Review: The Darjeeling Distinction
By Peter Luetchford ** Reprinted from Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies Sarah Besky’s informative monograph on tea plantations in the northern Indian district of Darjeeling fills…
By Peter Luetchford ** Reprinted from Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies Sarah Besky’s informative monograph on tea plantations in the northern Indian district of Darjeeling fills…
Decentering humanitarianism This thematic thread aims to contribute to the anthropology of humanitarianism, by focusing on vernacular humanitarianisms – local, grassroots forms of helping others that …
In early September, Apple Computer, Inc. launched their new iPhone and with it, FaceID, software that uses facial-recognition as an authentication for unlocking the iPhone. The mass global…
In early September, Apple Computer, Inc. launched their new iPhone and with it, FaceID, software that uses facial-recognition as an authentication for unlocking the iPhone. The mass global…
Auf einer vergangenen Tagung der Religionswissenschaft wurde die Zusammenstellung “Religion und Vorurteil von A-Z” besonders gelobt. Daher soll folgende neue Zusammenstellung zu “Esoterik und alterna…
Using participation in a collective online experiment with Twitter as a springboard, I interrogate the tweet as a fieldnote. How do the temporalities of tweeting intersect with disciplinary…
Here is a great opportunity for a recent PhD…note that anthropological perspectives are especially welcome! Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, Steinhardt Sch…
You paid someone to help you leave home, travel across borders or into unknown areas of your own country. You knew you’d be selling sex but probably not…
What does the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association have brewing up for this year’s meeting? Take a look.
Hi all, The developments at Third World Quarterly were definitely the top story in my networks this week-a fascinating case study about changing academic publishing cultures, core values…
A re-description of my two-fold engagement as ethnographer-cum-documenter in the activist design collective En torno a la silla. Highlighting the importance of note-taking as a ‘fieldwork device’ for…
Jag deltog i ett fältarbete i Borgå 18.9-21.9.2017. Detta fältarbete var ett samarbete mellan Svenska litteratursällskapet och ämnena Nordisk folkloristik och Nordisk etnologi vid Åbo Akademi. Vi var…
Our brains deal with vast amounts of information, but all that processing power comes at a cost. Ars Electronica/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversation and has b…
What are the working conditions and what are the possibilities for change in the contemporary economy? In Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centers (Pluto Press,…
Students in Russia and Ukraine address global politics through local comedy Kostya, brow wrinkling, ended his call and told the team of rehearsing students, “Vova said he heard…
On September 27th, McMaster University will host Dr. Paul Hartley, a Senior Anthropologist at Idea Couture in Toronto, ON and now, co-founder and Director of the Institute for…
Nuclear Waste and Deep Time Friday 3 November 2017, 16:00-17:00hrs Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2017 …
Jedes Jahr im Juni findet eine Show des Fashion Departments Antwerp statt, wo alle aktuellen Semester der verschiedenen Jahrgänge die Arbeiten des vergangenen Jahres präsentieren. In Antwerpen ist…
Stories are a venue for experimentation and research, they tell about, define, create, and interact with social realities. Therefore they are important to include in analysis, and in…