Remixing Indian design anthropology
Indian students and Kala Raksha staff performing garba folk dance. Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC-SA Tuesday was the beginning of Navratri, the nine nights Hindu religious festival that celebrates…
Remixing Indian design anthropology
Indian students and Kala Raksha staff performing garba folk dance. Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC-SA Tuesday was the beginning of Navratri, the nine nights Hindu religious festival that celebrates…
New National Recommendations for Safe Reduction of Primary Cesarean Births
In recent years, several national partners including ACOG, AWHONN, SMFM, CDC, HRSA and others came together as the National Partnership for Maternal Safety and have worked with the…
Bayira, an ancient Ethiopian skeletal, provides the earliest African genome
John Arthur, Kathryn Arthur and Matthew Curtis in Ethiopia In 2012, an archaeological team funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Kathryn and John Arthur (both…
Management and ethics: A conversation between two Leiden anthropologists
Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…
Management and ethics: A conversation between two Leiden anthropologists
Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…
Management and ethics: A conversation between two Leiden anthropologists
Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…
Management and ethics: A conversation between two Leiden anthropologists
Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…
Management and ethics: A conversation between two Leiden anthropologists
Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…
The rise of suburban homelessness
For the Guardian, I profiled a woman who went from living in a suburban house and making $60,000 per year to living in a homeless shelter in downtown…
Ervaringen of aanvaringen met het toerisme? Hmong vrouwen in Vietnam
Hmong vrouwen op Coc Ly markt, Vietnam. © Brian Snelson, via creative comments. Door Freek Colombijn Op maandag 5 oktober promoveerde Lê Thị Đan Dung op een onderzoek naar Hmong…
NEW! — Stef Jansen: Yearnings in the Meantime
“Normal lives” and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex Yearnings in the Meantime is a volume of the “Dislocations” series published by Berghahn Books. The immense dislocations…
Brian Massumi’s “What Animals Teach Us About Politics” by Naisargi Dave
What Animals Teach Us About Politics by Brian Massumi Duke University Press, 2014, 152 pages. This is a book about choice. That reader who chooses non-acquiescence, chooses learning…
Data management and ethics: A discussion between two Leiden anthropologists
Data Management and Ethics Committee Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the Data Management and Ethics Committee of our Institute here in Leiden. I know that…
Data management and ethics: A conversation between two Leiden anthropologists
Committee on Data Management and Ethics Henrike: Zane, I was wondering why you volunteered for the committee on data management and ethics of our Leiden institute. I know…
Branding og lidt om os/dem
Så er der snart gået en uge siden jeg var til karrieremessen i Esbjerg. Det var et rigtig godt arrangement. Der var VIRKELIG mange mennesker, som alle var nysgerrige…
CFP: Food waste scholarship: Recent advances and perspectives from a fragmented field of study
Organised by the International Food Waste and Food Loss Studies Group, this AAG session will: 1) Provide a forum for food waste scholars to share their work, and…
Normativity and social visibility
It has been exactly a year since finishing 15 months of fieldwork in Trinidad. Stories for this blog have moved further and further away from cool stuff that…
The Lively Science
Anthropology, or at least the anthropology called social or cultural anthropology, is split down the middle. On one side are the “scientists” who see their goal as contributi…
#Review: On the Doorstep of Europe. Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
On the Doorstep of Europe is a vividly written ethnography of the asylum process in Greece, “with its ethos of mystification, unpredictability, and arbitrariness” (p.217), as well as very…
Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Israel/Palestine Task Force Report #Palestine
On 8 October 2015, Israeli security forces brutally beat and arrested two students of Birzeit University, a major Palestinian university in the West Bank. In response, Birzeit issued…
Journal Round-Up: So far in 2015, part 2 of 2
Cultural Anthropology Occupation Bedbugs: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism E. Summerson Carr This essay draws on fieldwork with American social workers, whose primary charge is…
Journal Round-Up: So far in 2015, part 1 of 2
American Anthropologist Macaques and the Ritual Production of Sacredness among Balinese Transmigrants in South Sulawesi, Indonesia Jeffrey V. Peterson, Erin P. Riley, & Ngakan Putu Oka Long-tailed…
Somatosphere interview at New Books Network by Eugene Raikhel
A couple of weeks ago, Todd Meyers, Emily Yates-Doerr and I spoke with Monique Dufour of New Books in Medicine about the origins of Somatosphere, our thoughts on…