Call for Papers for the Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Friday, May 13-Saturday, May 14, 2016 Conference Call for Papers Organizers Angela VandenBro…
By Sophie Pape Are you happy with your life? The way you have constructed it? What if you were born in another country? Would…
Cultural Relativism and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts by the Islamic State Nimrud Assyria, Lamassus Guarding Palace Entrance, Before Destruction. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Cultural rel…
By Emma Louise Backe Undoubtedly, the Aokigahara forest, otherwise known as the Sea of Trees, which sits at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, has a preternatural…
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Sara Perry.] Testing of mobile app prototype with users at the archaeological site of Ҫatalhӧyük, Turkey. Photo by Sara Perry, 2015. This is…
“I miss dancing” a friend of mine says sometime in late June. “What?” I reply, thinking I must have misheard him. “I miss dancing”, he hesitates a bit…
Hi all, The first week of 2016 has been quite fruitful reading-wise and I am happy to share my first review of the New Year! Development news: Medium…
Part One of: “Canadian Anthropology or Cultural Imperialism?” Recent events have called into question how a discipline can be commanded on an international plane, and represented in a…
Antonia Walford and I have a panel at this year’s Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Durham exploring the idea of Digital Enviromentalisms. Deadline for paper proposals is…
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Elly Teman, a medical anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of reproduction and a senior lecturer…
It’s been a big year for Savage Minds, so big that the annual blog review didn’t fit in 2015! (Yes, that’s why it was delayed). This year we…
Find the first half of December’s post here. New Genetics and Society Beyond and within public engagement: a broadened approach to engagement in biobanking Jose A. Cañada, Aaro…
Happy New Year to all Somatosphere readers! Hopefully you were able to take a break and came back refreshed and ready to tackle your reading list. Not sure…
For decades, ephemeral layers at archaeological sites have been the bane of my existence. The moment I read, hear, or have to confront it at an excavation, my…
As both the holidays, and the year, draw to a close, we here at In the Journals wish all our readers the best in their endeavors in the…
View on Amazon When we consider the television, we think not only about how it’s used, but also it’s impact on culture. The television, tv, telly, or tube,…
Sean McCloud View on Amazon Exorcisms and demons. In his new book American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States (Oxford University Press, 2015), Sean McCloud argues that…
All anthropologists would agree that stereotypes cause harm and should be avoided. Yet anthropology mainly consists of generalisations about groups of people: the Nuer do this, the Trobriand…
#FeesMustFall protest in Pretoria, 23 October 2015. Photo: Paul Saad Click here for our analysis in the Boston Review of the 2015 student protests in South Africa. We…
“At the last medical conference I attended, we were all told to find an anthropologist to work with on our research.” These were the opening words of a…
By Robert Pool, chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. It is with sadness we wish to inform you of the death of our colleague, Mario Rutten, Professor…
Mayanthi Fernando View on Amazon Mayanthi Fernando‘s The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014) is an important and provocative book. Drawin……