I am a Lamaze Childbirth Educator
It’s been 5 years since I did my doula training and attended my first birth, and I am finally officially adding a new service to my birth professional…
„Wir und die „Anderen“ oder wie wir „Fremde“ erschaffen
Flüchtlinge, Migranten, oder deutsche Staatsbürger „mit Migrationshintergrund“: Menschen, die… nun ja, „von woanders“ sind, haben es in Deutschland schwer. Die deutsche Mehrheitsbevölkerung, so …
Becoming aware of Awareness-Raising as anti-trafficking tactic
My Google Alerts are now full of nonsensical items on behalf of a Trafficking Awareness Month in the USA. I first discovered Awareness Raising when I began to…
Matt Tomlinson, “Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] Religious ritual has been a staple of anthropological study. In his latest monograph, Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (Oxford University … Visit New…
Matt Tomlinson, “Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Religious ritual has been a staple of anthropological study. In his latest monograph, Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (Oxford University Press 2014), cultural anthropologist Matt ……
Creating The Culture That Will Change The World
I’ve had a bit of an absence from the blogosphere lately. Not for lack of inspiration and desire to pontificate on the quirks of consumer culture –…
Culture: A scientific idea “ready for retirement”?
Every year the website edge.org asks their panel a general question on science and/or society. The 2014 question was: “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?“ I did not read…
An anonymous soon-to-be anthropologist reveals his thoughts
Unser heutiger Interviewpartner für unsere Reihe über den Sinn von Ethnologie studiert Geschichte und Ethnologie im 7. Semester. Er möchte gerne anonym bleiben, ist aber der Redaktion namentlich…
Conference report: Pacific History Association
by Maile Arvin Note: Brief conference reports such as this one will be a regular category on this blog, as we seek to share information about conferences relevant…
Anthropology and the Police
According to Dr Jennie Simpson, an anthropologist of policing in North America, one question to ask in the quest for cultural change within our local police force is,…
Dhuŋgur’-yun-nha: a short poem and comment on stuff
Yes, I know I’m always on about social order as affect. This is an image from the British Museum. Today I was reflecting on the fact…
Dhuŋgur’-yun-nha: a short poem and comment on stuff
Yes, I know I’m always on about social order as affect. This is an image from the British Museum. Today I was reflecting on the fact…
Encircling Empire: Report #25 — Remembering Panama
This and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like” our Facebook page and/or follow on Twitter. “Operation Just…
Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Transforming Refugees
Transforming Refugees: Bio-politics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects The point of this article is not to argue that bio-medicine has become a mechanism for establishing…
Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Our Report for 2014
This year has seen an almost frenzied escalation of US intervention around the globe, ranging from the determined provocations and threats against Russia and backing a coup in…
Whose time are we celebrating for the New Year?
Note: A version of this post appeared on Anthropology in Practice in 2010. It’s New Year’s Eve in the United States, and in New York City tourists and…
Joseph D. Hankins, “Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Joseph D. Hankins’s marvelous new ethnography of the contemporary Buraku people looks at the labor involved in “identifying, dismantling, and reprod……
Joseph D. Hankins, “Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan” (U of California Press, 2014)
Joseph D. Hankins‘s marvelous new ethnography of the contemporary Buraku people looks at the labor involved in “identifying, dismantling, and reproducing” the Buraku situation in Japan and beyon……
Ebola, Medien und Ethnologie – Offener Brief zum SZ-Artikel „Böser Zauber Ebola“
Fachvertreter/innen beziehen Stellung zu dem Artikel „Böser Zauber Ebola: Ethnologen im Hilfseinsatz“, der am 15. Dezember 2014 in der Süddeutschen Zeitung erschien. Einblicke in Exotisierung, Vereinf…
The Real World of Democracy (and Anthropology)
Review essay, Part 2 (see Part 1) Referring to the process by which he studied Cuban democracy, August explicitly refers to it as “ethnographic research” (p. xiii). This…