“Internet dog” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. As illustrated in the cartoon ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’, published by The New Yorker in 1993, the…
When the Jewish Agency in Tel-Aviv announced the institution of the Provisional Government of Israel on 14 May 1948, the war that followed resulted in the destruction and…
Happy Sunday (technically)! If you come across any links to include here, email me at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. It’s not explicitly anthropological, but City Lab started an interesting co…
Two lectures, plus a round table:
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
Imperialism by Invitation or Imitation? US efforts in remaking the international system according to an image reflecting the US are not usually in complete vain since the track…
Shaping the modern child: Genealogies and ethnographies of developmental science Dominique P. Béhague, Samuel Lézé Introductory article. No abstract. Fertile bodies, immature brains?: A genealogical c…
Dimitris Dalakoglou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Antonios Alexandridis, University of Sussex The European Union, one of the strongest economies in the world and home to some of the most…
Twenty-Five Years After the ADA: Situating Disability in America’s System of Stratification Michelle Maroto, David Pettinicchio Americans with disabilities represent a significant proportion of the po…
Hi all. Here’s the first part of this month’s roundup. Configurations Nano Dreams and Nanoworlds: Fantastic Voyage as a Fantastic Origin Story Emily York Fantastic Voyage, a…
Vom 30.09. bis 03.10 fand in Marburg die 36. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde statt. Insgesamt drei Tage lang gab es Vorträge, Workshops, Diskussionsrunden und Panels zum Thema …
In this post I’m going to be talking a little about aliens. Tibetan ones, specifically. Also, sex magic. Bear with me now. A lot of this may be…
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a first set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
Today, we will hear from Joan Gross, Professor of Anthropology discussing Oregon State University’s Food in Culture and Social Justice program. This post is part of SAFN’s Food…
Contributing Editors’ Note: Due to recent media attention on the activists of Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDS), we have moved up Robin O’Day’s report in this…
By Emma Louise Backe Part I of the series can be read here. The genre of horror is one that is not overtly concerned with gender, and yet…
The Ankara bombing: Presaging the end of the Turkish Republic? What we have witnessed in the last two years, culminating in the horrible scenes of 10 October in…
Sipping my morning coffee in the corrosive speech of Bernard Avle, the radio host of Accra’s Citi FM Breakfast Show – a deliciously satirical commentary on salient socio-economic issues…