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Mark Goodale is currently writing Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction for NYU Press. The manuscript is due at the end of December 2015. One of the ideas…
Belohnung für “ortsüblichen Dresscode” statt Kopftuch? – Zwei Entgegnungen
Der Standard hat vorige Woche einige mehr als hinterfragenswerte Texte als „Kommentare der anderen“ veröffentlicht, darunter den Artikel „Weniger Kopftuch, weniger Überfremdungsangst“ von einem pensio…
Brett Hendrickson, “Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo”
Brett Hendrickson View on Amazon Mexican American religious healing – often called curanderismo – is a vital component of life in the US-Mexican borderlands. In his book Border Medicine:…
Burkina Faso: “The return of the Phantoms of the past”, By Sten Hagberg
In the afternoon on Wednesday 16 September 2015, soldiers of the infamous Regiment of the president’s security forces – Regiment de Sécurité Présidentielle (RSP) – entered the Presidential…
Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference 2nd last day
Summary covering the second last day of the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference. Please read on… Professor Sharon Lewin (@sharonlewinPDI) & Professor Robert Grant @GladstoneLabs chaired a…
Quotations of note: Henrietta Moore on Gimi creation narratives
I cringed reading certain parts of this (see, ‘she makes things grow by magically extending motherhood’ and ‘she internalises them as a woman does a child’),…
Quotations of note: Henrietta Moore on Gimi creation narratives
I cringed reading certain parts of this (see, ‘she makes things grow by magically extending motherhood’ and ‘she internalises them as a woman does a child’),…
The politics of Nature in the Anthropocene
jeremy schmidt: Worth a read for sure. Originally posted on Resource politics: by Kathleen McAfee, San Francisco State University Over the past 40-some years, Nature has entered global…
Homo Naledi’s other revolution
When the Homo Naledi discovery was announced I was excited to see that the initial publication was in an open access journal, eLife. In fact to me this…
Beyond the Audit
Anthropologists Finding Careers at the Government Accountability Office In recent years, several colleagues and I from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have had the opportunity to par…
(Re)-Remembering the Trail of Tears
September 16th is Trail of Tears Commemoration Day. This was news to me. As an Oklahoman, living in former Indian Territory, the place where tribal-altering and life-shattering journeys…
NEW! — Zoltán Glück: Of politics and crowds: A conversation with Susan Buck-Morss
This interview with Susan Buck-Morss took place at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center on May 12 2015. Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy…
On private property and the commons
Ryan Anderson: Earlier you referred to OA as “a strategy of resistance to privatization of the commons”. Can you elaborate on that point? Keith Hart: I meant that…
STI & HIV Congress ends, HIV & AIDS conference begins
The last day of the World STI & HIV Congress and the first day of the Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference. Please read on for a summary… Did…
Contextualizing Exclusion: Lessons from Kambis
In my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education, the transmission and acquisition of knowledge and sensibilities, is…
Jack Goody (1919-2015): an oral history
[The following is an invited post by Keith Hart, Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and International…
Ethik und Ethnologie: Ethikkommissionen, ethnographisches Arbeiten und Epistemologie – nicht nur in der Medizinethnologie
Hansjörg Dilger EthnologInnen in Deutschland haben es gut: Sie müssen keine Ethikgenehmigung für ihre Feldforschungen einwerben oder befürchten, dass ihre Forschung als „unethisch“ gilt, wenn s…
Thomas Marchione Award 2015
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Thomas Marchione Award. Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this…
Christine Wilson Award 2015
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Christine Wilson Award. The award recognizes outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food stu…
The Refugee Crisis and Orientalism
My latest post on the refugee crisis in Europe.
Propagating Romance: The Islamic State
by Yoram Kannangara The commencement of the new millennium and the age of global networks, 9/11, The Gulf War(s) semantics, Al-Qaeda, and incessant turmoil in the Middle-East. These are…
Film Forum — In the Shadow of Ebola by Marissa Mika
It was only a year ago that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was highly visible. Images of health workers dressed in hot and heavy hazmat gear, body…