Toxins or Toxicants? Why the difference matters
When we accidentally call toxicants “toxins,” we are also accidentally naturalizing industrially-produced chemicals and their politics.
When we accidentally call toxicants “toxins,” we are also accidentally naturalizing industrially-produced chemicals and their politics.
Kai Roder, University of Leipzig For over a decade the Tanzanian state has tried to enlarge its share of mineral revenues generated by foreign large-scale mining (LSM) companies.…
The Sociology of Food: Eating the Place of Food in Society. Jean-Pierre Poulain. Translated by Augusta Dorr. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University This is a…
D.D.Kosambi’s summary of Buddhist political economy circa 500bc. From ‘The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline’ 1964. (P113 1996 reprint by Vikas Publishi…
Wer kennt es nicht? Man probiert zwei Stunden lang die schönsten Kleider im Geschäft an und läuft trotzdem mit leeren Händen aus dem Laden. Der Albtraum jeder shoppingliebenden…
Eine Woche ist es nun her seitdem ich chinesischen Boden betreten habe, nach zahllosen Umstiegen irgendwo in der Nähe der Uni angekommen bin und mich wahnsinnig gefreut habe…
The Brooking Institute’s Hamilton Project (because after Hamilton everything has to be named after Hamilton) has a new website examining the relationship between career path and college major &#…
I’ve developed a really nerdy, but kickass, superpower. Give me twenty minutes of one-on-one conversation time with a person, any person, and they will come out of that…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a nineteenth-century moral fable that sets the fruits of experimental knowledge against obligations to humanity, and stages a dramatic encounter …
Something’s not right in the world. In the US, Hurricane Harvey produced 54 inches of rain that flooded Houston and much
For some Muslim men, dress offers a form of racial and religious resistance and redemption. Typically, when we talk about Islam and fashion the focus is on women.…
At New York Fashion Week models, bloggers, and photographers are always on. It’s easy to hate the bloggers. At New York Fashion Week, the premier semi-annual industry event…
A brief tale of corsetry. Corseting in the popular imagination is rife with myths: it was a distinctly upper-class practice; women frequently died from having their laces tied…
Fashion as Buried Forms of Diasporic Memory I keep returning this one memory. As a kid, I go down the steps to the basement of my parent’s New…
Archaeological small finds can tell us a great deal about how status, gender, and identity are situated in and on the body. In December 1759, John Page noted…
Something’s not right in the world. In the US, Hurricane Harvey produced 54 inches of rain that flooded Houston and much
Something’s not right in the world. In the US, Hurricane Harvey produced 54 inches of rain that flooded Houston and much
BY STEVEN DASHIELL Graduate school has in many ways blessed me with what I call a researcher’s eye, or the ability to view the world in an ethnographic…
There are two DNA ads running at the moment. They illuminate the art of advertising today. The first is called Testimonial: Livie and it’s for AncestryDNA.com. This is…
As another fieldwork season comes to a close and classes, sabbaticals, and more ventures into the field begin, anthropologists are unpacking and repacking their bags. Anthropology News wants to know…
Asks this article: https://www.raconteur.net/business/is-the-future-of-retail-humanless The answer is: ‘it depends’. Human-less customer interaction might never fly in cultures where personal contact i…
Asks this article: https://www.raconteur.net/business/is-the-future-of-retail-humanless The answer is: ‘it depends’. Human-less customer interaction might never fly in cultures where personal contact i…
Hi all, If you happen to be in Tallinn, Estonia early next week, I’d love to catch up at and around the DigitalisingDevelopment event which I will be…
Bees may not be as orderly as their image suggests, and that’s a good thing for flowering plants — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com