is Even Worse for Bl…
Luanda Taxi – a #fieldwork playlist
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a hectic, chaotic, and sprawling multimillion metropolis like Luanda presents logistical and epistemological challenges. If one is not focusing on a clearly defi…
Web Roundup: Zika virus and the politics of public health responses by Jane Roberts
What a difference a month makes. At the start of 2016, its likely that Zika virus was on very few of our radars, yet as we reach the…
An Overview of Dialectics & Historical Materialism
MESSAGE TO READER FROM THE AUTHOR: Below is a summary of Karl Marx’s theorizations of dialectics and historical materialism that I put together. What I review is the…
Help Crowdfund TAL’s Adam Gamwell’s Peruvian Quinoa and Future Food Stories Project!
Check out and help crowdfund this innovative new fieldwork project from TAL’s Adam Gamwell! Bringing more anthro-mindedness and stories to the public through Beacon Reader. Check it out…
Televised charismatic Christianity in Ghana
Here is another set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.) forthcoming,…
Visual/media/digital anthropology at EASA 2016
By Philipp Budka Source: Visual/Media/Digital Anthropology at 14th EASA Conference – Philbu’s Blog Here is a list of panels at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)…
Freddy’s Hair
Freddy Lim Campaign Photo A week before historic elections which swept Taiwan’s ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) out of power, KMT candidate Lin Yu-fang (林郁方) asked voters not vote…