Land Reform Proposals in Norway and Scotland
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging anthropology with violence and animal rights
The horror of human rights abuses Let me start this post with a vignette: On October 3, 2015, at the final plenary session of the German Association of…
Popular Culture Courses for Anthropology
In Part Two of an ongoing series, Leah McCurdy (University of Texas, San Antonio) provides an overview of how popular culture can be integrated into the university classroom. Last…
Airplane Food
Late in January, I boarded a long-haul flight, 27 hours and 5 minutes, 9,405 miles, three connections. I packed emergency Larabars (food for quick energy), ordered gluten-free meals…
Massimiliano Mollona: The end of the Latin American pink tide? An introduction
This post is the introduction to a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). The twenty-first century opened…
Feldforschung, Gefahren und SchadensminimierungVorschlag für eine Do No Harm-Analyse zur Schadensminimierung
Der aktuelle „Feldforschungs-Boom“ in unterschiedlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Feldern sollte mit forschungsethischen Fragen einhergehen. Während ich in einem früheren Beitrag Flüchtlinge als Forsch…
Public Statement on Zika Virus in Puerto Rico
This call to action was written by Adriana Garriga-López, Ph.D. (Kalamazoo College), and Shir Lerman, M.A., M.P.H., PhD Candidate (University of Connecticut), with Jessica Mulligan, Ph.D. (Providence …
Stolen Art
Hiding in Plain Sight Bell-krater featuring an elderly satyr and a young Dionysus. Attributed to Python (Greek, South Italian, Paestan, active mid-4th century BC). Polaroids of this bell-krater…
Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health in higher education by Hanna Kienzler
An interview with Jill Anderson about the Mental Health in Higher Education project mhhe can be found at www.mhhehub.ning.com and, on twitter, @mhhehub. The UK-based project Mental Health…
Seit Köln
Seit Köln ist alles möglich. Sogar dass, wie Stefan Niggemeier letzte Woche in Über Medien berichtete, der Deutsche Presserat darüber diskutiert, ob die Zugehörigkeiten von Verdächtigen und TäterInnen…
The Lunar New Year Gift Index 2.0
Members of the Emerging Subjects project at UCL and the National University of Mongolia contributed to this post. What does focusing on gifts given and received during the Lunar…
#Review: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth Holmes’ ethnography Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a timely and innovative text blending theory and praxis. As a physician anthropologist, the author tries to better understand the…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: March 14 Edition
March 14, 2016: Hi FoodAnthro readers, we have quite a collection of stories for you this week. As always, if you’d like to submit a story for the …
In the Journals — February 2016, Part II by Aaron Seaman
And now for a very belated February post (not even the extra day could help this year…). However, there is much to dig in to here, including two…
The Person in the (Big) Data
This edition of EM is jam-packed with methods for doing people-centred digital research and is edited by EM co-founder Heather Ford, newly-appointed Fellow in Digital Methods at the Universi…
Martin Luther King Jr., in Sapphire
There are many ways to memorialize the immortal Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the most famous and important civil rights leader of our time. Many, if not most,…
anthro in the news 3/14/16
Source: Creative Commons/Flickr People posting: Why and what The Economist carried an article about the emerging findings of a multi-country anthropological study of social media led by Daniel…
My time in line with the Trump fans
For the Guardian, I wrote about the St. Louis Trump rally, and how easily a line of polite and friendly Trump fans transformed into a violent mob hurling…
Phillip Penix-Tadsen, “Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America” (MIT Press, 2016)
Symbols have meanings that change depending upon the cultural context. But how do we discuss symbols, their meanings, and their cultural contexts without an adequate vocabulary? Phillip Penix-Tadsen, ……
Filming Empathy – Part 1
In their essay “Whatever Happened to Empathy?” Hollan and Throop1 cite the ambivalence that Franz Boas felt about the usefulness of the concept for ethnography: On the one…
Why We Post is “the biggest, most ambitious project of its sort”, says The Economist
Since our launch on the 29th February, the first three open access books in the Why We Post series have been downloaded over 6,000 times! 6,000 downloads in just…
„No negations of any kind!“ – Islamischer Feminismus versus Pro-Familie-Bewegung
Dana Fennert (Universität Marburg) promovierte im Sonderprogramm “Islam, Moderner Nationalstaat und Transnationale Bewegungen” der Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung und zuvor im DFG-Kolleg “Kulturkontakt und Wis…
Magic little gecko, won’t you become a doctor?
Yesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past week; the older one was suffering from a…