Gefährlicher Konformismus
Der polnische Künstler Artur Żmijewski hat 2005 das berühmte Stanford-Prison-Experiment “überprüft”. Bei ihm werden die Gefängniswärter nicht zu Sadisten, sondern beenden die Versuchsanordnung. Was sa…
Representing Diverse Bodies in Medical Illustration
In 2016, just before I began my dissertation fieldwork, a trio of young medical illustrators presented a panel on “Normativity and Diversity in Healthcare Imagery” at the annual…
Marxism is amphetamines, biopolitics is cocaine: Social science theories as drugs.
Okay so hear me out, I have a new bit: Social science theories as drugs. Biopolitics is cocaine. I like it in small doses, and I can see…
The ethnographic fact: a discussion of ethics in anthropological fieldwork by Florian Göttke
Note: A working-syllabus can be found below. Please add more recommendations in the comments. The lone-fieldworker model of research may still be the norm for anthropology in the…
The Deep Roots of Navajo Country Music
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS What is it about certain musical traditions that cause them to take root in communities far away from where they originated? Anthropologist Kristina…
Land, Life, and Water: Tending to the Landscape of Southern Louisiana
By Hannah Eisler Burnett, University of Chicago § This is a photo essay about the way people cultivate visions of speculative territory and historical landscapes. But in southern…
Francesco Duina, “Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country” (Stanford UP, 2018)
In his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford University Press 2018), Professor Francesco Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and…
Erik Harms, “Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon” (U California Press, 2016)
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms? That question sets the terms for Luxury and Rubble: C……
Klart for bærekraftig bolig- og områdefornyelse?
Gjesteinnlegg av Tore Johannesen, spesialrådgiver i NBBL (Norske Boligbyggelags Landsforbund) Ut fra et bærekraftperspektiv skal ikke bygninger nå rives, men heller bevares og ombygges. Da er det jo…
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #7
In Section 7 Omar is in search of his own existential place within the research: definitely not inside the Cheraton, maybe far from Mzungus for a while… a holiday…
Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community: A Giving Heritage
It is a great moment for a great project. Some Shreds and Patches readers will remember when, in 2017, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures hosted the special…
“Yes, We Can” and the Power of Political Slogans
“Hey Joe, instead of saying, No we can’t,” retorted Senator Kamala Harris to Vice-President Joe Biden. “Let’s say, Yes, we can.” With that single line, Harris resurrected an…
SAFN Members will be busy at AAAs in Vancouver!
Jennifer Jo Thompson As always, food serves as an interdisciplinary site for investigating a wide range of urgent social issues. This year’s SAFN menu at the annual meeting…
David Flood takes the page 99 test
My dissertation examines everyday interactions between two groups of white people in the US who to all appearances should get along but don’t, despite their sustained efforts towards…
Soziologiemagazin 2/2019 – Parallele Welten – ist erschienen
Das Thema der Fake News hat Hochkonjunktur. Durch gezielte Desinformationen entwickeln Menschen ein verzerrtes Bild der Wirklichkeit. Die Folge ist, dass fehlinformierte Menschen oftmals schlechte Ent…
Crafting a ‘critically-applied’ PrEP collaboration in Memphis by Matthew Thomann
Encountering PrEP I became interested in PrEP as an object of anthropological research on the L train between 1st and 3rd Avenues in Manhattan. It was the summer…
Hus och hem – eller hur hamnade en kristallkrona hemma hos mig
I lördags inträffade något som jag aldrig trodde skulle hända – jag köpte en kristallkrona av äldre modell. Jag och min man bor i ett gammalt hus som…
jimi adams, “Gathering Social Network Data” (Sage, 2019)
What is social network data and what are the issues associated with collecting it? In his new book Gathering Social Network Data (Sage, 2019), jimi adams focuses on…
La’tiwi, Northern Molalla, Placenames and Housing notes
Phillip Drucker’s field notes from the 1920s and 30s had him questioning many Native people from the region, from Grand Ronde and Siletz. Many of these people were…
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“It’s a lot of sand”: An anthropological take on Trump’s Syrian withdrawal
That Syria has “a lot of sand” is meant to stand in for its lack of value. As a place that is sandy, it is not worth US…
Charles Jencks und die postmoderne Architektur
Vor wenigen Tagen starb der Architekturtheoretiker Charles Jencks, der 1977 der modernen Architektur den offiziellen Totenschein ausgestellt und die Rede von der „postmodernen Architektur“ begründet h…
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WordPress started counting text downloads of articles in July this year. Interesting stat. So the books get quite a few 56 for Rumour of Calcutta 1996 26 for…