In the Journals – September 2016, part one by Aaron Seaman
Welcome to part one of September’s journal post. We start off with a few special issues, which have been highlighted earlier, followed …
Undergraduate-Paper-Grading-Ophobia
At times, student writing activities and assignments seem like more of a chore for instructors than the students (although I hear them …
Jason Pierce, “Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West” (UP of Colorado, 2016)
The West, particularly the mountain West of states like Colorado, Utah, Idaho, has long had an image as a land of white …
Anthro in the news 9/26/16
Mother, mother: On police violence and race in the U.S. At the 50th Anniversary JFK March in 2014. Source: Google Images/Creative Commons …
Anthropology and Photography
Anthropology & Photography (ISSN 2397-1754) is a new open-access RAI publication series edited by the RAI Photography Committee. Emerging from the international …
Musings on the Materiality of Health Care by Cristina A. Pop
Nightstand in a psychiatry hospital from Alba-Iulia, Romania. The picture was taken by Odeta Catana in November 2014, as part of a …
CFP: Beyond the ‘end of Cheap Nature’: The production of waste-based commodity frontiers (AAG)
This session traces the shift from waste-as-externality to waste-as-resource, and focuses on the production of waste-based commodity frontiers.
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, September 26, 2016
Here’s a rundown of some interesting stories we’ve been reading recently! We also like to call it How to Make Reading Articles on …
Daniel Carasso Prize/Premio Daniel Carasso
Just ran across this prize announcement from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. It seems like there ought to be some solid …
Economic Citizenship and Resource Nationalism
What is resource nationalism, and why is it important? One of Wikipedia’s shortest entries, “resource nationalism” nonetheless appears in 372 files published …
Anthropology and the MacArthurs
The 2016 MacArthur Fellows were announced yesterday and — unlike some years — there were no anthropologists on the list. Established back …
The terrible new gun law of Missouri/Missourah
For Quartz, I wrote about Missouri’s terrible new permitless carry law and our state’s cultural divide: Gun culture, in Missouri, is indeed ubiquitous: …
Going Native
A picture may be worth a thousand words, a cartoon even more. Bernard Perley combines his professional training in fine arts, …
Third International Conference on Food History and Cultures
Recently received conference announcement and call for sessions that should be of great interest to FoodAnthropology readers! Call for sessions Third International …
When Did Sex Become Fun?
There are multiple answers to the question of where we come from: early hominins, monkeys, primordial goo, or the Big Bang, to …
Engaged Anthropology Grant: Kevin O’Neill
Kevin O’Neill is a Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. In 2006 while …
Reflections on The Mind is a Collection
On September 22, 2016 Indiana University’s Center for Eighteenth Century Studies held the 2016 Kenshur Prize celebration at the Mathers Museum of …
Links & Contents I Liked 200
Hi all, This is officially the 200th link review, but last week’s post already marked the official anniversary of curating development, ICT4D …
CFP: Ecologies of Toxicity
We welcome papers and performances (including artworks, films and media experiments) that map, trace, and critique ecologies of toxicity.
Top of the Heap: Paul Rabinow by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Paul M. Rabinow, who is a Professor of medical …