The Divine Comedy of Liberal Good Intentions
This morning I was sent a slice of internet gold.* The story is of a white American couple, desperate to adopt a baby. An opportunity presents itself in a…
Marcia Ochoa, “Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Latin American Studies] Marcia Ochoa‘s book Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2014)… Visit New…
Merle Hazard on the Fed’s Dual Mandate
Merle Hazard’s new single, Dual Mandate, entertains and elucidates as he explains the Federal Reserve’s core tension: “Rich folks like to see the currency strong / But the…
Marcia Ochoa, “Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela” (Duke UP, 2014)
Marcia Ochoa‘s book Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2014) is a detailed ethnography of Venezuelan modernity……
Merle Hazard on the Fed’s Dual Mandate
Merle Hazard’s new single, Dual Mandate, entertains and elucidates as he explains the Federal Reserve’s core tension: “Rich folks like to see the currency strong / But the…
Merle Hazard on the Fed’s Dual Mandate
Merle Hazard’s new single, Dual Mandate, entertains and elucidates as he explains the Federal Reserve’s core tension: “Rich folks like to see the currency strong / But the…
Ethnological Method
Applying the comparative method in historical linguistics is relatively straightforward and academics habitually apply it to any language they come across at some point or other. But the…
Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement”
[Cross-posted from New Book in Gender Studies] Amy Evrard‘s first book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women’s attempts to change their patriarchal so… Visit…
Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement” (Syracuse University Press, 2014)
Amy Evrard‘s first book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women’s attempts to change their patriarchal society via their movement for … Visit New Books…
About Progress
Last Saturday, I published a post in Norwegian about the populist Progress Party, currently a junior partner in a Conservative-led government around here. It hadn’t occurred to me that…
About Progress
Last Saturday, I published a post in Norwegian about the populist Progress Party, currently a junior partner in a Conservative-led government around here. It hadn’t occurred to me…
About Progress
Last Saturday, I published a post in Norwegian about the populist Progress Party, currently a junior partner in a Conservative-led government around here. It hadn’t occurred to me…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
brandnew ancient games
Obviously I am not at all informed, let alone up to date—granted. But then again this wasn’t really to be expected. Not that I’d have any time for…
Im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Bernhard Streck
Foto: Christoph Lehmann Einige der aktuellen Studierenden am Institut für Ethnologie der Uni Leipzig kennen ihn noch persönlich aus seinen letzten Vorlesungen am Institut 2009/ 2010, späteren Jahrgäng…
Bruno Latour: Imperialist?
I recently saw a blogpost that took Bruno Latour and his disciples/fellow travellers to task for being colonialist ('An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’…
Fear-bola and the Risk Society
Yes Ebola is real and dangerous, but hysteria and misinformation are socially irresponsible and dangerous… In 1986 sociologist Ulrich Beck published Risk Society. In it he described a…
Useful Atrocities
Who outside of Syria knows the names Yara Abbas, Maya Naser, Mohamed al-Saeed…? The corporate media has inundated us with news of the two American journalists allegedly beheaded,…
Another look at the two-systems model of mindreading
Apperly and Butterfill (2009) and Butterfill and Apperly (2013) have proposed a two-systems model of mindreading. According to this model, humans make use of two distinct psychological syste…
The Nazca Culture
The south coast of Peru is home to one of the more famous ancient South American archaeological cultures, the Nazca/Nasca. The reason it's such a celebrated tradition…
Turns out, Beer is pretty important to human history – This Anthro Life
Join TaL as we celebrate the libation that some claim made civilization possible – beer! We will cover some of the historical uses of beer, its changing meaning…