Around the Web Digest: Week of October 11
OK, who else hate-watched Eli Roth’s new “retro” cannibal horror film The Green Inferno? It can’t just have been me. Send me …
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize by Elisabeth Hsu
When I interviewed Professor Tu Youyou in 2005 — in her office at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the work …
anthro in the news 10/19/2015
source: The Independent Muslim refugees and culture talk The Independent (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) carried an article about Canada’s failure to …
Alltägliche Krisen: Flucht, Medizin und Migration. Ein Denkeinstieg
Janina Kehr Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung für Geflüchtete Leipzig Dölitz | 07.08. 2015 | Credits: Caruso Pinguin https://www.flickr.com/photos/110931166@N08/19755672574/in/album-72157656515350228/ Al…
A Memory Stick Packed With Memory – Карта памяти заполненная памятью
***Русский текст ниже*** As a major outcome of the ORHELIA project (Oral History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic), our research …
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Hi all, Development news starts with a strange interview with UN’s USG for Humanitarian Affairs who is quite happy with the system …
Prem Kumar Rajaram: Beyond crisis: Rethinking the population movements at Europe’s border
Crisis The refugee crisis in Europe is fabricated. Like most “crises,” the recent onset of people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and …
Bringing art to breast cancer care: 3D nipple tattooing
Few people realize how long and complex breast cancer treatment is. The Komen Foundation and Avon rarely highlight post-surgery debacles in their …
DERC seminar: Social media and West Papua by Usman Hamid
Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Wed 21 October 2015, 3-4:30pm City campus, Building 13, Room 7, Level 4 Map: …
New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on #performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the reflexive, relational, …
New journal article on peacebuilding and anthropology
Nikolas Kosmatopolous and I are very happy that our special section on anthropology and peacebuilding will be published in the forthcoming issue …
Contextualising Ebola rumours from a political, historical and social perspective to understand people’s perceptions of Ebola and the responses to it
This briefing explores how rumours about Ebola in Sierra Leone influences people’s perception and response to Ebola, from the political, historical and social perspectives. …
Contextualising Ebola rumours from a political, historical and social perspective to understand people’s perceptions of Ebola and the responses to it
This briefing explores how rumours about Ebola in Sierra Leone influences people’s perception and response to Ebola, from the political, historical and social perspectives. …
Contextualising Ebola rumours from a political, historical and social perspective to understand people’s perceptions of Ebola and the responses to it
This briefing explores how rumours about Ebola in Sierra Leone influences people’s perception and response to Ebola, from the political, historical and social perspectives. …
Contextualising Ebola rumours from a political, historical and social perspective to understand people’s perceptions of Ebola and the responses to it
This briefing explores how rumours about Ebola in Sierra Leone influences people’s perception and response to Ebola, from the political, historical and social perspectives. …
Economic Games, Infrastructure, and Commodity Fetishism
This week I payed a game with my students. I wanted to simulate a gift economy – something like the kula of …
The Polish Ethnological Society Condemns Racism in Poland
The Polish Ethnological Society has condemned the surge of racism and xenophobia in Poland in response to Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. “Recent …
Are you sure?
During my fieldwork in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, I was constantly faced with large photographs of children’s faces, in many emotional states, …
Scientific Imperialism
“A fundamental law of Netwonian physics applies also to military maneuver: one can achieve overwhelming force by substituting velocity for mass”. (Maj. …
Summer Roundup: Bioculturalism by Deanna Day
We continue our set of summer roundups by focusing our attention on a series of interviews conducted by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass. Snodgrass …
Food, Culture, and Social Justice in Oregon and Ecuador
Joan Gross Oregon State University 2016 Intercultural Learning Community with Oregon State University The goal of this learning community is to gather …