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…
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an admirable job of lending conceptual coherence to the…
The force multiplier mechanism is not just something envisioned in military writing, but is instead a cornerstone of US intervention, both overt and covert. The CIA uses the…
If you are going to be in London next month–Nov. 17, to be precise–you might want to drop in on a panel at the London Middle East Institute…
Do hunter-gatherer anthropologists still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing…
Do hunter-gatherers still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing research…
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a hybrid practitioner-academic who has spent the last couple…
[This invited post was written by Daniel O’Maley, who recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the global Internet freedom movement…
Much of what appears as “novel” thinking in US imperial strategies, masks deeper historical foundations. Numerous authors have already explained how Latin America and the Caribbean, from the…
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Elizabeth Lewis, who is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas at…
Der Kommentar erschien am 21. 10. 2015 in der Wiener Zeitung. In letzter Zeit wird Flüchtlingen mittels Verhaltenskodex eingebläut, was die Willkommensschilder an Grenzübergängen und Bahnhöfen tatsäch…
48 hours before the plane takes off
Social media was a-twitter (see what I did there?) today with an important statement about the future of anthropology publishing posted at both Cultural Anthropology and in the latest…
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press conference. In particular, I want to think about…
While it is an odd mix of physics, biology, and geometry that has captured the communications strategy of military planners, the messages themselves are very telling about how…
If you’re interested in the history of pesticides and toxicology, Banned provides a detail-oriented, close reading of key 20th century experiments, legislative hearings, events, and texts to investiga…
Yesterday, 19/10/15, the Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) network launched what will hopefully become an annual round-table event to bring postgraduate researchers and staff togeth…
Door Nina Leatemia Wat eerst een schimmige parkeergarage in de Bijlmer was, is omgetoverd tot een overdekte eetbazaar waar je binnenkort van ’s ochtends vroeg tot ’s avonds…