#Review: Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
How can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of her experience as a Mizrahi single mother dependent…
Analog to Digital and Back Again, Part I
By Kathryn Killackey (Killackey Illustration and Design) Analogue in action. I am an archaeological illustrator and in this post, as part of this month’s analog/digital series, I’d like to…
CFP: ASA 2016. Anthropologies of Veterinary Medicine: Healthcare across species lines.
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth. University of Durham, UK. 4th-7th July 2016. ‘Anthropologies of Veterinary Medicine: Healthcare across species lines.’ Thi…
Farewell, Oona Schmid
No, it’s not the title of a whimsical new Wes Anderson movie, it’s news of changes within the American Anthropological Association’s publishing program. Ed Liebow, the executive dire…
Failed research ought to count
Failed research projects ought to count for something! It’s too bad they don’t. They just disappear into nowhere, it seems to me: into filing cabinets, abandoned notebooks, or…
The jacket
I’m trying a new strategy at work to raise my oomph and improve my legit appeal. I’m no slouch when it comes to sparring about ideas, concepts and…
Call for Papers: Arctic Workshop of Tartu University “Gatekeepers”
Arctic Workshop of Tartu University: Gatekeepers 3rd-4th of June 2016 Estonian hospitality in a Russian restaurant at a previous Arctic Workshop in Tartu (photo by Laura Siragusa) It…
Are anthropologists getting sick of culture?
Image: Bergham Books By Matthias Teeuwen Lately I have been captivated by what some call ‘existential anthropology’. It started when I found a book in the library aptly…
How to Develop Sherlock Holmes-Like Powers of Observation and Deduction
This is an amazing little article about Observation and Deduction. I’d recommend anyone considering going into anthropology to give it a read. It’s also a great little refresher…
Ethnography celebration and retrospective: We’re back!
The editors of Ethnography Matters are pleased to announce that we’re back to our regular editorial calendar for 2016. We’ve set up a new series schedule for the year,…
#Review: When Humans Become Migrants
The current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created by the latest media coverage. Indeed, statistics do…
Annette Miae Kim, “Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City (University of Chicago Press, 2015) is a remarkable book about overlooked yet ubiquitous urban spaces, and the people…
The Voice of which America?
Commentary on MENA Tidningen.
The Flint Water Disaster: A Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial, and Deceit
Gregory V. Button Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in Michael Moore’s allegorical documentary, Roger & Me, has…
The mediated modernities of Tuareg smith women
Occasionally I will be posting on this blog some notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and…
“Highlight the power of creativity from below!”
How to solve some of the smaller and bigger problems of our time? Anthropologist Michael Thompson believes in the power of creativity from below.
“Highlight the power of creativity from below!”
How to solve some of the smaller and bigger problems of our time? Anthropologist Michael Thompson believes in the power of creativity from below.
“Highlight the power of creativity from below!”
How to solve some of the smaller and bigger problems of our time? Anthropologist Michael Thompson believes in the power of creativity from below.
“Highlight the power of creativity from below!”
How to solve some of the smaller and bigger problems of our time? Anthropologist Michael Thompson believes in the power of creativity from below.
“Highlight the power of creativity from below!”
How to solve some of the smaller and bigger problems of our time? Anthropologist Michael Thompson believes in the power of creativity from below.
News Round Up In-Brief
US News According to immigrant rights advocates, unannounced deportation raids jeopardize undocumented immigrants’ mental health. These raids possibly violate federal disability law because many imm…
2016: Trends in Teaching, Publishing, and Anthropology
2015 was a bit of blur for me. I spent the bulk of the year in a post-concussive haze. Thankfully, our team pulled in some great syllabi to…
Disposable Vs. Reusable Diapers
Did you know? In the U.S. nearly four million babies are born every year. Each of those babies is likely to use up to 8,000 throwaway diapers before…