Two new books!
My apologies to readers. I haven’t posted in a while. But I have an excuse. Two excuses actually. I spent the first half of 2020 scrambling to finish…
Happy Anthropology Day!
David Beriss The big day is here. Today is Anthropology Day! Every year the AAA has organized this, we have completely forgotten to acknowledge it. But not this…
Impfstart in China – mit konventionellen Methoden gegen ein neuartiges Virus
Das SARS-CoV-2 hält die gesamte Welt weiterhin in seinem Bann. Hoffnung bieten Impfstoffe. In China sind zwei Präparate aus eigener Produktion zugelassen, die bereits verimpft werden. Mit der…
Faktencheck: Chinesische Gesundheitspolitik
Im Rahmen ihres Industrie-Großprojekts „Made in China 2025“中国制 2025 hat die Volksrepublik die Biotechnologie und die Impfstoffproduktion als eine von mehreren Schlüsseltechnologien ausgemacht, in der …
Faktencheck: Chinesisches Gesundheitswesen
Es gibt in China im Gegensatz zu Deutschland kein Hausarztsystem. Daher geht man auch bei kleineren Beschwerden in die örtlichen Krankenhäuser, etwa zur Medikamentenausgabe. Dies war ein wichtiger…
Faktencheck: Pharmaindustrie in China
China ist der weltweit drittgrößte Absatzmarkt für Pharmaprodukte nach den USA und Japan. Bisher ist der chinesische Pharmamarkt etwa zur Hälfte von ausländischen Konzernen dominiert, wobei der Anteil…
Infrastructuralizing outer space, un-earthing anthropology
Chakad Ojani: On October 14, 2020, the Swedish government announced its decision to grant 90 million SEK to support the expansion of Sweden’s space center and rocket-launching site…
Why Write for SAPIENS?
In the summer of 1960, Jane Goodall left England for what is now Gombe National Park in Tanzania. With the aid of legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, Goodall was…
Moving between Anthropology, Activism and Art
Bartira Fortes: Street Art of Marielle Franco by Rodrigo Rizo Art in its broad spectrum – visual, sonorous, literary, or performative – have offered anthropological research a laboratory…
Academic Fictions: You are John
ff 1. There are two twins sat on the beach but one is farther up the shore, closer to West Point, or right inside it, depending on which…
T. M. Luhrmann, “How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the…
Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
In today’s episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, Sneha Annavarapu talks with Dr. Caterina Fugazzola, Earl S Johnson Instructor in Sociology at the University of Chicago, about her research on t……
Urban Acupuncture Design Theory: Researching New Development Practices in South Africa
Sometimes it only takes a “spark,” a “simple, focused intervention,” a “single stroke of genius,” or “the single prick of a needle” to release the flows and create…
Decolonising Conservation Practices and Research: Seeing the Orangutan in Borneo with Dr June Rubis
Around the world, orangutans are widely recognised as an iconic species for environmental and wildlife conservation efforts. The rainforest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is one of…
Spivak – citizen as agent
If you joined the Handbrick of Marxism book-launch with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak last evening you will have seen her talk on citizens as agents, global Marx, supplementing vanguardism…
Wednesday Round Up #37
How to Interpret Resting-State fMRI: Ask Your Participants Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) reveals brain dynamics in a task-unconstrained environment as subjects let their minds wander freely. Consequentl…
Visual Letter Art
An Egyptian graphic designer named Mahmoud Tammam has created some fascinating word images in Arabic. Check out a discussion of his work here and here.
Reply to Singh
Jacqueline Solway: “… the article sensationalizes and sets up straw people at least at the outset. It is our problem, not ‘theirs’ that we see some others as…
Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala
Buy this volume SERIESNon-Series » CATEGORIESCultural Anthropology »General Anthropology »His…
The Phantom Forests That Built Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde National Park (MVNP) in what is today southwestern Colorado is a UNESCO World Heritage site dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the amazing cliff dwellings…
PAPER
ByAlice Riddell, Chloe Dominique, Emilie Glazer, Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou, and Victoria TeccaPhD Anthropology Introducing PAPER, Power and Politics of/in Ethnographic Research; a timely and i…
#Academicfictions: Nina was here
“Miss Nina, time to wake up! First bus leaves in half an hour!” Nina opened her eyes halfway, and nodded assent. “OK honey, I’ll check on you in…
Emily Willingham, “Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis” (Avery, 2020)
The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating book reveals that in fact nature did not…
K. F. Anderson and E. Jessee, “Researching Perpetrators of Genocide” (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide. T… Visit New…