America’s water cure towns
This is a very interesting piece from citylab, worth checking into if you find previous ways of thinking about human-water (and city!) relationships intriguing.
#Review: Migrants in Translation. Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Contemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly with how to address issues of integration and…
Marcia C. Inhorn, “The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East”
Marcia C. Inhorn View on Amazon Winner of the 2015 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, and the American Anthropological Association Winner of…
What Happened at #AAA2015: The Good, The Bad, and the Bibs
Last week, Denver welcomed about five thousand anthropologists to its Gilded Age (and Gilded Age revival) downtown for the massive anthropological blowout that was the Annual Meeting of…
Post #AAA2015
I’m still applying moisturizer three times a day to rehydrate after the arid Denver conditions. It was an energizing, exhausting, and momentous #AAA2015 as members voted overwhelmingly in…
Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper Award to Bryden and Mittenzwei on Academic Freedom
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper Award to Bryden and Mittenzwei on Academic Freedom
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
Establishing Your Digital Presence: A Primer for Students
Last week I had the opportunity talk with a group of anthropology grad students at the University of Memphis about establishing a professional online presence. These are my…
Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper Award to Bryden and Mittenzwei on Academic Freedom
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper Award to Bryden and Mittenzwei on Academic Freedom
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
‘Lamori’ & ‘Lamuri’
A short while ago, I wrote that Odoric of Pordenone’s name for the north of Sumatra, Lamori, came from the Arabic al-Rāmnī, a name commonly given to…
‘Lamori’ & ‘Lamuri’
A short while ago, I wrote that Odoric of Pordenone’s name for the north of Sumatra, Lamori, came from the Arabic al-Rāmnī, a name commonly given to…
‘Lamori’ & ‘Lamuri’
A short while ago, I wrote that Odoric of Pordenone's name for the north of Sumatra, Lamori, came from the Arabic al-Rāmnī, a name commonly given to…
Bijdragen aan genderrechtvaardigheid
Door Ina Keuper Mijn recente deelname aan de algemene ledenvergadering van de vereniging WO=MEN, Women Equals Men, stimuleerde mij om dit stukje te schrijven. Opnieuw werd ik uitgebreid…
#Review: Governing Refugees. Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism
I was visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, at around the same time travel magazines began to herald Myanmar as the “it” destination of 2015. When I mentioned my desire…
Mere vækst overalt…?
Regeringen fremlagde i går endnu en plan for et “sammenhængende Danmark”. Rapporten “Vækst og Udvikling i hele Danmark” blev igår fremlagt af erhvervs- og vækstminister Troels …
Around the Web Digest: Week of November 15
Forgive the lateness, dear readers… AAA fatigue is real. Help me out by sending me links you want featured here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. This post by a linguist in…
Swamp Dialogues: Filming Ethnography by Ildikó Zonga Plájás
In recent anthropological film practice we see a shift from established visual ethnographic paradigms focused on discursive representation (Crawford 1992), towards the realm of interdisciplinary coope…
anthro in the news 11/23/2015
As of November 21, Brussels was on high alert for a possible terrorist attack. source: Smirnoff, Creative Commons What does ISIS want? CBS (Minnesota) carried a brief…
NEW! — Sandy Smith-Nonini: Petrodollar financialization, the state, and fictive production
This article argues that the oil price shocks of the 1970s triggered a wave of global financialization led by Western banks and the US State that disconnected actual…
The Ruination of Written Words
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Gastón Gordillo as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Gastón is Acting Director of the Peter Wall…
CFP: Animals Under Capitalism, University of Bristol, UK
The University of Bristol invites submissions for a 1-day conference to be held on May 25, 2016, on the subject of ‘Animals under Capitalism: Art and Politics’. The…