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Hi all, Happy International Women’s Day! My piece on white saviour communication & media rituals has gained some nice traction this week, …
Great new book from Karine Gagné: Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
This is a great looking new title from Karine Gagné at the University of Guelph. Available here from University of Washington Press, …
Frauen, Flucht und Handlungsmacht
Von Ulrike Krause und Hannah Schmidt Zum heutigen Weltfrauentag möchten wir den Blick auf die Lage geflüchteter Frauen in Aufnahmeländern legen. …
New York, New York
“No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” -James Baldwin Då folk frågade mig hur New York var, brukade jag svara kort och …
Regime Change Reality Checks: Lessons from Hanoi, Caracas, and Beyond
Lessons from Hanoi: North Korea and the US The first Kim-Trump Summit, which took place in Singapore a mere eight months ago, …
167 – Lucas Bessire
Cymene’s sushi confessions on this week’s podcast lead us to the idea that supporting daydrinking and carb-heavy lunches in the oil industry …
The Conversation
What is does it mean to work post-graduation, and what does anthropology have to do with it? It happens every quarter. The …
„Integration“ und (Des)Integration
Herausforderungen für die politische Kommunikation Autor: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann Welches Wissen verwenden Politik und Bevölkerung, wenn sie über „Integration“ sprechen? Prof. …
AAA/CASCA 2019 Annual Meeting CFPs
Abstracts for the AAA Annual Meeting must be submitted by 3 p.m. EST on April 10th. If you are looking for panelists for your …
CFP: AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Start planning your sessions for AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC! The time has come to start planning sessions for …
Review: From Virtue to Vice
Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. V. 4. New York: …
Vigilance as coping, vigilance as injury by Michelle Munyikwa
If I were asked for a definition of myself, I would say that I am one who waits; I investigate my surroundings, …
Does Art Have a Homeland?
Detail from a 16th-century bronze plaque from Benin, West Africa, held at the British Museum, London. Trustees of the British Museum This …
Interrogating Queer Identity: The Use of Art as Resistance and Stories from the Margins
by Colin Gill In this moment in history we are witnessing several ultra-right movements across the globe. The most recent example of …
Das Schweizer Asylverfahren
Ein Zukunftsmodell für Europa? Dr. Constantin Hruschka In seinem Gastbeitrag für die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung erklärt Dr. Constantin Hruschka die wichtigsten Neuerungen und beschreibt, …
Nya världar med nya invånare
”Om du hittar en grimer, eller nåt annat som jag inte har, så fånga den!” säger nioåringen innan vi skiljs. ”Är det …
Ed Simpson: State Highway 31
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1188/Ed%20Simpson%20-%20State%20Highway%2031.mp3 Ed Simpson (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) gav…
NYAS Lecture 3/25: Where Has “Japanese Women’s Language” Gone?
On March 25th the New York Academy of Sciences lecture series returns when Dr. Miyako Inoue, Associate Professor at Stanford
Hummingbirds are Nature’s…
One of my passions is studying multispecies entanglements. As an anthropologist, the ways in which human activities affect the lives of other …
Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship: Jennifer Heuson
Wenner-Gren is proud to present the following blog post and trailer from Jennifer Heuson who in 2016 received a Fejos
A Plantation inside the Cow: Capitalist Indigestions and the Rumen Microbial Universe
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. …
Description/Classification/Threshold: Experiments with Renewable Energy Taxonomy
This is not renewable energy: Nor is this some clever, Magritte-esque meta-commentary on how it is impossible represent or think about …
White saviour communication rituals in 10 easy steps
The David Lammy/White Saviour versus Stacey Dooley/Comic Relief debate is an excellent opportunity to look at some of the core elements of …
Thomas F. Gieryn, “Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe” (U Chicago, 2018)
Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University …