Closed fists of Ebola
I did long term anthropological fieldwork amongst the polio-disabled communities of Freetown between 2008 and 2012. The research fed into my doctoral dissertation: „Where parallel worlds meet: civil…
A conversation with De-Colonizer: Research and Art Laboratory for Social Change #Palestine
De-Colonizer: Research and Art Laboratory for Social Change is a project that we, as Allegra Lab, could not ignore when doing our researches for this thematic thread on…
Fieldwork is haunting me, thanks to WhatsApp
When is the end of fieldwork? (Photo:Merlijn Hoek CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When is it that fieldwork finishes? Thanks to social media, the separation between being in the fieldsite…
Niccolò de’ Conti on Malays
Niccolò de' Conti was a fifteenth-century Italian traveller who visited parts of what is now Indonesia, including, apparently, Badan, probably meaning 'Banda', the small archipelago …
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What that something else is has been notoriously difficult to name, pre…
In the Journals, October 2015 – Part II by Sultana Banulescu
This month’s “In the Journals…” brings us a body of articles discussing pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, female anatomy, substance abuse, and addiction, with a focus on risk, secrecy, stigma,…
Around the Web Digest: Week of October 25
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Yes, Halloween. Send me any links to include here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. The Economist traces the growing popularity of the holiday…
Conference review: MAGic 2015 Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice by Josien de Klerk
“Global Health is like a containership. The multiple actors —international and local NGOs, humanitarian organisations, scientists, activists, politicians — operate the tugboats, attempting to nu…
anthro in the news 11/2/2015
Caption: Arizona desert. source: Creative Commons The killing field of Arizona Pacifica Public Radio [U.S.] aired a piece on the implications of the election of Republican Paul Ryan…
It’s Not Easy To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Unscholarly Confessions on Reading
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Katerina Teaiwa as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Katerina is Head of Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies,…
It’s Not Easy To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Zanzibar in trouble?
I took the family for a holiday on the paradise island Zanzibar. White sand, turquoise water and colorful marine life. Easy living. The last two days we left…
Urban Space, Virtual Space, and the Media In Egypt
What is “the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring” and, particularly, what is the relationship between its physical and virtual locations? That’s the question…
A Circular Economy? Disruptive Innovation Festival
What is the circular economy, exactly? Is it capitalism with better accounting? Is it about scaling up recycling and reuse? Is it about consuming less, and producing less,…
Trafficking: The globalisation of weak thinking and dumb language
What isn’t on this list of signs of human trafficking? Has there ever been a vaguer term than abuse of vulnerability? It could describe being a parent or…
Seminar: Media & visual technologies as material culture – students’ projects
The following joint student projects are conducted in the seminar “Media and visual technologies as material culture” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…