Bearing Witness and Raising Awareness: A Conversation with Jason De León
Approximately 3,200 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died crossing the Sonoran Desert between the mid-1990s and 2019. These t…
On the Renaming of Anthropology’s Kroeber Hall
I was deeply distressed to learn about an administrative plan to remove the name of AL Kroeber from Kroeber Hall. The decision was not discussed with the anthropology…
Web Roundup: Covid-19, Racial Justice, Immigration, Climate Justice, Reproductive Justice, or “How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics” by Whitney Arey
As I was thinking about the task of reviewing the anthropological, bioethical, and/or STS implications of the past month of news, my mind kept returning to the introduction…
Citizen surveillance and social media during South Africa’s lockdown
Surveillance has become a common concern in public debates, but it is usually associated with the power of tech corporations to surveil people through algorithms. In the book…
Guest Post: Black Latinx Encuentros: Embodied Knowledge and Reciprocal Forms of Knowledge Sharing
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Amarilys Estrella and Meryleen Mena. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity se…
Daniel C. Swan, Museum Leader
Below find the ninth in a series of posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University of…
The Murkiness of the Peruvian Lockdown
Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers) have had to leave…
Haitian Deportees Face an Unconscionable Crisis During the Pandemic
The Trump administration has deported more than 240 Haitian nationals from the U.S. back to Haiti—a country that has a weak health care system and few resources to…
Wednesday Round Up #4
Wednesday Round Up #4 Ten Years of the Sun in One Hour – a beautiful and eerie watch of the centerpiece of our solar system Why Birds Can…
Why George Floyd Matters
With all due respect and no malice intended but the George Floyd murder is not the first time African American men have been wrongfully brutalized and killed by…
Candi K. Cann, “Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Candi K. Cann, editor of the new collection, Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife…
Ali Meghji, “Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption” (Manchester UP, 2019)
Who are the Black middle-class in Britain? In Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption (Manchester University Press, 2019) Ali Meghji, a lecturer in social i… Visit New…
Drew Thomases, “Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India” (Oxford UP, 2019)
In Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar. While the town consists…
Caring in the times of Corona
PARAS ARORA How does one write about social isolation, mental health issues, and care work-induced fatigue in a local context already scarred with abandonment, loneliness and chronic caregiving?…
Fortgesetzte Entgrenzung: Polizei in Zeiten von Corona
Von Jonas Barchfeld Ob ein Buch auf der Parkbank lesen, Picknicken am See oder die Teilnahme an friedlichem Protest: all das sind Dinge, bei denen man vor einigen…
reality check. Wie die Corona-Krise kritische und weniger kritische Theorien auf den Prüfstand stellt
Nach einer kurzen Phase der Orientierungslosigkeit begannen in der Corona-Krise die Verschwörungstheorien zu blühen. Was zeichnet diese konspirativen Erklärungsmodelle aus? Und welche Herausforderunge…
Chelation Chronicles – 1H 2020
I’ve been fighting a host of chronic health issues for 10+years now. I have come to believe that heavy metal poisoning is likely the root cause. In this…
Raúl Acosta, Flávio Eiró, Insa Koch and Martijn Koster: Introduction: Urban struggles: governance, resistance, and solidarity
Raúl Acosta, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Flávio Eiró, Radboud University Insa Koch, London School of Economics Martijn Koster, Radboud University The global …
Raúl Acosta: Navigating promises and good intentions: technomorality and scepticism among peripheral cycloactivists in Mexico City
Raúl Acosta, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich On April 4, 2019, Pedro cycled for over an hour to get to our meeting with Mexico City’s Security Minister. …
Race, Racism, & Protesting Anthropology
In October 2015, Sallie Han and I put out our third co-edited issue of Open Anthropology, “Race, Racism, and Protesting Anthropology.” The articles in that issue have again…
تنبارگی به مثابه هنجار بازتولید قدرت
مطالعات مردمنگاری قرن بیستم تمام جوامع انسانی موجود را زیر پوشش خود قرار دادهاند. افزون بر این مطالعات، پژوهشهای باستانشناسی انسانشناختی، باستانشناسی، رفتارشناسی جانوری و شاخههای مرتبط در…
نقش هنر در توسعه شهری (بخش پایانی)
مالکوم میلز برگردان ملیحه درگاهی چنین تعریفی از مکان که به کلیت عمومی اشاره دارد بیشتر اجتماعی است تا جغرافیایی یا زیبایی شناختی. از این اجتماعات گروه…
ساختمان دانشگاه کوپر یونیون در نیویرک
ساختمان دانشگاه کوپر یونیون در نیویرک: تام مین، برساختن یک زیست ماشین شهری کامل و فتح پارادایم پیچیدگی[۱] نوشته ی جین مرکل[۲] برگردانی از آرش بصیرت[۳] از…
میراث فرهنگی ناملموس و توسعه پایدار
برگردان و افزوده آذر جوادزاده درآمد بیش از چهاردهه از زمانی که یونسکو سال های۱۹۷۸-۱۹۸۸ را به نام “دههی فرهنگ و توسعه” نامگذاری کرده میگذرد. از آن زمان…