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Future-making on Hold: Pandemic Audio Diaries from two Rift Valley Lakes in Kenya (#WitnessingCorona)

Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Anna Lisa Ramella, Martin Zillinger   In this post, we share the accounts of our research partners from Lake Baringo and Lake…

  • Post date 5th June 2020
  • Post author By Karoline Buchner

Soziale (Corona-) Pandemie — Alles ganz normal?

von Joshua Kliewer „Vivit, et est vitae nescius ipse suae.” — Es lebt, doch es ist sich dessen nicht bewusst. (Ovid, Trist. I, 3) Coronaviren zählen zu den…

  • Post date 5th June 2020
  • Post author By Die Redaktion

Interview with Ishani Dasgupta, 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner

Ishani Dasgupta (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania) was awarded APLA’s 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper…

  • Post date 5th June 2020
  • Post author By randiirwin

Fifty Shades of Green: Reflecting back on the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent in the age of coronavirus [excerpt]

The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent, has made me reflect back on all the facts…

  • Post date 5th June 2020
  • Post author By Glenn H. Shepard

CFP: Eating On the Move

We recently received the CFP below for an intriguing looking conference in Rome in September, 2021. This should be of interest to SAFN members. Full details are here:…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By foodanthro

#BLM

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By nckawa

IZO: Vortrag „Chinas Industrie- und Innovationspolitik: Flaschengeist oder Scheinriese?“

Vortrag von Doris Fischer (Würzburg) zum Thema „Chinas Industrie- und Innovationspolitik: Flaschengeist oder Scheinriese?“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Deutsche Bank Stiftungsgastprofe…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Redaktion

Is kennis van de Nederlandse antropologische traditie nog wel relevant voor hedendaagse antropologen?

VINCENT DE ROOIJ Historici verdedigen de relevantie van hun discipline vaak door te beweren dat kennis van het verleden nodig is om het heden te begrijpen en beter…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By standplaatswereld

Maps, Figurative Symbols, and Songlines

When I think of symbols, I default to a rather literal sense of them. In my Introduction to Anthropology class, I put up the symbol for radiation, say…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By dlende

Why “We” Isn’t for Everyone

[no-caption] Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. On the face of it, there seems to be no…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Nicola Jones

Lords of Poverty (book review)

Unusual times require unusual readings and I finally found the time to read Graham Hancock’s Lords of Poverty-The power, prestige, and corruption of the international aid business. I…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus

Sam Han, “(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty” (Routledge, 2020)

In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now resides mostly…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Michele Wakin, “Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise” (Lynne Rienner, 2020)

Michele Wakin’s new book Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020) is an up-close exploration of the evolution that has taken place with unsheltered…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Kathryn M. De Luna, “Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa” (Yale UP, 2016)

In Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale University Press, 2016), Kathryn M. De Luna documents the evolving meanings borne in the collection of w… Visit…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

James C. Scott, “Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States” (Yale UP, 2017)

We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. In Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Yale…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Putting down our “lenses”

Nikkormat and 50mm lens. Photo by Ryan Anderson 2020. Years ago I read an article about a photographer. I don’t actually remember who the photographer was, but this…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Ryan

On the social nature of toilet paper

You would be forgiven for thinking that the first thing bought in a global crisis would be tinned, dried, and frozen foods; clean water; and medicines—things that enable…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Matt Barlow

Intersectionality

Celebrating Pride Month with a focus on intersectionality. How do we acknowledge our shared history in fighting for civil rights, while recognizing the ongoing systemic racism that disproportionately…

  • Post date 4th June 2020
  • Post author By Natalie Hanson

A Game Changer for Graduate Schools and Anthropology

Recent articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Scientist both highlight the fact that graduate students are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Graduate students at…

  • Post date 3rd June 2020
  • Post author By Chelsea Horton

Is Celebrity Attention Helping or Hurting Amazonian Peoples?

Indigenous peoples in Brazil are dying from COVID-19 at twice the rate of the rest of the country’s population. Here, Indigenous nurses accompany an elderly woman for testing…

  • Post date 3rd June 2020
  • Post author By Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

Pushing boundaries: Homelessness and addiction during Covid-19

“Ben really isn’t keeping up well. He looks fine, but he’s been complaining and he’s constantly out. […] You don’t see a change with everyone, but with him…

  • Post date 3rd June 2020
  • Post author By Johannes Lenhard

ASIGNATURA DE EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA II

¿QUÉ SE ESTUDIA EN EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA II? La asignatura de Evolución Humana II está encuadrada como una asignatura obligatoria dentro del segundo semestre del tercer curso del grado…

  • Post date 3rd June 2020
  • Post author By El Antropólogo Principiante

ASIGNATURA DE ANTROPOLOGÍA DEL DESARROLLO

¿QUÉ SE ESTUDIA EN ANTROPOLOGÍA DEL DESARROLLO? La asignatura de Antropología del Desarrollo está encuadrada como una asignatura obligatoria dentro del segundo semestre del tercer curso del grado…

  • Post date 3rd June 2020
  • Post author By El Antropólogo Principiante

ASIGNATURA DE CONOCIMIENTO ETNOGRÁFICO: ANTROPOLOGÍA POLÍTICA

¿QUÉ SE ESTUDIA EN CONOCIMIENTO ETNOGRÁFICO ANTROPOLOGÍA POLÍTICA? La asignatura de Conocimiento Etnográfico Antropología Política está encuadrada como una asignatura obligatoria dentro del segundo se…

  • Post date 3rd June 2020
  • Post author By El Antropólogo Principiante
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