News Round Up In-Brief
US News The U.S. Agency for International Development is set to direct $419 million in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees and is now committed to spending $4.5 billion…
Tantra and Transparency, or Cultural Contradiction and Today’s Tibetan Buddhist Wizard
This is the first of a series of articles that I will be posting this month as a guest-contributor for Savage Minds. In each post I will be sharing…
Kalpana Ram’s “Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and its Provocation of the Modern” by Mythily Meher
Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and its Provocation of the Modern by Kalpana Ram University of Hawaii Press, 2013, 336 pages Spirit possession is a familiar anthropological interest. But…
Return of the Ethnographers – This Anthro Life
Start your week off by tuning in to the TAL crew, the entire TAL crew, back from fieldwork (albeit briefly) as we talk about our experiences in ethnography, archaeology,…
Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: he Uses of Literacy Revisited”
Kate Pahl View on Amazon Literary practices are often associated with specific social groups in particular social settings. Kate Pahl‘s Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy…
Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Literary practices are often associated with specific social groups in particular social settings. Kate Pahl‘s Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited (Bloomsbury… Visit New Books in…
CFP: The Wastes of Governance (AAG 2016)
This session picks up on work that posits an understanding of waste as emergent, or as co-emerging alongside certain configurations of governance.
Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report
The Task Force on AAA Engagement on Israel-Palestine issued its final report today. It is a long and thorough report, so I won’t attempt to summarize the whole…
De maakbaarheidsmythe
Deze blog verschijnt ook op Zaman Vandaag. © Lego Photo mureut, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Thijl Sunier Nadat de week ervoor een nationale hysterie uitbrak…
X SIBERIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE – PASSION FOR LIFE, Emotions, Feelings and Perception in the North and Siberia
A really early announcement for a great conference on Arctic Anthropology! I hope to meet many of the readers of our blog in a years time in St.…
Special issue on Contesting Consecrated Scientific Narratives in the Anthropocene
Some really interesting articles in the latest issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Apologies for the formatting, and thanks to Christiana Peppard…
Remove Killers from Memory and the Human Community
Last week Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin asked us not to name the man responsible for the killings at the community college in Oregon. And the debate begins.…
Media in Transition
A major international conference focused on the intersection of media art and technological change over time. How is this shifting the way museums operate and how conservation works?…
Around the Web Digest: Week of September 27
This week, a number of online magazines addressed some of the big questions of human history. As always, if you want me to feature anything on the blog,…
anthro in the news 10/5/15
The Vatican, source: Creative Commons An anthropologist meets the Pope The Huffington Post published an article by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, medical anthropologist at the University of California B…
As Usual, The Devil’s in the Details; or, Why Ethnography Matters for Everything
A new study reports that pre-kindergarten programs in Tennessee fail to achieve any long-term gains. Republican lawmakers are already seizing on the news as evidence that pre-K programs…
Final Report: Task Force on AAA Engagement on Israel-Palestine
Read the full report. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Recent years have seen increasing pressure in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and many other professional academic associations to discuss alleg…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on No…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on No…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on November 1st, with next round applications due May 1st. When I…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on No…
Ambivalentes Verhältnis zur Moderne: Was ist eigentlich die Pfingstbewegung und warum ist sie global so erfolgreich?
Dass es außerhalb Europas eine sehr stark wachsende Pfingstbewegung gibt, ist oftmals unbekannt. REMID stellte den Religionswissenschaftlern Dr. Sebastian Schüler (Leipzig) und Martin Radermacher (Bo…