Culture and utility
Re-reading a chapter in Marshall Sahlins’ Culture and Practical Reason, Le Penseé Bourgoisie today I could have cited multiple chunks of though-provoking writing. Instead, here’s a simple …
Anthropology and the State during Globalization
What’s happening with the anthropology of the state? It seemed that in the 1990s, anthropology was breaking from the ethnographic trilogy of one fieldworker, one village, one year,…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
Neuerscheinung: “Erzählte Prekarität”
Dass Ove Sutter, Mitglied des Forschungskollegs, mit einem Doc.Award ausgezeichnet wurde, stand hier im blog. Jetzt ist sein Buch Erzählte Prekarität. Autobiographische Verhandlungen von Arbeit und Le…
Neuerscheinung: “Erzählte Prekarität”
Dass Ove Sutter, Mitglied des Forschungskollegs, mit einem Doc.Award ausgezeichnet wurde, stand hier im blog. Jetzt ist sein Buch Erzählte Prekarität. Autobiographische Verhandlungen von Arbeit und Le…
Neuerscheinung: “Erzählte Prekarität”
Dass Ove Sutter, Mitglied des Forschungskollegs, mit einem Doc.Award ausgezeichnet wurde, stand hier im blog. Jetzt ist sein Buch Erzählte Prekarität. Autobiographische Verhandlungen von Arbeit und Le…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…
Sienna R. Craig, “Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Two main questions frame Sienna R. Craig’s beautifully written and carefully argued new book about Tibetan medical practices and cultures: How is…
Sienna R. Craig, “Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine” (University of California Press, 2012)
Two main questions frame Sienna R. Craig‘s beautifully written and carefully argued new book about Tibetan medical practices and cultures: How is efficacy determined, and what is at…
Spike fiddles
The zeze is a spike fiddle from Tanzania – and a member of a fiddle family played all over Africa and Asia. The zeze is composed of a…
Spike fiddles
The zeze is a spike fiddle from Tanzania – and a member of a fiddle family played all over Africa and Asia. The zeze is composed of a…
Spike fiddles
The zeze is a spike fiddle from Tanzania – and a member of a fiddle family played all over Africa and Asia. The zeze is composed of a…
Spike fiddles
The zeze is a spike fiddle from Tanzania – and a member of a fiddle family played all over Africa and Asia. The zeze is composed of a…