جنسیت به مثابه تهدید
این یادداشت پیش از این در روزنامه اعتماد منتشر شده است. «کودکی به نام رومینا اشرفی، متولد سال ۱۳۸۵، شهرستان تالش، بخش حویق، روستای سفیدسنگان به دلیل فرار…
Home, Work, Homework, and Fieldwork
by Yukun Zeng (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) China was the first country hit by COVID-19. Due to the government-enforced Wuhan lockdown and strict self-isolation, most…
IARC Native Artist Fellow Ian Kuali’i Interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine
Freehand, ephemeral cut-paper banner hung under the Dubin Studio portal, Ian Kuali’i. Story written by SAR editorial staff. Paper. …
Links & Contents I Liked 369
Hi all, This week’s journey takes us from the places of privilege & structural inequalities within aid organizations & academia to the ‘front lines’ in Congo, Bangladesh, Lebanon/Ethiopia,…
Insa Koch: The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain
Insa Koch, London School of Economics States’ claims that they are relieving human suffering have become a central element of their ongoing liberal legitimation amid their production of…
Police Violence and the Pandemic
[no-caption] Angus Greig SAPIENS host Jen Shannon interviews Laurence Ralph, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Ralph is also a co-director of Princeton’s Center on Tran…
How Elders Make Us Human
[no-caption] Matthias Zomer/Pexels On March 23, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick sparked controversy and outrage by suggesting that older people in the United States might be willing to…
Entdeckung der Vielbegabung – Abschied von Barbara Sher
Manchmal gibt es „Aha!“-Situationen beim Lesen; plötzlich schließt sich ein Verstehensnetz, wird aus einer Ahnung etwas Sagbares und aus Lektüre ein Angebot, sich definitorisch in der Welt auszutoben…
Lives and Deaths with Dementia During Covid-19: Our Shameful (But Hopefully Transformative) Post-Pandemic Legacy
CRISTINA DOUGLAS “How do I escape from here?” The question took me by complete surprise. “This is a care home, Muriel. Your daughter brought you here because it’s…
Remembering Dr Abhay Xaxa, 1983-2020
“So I draw my own picture, and invent my own grammar, I make my own tools to fight my own battle, For me, my people, my world, and…
El Antropólogo Anónimo
Como sabéis me hago llamar El Antropólogo Principiante pero también soy un antropólogo anónimo. Ay no!!! Que aún no me he sacado el título y no puedo decir…
Ambivalente Zeiten: Zurschaustellung von Individualität und Vergemeinschaftung im virtuellen Raum
von Josefine Weinhold Der Ostersonntag im Jahr 2020: Der Marktplatz in Rom: leer. Die Straßen auf dem Times Square in New York: leer. Der Piccadilly Circus in London:…
Upcoming Pilot Research
As of today I have submitted all of the required paperwork (IACUC, Occupational Health, Special Use Permit Application) . I will be collecting data on behavior and the…
Relationship-Making, Scaffolding, and a Pandemic in Istanbul
This piece was going to be mainly about relation-making as a method that facilitated my fieldwork, which in turn formed the backbone of my article, “Behind the Scaffolding.”…
CFP: Special Issue “Geographies of Responsibility for Just and Sustainable Food Systems”
Here is a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Sustainability that we recently received. Note that the deadline for submissions is near! Deadline: 30th June…
Why are Black and Latin people in the US more affected by Covid-19?
In the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has been racialised since its emergence. Leading political figures, including the President, have referred to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus”. With…
No, “Racial Genetics” Aren’t Affecting COVID-19 Deaths
In the U.K., people of black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds have been disproportionately hard hit by COVID-19. Tim Dennell/Flickr Around the world, there are reports that COVID-1…
The Social Meanings of Food in a COVID-19 World
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Rituparna Patgiri, a doctoral student in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is interested…
Lessons of Accountability
Below find the second of a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
The DecanoniZine
Authors: Andie Thompson, Ali Lape, Rene Burk, Mariana Ribeiro, Nadia English-Williams, Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, Erin Peiffer, and Makaela O’Rourke. [Footnotes is very pleased to present …
Wednesday Round Up #1
I’m starting the Wednesday round up back up. I didn’t post yesterday because of #shutdownstem. For more information on that, see shutdownstem.com. In the wake of the most…
MacHack VI: Computer chess and the roots of AI
On January 21, 1967, a mild winter Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a couple of computer researchers from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Statement and Resources
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) condemns the recent reprehensible killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Tony McDade, and so many other…
Die Kultur-Übersetzer*innen – Interkulturelle Kompetenz in der Schule
Ein Beitrag von Elisabeth Addicks, Ethnologie in Schule und Erwachsenenbildung (ESE) e.V. Neuankommen und Integration in Deutschland haben in den vergangenen Jahren Diskussionen über die Förderung vo…