Anthropologists in Practice: An Interview with Will Tyner, Fellow at Code for America
Anthropologists in Practice is an ongoing series of interviews featuring practicing anthropologists who work outside the academy. The goal of the series is to provide a source of…
Four faculty job openings in Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene cluster (NC State)
North Carolina (NC) State University seeks candidates across multiple disciplines for four tenured or tenure-track faculty positions in the Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (Global WaSH) Faculty …
Grijs gebied: identiteitsvorming onder Nederlandse meisjes met een islamitische vader
Culturele verdeeldheid in één persoon door Christel de Bruijn Je bent 16 jaar en al je vriendinnetjes willen op zaterdagavond de stad in om te dansen en te…
It’s Not Easy To Be Old In America
There is much in the news these days about widespread discrimination in America — heartbreaking stories of police shooting unarmed black men, reports on the shameful rise of…
The Road to Oslo and Its Reverse #Palestine
“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has often been defined as a watershed moment in…
David Bozzini: Gabriella Coleman on the ethnography of digital politics – Part 1
David Bozzini is a research fellow at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where he is researching on Eritrean deserters movements and on the resistance to digital surveillance. He co-edits…
Graphic Medicine Manifesto by Juliet McMullin
In organizing the 6th Annual Conference of Comics and Medicine, I frequently heard the refrain “Comics and medicine? What’s that? How do those two things go together?” Indeed,…
New Book! Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
jeremy schmidt: An interesting new title perhaps worth checking into. Originally posted on Discard Studies: Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race’s new book, Plastic Water: The Social and…
New Book! Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
The book considers the assemblage and emergence of a mass market for water, from the invention of the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle in 1973 to the development of…
The _other_ enemy of Open Access
An article made the rounds of social media recently on whether or not the for-profit website academia.edu is outflanking the open access movement. It’s a great article that…
Australian National University is hiring three Lecturers in museum anthropology
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, and Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the ANU has recently advertised three positions for which…
Are we apes? No, we are humans
My ancestors just a few generations ago were peasants. My more remote ancestors were slaves. But I am neither a peasant nor a slave. In fact, if you…
Links & Contents I Liked 161
Hi all, In Development News we start off on the lighter side with a great cartoon on how to end global wealth; in the build-up to the World…
Geek Heresy (book review)
I first ‘met’ Kentaro Toyama when he was blogging as the ICT4D Jester. So when he published his book ‘Geek Heresy – Rescuing Social Change from the Cult…
REVISITING ISRAELI ANTHROPOLOGY AND AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY: OUR “SPECIAL RELATIONS” #Palestine
Earlier this week the American Anthropological Association’s task force on Engagement with Israel-Palestine issued a 130-page report to assess whether the AAA should take a stand on issues…
Cannabis Culture in Denver
From the editor: Attending the AAA meetings in Denver? The announcement below is for an event that looks into legalized marijuana in Colorado. This will no doubt touch…
Religion and economy
(Delivered on October 22nd in the Economics Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin as the Hermann Otto Hirschfeld lecture for 2015. With profound thanks to Prof. Rolf Schieder for his…
anthro in the news 10/26/2015
source: NPR Happy slaves? A piece on National Public Radio (U.S.) reported on how the coconut industry in Thailand thrives on the use of the labor of trained…
A Case for Agitation: On Affect and Writing
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Carla Jones as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Carla is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado,…
Waiting in the face of bare life by Aaron Ansell
Advocates of a more robust democratic citizenship in Brazil often point bitterly to the frequent practice of cutting ahead of others in line. Such line-cutting, they lament, indicates…
Twee Ethiopische heldinnen
Door Marina de Regt “Deze film moet iedereen zien”, was de reactie toen we Time to Look at Girls: Migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia afgelopen woensdag aan een…
Online relationships with strangers can be ‘purer’ than with offline friends
“Internet dog” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. As illustrated in the cartoon ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’, published by The New Yorker in 1993, the…