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Where a River of Life Became a Border of Control

[no-caption] Wenting Li/SAPIENS The floor of the El Paso International Airport’s baggage claim area is a marble mosaic design; blue stones represent the Rio Grande (or Río Bravo,…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By Ellie Lobovits

Footage of Failure: Multimodality in Practice

Failure is an unavoidable aspect of the ethnographic enterprise. And yet, failure should not be seen as a dead end. In the context of the FR&T program, we…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By Leiden Anthropology Blog

Footage of Failure: Multimodality in Practice

Failure is full of unanticipated potential. Being able to recognize and adapt to these failures depends on many factors, not least a combination of fortune and experience. The…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By j.l.forth@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Book Review: Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes by Diane Reay

In Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes, Diane Reay draws on interviews with over 500 children to explore the class inequalities that persist in UK education today from the…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By Rose Deller

Sedentary Optics: Static Anti-Trafficking and Mobile Victims

My latest publication in Current Anthropology Abstract Postpanopticism and the “mobility turn” within the social sciences provide important challenges to territorial constructs, such as Foucauldian pano…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By sverremolland

Dorothy Noyes, “Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life” (Indiana UP, 2016)

Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life (Indiana University Press, 2016) is an anthology of essays from Dorothy Noyes, professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By Timothy Thurston

My Brother is an Only Child. #Precarity and Solidarity in Post-Neoliberal Societies

This text, written by our guest editor Salvatore Poier, is a plea for solidarity and a request to engage in a vigorous and honest debate about the meaning…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By Salvatore Poier

Hobbes the Science Fiction Writer (Part I)

It is common to meet people who believe that much of the world is beset by “tribalism” and that the only thing holding back the chaos of a…

  • Post date 22nd March 2018
  • Post author By Kerim

The Facebook Data Scandal and Why Anthropology Should get More Comfortable with Journalism

There’s anthropological spirit in investigative journalism that anthropologists could better acknowledge. Regardless of whether it has a anthropology qualification attached or it is embedded in comple…

  • Post date 21st March 2018
  • Post author By Julia Brown

CFP AAA 2018: Visualising the Visible and the Invisible: ethnography and technologies of the unseen

Apophenia—the recognition of patterns within randomness—is, as Hito Steyerl (2016) has argued, a condition of the rapid multiplication of chaotic plumes of data swirling around us, data riven…

  • Post date 21st March 2018
  • Post author By Samuel Gerald Collins

What If Machines Could Learn the Way Children Do?

A good number of us shout at our laptops when they misbehave, often to no avail. Perhaps soon they will listen. Could we one day teach them—much like…

  • Post date 21st March 2018
  • Post author By Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas and Djuke Veldhuis

Fareen Parvez, “Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford UP, 2017)

Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford University Press, 2017) by Fareen Parvez is a rich ethnographic analysis of Islamic Revival movements in France (Lyon)…

  • Post date 21st March 2018
  • Post author By Shobhana Xavier

Making the Most of Life

We often talk about what it means to “truly live” or even more simply what it means to be considered “living.” This idea was one of the main…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By Vraj Patel

Contamination of the Social Fabric: Sápara Leaders’ Resistance to Oil Companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Narrow Vision of Environmental Impact Studies

By Lindsay Ofrias, Princeton University § In the shadow of the world’s worst case of oil contamination, the Sápara, a small group of indigenous people, are desperately protecting their…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By therezamiller

Video / Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor

Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie der Goethe-Universität stellt sich mit einem neuen Video vor. Was ist eigentlich Kulturanthropologie? Wie sieht ein Kulturanthropologies…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By Redaktion

2CFP’s: IU Superfoods Workshop & AAA Fixing Territory Session

Workshop: “Critical Approaches to Superfoods”  Organizers: Emma McDonell, PhD Candidate, Indiana University Sarah Osterhoudt, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Richard Wilk, Professor, Indiana U…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By mruthdike

Breffu: a slave, a rebel, a fighter – and a woman almost invisible to history

The role of women in conflict is often lost to the archaeological record – but Breffu’s story illustrates how sometimes we catch a glimpse of them Early one…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By Holly Norton

Breffu: a slave, a rebel, a fighter – and a woman almost invisible to history

The role of women in conflict is often lost to the archaeological record – but Breffu’s story illustrates how sometimes we catch a glimpse of them Early one…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By Holly Norton

#Review: White Gold. Stories of Breast Milk Sharing

Those of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, “tribal” lineage-based societies, often semi-feudal, with residues almost…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By Michael Costello

The Death of a Dog

“Wise old man” by Shaun Hopkinson is licensed under CC by 2.0 In our society, it is common practice to euthanize dogs in old age either with or…

  • Post date 20th March 2018
  • Post author By Shani Mueller

Awkward Anthropological Moments

In honor of recent National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN invited anthropologists to share their awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field. Read about…

  • Post date 19th March 2018
  • Post author By Alexandra Frankel

Transparent marketing and design

[This post first published on Medium March 16, 2018] I was looking at the app store this morning and noticed in the upper left hand corner The Art…

  • Post date 19th March 2018
  • Post author By Grant

Wie weiter mit dem Engagement in Deutschland?

Studie „So schaffen wir das“ zur Arbeit mit Geflüchteten Pressemitteilung vom 21. März 2018 Seit 2015 hat sich in Deutschland eine überwältigende Zivilgesellschaft gebildet, die sich für geflüchtete…

  • Post date 19th March 2018
  • Post author By Rat für Migration

From Edison to Tim Brown: Some ideas about Design Thinking

Design Thinking is defined as a method that allows us to generate innovative solutions based on the needs of users. It was created in the classrooms of Stanford…

  • Post date 19th March 2018
  • Post author By Pablo Mondragón Valero
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