The tense truce between detectorists and archaeologists
Metal detecting is enjoying a resurgence, driven by good press and fantastic finds. But archaeologists are not overjoyed at the rise of the hobby detectorists. Why? There’s been…
Metal detecting is enjoying a resurgence, driven by good press and fantastic finds. But archaeologists are not overjoyed at the rise of the hobby detectorists. Why? There’s been…
Call for papers: JEP 2019-1 Waste and globalised inequalities Special Issue Editor: Nicolas Schlitz, Stefan Laser Global capitalism and its transnational production networks have grown and changed…
Blånisse är en term jag själv stötte på som barn i Norge i början av 2000-talet. Det var då dessa nissar (eller eventuellt tomtar) klistrades på allas näthinnor…
A CFP from the American Sociological Association on consumption: CALL FOR PAPERS “Consuming In, and Consumed By, a Trump Economy” *one-day pre-American Sociological Association mini-conference* Friday…
Assalomu alaykum – Hallo & Herzlich Willkommen! Tauche ein in die Sprachenvielfalt und Geschichte Usbekistans! Nur ein paar Worte einer Sprache öffnet Herzen – mach dich fit für…
In this month’s panel discussion, Jodie (1:14) tells us about documents with agency: “Ideas just get up and grow legs, and they run away with themselves.” (Trigger warning:…
In 1855, the United States was on a campaign to purchase all of the land from the Oregon Tribes and remove them to reservations. Joel Palmer, Superintendent of…
For us, one of the special features of 2017 is that it marks the 10th anniversary of Zero Anthropology. We are now officially past 10 years of age,…
Robert Shortess was an 1839 emigrant to Oregon. In 1843 he was was elected to the Oregon Territorial Legislature in the 2nd wolf meeting (teh founders of Rome…
A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat, Eric Holt-Giménez, Monthly Review Press, 2017. Jo Hunter-Adams Working in food studies often means grappling…
A Reflection on Group Fieldwork. There is a high-fever-pitch limbic sensation of simultaneously registering something you heard or read as wrong, and the antsy, itchy, compulsion to raise…
Anthropology News invited members to report on the AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from reflections on a panels, to gonzo-style reporting, to anthropological impressions of the District. …
As we consider the role of justice in pedagogy and scholarship, I want to ask a simple but difficult question: What is our ethical task? Do we desire…
By Sean Carey “Why do you want to go to a posh Indian restaurant and spend a small fortune when you can go to the Lahore or Needoo’s…
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1079/ghannam.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Farha Ghannam gave a …
Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril. “AIDS orphans” are commonly imagined as the…
What is it to be moral, to lead an ethically good life? From a naturalistic perspective, any answer to this question begins from an understanding of what humans…
Zek Valkyrie teaches at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. His new book, Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline…
Hi all, Welcome to one of the final link reviews of 2017! It’s an interesting mix this week featuring public lectures, (visual) communication of development & #MeToo reflections…
Vorderasiatische Archäologen leisten wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Nordirak. Proben konnte Prof. Dirk Wicke diesmal nicht mitbringen von seiner Grabung im Nordirak. Wegen des Unabhängigkeitsre…
Kann es das schon gewesen sein? Das habe ich mich die letzten Tage immer wieder gefragt. Seit dem ersten Semester ist der Auslandsaufenthalt Das Gesprächsthema unter uns gewesen.…
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern from November 16-17, 2017.…
Es ist 22:00 Uhr am Donnerstagabend in Buenos Aires, draußen sind noch 28° und ich sitze zwischen einem einzigen Pack-Chaos in meinem kleinen Zimmer. Für morgen Abend habe…
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…