The Domesticated Hominin
“I do not think any spectacle can be more interesting, than the first sight of Man in his primitive wildness.” —Charles Darwin, letter to J.S. Henslow, April 11,…
Smuggling evolutions in North Africa: the need of a new approach
In what follows I present the evolution of migrant smuggling in north Africa over the last decade in order to understand the foundations of smuggling in this region…
On front-lines and ethnography
My previous post was about how ethnography, for me, is a way of being grounded in particular contexts, of getting one’s feet muddied with the nuances and contradictions…
Rescuing Refugees in the context of Europe’s Fight Against Human Smuggling
Human smuggling has been considered a crime in the European context since the beginning of the 2000s. It has been defined in the Council Directive 2002/90/EC as the…
Tausche Asylbewerber gegen registrierten Flüchtling„Swap“-Initiativen und die transkontinentale Unterwanderung des Asylrechts
In den letzten Jahren haben sich weltweit Maßnahmen vermehrt, die das Recht auf Asyl unterwandern. In dieser Hinsicht analysiert mein Beitrag Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen zwei Initiativen, die als Kernele…
Ancestral Lines, Second Edition
At the core of the Teaching Culture series of ethnographies is John Barker’s Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest. This…
The end…not really!
Learner locations on Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media The first run of our free five-week e-course, We Why Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, has now come to…
Anthro in the news 4/4/16
Take that trash and… Liberty Landfill. Source: Ian Burt, Flickr The Atlantic interviewed cultural anthropologist Joshua Reno, assistant professor at Binghamton University about his research on …
AAA Members and the Membership Survey
My background is in sociocultural and applied linguistics, and I first joined AAA as a fifth-year doctoral student. It took me a while to learn to feel comfortable…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork is such an important – and mysterious – rite of passage in Anthropology. When y…
Thinking with selfies
Kath Albury @KathAlbury continues our edition of ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ by talking about her research into young people and sexting. Instead of educating those who…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Anthropology at the Crossroads
This vote is more than a referendum on a contentious political issue. It is a vote that defines our scholarship. In many
Anthropology at the Crossroads
This vote is more than a referendum on a contentious political issue. It is a vote that defines our scholarship. In many
Crossing the border, blurring the boundaries: alternative views on human smuggling from the Horn of Africa to Europe
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa have systematically crossed international borders throughout Africa into Europe in the last decade. Among them were over 150,000…
Prevalence of self-harm reflects our social isolation by Chris Millard
Since the late 1980s growing numbers of mental health professionals and media commentators in Britain and the USA have been concerned with a behaviour labelled as ‘self-harm’, ‘deliberate…