In Gendered Lives, Livelihood and Transformation: The Bangladesh Context, editors Meghna Guhathakurata and Ayesha Banu bring together contributors to explore women’s lives and livelihoods during…
My father has this personality quirk that drives me crazy. Whenever and wherever he travels, no matter how far, he refuses to reset his watch to the local…
Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is edited by Lucinda Carspecken, anthropologist and lecturer…
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
The CFP below is for a mini-conference the day before the next annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. It may be of interest to SAFN members and…
Panorama of Bois Cheri Tea Plantation in Mauritius. Credit: Vincent Lim Show Chen/Flickr happy 50th birthday, Mauritius African Arguments published a piece by Sean Carey, honorary senior research…
Today we are revisiting some still sound advice on How to Explain Your Career Transition that The Harvard Business Review first published back in 2013. This advice is especially…
Today we are revisiting some still sound advice on How to Explain Your Career Transition that The Harvard Business Review first published back in 2013. This advice is especially…
In six months’ time, one of the most pioneering and innovative events in applied anthropology of Europe will be held. Why the World needs Anthropologists: Designing the Future,…
For her new book Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence (Princeton University Press, 2017), Rachel Sherman conducted in-depth interviews with fifty wealthy New Yorkers—including hedge fund fi… Visit…
Youth at Risk – Youth as Risk On the evening of the 15th February, six leading presidential candidates for the Sierra Leone presidential elections took to the stage.…
On the 22nd of February 2018 University and College Union (UCU), the largest academic union in the world with over 100,000 members went on an unprecedented long strike,…
Människans relation till skogen sträcker sig långt bak i tiden, när övernaturliga väsen ännu bodde i våra skogar. Det fanns många olika folkliga föreställningar om trädens magiska kraft…
Ein reicher Fundus an empirischem Material In zwölf Kapiteln erklärt Walter Huber anhand der größten Automobilhersteller Deutschlands ausführlich die Veränderungen durch die Industrie 4.0 in der Autom…
By Matthieu Bolay, Université de Neuchâtel When I was carrying out fieldwork in Guinea and Mali between 2010 and 2014, some ministry officials, with whom I discussed the topics…
From ‘Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols’ by J Cave, D Buda – The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018
Scholars, indigenous activists and students from both sides of the Atlantic (or Pacific?) met at the small Venetian island of San Servolo from 14th to 19th of January…
This post was submitted by Phillip M. Carter, an associate professor of linguistics at Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute The French Revolutionaries, compelled as they were by…
In 1857, Doctor Anson G. Henry wrote a report on the health conditions at Grand Ronde. A few days before he had written another report, Continue reading
For National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN would like to hear about your awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field: Have you accidentally uttered…
Hi all, Development news: Justin Forsyth, Save The Children & abuse; don’t send stuff in humanitarian emergencies! ‘Poor, but happy’ in India; Chinese monkey suits; blockchain summit; brutally…
What are the lives of young incarcerated Latinas like? And what were their lives like before and after their incarceration? In his new book, Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance,…
By the time you read this post my bibliography of the #oxfamscandal will have reached 100 entries. Once the political momentum has slowed down a bit and the…
Yesterday, lecturers began 14 days of strikes in over 60 universities across the United Kingdom. Nominally, the strikes are to oppose pension changes proposed by university employers that would end…