Fear-bola and the Risk Society
Yes Ebola is real and dangerous, but hysteria and misinformation are socially irresponsible and dangerous… In 1986 sociologist Ulrich Beck published Risk …
Useful Atrocities
Who outside of Syria knows the names Yara Abbas, Maya Naser, Mohamed al-Saeed…? The corporate media has inundated us with news of …
Another look at the two-systems model of mindreading
Apperly and Butterfill (2009) and Butterfill and Apperly (2013) have proposed a two-systems model of mindreading. According to this model, humans make use of …
The Nazca Culture
The south coast of Peru is home to one of the more famous ancient South American archaeological cultures, the Nazca/Nasca. The …
Turns out, Beer is pretty important to human history – This Anthro Life
Join TaL as we celebrate the libation that some claim made civilization possible – beer! We will cover some of the historical …
Halloween, Pregnancy and Birth Style
I LOVE Halloween! It is my very favorite holiday. I love all of the creativity that goes into becoming someone else, and …
Halloween, Pregnancy and Birth Style
I LOVE Halloween! It is my very favorite holiday. I love all of the creativity that goes into becoming someone else, and …
Halloween, Pregnancy and Birth Style
I LOVE Halloween! It is my very favorite holiday. I love all of the creativity that goes into becoming someone else, and …
Oppression, Mental Health, and the House Science Committee
By Steven Folmar, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Anthropology, Wake Forest University On September 15 of this year, I learned from …
Safety in numbers: Squatting as social and financial security
Squatter settlements around the world are not generally considered to bestow financial or social security upon the people who live in them. …
What Is ‘Race’?
Last weekend I was asked to give a Community Perspectives talk for Black History Month in Birmingham, entitled Black Beneath the Skin? The idea was …
Barbara Harriss-White, et al., “Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy: Three Essays and an Atlas”
Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy: Three Essays and an Atlas (Three Essay Collective, 2013) is a wonderful new book by Barbara Harriss-White …
Barbara Harriss-White, “Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy” (Three Essays Collective, 2013)
Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy: Three Essays and an Atlas (Three Essay Collective, 2013) is a wonderful new book by Barbara Harriss-White …
„Rechtshilfe für Ausländerinnen und Ausländer München e.V.“ – ehrenamtliche kostenlose Rechtsberatung
Der Besuch bei einem Rechtsanwalt ist teuer, wenn man dann noch als Flüchtling in einer schwierigen Situation steckt, fehlt neben dem Geld …
Florence Polling und Hannah Rebstock – Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, Indien
Und plötzlich haben wir 3000 neue Schwestern Nachdem wir unseren sechswöchigen Tamil-Sprachkurs des PILC (Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture) in Pondicherry …
Florence Polling und Hannah Rebstock – Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, Indien
Und plötzlich haben wir 3000 neue Schwestern Nachdem wir unseren sechswöchigen Tamil-Sprachkurs des PILC (Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture) in Pondicherry …
[Book Review] Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector by Sam Ladner
thenarcissisticanthropologist: Excited to read this. It’s he book I would have written if I had the commitment to write a whole book …
Florence Polling und Hannah Rebstock – Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, Indien
Und plötzlich haben wir 3000 neue Schwestern Nachdem wir unseren sechswöchigen Tamil-Sprachkurs des PILC (Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture) in Pondicherry …
the arkham knight
After the disappointment ‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ (Warner Bros. Games Montreal 2013) was [and ↑Jaz is with me here, giving good reasons, why …
Hardcore frihet
Det er anarkisten Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty, med bakgrunn blant annet som fotograf i Gateavisa, som sammen med Svein Gullbekk er kurator for Kulturhistorisk …
Abu Nidal and his children
Some years ago, I found myself in the passenger seat of a car trying to make its way through the city centre …
Invest your emotion elsewhere
People tend to call me a rationalist, and that's not really something I have a problem with. I don't think philosophical ideas …
The Kopenawa Galaxy: Review of ‘The Falling Sky’ by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
To look across a Yanomami village on a clear night is like seeing the universe in a mirror. Above, the stars glisten …
The Kopenawa Galaxy: Review of ‘The Falling Sky’ by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
To look across a Yanomami village on a clear night is like seeing the universe in a mirror. Above, the stars glisten …