I did a thing and people liked it.
I was asked by a friend working at my university’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion to deliver a talk for the school’s annual event. I (wisely) settled on…
Teh new ethnographeez
I’m in a reading group with sociologists — no, really, it’s been a good experience — and they said to me “it’s been a while since we read…
Critical thinking: Who’s up for it?
Petition diversifying Philosophy By Georgette Veerhuis A month ago on Thursday 21 January 2016 I attended the symposium Diversify Philosophy at the VU. It sounded mysterious. Why does…
Colin Anderson at NYFW Mens, Washington St, New York
Colin is wearing a women’s coat from Landeros New York in this shot. New York Fashion Week may have split into two separate events (mens’ and women’s), but…
Beyond the Vaccination Rift
“Man is by nature a social animal … for [whom] the whole must necessarily come before the part.” —Aristotle Parents who do not vaccinate their children have faced…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part Six
Examining Boundaries in Adolescent Birth in Mexico Adolescents as reproducers are often considered a problematic category because of their paradoxical duality as children who have babies. For women ou…
Kelly Ray Knight’s addicted.pregnant.poor by Kirsten Bell
addicted.pregnant.poor By Kelly Ray Knight Duke University Press, 2015, 328 pages addicted.pregnant.poor is the sort of ethnography you start reading and don’t put down again until it’s finished. …
Glocalising Social Media
Image: UCL Press By Jordi Bok As anthropologist Daniel Miller takes place behind the microphone to start his lecture, a whistle blows through the lecture room. It is…
Crisis, ISIS, Synthesis: Where is Libya Going?
Just as the pace of subjecting Libya to a new phase of international discipline quickens, the elites of the small club of recolonizing powers that nominate themselves “the…
The rise of a celebrity culture
These images are from the Pantheon database at the Macro Connections group at Media Lab at MIT. They map what the Media Lab calls “historical cultural production” and the relative…
In the Journals – February 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at recent publications in the world of security, law, crime, and governance. The February issue of Cultural Anthropology is…
A 21st Century Update
Global Health Policy Toward Traditional Healers Introduction Much has occurred in the world of traditional medicine since the World Health Organization (WHO) first appealed for the integration of…
On Capoeira
In recent years, Capoeira has become an international hit, but within Brazil it remains a cultural and political minefield. The state has had a love/hate relationship with ca…
On Capoeira
In recent years, Capoeira has become an international hit, but within Brazil it remains a cultural and political minefield. The state has had a love/hate relationship with ca…
When Sperm Compete, Nature’s Call Leads to Bigger … Testicles
[In humans, the testes] are from an inch and a half to two inches long, about an inch and a quarter from the anterior to the posterior border,…
The politics of migrant material culture
Analyzed as archaeological phenomena, these historical phenomena differ based on the environmental and political nature of the different migrations. But, in both cases, the i…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 23rd Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers, I hope you enjoy this week’s round up. Please send any links you’d like to share to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu. Kathleen Purvis tosses some fighting words at…
Slow Fish
David Beriss University of New Orleans After the festivities of Carnival, we have Lent. Here in New Orleans, even if you are not Catholic, you are surrounded by…
New Earth Politics: new book out soon on politics in the #Anthropocene
Details from MIT Press Here New Earth Politics Essays from the Anthropocene Edited by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah Overview Humanity’s collective impact on the Earth is …
Philadelphia Street Style: Vonnysemaj, Chestnut St
My street style photography has always been circular. I seem to loop back around to a certain core aesthetic, an aesthetic, I might add, that has remained essentially…
Anthropologist pens a best-seller in South Korea
Republished with permission from The University of California “A new book by paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee about human evolution is a best-seller in South Korea.” Photo by Hee-Joong Le…
Kicking Inner City Press’ Matt Lee out of the UN is bad for media & development
News about Matt Lee and his stand-off with UN officials reached me through Twitter on Saturday morning local time and has since gained some momentum, including a longer…
Craig Young: an interview in SF
I did this interview for a project called Automated Anthropologist. (I went to San Francisco and let it be known that I was prepared to do anything anyone…
The First Butchers
Living humans, all 7.3 billion of us, are classified as Homo sapiens. That means we are all part of the same species; our genus is Homo, meaning “man,”…