Book Chapter: Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece, by Theodoros Rakopoulos
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
The Ties that Bind: Ex-Military Command Structures as a Foundation for Peace or Source for Insecurity? by Anders Themnér
The presence of large groups of ex-combatants is often seen as a major challenge to post-civil war stability. Experiences of ex-fighters engaging in different forms of violence have…
Book Chapter: Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece, by Theodoros Rakopoulos
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
Book Chapter: Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece, by Theodoros Rakopoulos
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
Displaced Nature: Multispecies landscapes, mushrooms, and the megapolis
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Karen Holmberg] Concentric circles of the local to the larger ripple out from a megapolis like New York. The unnatural and natural are…
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Hi all, It is Friday and time for some week-end reading recommendations: Development news: Microloans don’t solve poverty; accountability reforms are complicated; a new project on leaving the…
A Semi-Real Anthropologist’s Adventures in Denver: An #AAA2015 Report
Already getting that blue feeling—that everyone knows what they’re doing and is on a level I’ve never been at and (it feels) never will be. Thoughts of this…
The ‘wall of virtue’ that surrounds followers of Isis will not be broken down by bombing Syria
by Sean Carey Source: The Tablet “Sectarianism involves strong feelings, deep resentment, a searing sense of injustice, above all, anger,” explained renowned British social anthropologist …
My Thoughts While Doing Chest Compressions: Reflections on Care in the Intensive Care Unit from an Intern Physician-Medical Anthropologist by Kimberly Sue
I was doing chest compressions on a 29-year-old woman who had just come up from the Emergency Room, and I was trying not to look at her face.…
Erica Weiss, “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty”
Erica Weiss View on Amazon In Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), Erica Weiss, assistant professor in the Department of…
Yarimar Bonilla, “Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment”
Yarimar Bonilla View on Amazon As overseas departments of France, the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are frequently described as anomalies within the postcolonial Caribbean. Yet in reality,…
Raia Apostolova: Economic vs. political: Violent abstractions in Europe’s refugee crisis
This post is part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). The “economic migrant” must leave. From Berlin’s widening…
December list of #EVENTS: The Turn to Public Anthropology?
In a recent article published in the Huffington’s Post, anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse claims that the #AAA2015 in Denver was marked by a ‘turn to public anthropology’, i.e a…
Charles Taylor on: Democracy, Diversity, Religion
Particularly relevant given the charged contexts of late:
Donald Trump and P. T. Barnum
My latest post from Lund…
A New National Anthem?
Whatever the political and economic rationales existing beneath the surface, the modern nation of the US was created by European refugees fleeing religious prejudice who embraced the ideological…
Anthropology of Risk
One day I asked my friend, a manger at Canadian hedge-fund giant DGAM, if he was aware that anthropology had a whole sub-area devoted to the study of…
Shakespeares in the the Ghetto: The Art and Economics of Serbian Hip Hop
I have written a feature essay on Serbian hip hop for the inaugural issue of Peeps, a new Canadian magazine which tracks global cultural trends. The editors call…
It’s hard to ignore a camera
by Matthias Teeuwen On Thursday 3 December 2015 the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the VU held its first ever Ethnographic Film Festival. Throughout the day…
New Publication: “Medicine in Context: Towards a Social and Cultural Anthropology of Medicine(s) in an Interconnected World”
Hansjörg Dilger, Bernhard Hadolt Operating room of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon | Cover photo of the edited volume „Medicine in Context“ (2010) | 2007 Hansjörg…
Why I prefer Academia_edu over Academia_eu
It looks like 2015 will be the year when Academia_edu receives thorough scholarly attention and academic scrutiny. Guy Geltner’s post on why he left the network is an…
Anthropologists to showcase ways out of overconsumption and throw-way living
Several anthropologists are currently doing fieldwork to collect objects, video clips and sound bites that help us rethink the way we deal with things we no longer need.
Anthropologists to showcase ways out of overconsumption and throw-way living
Several anthropologists are currently doing fieldwork to collect objects, video clips and sound bites that help us rethink the way we deal with things we no longer need.