Slotwoord ABv-dag: Antropologie die ertoe doet
Op 29 mei vond in het Museum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden de jaarlijkse “Dag van de Antropologie” plaats, georganiseerd door de Antropologen Beroepsvereniging (ABv). De thema’s van de…
Islamic Africa: New Brill Journal
Islamic Africa is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal published online and in print. Incorporating the journal Sudanic Africa, Islamic Africa publishes original research concerning I…
Combinatoriality and codes
I read this book as part of an interdisciplinary reading group at Cardiff. As we found, there’s a lot to agree with in the book, but the commentary…
Criminal Negligence?
By Josh Lepawsky, Joshua Goldstein, and Yvan Schulz On 12 May 2015 the United Nations Environmental Program announced the release of a new report called Waste Crime –…
The moment after anticipation #2
(*This paper is part of a larger place mapping project.) The least preferred places in Riga tended to be mentioned by teens where they had concerns about their…
Digestive problems as a symptom of modern times in their Joint Overheating
Wim van Daele is in Sri Lanka, and has been using Ayurvedic learning to understand how a complex interplay of hot foods, stress, fertilizers, inactivity, changed temporalities…
Digestive problems as a symptom of modern times in their Joint Overheating
Wim van Daele is in Sri Lanka, and has been using Ayurvedic learning to understand how a complex interplay of hot foods, stress, fertilizers, inactivity, changed temporalities…
Digestive problems as a symptom of modern times in their Joint Overheating
Wim van Daele is in Sri Lanka, and has been using Ayurvedic learning to understand how a complex interplay of hot foods, stress, fertilizers, inactivity, changed temporalities…
Keywords for the Age of Austerity 19: Resilience
Originally posted on Keywords for the Age of Austerity: Resilience, n., “Elasticity; the power of resuming an original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.” “The quality or…
Digestive problems as a symptom of modern times in their Joint Overheating
Wim van Daele is in Sri Lanka, and has been using Ayurvedic learning to understand how a complex interplay of hot foods, stress, fertilizers, inactivity, changed temporalities…
Digestive problems as a symptom of modern times in their Joint Overheating
Wim van Daele is in Sri Lanka, and has been using Ayurvedic learning to understand how a complex interplay of hot foods, stress, fertilizers, inactivity, changed temporalities…
AVMOFA: UNEXPECTED GIFTS AS ANALYTICAL TOOLS
It is the early(ish) stages of my fieldwork among Hindus from Suriname living in the Netherlands. I am reluctantly attending a question and answer period with a well-known…
REDUX: Journeys within and beyond the City – Part 1 #Fieldnotes
“That’ll be $1.09.” I hand over the last two dollars of my stipend in exchange for my favorite kind of cookie, a gingersnap, while the bakery owner and…
Cyberbullying: an anthropological take
I was asked recently to provide an anthropological take on childhood cyberbullying by IDG Connect. The article is here (http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/9950/are-sexting-cyberbullying-worse-offline-…
Cyberbullying: an anthropological take
I was asked recently to provide an anthropological take on childhood cyberbullying by IDG Connect. The article is here (http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/9950/are-sexting-cyberbullying-worse-offline-…
Cyberbullying: an anthropological take
I was asked recently to provide an anthropological take on childhood cyberbullying by IDG Connect. The article is here (http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/9950/are-sexting-cyberbullying-worse-offline-…
Machik Weekend: A global forum for civic engagement and Tibet
Machik Weekend a global forum for civic engagement and Tibet November 20-22, 2015
Pepper water and protests in Haiti
By Scott Freeman Tear gas is not uncommon in Port au Prince. Over the past decade, whether it has been protests over food shortages, controlling political demonstrations, or…
Cyberbullying: an anthropological take
I was asked recently to provide an anthropological take on childhood cyberbullying by IDG Connect. The article is here (http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/9950/are-sexting-cyberbullying-worse-offline-…
Alimentary Uncertainties: From Contested Evidence to Policy — A special issue of BioSocieities by Aaron Seaman
The June 2015 issue of BioSocieties is a special issue guest edited by Emilia Sanabria and Emily Yates-Doerr, entitled “Alimentary uncertainties: From contested evidence to policy.” The is…
White + word Gap = wrong
With Netta Avineri and Eric J. Johnson, I’ve addressed a report in the Washington Post on the many contextual factors affecting children in poverty. The well-intentioned plans to teach…
In the Journals – June 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. Summer may…
Links & Contents I Liked 148
Hi all, This blog has been silent for far too long! But the ‘end of the term’ period has turned into a rather prolonged period of wrapping up,…
Sweeping Away Agbogbloshie. Again.
By Josh Lepawsky & Grace Akese On 20 June 2015 Ghanaian authorities, including military personnel, entered the infamous Old Fadama/Agbogbloshie site in Accra and began violently dispersing the…