State Crime on the Margins of the Empire (book review)
A detailed archival and ethnographic study on conflict, mining and Papua New Guinea, guided by Marxist theory, may not be everybody’s idea of a ‘must have’ item for…
WhatsApp ban in Brazil: the word on the ground
The text above the image reads: ‘me without WhatsApp’. In this post Juliano Spyer suggests that the vocal backlash against the recent blocking of WhatsApp in…
Inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Place and Memory after Disaster
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Pablo Figueroa. Pablo is an assistant professor in the Center for International Education at Waseda University in Tokyo. In this position, he teaches courses on glo…
The Mongol Invasion of Java in the Desawarnana
The main sources for the Mongol invasion of Java are the Chinese ones, primarily the dynastic history of the Yuan. However, as I noted before, the attempted…
Céline Cantat: Migration struggles and the crisis of the European project
This post is part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). In April 2015, when four boats…
The Mongol Invasion of Java in the Desawarnana
The main sources for the Mongol invasion of Java are the Chinese ones, primarily the dynastic history of the Yuan. However, as I noted before, the attempted…
The Mongol Invasion of Java in the Desawarnana
The main sources for the Mongol invasion of Java are the Chinese ones, primarily the dynastic history of the Yuan. However, as I noted before, the attempted…
Joanna Zylinska: minimal ethics for the Anthropocene
An interesting new book on Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene from Open Humanities Press here. A related talk below by the author, Joanna Zylinksa:
Fieldnotes: “I am a fieldnote”
It’s hard to explain to others how we do something. Anything. But it’s especially difficult to do it when much of what happens takes place in our own…
The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology #CLASSIC
At the end of 2015 Allegra launched a virtual survey among junior and senior anthropologists in order to select the 30 essential books in anthropology, a list of…
Michael Kimmel, “Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era”
Michael Kimmel View on Amazon Michael Kimmel is the Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University. He is also executive director of the Center…
When Did Horses Come to Indonesia/ISEA?
Horses (Equus ferus caballus) are not native to Indonesia or Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and their bones are not commonly found at archaeological sites in the archipelago.…
Our Movies, Ourselves: “Reel Life” vis-à-vis “Real Life”
On the eve of the release of The Force Awakens, the Star Wars saga (including the “Special Editions”) has made about $2.2 billion at the box office (U. S. sales only), more than the gross domestic…
When Did Horses Come to Indonesia/ISEA?
Horses (Equus ferus caballus) are not native to Indonesia or Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and their bones are not commonly found at archaeological sites in the archipelago.…
When Did Horses Come to Indonesia/ISEA?
Horses (Equus ferus caballus) are not native to Indonesia or Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and their bones are not commonly found at archaeological sites in the archipelago.…
News Round Up In-Brief
US News More than 500 people and families from the Fresno area enrolled for free legal and health care assistance at an event at the Mexican consulate. With…
CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Marketing Management
Note from the editor: The following CFP was noted with interest here at FoodAnthropology. It seems like there are probably a number of anthropologists whose research would be…
Interview with Edward E. Curtis IV
The goal should be human rights, freedom, and dignity for all, and Black Muslims in the United States have been at the vanguard of this struggle in the…
Book Forum—Anand Pandian’s “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” by Todd Meyers
Anand Pandian’s Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation is a fascinating and truly inspired inquiry into questions of experience and the media through which experience is rendered…
Best of 2015: AAA Blog Posts
Here are the ten most-read, topic-driven AAA blog posts of 2015! Race and Rachel Dolezal: A Conversation with Patricia Sunderland Final Report: Task Force on AAA Engagement on…
The Absent Crowd
What imagery has come to define political life in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe? In the summer of 2012, a few hundred protesters gathering weekly in front…
A Mile High in November!
“Bronco Buster” statue in Denver. Photo courtesy Barbara Jones Denver in November can be a very interesting place to visit. The weather changes by the second so you…