Workshop on Ethnographic Methods in Museum Folklore and Ethnology
This post is the next in my series of reports on the trip to China that American museum colleagues and I took in December 2017. The Beijing posts…
This post is the next in my series of reports on the trip to China that American museum colleagues and I took in December 2017. The Beijing posts…
I am excited to be collaborating with Colectivo AM (Mexico City) and LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) on “La Pista de Baile.” Below is the description of the…
Ya’ll know what I’m talking about, right? Franz Boas posing for figure in USNM exhibit entitled “Hamats’a coming out of secret room” 1895 or before. Via the Smithsonian.…
The Kalapuyan tribes of the Willamette Valley have lived here for more than 10,000 years, some 50,000 generations of people. The whole of the valley was owned…
At first blush, the inclusion of the word vulnerable alongside words like fetus, evidence-based, and diversity in the list of 7 words discouraged for use in budget documents…
Daniel Rodgers has written the latest would-be obituary for neoliberalism as a category of analysis, hot off the press in the first 2018 issue of Dissent magazine. Like…
Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt feiert am 18. Januar 2018 mit einer Abendveranstaltung die Eröffnung des neuen Masterstudiengangs “Scie…
The Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral fellowship in the field of Food Studies. The Culinaria Research Centre is one…
Hi all, This is a slightly shorter review this week, but it seems that many writers are still getting back to their desks after the holidays; this is…
Mavi, the apprentice at Mastercut, had told me about her side business in hair extensions long ago, but we had never managed to schedule an appointment which I…
The building pictured below sat near Mack Avenue on Detroit’s far east side and, according to the municipal government, was an environmental hazard. Following years of complaints from…
David Beriss President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Happy New Year! We have news of changes here at FoodAnthropology and, more broadly, at the Society…
The Culinary Institute of America is looking for a new colleague to teach food studies and food systems. They would be joining a growing program in Applied Food…
Has anything out of the ordinary happened to the US as an imperialist power since the ascent of Trump to office? While the continuities between Trump and his…
Die Freundesvereinigung unterstützt seit 20 Jahren die Aktivitäten der Archäologen. In Hochzeiten der Grabungskampagne tragen Frankfurter Archäologen und ihre lokalen Helfer pro Tag bis zu 20 Kisten m…
This post was written by Michele Friedner, with Devva Kasnitz, and Zoë Wool. This year, In the wake of yet another remarkably inaccessible and access-ignorant AAA meeting–and as…
As the dust settles on Iran’s recent bout of protests, the surge of commentary, punditry, and analysis is likely to continue, no longer working to explain these apparently…
Ich mag Neuanfänge. Und den Jahresbeginn, der jedes Mal geheimnisvoll wie eine frisch verschneite Landschaft in der Sonne glitzert und darauf wartet, dass wir die ersten Fussabdrücke hinterlassen.…
Pudginess in babies offers an evolutionary advantage. Alamy Photos “Aw, you still have your baby fat!” This refrain plagued me throughout my childhood. No matter what I did,…
In this blog, Mark Westmoreland provides some insights into how the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University engages with multimodal teaching & research. This…
In part 1 of this blog series on Multimodal Ethnography, I provide a gloss of some of the key issues transforming visual anthropology and other practice-based disciplines. With these…
Got this book long ago in Melbourne by explaining some of its fundamental problems as a text, and on that basis got it Half Price from the bookseller…
Whitney Larrat-Smith, UC Davis § “We were walking for a long time before I saw it. It was an exceptionally hot day in July for Northern Alberta, intensified by…
A betting man’s reflections on money[1] Keith Hart Abstract Part 1 describes my life as a betting man, starting out as a teenager in Manchester and achieving some…