Human Trafficking: a growing epidemic
Some sources claim that one out of every 236 people becomes a victim of human trafficking. Even more startling, sources state that every 30 seconds another person becomes…
Fünf Jahre Fukushima
Seit der Dreifachkatastrophe am 11. März 2011 in Fukushima – einem starken Erdbeben folgte ein Tsunami, der zu schweren Störfällen in einem Kernkraftwerk und zur Freisetzung von radioaktiven…
Christopher Bondy, “Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2015)
“You are a member of a minority group but do not know it. How is this possible?” Christopher Bondy’s new book explores this question in a study of…
The Absent Stone
Via Sandra Rozental, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City The Absent Stone (2013) is a documentary film that combines contemporary ethnographic filmmaking, animation and a wide …
Knowing Economies, Doing Economies: How Sociologists of Markets Have Acknowledged the Legacy of #Pragmatism
In her new book, South Korean Civil Movement Organisations: Hope, Crisis and Pragmatism in Democratic Transition, Amy Levine shows us how a commitment to American pragmatism crosses disciplinary…
Food Insecurity in a Globalized World: The Politics and Culture of Food Systems
This conference, taking place at Middlebury College on March 4-6, will be live streamed and recorded. The conference schedule is posted below. More information can be found here: http://www.middlebury…
Review of Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (eds.) (2014) Marx at the Movies
This very good review by Bruce Williams in Film-Philosophy. of Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (eds.) (2014) Marx at the Movies: Revisiting History, Theory and Practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan.…
The launch of Why We Post
Released today: ‘How the World Changed Social Media’ After years of work and planning, we have today launched Why We Post, which represents the results of our project.…
Talking Hands
Talking with our hands is one of the most human things we do. While commonly used to add emotional emphasis to spoken language, hands have the unique ability…
anthro in the news 2/29/16
Prisoners attending a prison concert which is meant to be a positive activity for them. Source: Noisey Inmates take control in many Mexican prisons Quartz reported on the…
Philadelphia Street Style: Aubrie, Chestnut St
I could see Aubrie’s vintage Liz Claiborne scarf from hundreds of feet away, that classic color-blocked patchwork that Claiborne has made so synonymous with her brand. Funny how…
Web Roundup: How Do You Feel Today? by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
New Facebook reactions, the expansion of “like” options to include “love,” “sad” and “angry” emoticons (among others), is just one way affect has collid…
CFP: Circles, flows and dead ends: re-calibrating socio-material relations and the rise of the ‘circular economy’ (3/11/16)
This session invites contributions that explore themes related to ideas of recalibrated material flows and their socio-political and geographical implications.
The Enclosed Case by Elizabeth Lewis
The case that follows illustrates an ethnographic flashpoint in my work on disability. Here, I offer an account of a single morning during my first research trip in…
#Pragmatisms as Historical, Holistic, Total Social Facts
The theme of #pragmatisms comes from my fieldwork with a handful of civil movement organisations in Seoul during the mid-2000s. It was a buzzword in South Korea and…
Free e-seminar: ‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists
‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists: On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice Working Paper to the EASA Media…
Anthropology at the Crossroads
In many West African societies, the crossroads is place of danger. It is where the social and spirit worlds intersect. Among the Songhay people of the Republic of…
Metropolitan Museum of Art Books
You can download fifty years of publications by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for free. Yes, for free. There are books on the art of Islamic Spain, Egypt,…
Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City
From the vaults, this has been digitised: Calcutta Cipher ‘Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City’ in Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, No. 32…
It’s Not Oscar, It’s HBO
I can’t remember the last movie I watched in an actual movie theater. Some of that is because I find the dramatic TV serial so much more powerful…
The Manuscript Cookbook Conference
We recently received the following announcement of an upcoming conference at New York University that may be of interest to our readers. The Manuscript Cookbook Conference, will be…
A dilemma at the heart of multispecies anthropology: the “inclusion” of animals
“the “inclusion” of animals is not necessarily the most interesting issue, but rather how they are included [Candea 243]. If following a classic or “Durkheimian” model, where social…