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…
Gammel vin på nye flasker?
I onsdags læste jeg en artikel i Ugebrevet A4: Unge Kvinder forlader provinsen, mænd bliver tilbage. Fik du ikke læst den, så er her linket: UgebrevetA4_27.januar2016 Problematikken kort ridset…
Graffiti und Gender: Weibliche Writer und die Szene
–> Text als PDF downloaden: Gender&Graffiti „Graffiti und Gender: Weibliche Writer und die Szene“ Graffiti und Genderforschung erscheinen als zwei Bereiche der Gesellschaft die wenig mit…
Visual/Media/Digital Anthropology at 14th EASA Conference
Here is a list of panels at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference entitled “Anthropological legacies and human futures” (Milan, 20-23 July 2016, #EASA2016)…
Gender rolls
Similar ascriptions befall the husband’s wife and children, he effectively confines them to the “feminine” role through purchasing them a solely vegetarian pizza, in which on…
Links & Contents I Liked 171
Hi all, This first link review of the new term gives me the pleasure to welcoming all our new & returning ComDev students! It just so happens that…
CFP: Pharmaceuticals out of Bounds
When birth control hormones are found in drinking water and fish in streams contain Prozac, it is time to acknowledge that pharmaceuticals have gone rogue. Conference: 4S, Barcelona.…
Humour: a threat to society?
Building stereotypes Humour is especially humorous for insiders. He who laughs last… didn’t understand the joke. According to Carty and Musharbash a sense of humour is the &ldquo…
Crime, crises and a competition: #EVENTS in a mad world!
You know us: we do not want to miss a single opportunity to publicise hot and exciting events on the anthropological calendar. And because times are dark (to…
Material/Digital Authenticity: thoughts on digital 3D models and their material counterparts
Post by Stuart Jeffrey and Siân Jones Colintraive and Glendaruel Community Woodland Trust recording cup-marked stones using photogrammetry and RTI Media forms are constantly calling into question each…
Genetically-Engineered Crops and Sustainability: Controversies and Commentaries for 2016 (Part 2)
Ellen Messer Tufts University (Part 1 of this 2 part series is here.) As a possible antidote or balance for someone seeking ways ag-biotech might contribute to sustainable…
Ethnographic presents and futures of ‘health’—a summary of the Ethnographies and Health workshop by Emma Garnett
In this report we offer an overview of a two-day workshop entitled Ethnographies and Health that was held in October at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical…