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Hi all, In Development News we start off on the lighter side with a great cartoon on how to end global wealth; in the build-up to the World…
Geek Heresy (book review)
I first ‘met’ Kentaro Toyama when he was blogging as the ICT4D Jester. So when he published his book ‘Geek Heresy – Rescuing Social Change from the Cult…
REVISITING ISRAELI ANTHROPOLOGY AND AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY: OUR “SPECIAL RELATIONS” #Palestine
Earlier this week the American Anthropological Association’s task force on Engagement with Israel-Palestine issued a 130-page report to assess whether the AAA should take a stand on issues…
Cannabis Culture in Denver
From the editor: Attending the AAA meetings in Denver? The announcement below is for an event that looks into legalized marijuana in Colorado. This will no doubt touch…
Religion and economy
(Delivered on October 22nd in the Economics Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin as the Hermann Otto Hirschfeld lecture for 2015. With profound thanks to Prof. Rolf Schieder for his…
anthro in the news 10/26/2015
source: NPR Happy slaves? A piece on National Public Radio (U.S.) reported on how the coconut industry in Thailand thrives on the use of the labor of trained…
A Case for Agitation: On Affect and Writing
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Carla Jones as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Carla is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado,…
Waiting in the face of bare life by Aaron Ansell
Advocates of a more robust democratic citizenship in Brazil often point bitterly to the frequent practice of cutting ahead of others in line. Such line-cutting, they lament, indicates…
Twee Ethiopische heldinnen
Door Marina de Regt “Deze film moet iedereen zien”, was de reactie toen we Time to Look at Girls: Migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia afgelopen woensdag aan een…
Online relationships with strangers can be ‘purer’ than with offline friends
“Internet dog” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. As illustrated in the cartoon ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’, published by The New Yorker in 1993, the…
AAA, BDS and #Palestine: New Thematic Week
When the Jewish Agency in Tel-Aviv announced the institution of the Provisional Government of Israel on 14 May 1948, the war that followed resulted in the destruction and…
Around the Web Digest: Week of October 18
Happy Sunday (technically)! If you come across any links to include here, email me at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. It’s not explicitly anthropological, but City Lab started an interesting co…
The Human Condition in the Anthropocene: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Tanner Lectures
Two lectures, plus a round table:
My Home is my Castle
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
My Home is my Castle
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
My Home is my Castle
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
Empire’s “Mimic Men”
Imperialism by Invitation or Imitation? US efforts in remaking the international system according to an image reflecting the US are not usually in complete vain since the track…
The rise of developmental science: Debates on health and humanity – A Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine by Francis Mckay
Shaping the modern child: Genealogies and ethnographies of developmental science Dominique P. Béhague, Samuel Lézé Introductory article. No abstract. Fertile bodies, immature brains?: A genealogical c…
Fortress Europe continues to treat migrants as criminals
Dimitris Dalakoglou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Antonios Alexandridis, University of Sussex The European Union, one of the strongest economies in the world and home to some of the most…
The Americans with Disabilities Act After 25 Years – A Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly by Francis Mckay
Twenty-Five Years After the ADA: Situating Disability in America’s System of Stratification Michelle Maroto, David Pettinicchio Americans with disabilities represent a significant proportion of the po…
In the Journals Oct 2015 – Part 1 by Francis Mckay
Hi all. Here’s the first part of this month’s roundup. Configurations Nano Dreams and Nanoworlds: Fantastic Voyage as a Fantastic Origin Story Emily York Fantastic Voyage, a…