News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News Responding to rampant gang violence in Honduras, the Obama administration is considering a proposal to screen minors there to see …
Von Marken zu Führung – Warum Mitarbeiterführung vor Markenführung kommt
Gastbeitrag von Jan Willand „Hallo Schatz, wie war dein Tag?“ Banal, vereinfacht, aber so in etwa kann man sich hunderttausende Abende in …
Mazurka Klandestina
Mazurka Klandestina beschreibt eine Graswurzelbewegung, die das Tanzen zurück auf die Straßen und Plätze der Städte bringt. Ausgehend von Italien treffen sich …
The Political Economy of Malnutrition
Almost half of Guatemalan children under five are malnourished, the vast majority rural Maya kids. This is a hidden human tragedy of …
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Eine Leistung?
“Outside of the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan” (© Grzegorz Wąsik). Das wird wohl das Titelbild des Sammelbands. Bin ich glücklich, …
Tuberculosis: more anthropologists wanted
Nhat preparing a sample to be tested in the GeneXpert system If tuberculosis (TB) is so often described as the quintessential social …
Forbud mod sexkøb er ikke løsningen
I sin kronik i Berlingske Tidende d. 13. juli retter Charlott Højgaard (CH) en hård kritik imod mig og 25 andre forskere …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Access Denied: Protests, Urban Green Spaces, and Changing Transportation – This Anthro Life
Episode 35, Season 3. Aired 7/22/14 From Access Denied to Transforming Access, numerous cases of the re-appropriation of space from occupy protesters …
How do you write an anthropology textbook?
Over at my blog-page which attempts to review and integrate anthropology textbooks, got this question from Christopher DeCorse, anthropologist and archaeologist, and …
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Tine Gammeltoft’s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: …
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam” (University of California Press, 2014)
Tine Gammeltoft‘s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction …
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex …
The Moral Obligations of Corporate Tax Avoidance
Milton Friedman, the free-market economist whose perspective defined the Chicago School, famously held that managers’ absolute ethical obligation is to maximize returns …
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Our Brains as Alien Technology
Our brains are alien technology. We don’t understand how they work, and the glimpses we have gotten so far indicate that our …
Random choice among the Kantu, swidden agriculturalists of Kalimantan
An excellent post by Michael Schulson at Aeon magazine entitled “How to choose? When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is …
social/cultural anthropology MOOC in production for edX
I have been busy traveling around the globe to interview several eminent fellow anthropologists about their work and anthropological journeys as well …