Housework and anxiety on the day before class
It’s a Sunday. The ants are everywhere around the kitchen sink, swarming through the crack in the dishwasher door. Afterwards, every time you feel the tiniest itch, you…
The legacy of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Why ‘great aspiration’ is not quite enough, by Leena Vastapuu and Maria Martin de Almagro
The first elected woman head of state in Africa, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has just stepped down from her office in Liberia. Her successor George Weah assumed the position…
We Have Never Been Digital Anthropologists
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Rebekah Cupitt, contributing the third post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. We Have Never Been…
CFP ASFS Panel in June 2018: Food on the Move
Shayan Lallani and Kerri Lesh are looking for a third panelist who might be able to fit their panel theme of “food on the move.” This is for submission…
They Were of Good Character and Industrious, Kalapuya and Umpqua Off-Reservation Allotments
Indian Off-Reservation Allotments Members of the Halo Family of Yoncalla Indians, were allotted with off-reservation Indian Allotments in 1892. Most…
Food Insecurity and Chronic Malnutrition in Rural Indigenous Guatemala
With the title, “Latinx Foodways in North America,” we aim to put the series in a more international perspective, inclusive of the United States, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America,…
Nerf Herding
By AP Joseph Hey there! A month into 2018, and there’s already plenty of geek action going on (gaction?) What can you expect from this column, you ask,…
Links & Contents I Liked 268
Hi all, Just another busy week at ComDev with feedback on MA thesis proposals, lectures & a workshop with students on their experiences with communication for development-but, there’s…
The (in)correctness of political correctness
by Ton Salman I’ve just finished reading “The Golden House” by Salman Rushdie. I enjoyed it: it is amusing, irritating, timely, biting and a delight to read. Of…
Neue Stiftungsprofessur in Leipzig: Religionskritik als Gesellschaftskritik?
An der Universität Leipzig wurde eine neue Stiftungsprofessur für Religionswissenschaft und Religionskritik eingerichtet. Ziel ist es die wissenschaftliche, nüchterne und positive Kritik von Religion…
Neue Stiftungsprofessur in Leipzig: Religionskritik als Gesellschaftskritik?
An der Universität Leipzig wurde eine neue Stiftungsprofessur für Religionswissenschaft und Religionskritik eingerichtet. Ziel ist es die wissenschaftliche, nüchterne und positive Kritik von Religion…
Southern Christian Mourning
In the fall of my sophomore year, my friend Kalyssa, who attended Georgia State University, killed herself. While suicide is in itself worthy of a discussion post, I…
A History of Poppies, War, and Death
Source: http://wellcomeimages.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?MIROPAC=N0021523 The opium poppy, effortlessly sprouting across several continents, has captured the attention of humankind for thousands of years…
The Death of a Hungry God
[no-caption] Paul Keil One evening in August 2014, a wild elephant was accidentally killed in Gajbari village* in Assam, a state in northeast India. He was a young…
Brazil’s Dichotomous Treatment of Corruption – PT 2
After the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the Liberal Front Party (LFP), Democratic Social Party (PMDB) and Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) dominated the government of Brazil.…
Risk, Trust, and Fulfilment: Reality Tourism, Continued
The story of the Razor’s Edge company continues to unfold with the latest release of one of their private videos, the kind which have normally been distributed to prospective clients…
Geek Culture and Games in the Classroom
What’s wrong with your patient?Do all the symptoms and signs point to one diagnosis?Or are there multiple diseases at work?Can you remember which symptoms indicate which diseases?This is…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIV
Here are my latest articles and interviews: After a year of Trump, women expect less from men — but demand more (1/22/18) — Globe and Mail Trump’s first State…
Geek Culture and Games in the Classroom
What’s wrong with your patient?Do all the symptoms and signs point to one diagnosis?Or are there multiple diseases at work?Can you remember which symptoms indicate which diseases?This is…
Cultural taboos around food are powerful – could vegans change ours?
As campaigns such as Veganuary become more popular could the way westerners categorise what’s edible start to shift? Yesterday marked the end of “Veganuary”, the campaign to encourage…
Cultural taboos around food are powerful – could vegans change ours?
As campaigns such as Veganuary become more popular could the way westerners categorise what’s edible start to shift? Yesterday marked the end of “Veganuary”, the campaign to encourage…
Book Review: Food, Power and Agency by Jürgen Martschukat and Bryant Simon
In Food, Power and Agency, editors Jürgen Martschukat and Bryant Simon bring together contributors to explore how food, power and agency contribute to the formation of ‘culinary capital’ a…
Peter Hempenstall, “Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
The debate over Margaret Mead’s and Derek Freeman’s conflicting ethnographic reports has gone on for decades. While no longer a hot topic, Mead-Freeman stands as a testament to…
#Review: The Road – An Ethnography of (Im)Mobility, Space, and Cross-border Infrastructures in the Balkans
Central to the capturing cover-image, the downhill stone-paved street of the Pazari district of Gjirokastër, south Albania, reflects the orientation of Dimitris Dalakoglou’s book The Road: An Ethnogra…