#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
Theorizing Media And Conflict
The Media Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) has issued a call for proposals for the a workshop on conflict and media. The goal is…
AAA Webinar Wednesday Returns with Lenore Manderson September 2nd at 2 PM Eastern
Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century with Lenore Manderson Lenore will be our first speaker in the AAA Webinar Series this fall! The AAA’s Webinar Wednesday is back…
NEW! — Ismael García Colón & Harry Franqui-Rivera: Puerto Rico Is NOT Greece
Notes on the Role of Debt in US Colonialism Early July 2015, at an event discussing the Greek debt crisis hosted by the German Federal Bank in Frankfurt,…
En sejr for verdens sexarbejdere
(Dele er gengivet fra Politiken.dk) Kritikken er haglet ned over Amnesty International (AI), siden organisationen sidste tirsdag besluttede at anbefale regeringer over hele verden at afkriminalisere …
In Search of Hope #HumanRights
On April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together on the campus of McGill University to attend…
Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic
A member of ISIS poses in a fighter jet similar to those used in the Prophet’s time. By Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches, August 24, 2015 Last week, The…
Community Health Workers and Social Change: Global and Local Perspectives — A special issue of the Annals of Anthropological Practice by Aaron Seaman
The current issue of the Annals of Anthropological Practice is a special issue, entitled “Community Health Workers and Social Change: Global and Local Perspectives.” The issue comprises an…
Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 2
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You…
Norsk Rødt Fe og oppdrettslaksen
Ved lanseringen av Marianne Liens nye bok «Becoming Salmon» ble jeg invitert til å si noen ord om Nork Rødt Fe. Det ga meg anledning til å børste…
Gener som hopper – en liten oppsummering
For mindre enn et år siden oppdaget jeg for alvor at organismer — planter, dyr, bakterier — arver gener på tvers av arter. De «bytter gener» seg imellom.…
Douglas Bamforth, “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska”
It’s the ultimate cold case: a mountain of 10,000-year old evidence excavated and stored in hundreds of boxes that sat unopened and nearly forgotten in the basement of…
Douglas B. Bamforth et al., “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska” (U of New Mexico Press, 2015)
The book discussed in this interview is Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Basic Books, 2013) by Edward Frenkel of the University of California at Berkeley. It’s a toss-up which is…
Ethnographic Field Data 2: When Not-Sharing is Caring
In my last post, I recommended that we consider archiving and sharing records from our fieldwork. Yet sharing both raw notes and publications can present challenges, as Rex recently covered with…
“Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive
A search for “anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive results in two hits. Both documents were created and presented by the UK GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group…
Links & Contents I Liked 154
Hi all, New week, new links as the momentum for the start of the new term builds up. Development news features Oxfam latest trends on closing civil society…
REDUX: An educator’s perspective on the academic boycott of Israeli institutions #BDS #palestine
Over the past months, colleagues in anthropology and other fields have laid out strong arguments for why one should support the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Last spring,…
Assigned Readings: Strategies and Ponderings
To mark the beginning of the fall semester at most US colleges and universities, we would like to return to our series of blog postings by the Anthropology…
Taking On debt: Perspectives from across the social sciences (Part 1)
Understanding why households become over-indebted is a crucial step to planning interventions at the level of the consumer or through policy, but it is not a straightforward task.…
Investing without wealth: The financialization of social reproduction #Crisis
A few years ago, even an expert on the risks of subprime lending would have been astounded by the very suggestion: a global crisis triggered by poor people…
The Greek Crisis and the Dangers of Culture
By Cristiano Lanzano