“Bioculturalism” – An interview with Emily Mendenhall by Emily Mendenhall
This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related others talking seriously, and thinking practically, about how to synergize biological and social scientific …
Native Land
jeremy schmidt: A very good, and needed project. Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life: Native Land …
Buses, Metros, Shoes & Confusing Journeys #Fieldnotes
This week we continue our thread on fieldnotes via four posts that all in their own way elaborate this thread’s overarching theme: …
Change jobs, return to research or enrol in further higher ed?
You get to a point in your life where you start to reflect on your skill set and your current responsibilities and …
→The Anxious Anthropologist: culture, health and everyday life
Around the Web Digest: Week of August 2
Happy August! I hope you aren’t going into panic mode looking at your to-do list for summer. Send along any blog posts …
Love And Fear in Egypt
Autocratic and democratic regimes are pretty much the same, says Joseph Massad in an article in the journal Public Culture. The chief …
Ferguson, one year later
For the New York Daily News, I covered what Ferguson is like on the ground one year after the killing of Michael …
Tunisia after the terror attacks
by Rachid Ghannouchi © Qantara.de 2015 Translated from the German by Nina Coon A battle for freedom and dignity In the wake …
Petitioning the UN on Epidemics and Xenophobia
Please visit change.org to support this petition: In June 2015 The Bellagio Task Force on Epidemics and Xenophobia met to discuss the …
Anthropoliteia and the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
Two bits of news concerning both Anthropoliteia and the journal Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR): First, we’re all so excited that our own …
Sarah Pinto’s Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India by Saiba Varma
Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 283 pages. Sarah Pinto’s extraordinary ethnography, Daughters of …
Sociology of the Arab Spring
For those interested in the issue, the recently published July issue of International Sociology (30:4) is devoted to the Arab uprisings. It …
On Facebook’s Internet.org false promises of a “poor man’s internet”
What started as a quick discussion on Facebook has turned into a great guest post by Hani Morsi.Hani is currently writing up …
On the History and Future of Medical Anthropology in Germany – and the Close Relationship between Medicine, Technology and Society in a Globalizing World: Interview with Arthur Kleinman
In June 2011, Professor Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University) visited the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. It was one of Arthur …
Knitting for black power
For the Guardian I profiled the Yarn Mission, a group of black St. Louis women fighting racism through knitting. Yes, knitting: In …
Epidemics, Xenophobia and the “Other” Fear Factor
Sharks, contaminated foods, polluted water, heat waves, droughts, floods, tsunamis, rising ocean levels, financial collapse, the police, radical Muslims, young African American …
STI, HIV, AIDS, TB, conferences of this month
The Joint World STI & HIV & ASHM Congress starts on Sunday 13 September 2015 at the Brisbance Convention Centre! That’s today (in local time)!!! It …
MIT HÄNDEN ESSEN ODER WER IS(S)T DENN SCHON NORMAL? MEIN CARGO-BEITRAG
Seit ein paar Ausgaben schreibe ich für die ethnologische Zeitschrift CARGO. Im letzten Magazin befassten sich die schreibwütigen Ethnologe_innen mit Fragen rund um …