Tiltrækning af højtuddannede
Idag skal jeg til karrieremesse på Esbjerg Conference Hotel. Jeg glæder mig til at lære en masse nye virksomheder at kende og tage en snak om, hvad jeg…
REDUX: Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’ #BORDERS
It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been broadcast from the militarised Greek-Turkish border and the…
Necessary Knowledge: Where Denver Anthropologists Drink and Eat
John Brett University of Colorado Denver As a Denver native and passionate eater of foods, what follows is my personal, if a bit quirky, list of places I…
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Can’t get enough FocaalBlog? Like us on Facebook! Stay up to date on the latest FocaalBlog posts, interviews, forums, events, and special features. Plus, get insights into the latest…
Futurecasting Anthropology
Futurists are scientists that use data analysis, ethnographic methods and other scientific procedures to design and make predictions about our future. To do this, they do something called…
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed”
Eric H. Cline View on Amazon It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd…
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd edition hardback, and soon in the…
#EVENTS: Critique, Open Access and…Hockey!
It’s Autumn (at least here in Europe), days are becoming shorter and you’re feeling a bit low? Worry no more dear Allies! We have put together this list…
Center for Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School
Yale University Announces Gift to Establish Center for Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School Yale University President Peter Salovey and Yale Law School Dean Robert C.…
News Round Up In-Brief
US News The U.S. Agency for International Development is set to direct $419 million in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees and is now committed to spending $4.5 billion…
News Round Up In-Brief
US News The U.S. Agency for International Development is set to direct $419 million in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees and is now committed to spending $4.5 billion…
Tantra and Transparency, or Cultural Contradiction and Today’s Tibetan Buddhist Wizard
This is the first of a series of articles that I will be posting this month as a guest-contributor for Savage Minds. In each post I will be sharing…
Kalpana Ram’s “Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and its Provocation of the Modern” by Mythily Meher
Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and its Provocation of the Modern by Kalpana Ram University of Hawaii Press, 2013, 336 pages Spirit possession is a familiar anthropological interest. But…
Return of the Ethnographers – This Anthro Life
Start your week off by tuning in to the TAL crew, the entire TAL crew, back from fieldwork (albeit briefly) as we talk about our experiences in ethnography, archaeology,…
Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: he Uses of Literacy Revisited”
Kate Pahl View on Amazon Literary practices are often associated with specific social groups in particular social settings. Kate Pahl‘s Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy…
Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Literary practices are often associated with specific social groups in particular social settings. Kate Pahl‘s Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited (Bloomsbury… Visit New Books in…
CFP: The Wastes of Governance (AAG 2016)
This session picks up on work that posits an understanding of waste as emergent, or as co-emerging alongside certain configurations of governance.
Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report
The Task Force on AAA Engagement on Israel-Palestine issued its final report today. It is a long and thorough report, so I won’t attempt to summarize the whole…
De maakbaarheidsmythe
Deze blog verschijnt ook op Zaman Vandaag. © Lego Photo mureut, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Thijl Sunier Nadat de week ervoor een nationale hysterie uitbrak…
X SIBERIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE – PASSION FOR LIFE, Emotions, Feelings and Perception in the North and Siberia
A really early announcement for a great conference on Arctic Anthropology! I hope to meet many of the readers of our blog in a years time in St.…
Special issue on Contesting Consecrated Scientific Narratives in the Anthropocene
Some really interesting articles in the latest issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Apologies for the formatting, and thanks to Christiana Peppard…
Remove Killers from Memory and the Human Community
Last week Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin asked us not to name the man responsible for the killings at the community college in Oregon. And the debate begins.…