Our language of refusal reveals a shifting stance on prejudice
The ways in which we’re speaking out against Syrian refugees indicates that we are redefining prejudicial discourse. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Immortality: who needs it?
Each day, unbelievable amounts of human energy are channeled into prolonging life. We pour millions of dollars and unending hours into seeking medial advents that may fend off…
Joint PhD in the Cognitive Science of Religion (2016-17 Studentship)
The Institute of Cognition and Culture (ICC) is offering a DEL Studentship for the Doctoral programme in the Cognitive the Science of Religion that has been established by…
Terror in France and ISIS’ Revolution: Anthropologists try to see the whole picture
(draft, post in progress) More surveillance, more bombs, more border controls, less democracy, less freedom: Europe is reacting hysterically after the deadly terror attacks in Paris one week…
Terror in France and ISIS’ Revolution: Anthropologists try to see the whole picture
(draft, post in progress) More surveillance, more bombs, more border controls, less democracy, less freedom: Europe is reacting hysterically after the deadly terror attacks in Paris one week…
Elektrizität
Die Ausgabe 30.4 (November 2015) der Zeitschrift Cultural Anthropology widmet sich in fünf Artikeln der Geschichte und Gegenwart der Elektrizität: Featured in this issue is our second Openings…
Elektrizität
Die Ausgabe 30.4 (November 2015) der Zeitschrift Cultural Anthropology widmet sich in fünf Artikeln der Geschichte und Gegenwart der Elektrizität: Featured in this issue is our second Openings…
Elektrizität
Die Ausgabe 30.4 (November 2015) der Zeitschrift Cultural Anthropology widmet sich in fünf Artikeln der Geschichte und Gegenwart der Elektrizität: Featured in this issue is our second Openings…
Egypt: Open access to online scientific journals, ebooks and encyclopedias for everybody in the whole country
It does not happen often that there a good news from Egypt where I am still living. This news here, although nearly too good to be true, is…
Egypt: Open access to online scientific journals, ebooks and encyclopedias for everybody in the whole country
It does not happen often that there a good news from Egypt where I am still living. This news here, although nearly too good to be true, is…
A Day of Action: Justice for Black Women and Girls on May 21st, 2015
[Have a powerful Trans Day of Resilience! Savage Minds is pleased to present the fourth essay in the series “Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Summer Roundup: Features by Deanna Day
This Friday, we are rounding up a set of feature essays that were published on Somatosphere over the summer. Unlike our previous summer roundups, which have focused on…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson's translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Blame it on Ebola
Since the 7th of November Sierra Leone is officially Ebola-free. Even if the outbreak lasted far too long and it was far too painful, there is reason now…
What war? Whose war?
Internal changes must come about. © Cindy Cornett Seigle, via creative commons. By Thijl Sunier The day after the attacks in Paris, the French President François Hollande declared…
Links & Contents I Liked 164
Hi all, A busy week on aidnography featuring two new posts on conferencing in the digital age and media representation of development in the context of CNN’s Hero…
„Open City“: Die Stadt und der Terror bei Teju Cole
Im Jahr 2011 erschien das Buch “Open City” von Teju Cole. Der als Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa in den USA geborene und teilweise in Lagos aufgewachsene Schriftsteller, Fotograf…
Anthropologies #22 Call for Submissions: The anthropology of food
Burgers, Plate 4. Photograph by Thomas Hawk, 2009. Everyone eats, and there are cultural and social meanings embedded in the food that we consume. This issue of anthropologies…
Allegra TV: Tsing and Descola in videos! #CFAS
Allie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired of reading already? We conclude the week with…
“It’s All in the Name: Undiagnosis in a Diagnostic Age”
Here is the link to the paper I will present at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Lewis_2015_AAA Paper Please do not use, cite, or…
The second Helsinki Knots Symposium: 23 October 2015
Relations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic condit…