On private property and the commons
Ryan Anderson: Earlier you referred to OA as “a strategy of resistance to privatization of the commons”. Can you elaborate on that point? Keith Hart: I meant that…
STI & HIV Congress ends, HIV & AIDS conference begins
The last day of the World STI & HIV Congress and the first day of the Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference. Please read on for a summary… Did…
Contextualizing Exclusion: Lessons from Kambis
In my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education, the transmission and acquisition of knowledge and sensibilities, is…
Jack Goody (1919-2015): an oral history
[The following is an invited post by Keith Hart, Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and International…
Ethik und Ethnologie: Ethikkommissionen, ethnographisches Arbeiten und Epistemologie – nicht nur in der Medizinethnologie
Hansjörg Dilger EthnologInnen in Deutschland haben es gut: Sie müssen keine Ethikgenehmigung für ihre Feldforschungen einwerben oder befürchten, dass ihre Forschung als „unethisch“ gilt, wenn s…
Thomas Marchione Award 2015
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Thomas Marchione Award. Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this…
Christine Wilson Award 2015
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Christine Wilson Award. The award recognizes outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food stu…
The Refugee Crisis and Orientalism
My latest post on the refugee crisis in Europe.
Propagating Romance: The Islamic State
by Yoram Kannangara The commencement of the new millennium and the age of global networks, 9/11, The Gulf War(s) semantics, Al-Qaeda, and incessant turmoil in the Middle-East. These are…
Film Forum — In the Shadow of Ebola by Marissa Mika
It was only a year ago that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was highly visible. Images of health workers dressed in hot and heavy hazmat gear, body…
Teaching Anthropology of/through Games, Part 1
In part one of this two-part series, Krista Harper (UMass Amherst) provides insight into her successful Fall 2014 course, “Anthropology of/through Games.” There is so much here that is…
When We Assess Democracy In Egypt, Whose “Democracy” Are We Measuring?
“Bread, freedom, social justice!” What’s your definition of democracy? Yesterday, after a lecture on ethnographic fieldwork, a student came up to me to discuss the anthropological c…
Links & Contents I Liked 156
Hi all, While our ComDev program is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary this week, there is also a lot of good food-for-reading available that deserves some of…
Paper: Indigenous audio-visual media production and broadcasting – Canadian Examples
Budka, P. 2015. Indigenous audio-visual media production and broadcasting – Canadian Examples. Paper at “Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies”, Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna,…
Too Expensive to Eat
When Food Becomes Money in a Rural Village of Fiji The commodification of various traditionally produced and procured foodstuffs, like taro and fish has been a gradual and…
Christopher R. Duncan, “Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia “
View on Amazon Researching the communal killings that occurred in North Maluku, Indonesia during 1999 and 2000, Christopher Duncan was struck by how participants “experienced the violence as…
Dumpsters, difference, and illiberal embodiment
Food Not Bombs and endeavors like it, I would argue, also create the conditions to queer categories of embodiment like race, class, and sex and interrogate their privileged…
Emergent Socialities of Waste
As the excesses, effluents, and excreta of larger social spheres are discarded, discounted, and possibly denigrated, what happens at those margins where they recirculate? What fissures in prevailing…
From the Centre of Europe to the End of the World: Intimate reflections on activism, healing and belonging in the field
I was not feeling any particular excitement or thrilling feverishness. Preparing for the unknown journey into fieldwork in Santiago de Chile to research inner dynamics of the student social…
World STI and HIV Congress day 3
A summary of the third day of the World STI and HIV congress in Brisbane, Australia. Read on… Tuesday, 15 September 2015 Plenary Talks today were delivered by Raphael Valdivia, Jane Hocking,…
Drugs are… good? No, that can’t be right. Can it?
Like most academics, I’m obsessive. I spend a lot of my free time doing searches for new research on recreational drug use. I do this partly because there’s…
Guava Anthropology Meets Savage Minds
Language choice can be an issue of access. In attempt to shorten some of the gaps, but mostly to highlight some of the awesome anthropology happening in Taiwan,…
People, Primates and Pathogens: Integrated approaches to Health, Disease, and the human-animal interface with Augustin Fuentes and Lisa Jones-Engel
The AAA welcomes back Agustin Fuentes for another Webinar Wednesday, this time joined by Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. Please note our different time this week: 11 AM Eastern. Utilizing…