Un/Inhabitable Worlds: The Curious Case of Down’s Syndrome by Gareth Thomas
In her superb exposition of staring, Garland-Thomson (2009) draws attention to Chris Rush’s artistic piece Swim 2 which depicts a woman with Down’s syndrome in a regal pose…
Hactivists aren’t terrorists – but US prosecutors make little distinction
[written with Luca Follis, Lancaster University] Activists who use technology to conduct political dissent – hacktivists – are increasingly threatened with investigation, prosecution and often disprop…
Searching for (post-)Soviet taste #postsocialism
This project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, share similar…
How Do We Normalize Pregnancy?
Is our cultural antipathy toward pregnancy and children creating a health hazard? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Ethiopian Art and Sunken Military Craft: Updates from the AAA Interns
Update from Katelyn at the National Museum of African Art This week once again was full of wonderful experiences. Dr. Chris Kreamer and I went through the remaining…
“Waiting” in the Neoliberal University: The Salaita Case and the Wages of an Academic Boycott
This essay by anthropologists Martin Manalansan and Ellen Moodie at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides an updated account of the fall-out from their institution’s un-hiring of Steven…
REDUX: Border Work by Madeleine Reeves #postsocialism
In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s. Students of the state…
Case against campesinos connected with coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 takes surprising turn
An important point of the aftermath of the parliamentary coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 was reached today — although with a rather surprising turn of events. The…
Case against campesinos connected with coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 takes surprising turn
An important point of the aftermath of the parliamentary coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 was reached today — although with a rather surprising turn of events. The…
Summer Writing: Units of Time
In the 2002 rom-com About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays a well to do bachelor who lives off the royalties of a song his deceased father produced. With no…
“No faggot, just nuts”
by Pál Nyíri Around ten years ago I took some Chinese friends to the former royal castle in Gödöllö, near Budapest. We came upon a photo studio where…
"People, be wary of anthropologists!"
Pollution, violence, forced displacement: What to do against harmful side effects of mining? A big disaster on a small island helped anthropologist Catherine Coumans to find a…
"People, be wary of anthropologists!"
Pollution, violence, forced displacement: What to do against harmful side effects of mining? A big disaster on a small island helped anthropologist Catherine Coumans to find a…
"People, be wary of anthropologists!"
Pollution, violence, forced displacement: What to do against harmful side effects of mining? A big disaster on a small island helped anthropologist Catherine Coumans to find a…
"People, be wary of anthropologists!"
Pollution, violence, forced displacement: What to do against harmful side effects of mining? A big disaster on a small island helped anthropologist Catherine Coumans to find a…
"People, be wary of anthropologists!"
Pollution, violence, forced displacement: What to do against harmful side effects of mining? A big disaster on a small island helped anthropologist Catherine Coumans to find a…
“Bioculturalism” – An interview with William Dressler by William Dressler
This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related others talking seriously, and thinking practically, about how to synergize biological and social scientific approaches to human health and w…
Introduction: “Bioculturalism: The Why and How of a Promising Medical Anthropological Future” by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
I’m perplexed by cultural anthropology’s antagonism toward biology, with culture and biology more typically treated as providing alternate and competing, rather than complementary and synergistic, exp…
Barbara Bush, the rise of global health & white privilege
As difficult as it is to engage with Nick Kristof’s latest column A Millennial Named Bush on George Bush’s daughter Barbara Bush without getting a little bit sick…
The public health implications of HIV criminalization: a special issue of Critical Public Health by Michelle Pentecost
The latest issue of Critical Public Health features a Special Issue on HIV Criminalisation and Public Health. Guest editor Eric Mykhalovskiy outlines the public health implications of HIV…
REDUX: Rethinking Refugees: Afghan Traders and Exiles in the Former Soviet Union #postsocialism
This piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia and Ukraine. It brings attention to the problems…
Dying in the Age of Facebook
We crave sincerity as much as scholarship -Micheal Jackson 2012: 175 How many dead people do you know on Facebook? I know three. Well, maybe two because one…
Welcome Libraria!
When twitter lit up last week with the news that PKP and SPARC had partnered with EASA, SCA, and 4S your response was probably “WTF?” The new project is…