(Re)-Remembering the Trail of Tears
September 16th is Trail of Tears Commemoration Day. This was news to me. As an Oklahoman, living in former Indian Territory, the …
NEW! — Zoltán Glück: Of politics and crowds: A conversation with Susan Buck-Morss
This interview with Susan Buck-Morss took place at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center on May 12 2015. Buck-Morss …
On private property and the commons
Ryan Anderson: Earlier you referred to OA as “a strategy of resistance to privatization of the commons”. Can you elaborate on that …
STI & HIV Congress ends, HIV & AIDS conference begins
The last day of the World STI & HIV Congress and the first day of the Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference. Please …
Contextualizing Exclusion: Lessons from Kambis
In my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education, the transmission …
Jack Goody (1919-2015): an oral history
[The following is an invited post by Keith Hart, Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology in the Department of International Development at the …
Ethik und Ethnologie: Ethikkommissionen, ethnographisches Arbeiten und Epistemologie – nicht nur in der Medizinethnologie
Hansjörg Dilger EthnologInnen in Deutschland haben es gut: Sie müssen keine Ethikgenehmigung für ihre Feldforschungen einwerben oder befürchten, dass ihre Forschung …
Thomas Marchione Award 2015
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Thomas Marchione Award. Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian …
Christine Wilson Award 2015
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Christine Wilson Award. The award recognizes outstanding student research …
Propagating Romance: The Islamic State
by Yoram Kannangara The commencement of the new millennium and the age of global networks, 9/11, The Gulf War(s) semantics, Al-Qaeda, and incessant …
Film Forum — In the Shadow of Ebola by Marissa Mika
It was only a year ago that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was highly visible. Images of health workers dressed in …
Teaching Anthropology of/through Games, Part 1
In part one of this two-part series, Krista Harper (UMass Amherst) provides insight into her successful Fall 2014 course, “Anthropology of/through Games.” There …
When We Assess Democracy In Egypt, Whose “Democracy” Are We Measuring?
“Bread, freedom, social justice!” What’s your definition of democracy? Yesterday, after a lecture on ethnographic fieldwork, a student came up to me …
Links & Contents I Liked 156
Hi all, While our ComDev program is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary this week, there is also a lot of good …
Paper: Indigenous audio-visual media production and broadcasting – Canadian Examples
Budka, P. 2015. Indigenous audio-visual media production and broadcasting – Canadian Examples. Paper at “Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies”, Vienna, …
Too Expensive to Eat
When Food Becomes Money in a Rural Village of Fiji The commodification of various traditionally produced and procured foodstuffs, like taro and …
Christopher R. Duncan, “Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia “
View on Amazon Researching the communal killings that occurred in North Maluku, Indonesia during 1999 and 2000, Christopher Duncan was struck by …
Dumpsters, difference, and illiberal embodiment
Food Not Bombs and endeavors like it, I would argue, also create the conditions to queer categories of embodiment like race, class, …
Emergent Socialities of Waste
As the excesses, effluents, and excreta of larger social spheres are discarded, discounted, and possibly denigrated, what happens at those margins where …
From the Centre of Europe to the End of the World: Intimate reflections on activism, healing and belonging in the field
I was not feeling any particular excitement or thrilling feverishness. Preparing for the unknown journey into fieldwork in Santiago de Chile to research …
World STI and HIV Congress day 3
A summary of the third day of the World STI and HIV congress in Brisbane, Australia. Read on… Tuesday, 15 September 2015 Plenary Talks …