DDT’s long shadow: Long-banned chemicals linked to abnormal sperm
A study of men from the Faroe Islands finds that high DDT and PCB exposure during adolescence and adulthood is associated with abnormal chromosomes in sperm. By Brian…
Jennifer Jackson’s Wonderful Description of Linguistic Anthropology
Jennifer Jackson passed away in May of this year at the young age of 39. Here is an excerpt from the obituary that ran on Anthropology News: We…
Comfort in Contact, Solace in Sharing
In New York City, a photographer named Brandon has made a career of photographing people in the streets, recording their story, and posting them together on Facebook. Started…
Summer Roundup: The Ethnographic Case, Part 1 by Deanna Day
In June, we debuted an extensive new series on Somatosphere, The Ethnographic Case. Edited by Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski, the series is organized on an expanding, virtual…
Part I: Artistic Hand Drawing As Scientific Research Method?
“You make use of philosophy to speak about the drawing— do you think that it could make sense/nonsense to make use of the drawing to say something about…
Data and the Anthropologist: Could you be using your anthropology skills in a more data centric role?
By Astrid Countee When people think of quantitative analytics, big data, and statistics, they rarely picture an anthropologist. The truth is that although our discipline is well known…
Meeting the world’s youngest farmers of native cattle in the world’s coldest inhabited place
During fieldwork for our Arc Ark research project, I walk the street in Sakkyryr, the central village of the Eveno-Bytantay Ulus (District) of the Sakha Republic, Yakutia, East…
Marco Polo on Sago (Metroxylon sagu)
There is no single authoritative edition or manuscript detailing Marco Polo's travels. The consensus is that the first editions of what became Le Devisement du Monde were…
Article Alert! 11 recent articles in discard studies
A table of contents for recent publications in the field of discard studies
#Podcast Interview Round Up July-October: New Books in Anthropology – REDUX
Hi there, and welcome to our second round up of interviews from our good friends at New Books in Anthropology. Each of the interviews below is an in-depth…
Fieldnotes: the beginning
I’ve read five books this year that keep rattling me. *** Today looks and feels like proper springtime in the Akatarawa Valley. Two days ago I handed in…
Military Capitalism
Security for US Capitalists: The State Department and its Global Partners Very much in line in with the idea of “connected capitalism,” the US State Department created the…
Ferguson: A retrospective
For the Common Reader, I wrote a long piece on the legacy of Ferguson and how the St. Louis region and its people were left behind as the town became the symbol…
David Bozzini: Gabriella Coleman on the ethnography of digital politics – part 2
David Bozzini is a research fellow at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where he is researching on Eritrean deserters movements and on the resistance to digital surveillance. He co-edits…
Hartwick Anthropology 2016 Courses – Spring & J Term
Teaching Hartwick Anthropology courses is what launched and sustains Living Anthropologically. For more information, visit the Hartwick Anthropology webpage and sign up for some great Hartwick Anthrop…
Streik und Streikkultur
Der sogenannte Kita-Streik um die Bezahlung von Erziehern und Erzieherinnen warf im Frühjahr 2015 u.a. die Frage auf, ob heute noch gestreikt werden kann oder sollte. Der Beitrag…
Zukunftsträume und gegenwärtige Momentaufnahmen von Drahteseln in unserer Gesellschaft
Das Fahrrad als Alternative. Bis jetzt wird das Bild vieler Städte von Autos geprägt. Doch es gibt Ansätze, auch gerade hier in Leipzig, die den Zukunftstraum von einer…
What Does a Trap Communicate? Technical Choices and More-than-Human Engagements in the Pampas
Caetano Sordi Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil University of Aberdeen The idea that objects can incorporate ideas, values and bodies of knowledge is not new…
De’ Conti on the Durian
Yesterday I said that Niccolo de' Conti was perhaps the first European to write about the durian (Durio sp.), a fruit native to the Malay Archipelago and…
Links & Contents I Liked 162
Hi all, This is really a busy time of the semester, so the blogging work has to take a bit of a backseat these days…however, I am reading…
REDUX: The Rise and Fall of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine – by Lori Allen
When Lori Allen‘s The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine appeared last year, it was – of course – a book of timely…