Museum Anthropology Has a Lot to Offer Public Anthropology!
This post was submitted by AAA member Jen Shannon, curator and associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado’s Museum of Natural History and department of…
Federal Policy Embedded in Oregon Tribal Territory Maps
Maps of Oregon tribal regions have existed since 1805. Lewis and Clark published the first maps in 1810 and their hand-drawn maps date to 1805-1806. Their drawings show…
Collaboration as Innovation: A Brief History of University of Toronto’s Ethnography Lab
Innovations in Anthropology Series Welcome to the Innovations in Anthropology Series, a blog series devoted to profiling the teaching, production, and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. Wheth…
Jonathan Birch, “The Philosophy of Social Evolution” (Oxford UP, 2017)
It seems to go against evolutionary theory for an individual to give up its own chances at reproducing in order to increase the fitness of others. Yet social…
Thomas Patton, “The Buddha’s Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism” (Columbia UP, 2018)
In his recent monograph, The Buddha’s Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism(Columbia University Press, 2018), Thomas Patton examines the weizzā, a figure in Burmese Buddhism who…
Jonathan Birch, “The Philosophy of Social Evolution” (Oxford UP, 2017)
It seems to go against evolutionary theory for an individual to give up its own chances at reproducing in order to increase the fitness of others. Yet social…
Thomas Patton, “The Buddha’s Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism” (Columbia UP, 2018)
In his recent monograph, The Buddha’s Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism(Columbia University Press, 2018), Thomas Patton examines the weizzā, a figure in Burmese Buddhism who…
“Excuse me, what is that camera for?!”
By Telissa Schreuder. A camera is a funny little thing. Nothing but plastic and then some you would think. Just aim and shoot, nowadays times a thousand due…
Does recycling actually conserve or preserve things?
By Samantha MacBride There are a series of assumptions behind the familiar assertion that recycling saves resources and energy, and in so doing, protects the environment. These assumptions…
„ETHNOLOGIE IST EIN BROTLOSES STUDIUM“ HAT SICH FÜR MICH IN GEWISSER WEISE BESTÄTIGT
NAME: Mirjam L. STUDIENFÄCHER: Ethnologie (Hauptfach), Religionswissenschaften und Politologie (Nebenfächer) BERUF: Übersetzerin +++ Ich habe Ethnologie studiert, weil… … ich in einem Haus…
Digitized global mobilities’ The role of new media and digitization in the security approaches of the refugee crisis
3- 4 June, 2019, Utrecht University Digitization and the use of social media has dramatically changed most aspects of our everyday practices, perceptions and cause severe changes in…
Compassionate Cannibalism
Returning again to the ethnography by Conklin that started my thinking on this issue, the experience of compassionate cannibalism of the Wari spoke to the collective experiences of…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2019
Yet another great opportunity for the essayists among us! For further information, please visit the prize web site. Although the flyer (cited below) notes that Sophie Coe was…
What are the Prospects for a US War with China?
Was Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” the signal for a coming US war on China? Is the current clash between the US and China a confrontation between an…
Använder du droger?
Det är känt att vissa professioner, människor i vissa situationer eller människor med högre status påverkar oss andra i hur vi förväntas agera. Ett exempel på detta är…
Osynlig lina
Jag hade ett brett socialt nätverk som barn. Det betydde för min del att det alltid fanns någon att umgås med och att det alltid fanns någon som…
The counter-revolution in Venezuela, by Saleh Mamon
https://salehmamon.com/2019/02/04/the-counter-revolution-in-venezuela/ The counter-revolution in Venezuela Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) The United States is putting in place its long planned intervention f…
ASFS Pedagogy Award
In a recent post, we reminded you of deadlines for various awards from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. It looks like we missed one…
Links & Contents I Liked 311
Hi all, This week’s review is a bit shorter-but I’m really pleased that it’s packed with great content written by women & featuring women plus a lot of…
Catherine Alexander: Indeterminate classifications
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1174/Catherine.mp3 Catherine Alexander gave a talk in our visiting seminar on 23rd November 2018 titled “I…
CFP: Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries
Call for Papers 2019: Volume 11, Issue 1 Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries The Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition Guest Editor: Dr. Tina…
What Does Diversity and Inclusion Mean?
We need an emic approach to creating more inclusive departments. In December 2018, I called the founder of a diversity management organization to ask about a meeting where…
Über Verbrecher und ihre Nationalitäten
Der Kommentar erschien am 6. 2. 2019 in der Wiener Zeitung. Die Ursache von Morden liegt nicht in der Herkunft der Täter, sondern in sozialen Faktoren – und…