Zoe Wool, “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed” (Duke UP, 2015)
Zoe Wool‘s ethnography of rehabilitation After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Duke UP, 2015) describes how soldiers injured in the war on terror are pulled…
Zoe Wool‘s ethnography of rehabilitation After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Duke UP, 2015) describes how soldiers injured in the war on terror are pulled…
Recently, a number of news outlets reported the results of a new research study on the correlation between hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer. The study analyzed data from…
Något jag ofta fick höra i lågstadiet av många föräldrar och lärare var att inte äta snö. Starkast rörde förbudet snö som lagt sig. Om man råkade fånga…
by Hannah Loosley **A version of this post was published at ecnmy.org.** Women working in care, catering, cleaning, cashier and clerical jobs (the 5 Cs) have long been…
Just in, the BBC misses the opportunity to call bullshit on Australia, which they can’t do of course because they also export ‘defence’ weaponry. Both as daft as…
Frank Welz lehrt Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt soziale und politische Theorie an der Fakultät für Soziale und Politische Wissenschaften der Universität Innsbruck. Von 2015 bis September 2017…
This looks great and would have been a good thing to attend, but my diary window – and budget – is far too small: *Small Interventions: Studies in…
I’ve much to update on the site in the next few weeks, but first I thought I’d share something I’m super excited about: a new research project, funded…
Ever copy and paste something that should be a solid paragraph of text, which should look like this: Consuetudium lectorum Mirum est notare. Eodem modo typi qui nunc…
an overdue appreciation. Read the rest of the review here, or below: In Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in South India, film studies becomes politics, but also society,…
The immigration debate that is being discussed nationally, has cause me to think about what immigration was like in the…
We are pleased to have a post from Kerri Lesh, the organizer of the AAA panel on terroir as an anthropological matter. Kerri is doing fascinating work on…
Terroir at its Roots: From Panel to Publication Kerri Lesh, University of Nevada-Reno Amy Trubek began the New Year by writing about the annual meeting of AAA, and…
Und dabei wollte ich doch nichts anderes als schreiben und davon leben…aber wie so oft, läuft es im Leben eben nicht so geradlinig und vor(her)bestimmt, wie wir es…
Skip ahead six paragraphs (bypass those marked with an hash mark #) if you want to go straight to the start of the fieldwork stories. If you would…
By Farah Qureshi and the IMTFI/Loy Loy Team at UC Irvine Loy Loy: The Savings Game in Washington D.C.! Julia had been waiting until the last round to…
Hi all, Let’s make it short and sweet: Happy Friday! Enjoy lots of interesting readings on development, ICT4D, detoxing your tech mind & decolonize our thinking! New from…
By Anand Pandian Sometime early in the year 1980, Ursula K. Le Guin receives a fan letter. And yet the letter isn’t actually addressed to Le Guin, but…
Originally posted on Talking about cinema: Saddened by the news of the demise of Supriya Choudhury this morning… She was one of those rare beauties to have ever…
The book “Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation” by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann is a result of…
Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at the age of 88. On the Internet and social media, people remembered her as a feminist and poet, defender of…
after an unfortunate delay, anthro in the news is back! Untitled. Credit: Dean Simone/Pixabay good to think: the post-work world The Guardian carried an article about the many…
Initially I wanted to include these reflections in my annual blogging review post. In the end I decided against it partly because I felt a bit like a…
Vor etwa zwei Wochen hieß es Abschied nehmen von Chile. Ich hoffe jedoch, dass es nur ein Abschied auf Zeit ist und ich irgendwann wieder nach Chile reisen…