“Poetry or Pogrom” – Interview at Erbacce Journal
Originally posted on debasis mukhopadhyay: I’m honored & deeply grateful to be the featured poet in Erbacce Journal (issue 55)! An interview …
Modalities of Culture Change: A Query
A hybrid flower photographed by makamuki0 and circulated under a CC0 license. Hybridization as a mode of cultural change was discussed prominently …
Estuaries Saved the Coastal Tribes: Section 2- Removal and Exposure
Removal of the western Oregon tribes to the reservations was a tumultuous affair. Caravans from the Umpqua and Table Rock reservations to …
[Announcement] Achille Mbembe on „The Capacity for Truth: Of ‘Restitution’ in African Systems of Thought“
A.W. Amo Lecture 14th November 2018, 18h15, Melanchthonianum XX, MLU, Universitätsplatz 8/9, Halle Achille Mbembe WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg …
A Demagogue’s Words Matter
Trump’s immigration metaphors set a divisive tone from the top. Trump wields demagogic rhetoric like a marketing tool, ramping up prejudicial appeals …
1.5ºC: The Future and Present of Anthropology in an Era of Climate Change
Image: Trent Schindler, NASA/Goddard/UMBC (https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html) Anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Adam Fleischmann Early Saturday morning, October 6,…
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Hi all, We had two long, but great days discussing blog project assignments with our Communication for Development students. I am also …
For Chimps, Human Touch Can Hurt
At a sanctuary in Cameroon, caregiver Henriette holds Gnala, a 2-year-old chimpanzee who had previously lived in a human household as a …
The Bill Belichick disruption (and what we can learn from it)
(This post was originally published on Medium two days ago. It is reproduced here with light editing only.) How do they do …
Review: Eating Nafta
Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico. Alyshia Gálvez. University of California Press. 2018. 260pp. ISBN:9780520291812. Joan Gross …
Ein langes Wochenende in Peking – Teil 3
Tag 3: Kaiserpalast/ Verbotene Stadt – Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit Heute bin ich relativ früh aufgestanden um gegen kurz nach 8:00 …
Von Agnostizismus bis Säkular: Eine Zusammenstellung zu nichtreligiösen Weltanschauungen
Unter einem früheren ‘A-Z’, nämlich “Religion und Vorurteil von A-Z” (2015; man siehe aber auch Buddhas Drittes Auge – Populäre religionsgeschichtliche Irrtümer …
150 – Paige West
Cymene and Dominic recap their Halloween on this week’s episode of the podcast and plug the spooky new Cultural Anthropology series, “Time …
The Culture of Corruption
Many of us know that political corruption is not new to the world. It is an unsavory, human practice with a history …
Beyond Nutrition: Eating, Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility
Beyond Nutrition: Eating Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility from Sight and Life (2017)
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HHS Transgender Proposal a Shabby Costume
Implementing the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed definition of sex as “either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the …
At the Estonian National Museum
#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld This is the third of three anticipated posts on my fall 2019 visit to Estonia (1st, 2nd). A great …
A Reader’s Guide to the Anthropology of Ethics and Morality – Part III by Jeannette Pols
Editor’s note: We asked several scholars which readings they would recommend to students or colleagues interested in familiarizing themselves with the anthropology …
Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment – Part 2
This is the second of a two-part blog post by Marie-Eve Carrier Moisan discussing the challenges and potentials of part of transforming …
A Feeling for Robotic Skin
Ethnographic explorations with sex dolls, robots, and their makers “I hate it when her eyes flick open. This one, her eyeballs sometimes …
Resources for Resistance: A politically engaged reading list
Maximillian Alvarez kindly offered to let us repost his short bibliography of Resources for Resistance, which affords a great, broad introduction to …
Book Review: Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia by Tomas Matza
In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia, Thomas Matza offers an ethnographic account that explores the rise of psychotherapy in …
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Waste colonialism
Waste colonialism refers to how waste and pollution are part of the domination of one group in their homeland by another group. …
Reflections on Disposability, “Mobile Privatization,” and the “Wastelanding” of Houston’s Streets
Recently, I was having a conversation with several colleagues about driving in Houston. The usual horror stories were being exchanged when the …