Will Covid-19 be the spark for the next global debt crisis?
Karl Marx begins his 1852 essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon” with the world famous reference to Hegel, according to which all important facts of history happen…
Disaster, Dystopia, and Disphony
by Pranathi Diwakar (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) My last day of “fieldwork” was on March 14th, 2020. A chart-topping Gaana singer from the 1990s had…
Blog Post Series: Von der Cyberanthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie – Teil 4
Diese Serie von Blogeinträgen beschreibt die Relevanz kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Zugänge in der Untersuchung digitaler Technik und Technologien, dargestellt anhand wissenschaftstheoretischer…
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Hi all, Like everybody else, I have found it incredible difficult not to feel defeated, overloaded and exhausted this week. But as I was collecting this week’s readings…
Feltarbeid – det beste og det verste
Feltarbeid er mye mer enn det som står skrevet i fagbøker og artikler. Det er ikke bare spennende historier, analyser og metodiske utfordringer. Feltarbeid er også usikkerhet, panikk,…
Future-making on Hold: Pandemic Audio Diaries from two Rift Valley Lakes in Kenya (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Anna Lisa Ramella, Martin Zillinger In this post, we share the accounts of our research partners from Lake Baringo and Lake…
Soziale (Corona-) Pandemie — Alles ganz normal?
von Joshua Kliewer „Vivit, et est vitae nescius ipse suae.” — Es lebt, doch es ist sich dessen nicht bewusst. (Ovid, Trist. I, 3) Coronaviren zählen zu den…
Interview with Ishani Dasgupta, 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner
Ishani Dasgupta (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania) was awarded APLA’s 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper…
Fifty Shades of Green: Reflecting back on the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent in the age of coronavirus [excerpt]
The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent, has made me reflect back on all the facts…
CFP: Eating On the Move
We recently received the CFP below for an intriguing looking conference in Rome in September, 2021. This should be of interest to SAFN members. Full details are here:…
IZO: Vortrag „Chinas Industrie- und Innovationspolitik: Flaschengeist oder Scheinriese?“
Vortrag von Doris Fischer (Würzburg) zum Thema „Chinas Industrie- und Innovationspolitik: Flaschengeist oder Scheinriese?“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Deutsche Bank Stiftungsgastprofe…
Is kennis van de Nederlandse antropologische traditie nog wel relevant voor hedendaagse antropologen?
VINCENT DE ROOIJ Historici verdedigen de relevantie van hun discipline vaak door te beweren dat kennis van het verleden nodig is om het heden te begrijpen en beter…
Maps, Figurative Symbols, and Songlines
When I think of symbols, I default to a rather literal sense of them. In my Introduction to Anthropology class, I put up the symbol for radiation, say…
Why “We” Isn’t for Everyone
[no-caption] Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. On the face of it, there seems to be no…
Lords of Poverty (book review)
Unusual times require unusual readings and I finally found the time to read Graham Hancock’s Lords of Poverty-The power, prestige, and corruption of the international aid business. I…
Sam Han, “(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty” (Routledge, 2020)
In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now resides mostly…
Michele Wakin, “Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise” (Lynne Rienner, 2020)
Michele Wakin’s new book Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020) is an up-close exploration of the evolution that has taken place with unsheltered…
Kathryn M. De Luna, “Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa” (Yale UP, 2016)
In Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale University Press, 2016), Kathryn M. De Luna documents the evolving meanings borne in the collection of w… Visit…
James C. Scott, “Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States” (Yale UP, 2017)
We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. In Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Yale…
Putting down our “lenses”
Nikkormat and 50mm lens. Photo by Ryan Anderson 2020. Years ago I read an article about a photographer. I don’t actually remember who the photographer was, but this…
On the social nature of toilet paper
You would be forgiven for thinking that the first thing bought in a global crisis would be tinned, dried, and frozen foods; clean water; and medicines—things that enable…
Intersectionality
Celebrating Pride Month with a focus on intersectionality. How do we acknowledge our shared history in fighting for civil rights, while recognizing the ongoing systemic racism that disproportionately…
A Game Changer for Graduate Schools and Anthropology
Recent articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Scientist both highlight the fact that graduate students are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Graduate students at…