What is your body story?
Rather than having an explicit political conversation, I’d like this to be an open space where we can learn from each other’s different realities by sharing our own…
REDUX: A Facelift & Discussion over Academic Blogging – and PLEA for support! #RELAUNCH
What is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’ – or at minimum…
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“Wir hoffen immer, und in allen Dingen ist besser hoffen als verzweifeln.” (Goethe, Torquato Tasso) Und doch: Manchmal könnte man einfach nur noch heulen. Die “Süddeutsche Zeitung…
Living Within Assisted Suicide: Drawing a Landscape and its Transnational Movements
Marcos Andrade Neves Organization’s room: procedure and paper work | 2015 Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves Since 1871, upon the inception of the Criminal Code…
Tim Ingold’s One World Anthropology
synthetic zero ” As philosophical fashions lurch from one extreme to the other — from the hyper-relativism of the cultural construction industry to the ever-multiplying essentialisms of the…
History, Power, and a Mapuche Bible: A Shaman’s Story with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo – This Anthro Life
Join TAL’s Aneil Tripathy and Ryan Collins as they interview Ana Mariella Bacigalupo of SUNY Buffalo. Ana’s discussion of her research on Mapuche shamans takes us on an…
A day in campus IT
One day back when I was working in my campus IT job, I jotted down some notes on a day at work. I was in the middle of…
Cassandra Crawford’s Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology by Seth Messinger
Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology by Cassandra S. Crawford NYU Press, 2014, 314 pages The title of this important book gives only the slightest hint of…
Vicki Squire: 12 Days in Lampedusa: The potential and perils of a photo essay
This post is also part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). I visited Lampedusa from 24…
anthro in the news 1/11/16
Buy a kidney, exploit the poor and desperate Washington Post published a weekly “In Theory” piece by medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California at Berkeley.…
Pixel vs Pigment. The goal of Virtual Reality in Archaeology
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Colleen Morgan. Post by Laia Pujol-Tost. Archaeology has a long tradition of using visual representations to depict the past. For most of its…
Zika and Microcephaly: Can We Learn from History?
Aedes aegypti, the mosquito capable of transmitting the zika virus. Photo from Wikipedia. Brazil is facing an epidemic of a severe birth defect: microcephaly (abnormally small head size),…
Abram de Swaan, “The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder”
Abram de Swaan View on Amazon For a couple of decades, scholars have moved toward a broad consensus that context, rather than ideology, is most important in pushing…
Keulen: een urban legend?
© APA/AFP/Roberto Pfeil Door Peter Versteeg Het nieuwe jaar was nog tamelijk vers toen verontrustend nieuws bekend werd. Met oudejaarsnacht zouden vele tientallen vrouwen op het Keulse stationspl…
Which came first: people of colour or pollution?
A pair of new publications focus on the “chicken or egg” question in environmental justice: Are present-day disparities around hazardous sites the result of a pattern of placing…
Konfessioneller Religionsunterricht unter Druck – Eine Chance für ein Alternativfach?
Der Fachverband Werte und Normen in Niedersachsen e.V. “verfolgt den allgemeinen Zweck, philosophische, gesellschaftswissenschaftliche und religionskundliche Bildung zu fördern, die auf den Wertmaßst…
Happy 2016 Everyone!
We’re back – and full of energy for YET another exciting Allegra year! We hope that your break was enjoyable and relaxing (and do not tell us that…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: January 10 Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers, we’ve got a great collection of readings this week. As always, if you have something you’d like to share on a future round-up, please email…
“Refugees” Welcome?
There are so many types of “refugees” and many ways to describe them. We have used terms like Displaced Persons (“DPs”), Victims of War, Illegal Immigrants, Émigrés; each…
21st century ‘barbarians’: Modernity, the breeding of fighting bulls and EU farming subsidies
This is an extended version of an article orginally published in The Conversation. I am grateful to the editors there for their support and for helping myself and…
New Years
Outside my new house, which is currently full of half-unpacked boxes and lamps waiting to be reunited with their shades, there’s a palm tree. If you go out…
Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border
At first glance, it may seem that the value of specimens of opal, silver, or amethyst is related to their intrinsic qualities. After all, minerals ostensibly represent bits…
King Cake!
King cake, New Orleans style David Beriss University of New Orleans I ate three pieces of cake on Wednesday. All in the name of research, of course. I…