When Did Horses Come to Indonesia/ISEA?
Horses (Equus ferus caballus) are not native to Indonesia or Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and their bones are not commonly found at archaeological sites in the archipelago.…
When Did Horses Come to Indonesia/ISEA?
Horses (Equus ferus caballus) are not native to Indonesia or Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and their bones are not commonly found at archaeological sites in the archipelago.…
News Round Up In-Brief
US News More than 500 people and families from the Fresno area enrolled for free legal and health care assistance at an event at the Mexican consulate. With…
CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Marketing Management
Note from the editor: The following CFP was noted with interest here at FoodAnthropology. It seems like there are probably a number of anthropologists whose research would be…
Interview with Edward E. Curtis IV
The goal should be human rights, freedom, and dignity for all, and Black Muslims in the United States have been at the vanguard of this struggle in the…
Book Forum—Anand Pandian’s “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” by Todd Meyers
Anand Pandian’s Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation is a fascinating and truly inspired inquiry into questions of experience and the media through which experience is rendered…
Best of 2015: AAA Blog Posts
Here are the ten most-read, topic-driven AAA blog posts of 2015! Race and Rachel Dolezal: A Conversation with Patricia Sunderland Final Report: Task Force on AAA Engagement on…
The Absent Crowd
What imagery has come to define political life in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe? In the summer of 2012, a few hundred protesters gathering weekly in front…
A Mile High in November!
“Bronco Buster” statue in Denver. Photo courtesy Barbara Jones Denver in November can be a very interesting place to visit. The weather changes by the second so you…
Vår samtids kulturelle logikk
Forskningsprosjektet «The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures» (CUFF) samler et internasjonalt team av fremstående samfunnsforskere rundt grunnleggende forhold ved vår samtid. Gjennom å sette søkelyse…
Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There’s been a lot of…
Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There’s been a lot of…
Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There's been a lot of…
People of the Book: Why not the Book of Love?
by Daniel Martin Varisco, MENA Tidningen As an undergraduate I attended Wheaton College in Illinois, an interdenominational evangelical Protestant enclave, from which I obtained a quality education. …
God Exists in Yemen, part 2: the Moral Economy of Rizq
This is the second part of a long essay, first part of which was published here. 1.1. The Yemeni Arab Spring: crisis and revolution So how did I…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now, Dec 15 Edition
Happy December 15, everyone! Here are some of the interesting things we read this week. If you have a link you’d like to share, please email it to…
Fieldnotes: Week 2
I’ve been on research and study leave for two weeks now. This is what’s happened and what I’ve learned so far. TVNZ Sunday broadcast an expose on animal…
Screw the gift economy, a reply to Clay Shirky
I came across a post today by Gaby Dunn called “Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame.” Dunn gives us YouTube and Instagram celebrities…
“Dinna you get attached tae yon lamb” Fieldwork with Yoda.
Two pairs of eyes looked at me from across the table waiting for my response. A third pair joined them. The four day old lamb cradled in my…
Anatomy of a Somatosphere post by Eugene Raikhel
Thanks to everyone who participated in our readership survey last month. One of the things that became immediately clear upon reading the responses was that many of our…
Why we can’t look away
By Kathryn Dudley, Reprinted with permission from the Yale Daily News As students across the country protest institutionalized racism, many commentators have tried to explain what is happening on coll…