Suggested Reading: “Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique”
In Mobile Secrets Julie Soleil Archambault offers an engaging and original study of how cell phone technology is being used in Mozambique. …
Americans Can Do Two Things at the Same Time
Surely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs …
A New Generation is Reviving Indigenous Tattooing
Nahaan, a Tlingit-Inupiaq-Paiute tattoo artist, inks a woman’s face. Nahaan To celebrate her graduation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Native …
The Abortion Green Scarf as a Boundary Object: Beyond the Curse of the Left by Mara Dicenta
Science and Technology Studies (STS) can engage with social movements in a variety of forms. STS scholarship has provided methods, theories, and …
How burying my father made me believe in anthropology
I was an American. In the United States, dead bodies are taboo. They are immediately separated from the living in funeral parlours …
Towards a Queer Art of Surveillance in South Korea
Editor’s Note: This post was co-written with Timothy Gitzen. When is a face not a face? With the launch of the iPhone …
This Is Not a Goldmine: Capital, Conservation, and the Politics of Recruitment in the Deep Bismarck Sea
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. …
The Story of our Fashion Fast!
by Rebecca Prentice, Hannah Amey, Maeve Devers, Rifka Fehr, Olive Howland Milne, Alfred Lewis, Phoebe Marsh, Joana Pereira and Amelia Yates As …
The Stories Continue by Annelieke Driessen
Much to our pleasure we got many positive responses following the publication of our series, ‘thinking with dementia’. Some of these responses …
Data Management in Qualitative Social Science: The Impact of the Leiden Statement
How do anthropologists go about data management? In the second contribution on our series on impact, Peter Pels reflects on the international …
Wessen Recht für wen?
von Lilli Hasche Der Umgang mit kolonialen Kulturgütern und Human Remains in europäischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsinstitutionen ist ohne Zweifel eine politische Frage, …
Birth as Ritual/Ritual as Birth
Cultural anthropologist, Robbie Davis-Floyd, is considered by many as the Queen of Childbirth Studies. A Senior Research Fellow in the Department …
Milk…It’s Good to Think
David McMurray Anthropology, emeritus Oregon State University I am a product of the Upper Midwest with its (waning) Scandinavian and German influences. …
Disability in and through Rural Worlds by Vandana Chaudhry
The vast majority of disabled people in the Global South inhabit rural worlds and their experiences are shaped by material, relational, and …
Elise Berman on her new book, Talking Like Children
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982 Interview by Shannon Ward Shannon Ward: Most chapters of your book illustrated the enactment of “aged agency” t…
Antisemitismus und der Hass auf die „halbierte Aufklärung“ – ein Plädoyer für antimissionarischen Universalismus Eine Rezension zu Samuel Salzborns Globaler Antisemitismus. Von Mathias Beschorner
Der derzeitig am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der TU Berlin als Gastprofessor arbeitende Politikwissenschaftler Samuel Salzborn gilt als einer der renommiertesten Experten zum …
Cambridge job offer, Russian Arctic Studies
Today we pass on the job advert of colleagues at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. They search for a new person …
Fluid Masculinity: The case of Krishna
As Rama becomes more and more the icon of “virile Hinduism” and the symbol of a new kind of hegemonic, patriarchal, masculinity, …
Warum venezolanische Migrant*innen als Flüchtlinge zu betrachten sind
Wie wir Venezolaner*innen im Exil behandeln, wird den Entwicklungsverlauf ihres Landes und der umliegenden Region bestimmen. Rund 3,4 Millionen Venezolaner*innen sind bereits …
What FoodAnthro is reading, March 8, 2019
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links …
Breathing Room: Poetic Form as Resistance to Convention in the Ethnography of Suffering by Casey Golomski
Here I ruminate on recent writing experiments at the convergence of poetry and ethnography as a means to convey experiences of suffering. …
What Migrants Leave Behind
A child’s backpack abandoned on a migrant trail in the Tumacácori Mountains suffers the ravages of time. Gabriella Soto “Oh my God. …
A Story of Us
For the past several years, the graduate students of the Ohio State Department of Anthropology have produced A Story of Us, a …
#AcademicTwitter: A How-To Guide for Anthropologists
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Jules Weiss. Jules Weiss (they/them pronouns) is a 2nd year MA student in …