Without Attachment or Fear
Professor Dominic Boyer Director, CENHS, Rice University http://culturesofenergy.org/ Even if one were the sort who believed that war solved anything, there would still be the issue of identifying…
Youth Mobility, Bondage and Freedom in Cameroon, C.1940s-C.2000: National and Transnational Perspectives
On Sunday 7 July 2015, the Cameroon Radio and Television in its weekly Sunday Program, Cameroon Calling, broadcasted what shocked the public audience. It had chosen as its…
‘Antropologie is springlevend’
door Dirk de Hoog De faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen dreigt flink te moeten bezuinigen en dus ook de afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie. Sommige mensen vrezen zelfs dat die…
Rethinking political agency in the Middle East #project
This Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this feature entails are collaborations – events, even research ventures…
Around the Web Digest: Week of December 6
The blog harvest was rich again this week at the Savage Minds ranch. Help me find more blogs by sending me links at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. HuffPost featured this article…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren't many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there's no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they're less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
Food Studies Awards Galore!
FoodAnthropology recently posted the call for papers for the 2016 ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS conference, which SAFN is also sponsoring and which, if you are looking for an excellent reason to…
Christine Hong, “Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church”
Christine Hong View on Amazon In her new book, Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Dr. Christine Hong explores the lives of female…
Four Excerpts from a Four-Field Introductory Textbook
In the weeks leading up to the publication of Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture by Robert J. Muckle and Laura Tubelle…
Klimaforskning fra «beredskap til redskap»
Trykket i Morgenbladet, 11.desember 2015 Grønn (be)redskap. Jeg er enig med Vidar Enebakk i at humanistisk forskning trenger å bli mer samtidsrelevant. Enebakk har evaluert Forskningsprogrammet SAMKUL…
And Still the World Pursued–The Management of Waste in Max Mad: Fury Road
By Emma Louise Backe Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.” -The First History Man What are the roots that…
Arlene Davila, “Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People”
Arlene Davila View on Amazon In Latinos Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (University of California Press, updated ed. 2012) Arlene Davila, Professor of Anthropology at…
#Report: ANTHROMOB bi-annual workshop 2015
In our 2-day workshop – Grounding (Im)mobilities – Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies – at the ICS in Lisbon this past September, more than 30 anthropologists gathered to problematise the (im)material di…
Book Chapter: Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece, by Theodoros Rakopoulos
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
Book Chapter: Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece, by Theodoros Rakopoulos
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
The Ties that Bind: Ex-Military Command Structures as a Foundation for Peace or Source for Insecurity? by Anders Themnér
The presence of large groups of ex-combatants is often seen as a major challenge to post-civil war stability. Experiences of ex-fighters engaging in different forms of violence have…
Book Chapter: Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece, by Theodoros Rakopoulos
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
Book Chapter: Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece, by Theodoros Rakopoulos
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
Displaced Nature: Multispecies landscapes, mushrooms, and the megapolis
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Karen Holmberg] Concentric circles of the local to the larger ripple out from a megapolis like New York. The unnatural and natural are…
Links & Contents I Liked 166
Hi all, It is Friday and time for some week-end reading recommendations: Development news: Microloans don’t solve poverty; accountability reforms are complicated; a new project on leaving the…