"Fire of Globalisation Disrupts Human and Planetary Health"
Does health constitute another major crisis of globalisation? How does food relate to health, well-being, and social change? Wim Van Daele has talked with healers a…
Anthropology beyond dichotomies? Thoughts after beyond perception 2015
The Symposium “Beyond perception 15” was organised in Aberdeen by the department postgraduate researchers and postgraduate students to celebrate the work of Tim Ingold. The aim was to…
Links & Contents I Liked 155
Hi all, The first week of term was quite overwhelming-so the latest link review is a bit delayed. But this also means that plenty of interesting readings will…
Reading fiction as therapy
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
Salman Fishing In Washington
This blog post is also available in Swedish…
Anthropologies #21: Is There Hope for an Anthropocene Anthropology?
Up next for this issue we have Todd Sanders and Elizabeth Hall. Sanders is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Curated Ruins and Un-Memorials: The Afterlife of Detroit’s Michigan Theater
I came across Gabriel Moshenska’s Curated Ruins and the Endurance of Conflict Heritage (2015) via Twitter last week, which happily coincided with my first visit to Detroit’s former Michiga…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Book Forum — Christian McMillen’s “Discovering Tuberculosis” by Todd Meyers
Christian McMillen’s Discovering Tuberculosis is many things, but mostly it is an account of failure. The book is a story of disease control in the twentieth century…
FocaalBlog Event: CUNY Panel Discussion on Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis
On Tuesday, September 8, the City University of New York (CUNY) Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is hosting a free panel discussion and presentation based…
If Not Us, Then Who?
A Case for Paying It Forward in Anthropology A few months before starting a new job as president of a residential research institute that primarily supports anthropology and…
New book from Ken Conca – An Unfinished Foundation: the UN and Global Environmental Governance
Now available from Oxford University Press, I like the play on UN-Finished. An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance Why is the United Nations not…
Refugees: Humans-as-Waste?
Discard studies is about more than discarded, wasted, unsaved, and externalized objects. It also includes people.
Can a gas pipeline heal Bolivia’s wounded geo-body?
During the May 2015 announcement for Bolivia’s new cross-country Incahuasi–Cochabamba Gas Pipeline, a high official in Bolivia’s state-run gas company looked beyond the three-year, half-billion-dollar…
Relaunch of STUAnthroBlog
After a lengthy hiatus, I am happy to report that STUAnthroBlog is set to relaunch for the 2015-16 academic year. The reasons for its temporary demise were multiple,…
One Year After the Death of Marc Thompson
One year ago today, Marc Thompson, Chico, California area activist, student of sociology, was found murdered in a burning car in a remote area outside the small town…
Pulotu – database of Pacific Religions
If good ethnographic databases works as a guilty pleasure for you, you may want to have a look at Pulotu, and thank Prof. Russell Gray and his team.…