Nok research project enters final phase
Goethe University Frankfurt can continue its study of the Nok Culture. The German Research Foundation has recently approved the funding application submitted by Professor Peter Breunig, Professor of…
Goethe University Frankfurt can continue its study of the Nok Culture. The German Research Foundation has recently approved the funding application submitted by Professor Peter Breunig, Professor of…
Happy new year! This post rounds off Somatosphere’s 2017 “In the Journals,” with articles published in December. Enjoy! Medical Anthropology Quarterly (In)Visibility Online: The Bene…
By Kelly Alexander Happy New Year and without further ado, here’s the state of U.S. food policy on this second day of 2018: Special United States Edition. In…
PART ONE✓ Brazil is a country saturated with corruption. From the small, family-owned mom and pop neighborhood grocery store to the hallowed halls of the Senate and Congress,…
This post is about a portion of my recent trip to China. The main focus of this trip was collaborative ethnographic research in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, but…
On this day devoted (by some) to a genre fiction, my thoughts have turned to dystopia and utopia–these are not, however, co-extensive with SF, but see Fredric Jameson’s…
Robert Borofsky: How did you become an anthropologist? Discovering anthropology for me was like falling in love. I was a freshman in college and I knew nothing about…
In 1850, the United States passed The Oregon Donation Land-claim Act. This act gave American men 640 acres, one square mile of free land in Oregon, allowed other…
I’m excited to be in New Orleans this week for the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dan Trepal and I are chairing a session entitled,…
Lets put aside for the moment all the usual warnings about pursuing an academic career. Lets say that you are old enough to take responsibility for your own…
anthropology in the news is taking a break this week but will return on January 8
Han Han ist in China ein allseits bekannter Blogger, Autor, Rennfahrer und Gesellschaftskritiker. Als Schulabbrecher und literarisches Jugendtalent veröffentlichte er schon früh Thesen zum Bildungssys…
Anson Dart, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, from 1850 to 1852, remains an enigma. His nineteen treaties with the tribes of western Oregon, negotiated by the…
2017 was a very productive year for Anthro{dendum} and to kick off another year in the anthropology blogosphere, I bring our annual year in review! Our three most popular…
The Battle of Abiqua In February 1848, six months after the Whitman Massacre, the settlers in the Willamette valley were very tense, concerned that the tribes would gather…
I’ve been invited to speak at the Human Trafficking Center of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, Colorado. The talk is called…
All museums use pesticides and preservatives, though their health impacts are not always known; ethnographic collections can thus pose a health risk. Here we open one cold case…
By April Beisaw Another Christmas has passed without a personal visit from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, or Yet to Come? Same here. In Dickens’ A Christmas…
GB. England. New Brighton. From ‘The Last Resort,’ 1983-85, Martin Parr. In the second interview for the series ‘The Good Life,’ Jonas Tinius and Johannes Lenhard invited anthropologi…
GB. England. New Brighton. From ‘The Last Resort,’ 1983-85, Martin Parr. In the second interview for the series ‘The Good Life,’ Jonas Tinius and Johannes Lenhard invited anthropologi…
In memory of Edward S. Herman b. April 7, 1926, d. November 11, 2017 An inspiration that lives on, may he rest in eternal peace. From provoking potential…
In 2011, China’s state-run general content television channel, CCTV-4, launched a monumental 100-part series with a title that translates as “Borderland Journey” (边疆行). The premise of the show is…
Am 8. Dezember 2017 wäre Niklas Luhmann 90 Jahre alt geworden. Sein Denken und seine Spielart der Systemtheorie beeinflussten die deutschsprachigen Sozialwissenschaften aber auch Disziplinen wie die K…
Nothing seems to be more self-evident than gender differences, and yet when we have to establish what these differences are, things seem to become complicated. Is it the…