Mahmoud Mamdani – Settler colonialism: then and now
Mahmoud Mamdani’s new article Settler Colonialism: then and now, is now out in Critical Inquiry, which builds on talks like this one at Princeton (which I could not…
The Story of Seething & being a little bit Stupid
David Jeevendrampillai, UCL Anthropology Image 1: The Story of Seething Exhibition. Jan – May 2015. UCL Anthropology (Photo Credit: Timothy Carroll). UCL promotes itself as a leading global…
Keep It Clean Day! Your contribution to a cleaner ocean
Plastic Soup and The Ocean Cleanup In 1997 Charles Moore “discovered” the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean: large areas in the ocean…
Notes on the third digital ethnography reading session
by Will Balmford PhD Candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG) This session we discussed Helen Kennedy’s 2003 article Technobiography: Rese…
Cambridge Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference
The one-day Cambridge Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on Friday 9 October 2015. Programme and registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26237. The Moral Psychology…
Life After #Fieldwork: of leaving the field, entering liminality and relocating the mind #fieldnotes
The bulky and weirdly shaped package I hold in my hands weighs nearly 20 pounds. 20 pounds of memories materialize in a final leaving present that now makes…
Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference final summary
Final summary of the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference. Please read on… In a panel on Power, Partnerships and Participation, Elan Lazuardi presented her work with Outreach Workers in 3 cities in…
Teaching Anthropology of/through Games, Part 2
By Krista Harper with Sam Anderson In my last blog post, I described my recent course on “Anthropology of/through Games.” Students in the class played, analyzed, and designed…
Universit(ar)y journeys: an ethnographic play
Last year Mick Taussig gave a short course to doctoral students at the University of Helsinki on the relation between research and writing. Ethnography, he repeated several times…
What articles from AAA would you like to see opened on Race and Racism?
With our inaugural co-edited issue on Hello Anthropocene: Climate Change and Anthropology closing back up after six months of free access (and with thanks to Ryan Anderson for…
Bridging the Divide Between Ethnic Studies and Anthropology
When I was hired as assistant professor and program head at Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) in August 2014, I encountered a beleaguered, yet not quite…
References Needed! #Crowdsourcing
Mark Goodale is currently writing Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction for NYU Press. The manuscript is due at the end of December 2015. One of the ideas…
Belohnung für “ortsüblichen Dresscode” statt Kopftuch? – Zwei Entgegnungen
Der Standard hat vorige Woche einige mehr als hinterfragenswerte Texte als „Kommentare der anderen“ veröffentlicht, darunter den Artikel „Weniger Kopftuch, weniger Überfremdungsangst“ von einem pensio…
Brett Hendrickson, “Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo”
Brett Hendrickson View on Amazon Mexican American religious healing – often called curanderismo – is a vital component of life in the US-Mexican borderlands. In his book Border Medicine:…
Burkina Faso: “The return of the Phantoms of the past”, By Sten Hagberg
In the afternoon on Wednesday 16 September 2015, soldiers of the infamous Regiment of the president’s security forces – Regiment de Sécurité Présidentielle (RSP) – entered the Presidential…
Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference 2nd last day
Summary covering the second last day of the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference. Please read on… Professor Sharon Lewin (@sharonlewinPDI) & Professor Robert Grant @GladstoneLabs chaired a…
Quotations of note: Henrietta Moore on Gimi creation narratives
I cringed reading certain parts of this (see, ‘she makes things grow by magically extending motherhood’ and ‘she internalises them as a woman does a child’),…
Quotations of note: Henrietta Moore on Gimi creation narratives
I cringed reading certain parts of this (see, ‘she makes things grow by magically extending motherhood’ and ‘she internalises them as a woman does a child’),…
The politics of Nature in the Anthropocene
jeremy schmidt: Worth a read for sure. Originally posted on Resource politics: by Kathleen McAfee, San Francisco State University Over the past 40-some years, Nature has entered global…
Homo Naledi’s other revolution
When the Homo Naledi discovery was announced I was excited to see that the initial publication was in an open access journal, eLife. In fact to me this…
Beyond the Audit
Anthropologists Finding Careers at the Government Accountability Office In recent years, several colleagues and I from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have had the opportunity to par…
(Re)-Remembering the Trail of Tears
September 16th is Trail of Tears Commemoration Day. This was news to me. As an Oklahoman, living in former Indian Territory, the place where tribal-altering and life-shattering journeys…
NEW! — Zoltán Glück: Of politics and crowds: A conversation with Susan Buck-Morss
This interview with Susan Buck-Morss took place at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center on May 12 2015. Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy…