Octubre con sabor a mandarina y olor a flor de muerto
En la comunidad campesina de Zaragoza, Naranjos (México), la vida sigue marcada por las festividades. Apenas empieza el año, la vida de las personas en la comunidad van…
Education Philosophy and Theory Vol 52, Issue 11
Volume 52, 2020 Innovating Institutions: Instituting Innovation – section editor John Hutnyk Introduction An intuition of innovative new institutions Le Thi Mai & John Hutnyk Pages: 1120-112…
Summer Break!
Standplaats Wereld is going on summer break. We appreciate all the contributions to our blog this year and would like to wish everyone a great summer! Below a…
A Room with a View: Observations from Two Pandemics by Linda M. Whiteford
From my balcony, I see Tampa Bay’s calm water, the Dali Museum’s distinctive architecture, the Mahaffey Theater’s empty parking lot, the balconies and porches of St, Petersburg, Florida,…
Sanitary cordons in COVID-19: experience and the object of epidemiological interventions by Alejandro Cerón
What is the object of epidemiological interventions during an epidemic? Is it the virus, the disease, the fear, the chaos, or the threat to security? And what is the objective…
What I’m Reading – Aug 2020
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
Panel: Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts & Methodological Approaches
Panel “Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts & Methodological Approaches” @ Vienna Anthropology Days 2020 (VANDA2020, Sept. 28 – Oct. 1), convened by Philipp Budk…
Greg Beckett, “There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince” (U California Press, 2019)
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, about his richly grounded book There is No More Haiti: Between Life…
Arte y Neocolonialismo
Estimad@s lector@s, Quisiera haceros partícipes de una experiencia etnográfica que refleja la alargada sombra del colonialismo europeo en África, donde en la actualidad, aún se siguen produciendo sit…
Twitter shaming won’t change university power structures
“Another one bites the dust,” a colleague quipped. They were responding to news that Michael Korenberg, chair of the University of British Columbia (UBC) board of governors, had…
Place-naming in the Takelma Homelands
This essay came about due to the present project to rename Dead Indian Memorial Road to something less overtly racist in the eyes of native peoples. There have…
Tribus de leyenda
La foto es de Miguel Trillo para El País Reseña del libro de Carles Feixa, De jóvenes, bandas y tribus. Antropología de la juventud, Ariel. Barcelona, 1998, 287 páginas, publicado en…
The Poetics of Internet Memes
By Kai Blevins I believe in low theory in popular places, in the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant; I believe in making a difference…
Irfan Ahmad on Liberalism & Islamophobia & Domophilia
My colleague Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Plancke Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Among his…
Lieke van der Veer: Group-making and distrust within the infrastructure of refugee support
In the Netherlands from 2015 onwards, the ‘spectacle’ (Casas-Cortes et al. 2015) of people arriving into Europe seeking refuge was channeled by vast media attention and political debate.…
Why Anthropology? How four new PhDs found anthropology
We – Eero, Hanna, Jenni and Maija – are the newest recruits to anthropology, all starting our PhDs in the department in January 2020. It’s been an unusual…
Guilherme Fians takes the Page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, the reader finds themself in the middle of an ethnographic description of a heated political debate held during the 101st Universal Congress…
Guest Post: NAGPRA is not a metaphor: Anthropologists’ indifference upholds structural racism
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post co-authored by Krystiana L. Krupa and Savannah Newell. Krystiana L. Krupa serves as the NAGPRA Program Officer for the University…
Job opportunity in Manchester
Shared by Francis Joy: an employment position in Manchester. A job opportunity for Russian speaking social anthropologists interested in animism and environment – research associate for a 6…
Guest Post: NAGPRA is not a metaphor: Anthropologists’ indifference upholds structural racism
This guest blog post has been removed pending an ethics review by the Footnotes Editorial Collective (FEC) following concerns raised by the community. A longer statement by the…
Thrill of Compassion, World of Marginalization.
Av Margarita Lavrentjeva Photo by Gabriel Bassino on Unsplash Vi snakker mye om det fæle som skjer i fjerne steder, bak TV-skjermer og dramatiske overskrifter. Om ondskapen, som vi…
The Pandemic Push to Rethink the Field Site
New Intimacies and De-Masking in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. A Reflective Blog CLAIRE SOMERVILLE The concept of fieldwork, and its’ physical manifestation, the “field site”, has bee…
Lesly-Marie Buer, “RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky” (Haymarket, 2020)
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by documenting how women, families, and…
Gabriel Dattatreyan, “The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi” (Duke UP, 2020)
In his book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (Duke University Press, 2020), Gabriel Dattatreyan departs from the existing literature on masculinity in…