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48 hours before the plane takes off
What a cooperative proposal means for the AAA
Social media was a-twitter (see what I did there?) today with an important statement about the future of anthropology publishing posted at both Cultural Anthropology and in the latest…
The press conference as performative (political) space #Performance
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press conference. In particular, I want to think about…
The “Science” of Global Domination
While it is an odd mix of physics, biology, and geometry that has captured the communications strategy of military planners, the messages themselves are very telling about how…
Roundtable reviews of “Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology”
If you’re interested in the history of pesticides and toxicology, Banned provides a detail-oriented, close reading of key 20th century experiments, legislative hearings, events, and texts to investiga…
[Anthropo]logy beyond the human?
Yesterday, 19/10/15, the Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) network launched what will hopefully become an annual round-table event to bring postgraduate researchers and staff togeth…
World of Food in Amsterdam Zuidoost
Door Nina Leatemia Wat eerst een schimmige parkeergarage in de Bijlmer was, is omgetoverd tot een overdekte eetbazaar waar je binnenkort van ’s ochtends vroeg tot ’s avonds…
Four Legs Good: Working With A Canine Research Assistant
Karen Lane – University of St Andrews The dog saw the elderly woman before I did. Walking up Market Street in St Andrews my mind was elsewhere (I’d…
Multispecies anthropology in the media: The polar bears are coming to town
The anthropologist Martina Tyrrell looks at life in Arviat, Hudson Bay, when polar bears come to town. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34490185
Million Mask Marching #Performance
People have been trickling into the top of Trafalgar Square since noon. By five darkness has launched its steady discolouration of the world and there must be over…
Happy Open Access Week!
This week is Open Access week! In fact, by the time you read this it will already be Tuesday or Wednesday of Open Access Week because I’m not getting to…
Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling
[This essay is part of the Fall 2015 Savage Minds Writers’ Workshop series.] Anthropologists are storytellers. We tell stories: other’s stories, our own stories, stories about other’s stories.…
Truthtelling
At some point this year, my dissertation shifted from a (largely unwritten) traditional ethnography to an intentional experiment on writing/thinking/doing disability as a scholar. This was a change…
Around the Web Digest: Week of October 11
OK, who else hate-watched Eli Roth’s new “retro” cannibal horror film The Green Inferno? It can’t just have been me. Send me any thoughts about the movie (or…
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize by Elisabeth Hsu
When I interviewed Professor Tu Youyou in 2005 — in her office at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the work unit within which she had spent…
anthro in the news 10/19/2015
source: The Independent Muslim refugees and culture talk The Independent (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) carried an article about Canada’s failure to help with the current Middle East…
Alltägliche Krisen: Flucht, Medizin und Migration. Ein Denkeinstieg
Janina Kehr Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung für Geflüchtete Leipzig Dölitz | 07.08. 2015 | Credits: Caruso Pinguin https://www.flickr.com/photos/110931166@N08/19755672574/in/album-72157656515350228/ Al…
A Memory Stick Packed With Memory – Карта памяти заполненная памятью
***Русский текст ниже*** As a major outcome of the ORHELIA project (Oral History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic), our research team is proud to present a…
Links & Contents I Liked 160
Hi all, Development news starts with a strange interview with UN’s USG for Humanitarian Affairs who is quite happy with the system and himself…; reflections from the WHS…
Prem Kumar Rajaram: Beyond crisis: Rethinking the population movements at Europe’s border
Crisis The refugee crisis in Europe is fabricated. Like most “crises,” the recent onset of people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan trying to cross into the…
Bringing art to breast cancer care: 3D nipple tattooing
Few people realize how long and complex breast cancer treatment is. The Komen Foundation and Avon rarely highlight post-surgery debacles in their fundraising literature, and the visceral reality…
DERC seminar: Social media and West Papua by Usman Hamid
Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Wed 21 October 2015, 3-4:30pm City campus, Building 13, Room 7, Level 4 Map: http://bit.ly/1PAT2vP Website: http://www.digital-eth…