Force Multipliers and Stealth Imperialism
The force multiplier mechanism is not just something envisioned in military writing, but is instead a cornerstone of US intervention, both overt and covert. The CIA uses the…
“Revolutionary Egypt” Book Launch
If you are going to be in London next month–Nov. 17, to be precise–you might want to drop in on a panel at the London Middle East Institute…
The revival of hunter-gatherer research
Do hunter-gatherer anthropologists still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing…
The revival of hunter-gatherer research
Do hunter-gatherers still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing research…
#Review: Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan #Performance
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a hybrid practitioner-academic who has spent the last couple…
The Privacy Paradox: IRBs in an Era of NSA Mass Surveillance
[This invited post was written by Daniel O’Maley, who recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the global Internet freedom movement…
Force Multipliers and Cuba
Much of what appears as “novel” thinking in US imperial strategies, masks deeper historical foundations. Numerous authors have already explained how Latin America and the Caribbean, from the…
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
Top of the Heap: Elizabeth Lewis by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Elizabeth Lewis, who is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas at…
Knigge für Flüchtlinge
Der Kommentar erschien am 21. 10. 2015 in der Wiener Zeitung. In letzter Zeit wird Flüchtlingen mittels Verhaltenskodex eingebläut, was die Willkommensschilder an Grenzübergängen und Bahnhöfen tatsäch…
counting back
48 hours before the plane takes off
What a cooperative proposal means for the AAA
Social media was a-twitter (see what I did there?) today with an important statement about the future of anthropology publishing posted at both Cultural Anthropology and in the latest…
The press conference as performative (political) space #Performance
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press conference. In particular, I want to think about…
The “Science” of Global Domination
While it is an odd mix of physics, biology, and geometry that has captured the communications strategy of military planners, the messages themselves are very telling about how…
Roundtable reviews of “Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology”
If you’re interested in the history of pesticides and toxicology, Banned provides a detail-oriented, close reading of key 20th century experiments, legislative hearings, events, and texts to investiga…
[Anthropo]logy beyond the human?
Yesterday, 19/10/15, the Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) network launched what will hopefully become an annual round-table event to bring postgraduate researchers and staff togeth…
World of Food in Amsterdam Zuidoost
Door Nina Leatemia Wat eerst een schimmige parkeergarage in de Bijlmer was, is omgetoverd tot een overdekte eetbazaar waar je binnenkort van ’s ochtends vroeg tot ’s avonds…
Four Legs Good: Working With A Canine Research Assistant
Karen Lane – University of St Andrews The dog saw the elderly woman before I did. Walking up Market Street in St Andrews my mind was elsewhere (I’d…
Multispecies anthropology in the media: The polar bears are coming to town
The anthropologist Martina Tyrrell looks at life in Arviat, Hudson Bay, when polar bears come to town. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34490185