What is cultural taste? How is it formed, imagined and patterned? In Understanding Cultural Taste Sensation, Skill and Sensibility (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), David Wright, Associate Professor at the… Visit New Books…
Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought and critical theory. Following the lead of anthropologist Talal Asad, there is a growing literature that…
Guest Contributor: David Shane Lowry, Assistant Professor, Chicago Medical School and College of Health Professions I worked as a technician for five years (between 2007 and 2012) in…
Sara Shneiderman View on Amazon Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015) by Sara Shneiderman is the first comprehensive ethnography of the…
Colleagues from Belgium advertise the following posts. The orientation is not Arctic but African – and not less fascinating for sure! Five new positions opening at the Faculty…
What is it like to do fieldwork within a marginalized social group? Especially when you – the researcher – hail from the dominant community? How do you deal…
Bron: RTL Nieuws By Nynke van Dijck Some weeks ago there was a big storm in the Netherlands. ‘Code Orange’ was issued to tell people to be careful…
Greg de St. Maurice Ryukoku University Chefs today wield a great deal of influence. They are (or are expected to be) simultaneously artisans, entrepreneurs, activists, and celebrities. In…
February 2: A lot of thought-provoking food news this week, FoodAnthro readers! As always, if you have a link you’d like to share, please email it to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu…
On June 15, 2015, the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team won their third Stanley Cup championship in six years, putting them in contention for the status of a sports…
David Wright View on Amazon What is cultural taste? How is it formed, imagined and patterned? In Understanding Cultural Taste Sensation, Skill and Sensibility (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), David Wright, … Visit…
View on Amazon Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought and critical theory. Following the lead of anthropologist Talal Asad, there is a…
By Thiago Cardoso, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil § The dendezeiro (African oil palm) makes worlds. While most people know the dendezeiro as a tree fully subordinated…
I am grateful to Tamar McKee and Maureen Pritchard for their insightful and critical engagement with One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery (University…
Happy Monday, dear readers! Don’t forget to send me any links to feature here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. Incredibly (or not so incredibly, given the power of his name as…
Humans (Homo sapiens) may have caused the extinction of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) because of our greater talent for social innovation and tool creation. This new conclusion makes a…
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Last week marked the launch of Sapiens, a brand new website bankrolled by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The unveiling is especially welcome to those of us who think about public…
“The necessity of respecting game is still widely acknowledged by Inuit. The awareness, that the continuity of society depends on the maintenance of correct relationships with animals and the…
Source: Creative Commons U.S. football violence Cultural anthropologist William Murphy, lecturer in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University, published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun Ti…
Theorising Media and Conflict Editors: John Postill (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)) Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash University) In a recent survey of th…