Urban Cycling – This Anthro Life
Episode 36, Season 3, Aired 7/29/14 Urban cycling is both a global and local phenomenon. From Boston to Bombay to Beijing, bike …
“Irreplaceable ethnographic record”?; more like commodification andexotification
Books like Jimmy Nelson’s are important because they highlight the inner battle that occurs when consuming content that is simultaneously problematic and …
Lazy farmers or unfair world trade?
Fair prices, better working conditions, security: It is supposed to be a solution to economic injustice. But in the tiny Caribbean island …
Alice Conklin, “In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Host Jonathan Judaken and author Alice Conklin discuss the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high water mark of French …
Alice Conklin, “In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Host Jonathan Judaken and author Alice Conklin discuss the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high water mark of French …
Alice Conklin, “In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950”
[Cross-posted with permission from Jonathan Judaken’s Counterpoint on WKNO in Memphis]. Host Jonathan Judaken and author Alice Conklin discuss the thorny relationship between science, society, …
News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News Responding to rampant gang violence in Honduras, the Obama administration is considering a proposal to screen minors there to see …
Von Marken zu Führung – Warum Mitarbeiterführung vor Markenführung kommt
Gastbeitrag von Jan Willand „Hallo Schatz, wie war dein Tag?“ Banal, vereinfacht, aber so in etwa kann man sich hunderttausende Abende in …
Mazurka Klandestina
Mazurka Klandestina beschreibt eine Graswurzelbewegung, die das Tanzen zurück auf die Straßen und Plätze der Städte bringt. Ausgehend von Italien treffen sich …
The Political Economy of Malnutrition
Almost half of Guatemalan children under five are malnourished, the vast majority rural Maya kids. This is a hidden human tragedy of …
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Eine Leistung?
“Outside of the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan” (© Grzegorz Wąsik). Das wird wohl das Titelbild des Sammelbands. Bin ich glücklich, …
Tuberculosis: more anthropologists wanted
Nhat preparing a sample to be tested in the GeneXpert system If tuberculosis (TB) is so often described as the quintessential social …
Forbud mod sexkøb er ikke løsningen
I sin kronik i Berlingske Tidende d. 13. juli retter Charlott Højgaard (CH) en hård kritik imod mig og 25 andre forskere …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying …
Access Denied: Protests, Urban Green Spaces, and Changing Transportation – This Anthro Life
Episode 35, Season 3. Aired 7/22/14 From Access Denied to Transforming Access, numerous cases of the re-appropriation of space from occupy protesters …
How do you write an anthropology textbook?
Over at my blog-page which attempts to review and integrate anthropology textbooks, got this question from Christopher DeCorse, anthropologist and archaeologist, and …
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Tine Gammeltoft’s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: …
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam” (University of California Press, 2014)
Tine Gammeltoft‘s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction …
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex …
The Moral Obligations of Corporate Tax Avoidance
Milton Friedman, the free-market economist whose perspective defined the Chicago School, famously held that managers’ absolute ethical obligation is to maximize returns …
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Our Brains as Alien Technology
Our brains are alien technology. We don’t understand how they work, and the glimpses we have gotten so far indicate that our …