In Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, Charles Camic challenges the longstanding portayal of economic theorist Thorstein Veblen as a maverick outsider. Tracing the development of …
Franziska Weidle** “Digital cinema is pre-computational” – from Quelic Berga’s presentation at ECREA 2018; author of original image: DRs Kulturarvsprojekt; title: Steenbeck…
Long before South Africa was hit by Covid-19, youth living with HIV identified stigma as one of the major challenges they face every day. In my ongoing qualitative…
Magdalene Fjord, Svalbard. Photo: Ashok Boghani, flickr Most people can hardly imagine that it is possible to enjoy life up in Northern Norway, in Tromsø for example where…
Magdalene Fjord, Svalbard. Photo: Ashok Boghani, flickr Most people can hardly imagine that it is possible to enjoy life up in Northern Norway, in Tromsø for example where…
The shuttering of the global economy and the devastating health ramifications of COVID-19 have left undocumented immigrant women in the United States struggling to provide emotional and economic care…
Earlier in 2020, we faced a decision. For the past couple of years, things have definitely slowed down here on Anthrodendum. You may have noticed. So we asked…
The EASA membership survey and the associated ‘precarity’ report (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) are an important and timely contribution. Surely these are findings we must build on…
“If you want to understand what a science is, you should look for the first instance not at its theories and its findings, and certainly not at what…
The PrecAnthro Collective within EASA has shown staying power and bite. That is what the EASA precarity survey demonstrates (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020). Mariya Ivancheva has turned…
I arrived a little early to the Great Mosque of San‘a’ in Yemen to continue my research in the small upstairs room which was the “Western Library.” I…
La fotografia correspon a l’estat com va quedar el presbiteri de la parròquia de Cardona després de la revolució de juliol de 1936. Introducció al llibre encarregat per…
I’ve intentionally saved chakra for last. The reasons for this are really two-fold. One, chakras (the name given to the ammonite shell-spiral) are probably the most iconic characteristic…
Every day across Europe hundreds of social anthropologists wake up knowing that their precarious employment conditions may one day force them to leave the discipline. Still, they keep…
by Anne and Freek Colombijn The Corona lockdown has forced schools and universities to switch to online teaching. While we recognize the often justified complaints voiced by many…
This piece was co-authored and experienced by the following (in alphabetical order): Zoe Crossland, Celine Gillot, Praveena Gullapalli, Sven Haakanson, Christina Halperin, Sarah Jackson, George Lau, U…
Who is crazy? Who is normal? Describing somebody as “not normal” has serious implications for this person, can destroy her life. From an anthropological perspective, there is nothing…
The China National GeneBank in Shenzhen opened in 2016 with the goal of storing and researching millions of genetic samples from humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Eben Kirksey…
میراث فرهنگی ناملموس(ICH)[۱] و اجتماع محلی[۲] (Community) ۲- مفهومیابی ِ اجتماع محلی ( کامیونیتی) در خورجین مفاهیم مرتبط با برنامه ریزی شهری، توسعهی پایدار، حق به شهر، عدالت…
Who is crazy? Who is normal? Describing somebody as "not normal" has serious implications for this person, can destroy her life. From an anthropological perspective, there is nothing…
In The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir (Duke UP, 2020), Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in India… Visit New Books…
What happens to a trauma survivor who negatively internalizes the doctrines of Reformed theology? What are the paths forward toward psychological and spiritual healing? In a tour de…
Historical Materialists presents a webinar on: “Reading/Translating Capital Yet Again” Speaker: John Hutnyk Faculty, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Moderator: Abhijit RoyFaculty, Jadavp…
خوشبختی ساده جهان اجتماعی، در برابر بهشتِ عالم آخرت اما مخاطب هشیارِ قرن حاضر (بیست و یک) که از هر نوع «تمایزطلبیِ» سرکوبگر، خسته و دلزده است، بی…