Spaziergang mit Stalin
Wir hatten einen schönen Spaziergang in Gori hinter uns. Diese georgische Kleinstadt ist außerhalb der Region eigentlich nur bekannt, weil dort zufällig Stalin geboren wurde. Und weil eben…
The Anthropologist’s Disclaimer
Many people I meet, even people I talk to on a regular basis, do not have background knowledge of anthropology, and I think that is fairly typical. Anthropology…
Anthropologies #21: Global Warming is not a Crisis
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Anthropologies #21 series. For the next installment of the anthropologies issue on climate change, we have a counterpoint essay…
Water security in the Anthropocene: planetary hydrology, global finance, and the new development nexus
A bit of self-promotion for an upcoming talk at the University of East Anglia if you happen to be in the UK in late October.
Religious violence in South(East) Asia
The majority Buddhist and Hindu societies of South(East) Asia are not traditionally associated with conflict and intolerance. Yet recent years have seen a surge in international reports of…
Trading on Obsolescence on the Streets of Hong Kong
The leveraging of the temporal lag between the developed and the developing world by these local street vendors enables them to generate additional value from the discarded. Second-hand…
REDUX: ARTIFACTS AND ALLEGIANCES: HOW MUSEUMS PUT THE NATION AND THE WORLD ON DISPLAY
You just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, or the Bijlmer in Amsterdam—to realize that big…
Freedom House report on Uzbekistan
My annual report on human rights violations in Uzbekistan was published by Freedom House’s “Nations in Transit” section. The report highlights top-level and low-level corruption as well as…
AAA Webinar Wednesday October 7, 2015 2 PM Eastern: “You ate WHAT?” A Four-Field Methods Manual for Food Research and Applied Nutritional Anthropology
AAA Webinar: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Discussion of the forthcoming SAFN sponsored volume Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition Food is…
Anthropologies #21: Betwixt and Between: Geological Phase Transition, Adaptive Co-Management, and Anthropology
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #21 series. The next piece in the anthropologies climate change series comes from Michael Agar. His bio is…
In the Journals: September (Part 2) by Melanie Boeckmann
Health, Risk & Society Towards a better understanding of risk-taking: key concepts, dimensions and perspectives Jens O. Zinn The current study of risk is dominated by the risk…
Allegra WANTS you!
Allegra Lab is looking for Editorial Assistants to strengthen the capacity of its enthusiastic team of volunteers and spread the Open Access gospel! The tasks involve: – The…
Trust.org’s Tom Esslemont and the pipe dream of overhead-free humanitarian aid
When Tom Esslemont and the team at Trust.org send out a survey on how charities involved in the Nepal earthquake relief have spent their money, he must have…
Leonard Cassuto, “The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It”
Leonard Cassuto View on Amazon The discontented graduate student is something of a cultural fixture in the U.S. Indeed theirs is a sorry lot. They work very hard,…
Stereotypes die hard!
Last week, an advertising campaign by Visit Finland and Finnair produced images of Sàmi in traditional clothes dancing around the fire during a shamanic ritual in the tent.…
Redakteure der Literaturzeitschrift »Johnny« im Interview
Die studentische Literaturzeitschrift »Johnny« wurde 2014 an der Goethe-Universität gegründet. Wie entstand die Idee, eine Literaturzeitschrift zu gründen? Der Ausgangspunkt lag im Seminar »Literarisc…
Plagiarism Accusation Retraction
I received an email from James Scott (‘Seeing Like a State‘, ‘The Art of Not Being Governed‘) yesterday, asking me to back up an allegation of plagiarism…
Journeys for Justice in Tanzania
Much has been written about women’s land rights in Africa, but little research has been undertaken on how law works in practice, particularly in statutory court systems. Before…
Neha Vora, “Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora”
Neha Vora View on Amazon Neha Vora‘s Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) is a wonderfully rich and engaging account of middle class Indians who…
Native Sci-fi Films and Trailers
by William Lempert Supplement to the article:NAVAJOS ON MARSNative Sci-fi Film Futures by William Lempert Editor’s Note: This article may take some time to load because of the video content, please…
8 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (GRFP) Proposal
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) is one of t…
8 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (GRFP) Proposal
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) is one of t…