Anthropology Southern Africa: relaunch of our journal
By Heike Becker Editor in chief: Anthropology Southern Africa November 2014 Anthropology Southern Africa has recently published the first issue in its new guise, now available…
Thanksgiving Tidbits
Now that you’ve filled yourself with good company and good food and you’re settled on your couch, how about some light reading before the tryptophan sets in? —…
Pamela Klassen, “Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Christian Studies] Liberal Protestants are often dismissed as reflecting nothing more than a therapeutic culture or viewed as a measuring rod for the decline of…
Thanksgiving Live Blog 2015
Happy Thanksgiving from the D’Costas! Back in 2011, I experimented with sharing my Thanksgiving with you, Readers, and I thought it might be time for a resurrection, so…
The Emergence of Death and Dying as We Know It
Once upon a time, people died in their homes. Up until the time of death they were cared for by friends, family members, and appointed religious leaders. —…
The Good Life: Page 99 Test
The Page 99 Test blog takes its cue from Ford Madox Ford, who remarked “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole…
The Good Life: Page 99 Test
The Page 99 Test blog takes its cue from Ford Madox Ford, who remarked “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole…
The Good Life: Page 99 Test
The Page 99 Test blog takes its cue from Ford Madox Ford, who remarked “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole…
‘Remarkable Plants’ by Bynum & Bynum, ‘The History of Central Asia’ by Baumer
It was my birthday last week, so I've got some new books to read, including volume two of Christoph Baumer's The History of Central Asia (I B Tauris),…
Stereotyping Africa: an appeal for a normal people perspective
The recent Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has spurred a range of responses from all over the world. Some of these responses exemplify the ongoing…
The Happiness Fetish – This Anthro Life
What kinds of things make us happy? How does happiness inhere in objects or how to we use objects to display our happiness? In this episode we explore…
Free compilation of popular anthropology
Want to read popular anthropology but don’t know where to start? A few of us fans got together and compiled a booklet of short articles by anthropologists from…
Cultures of Dependency
fundamental social change is hard to achieve because cultures of dependency are deeply entrenched in the local political culture. In political theories of social change like Marxism, under…
She prefers simplicity to paradoxes, answers to dilemmas
‘Yet, one cannot help being disturbed by the fuzzy utopianism and smug righteousness permeating Naomi Klein’s books.’ I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything…
Upward Anthropology at AAA 2014
As most of you probably know, the American Anthropological Association annual meeting is being held in our home town of Washington DC December 3-7. As promised, we will…
She prefers simplicity to paradoxes, answers to dilemmas
‘Yet, one cannot help being disturbed by the fuzzy utopianism and smug righteousness permeating Naomi Klein’s books.’ I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything, and…
She prefers simplicity to paradoxes, answers to dilemmas
‘Yet, one cannot help being disturbed by the fuzzy utopianism and smug righteousness permeating Naomi Klein’s books.’ I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything, and…
Bruno Latour: Kosmokoloss. Eine Tragikomödie über das Klima
Der Hörspiel Pool von Bayern 2 hat das Theaterstück Kosmokoloss von von Bruno Latour als Hörspielproduktion herausgebracht. Hier für die nächsten zwei Monate downloadbar
Pamela Klassen, “Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity” (University of California Press, 2011)
Liberal Protestants are often dismissed as reflecting nothing more than a therapeutic culture or viewed as a measuring rod for the decline of Christian orthodoxy. Rarely have they…
Bruno Latour: Kosmokoloss. Eine Tragikomödie über das Klima
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Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…
Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…
Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…
Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…