A refugee camp in the Netherlands as a public sphere
Bron: RTL Nieuws By Nynke van Dijck Some weeks ago there was a big storm in the Netherlands. ‘Code Orange’ was issued to tell people to be careful…
Chefs as activists–Daniel Giusti takes on America’s school lunches
Greg de St. Maurice Ryukoku University Chefs today wield a great deal of influence. They are (or are expected to be) simultaneously artisans, entrepreneurs, activists, and celebrities. In…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 2 Edition
February 2: A lot of thought-provoking food news this week, FoodAnthro readers! As always, if you have a link you’d like to share, please email it to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu…
Confessions of a Blackhawks Fan
On June 15, 2015, the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team won their third Stanley Cup championship in six years, putting them in contention for the status of a sports…
David Wright, “Understanding Cultural Taste Sensation, Skill and Sensibility”
David Wright View on Amazon What is cultural taste? How is it formed, imagined and patterned? In Understanding Cultural Taste Sensation, Skill and Sensibility (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), David Wright, … Visit…
Tam Ngo and Justine B. Quijada, eds., “Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia”
View on Amazon Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought and critical theory. Following the lead of anthropologist Talal Asad, there is a…
The Multispecies Life of Feral Dendezeiros: Ethnography in Motion
By Thiago Cardoso, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil § The dendezeiro (African oil palm) makes worlds. While most people know the dendezeiro as a tree fully subordinated…
A response to McKee and Pritchard’s reviews of ‘One Hour in Paris’
I am grateful to Tamar McKee and Maureen Pritchard for their insightful and critical engagement with One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery (University…
Around the Web Digest: Week of January 24th
Happy Monday, dear readers! Don’t forget to send me any links to feature here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. Incredibly (or not so incredibly, given the power of his name as…
Survival of the Socially Fittest
Humans (Homo sapiens) may have caused the extinction of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) because of our greater talent for social innovation and tool creation. This new conclusion makes a…
Special Focus: History of the History of Anthropology Newsletter
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Sapiens: Good (Maybe Great) But Not Transformational (So Far)
Last week marked the launch of Sapiens, a brand new website bankrolled by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The unveiling is especially welcome to those of us who think about public…
From fish lives to fish law: learning to see Indigenous legal orders in Canada by Zoe Todd
“The necessity of respecting game is still widely acknowledged by Inuit. The awareness, that the continuity of society depends on the maintenance of correct relationships with animals and the…
anthro in the news 2/1/2016
Source: Creative Commons U.S. football violence Cultural anthropologist William Murphy, lecturer in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University, published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun Ti…
Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume “Theorising Media and Conflict”
Theorising Media and Conflict Editors: John Postill (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)) Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash University) In a recent survey of th…
Global Warming: trends and consequences
Recently, health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a travel alert for Central, South America and the Caribbean, some 14 countries and territories exposed to…
(Re)Konstruktion von gender im Exotensport Jugger
Wie soziale Prozesse Geschlechterkategorien reproduzieren – soziale (Re)Konstruktion von gender im Exotensport Jugger 1 Einleitung „Drei, zwei, eins – Jugg!“ so beginnt ein jeder Spielzug, der von rhy…
CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict
John Postill (RMIT) Philipp Budka (Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash), eds. In a recent survey of the interdisciplinary literature on media and conflict, Schoemaker and Stremlau (2014) found that…
Charlotte’s stockings, Emily’s walking stick, Anne’s handkerchief
Samantha Ellis at the Times Literary Supplement reviews a new book by Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in nine objects. This book is partly an attempt to…
Piping as poison: the Flint water crisis and America’s toxic infrastructure
Over the past few decades, we have met with much success in curbing some of Americans’ exposure to lead. Yet they have struggled to contain this continuing danger…
A Short List of Articles on the Impact of Intersectional Hegemony on the lives of Black People In The US
“5 Black Women Share Their Experiences With the Police” by Darnell Moore – http://mic.com/articles/122714/5-black-women-share-their-experiences-with-the-police “The Pay Gap Is Even Worse for Bl…