5 Ways to Support a Co-Worker with a Chronic Illness
Nearly 90 percent of people in the workplace say they’re unsure how much or what kind of emotional support to offer a co-worker who’s living with a chronic…
Here’s What Happens to Your Body When You Cut Out Alcohol for 30 Days
Though the benefits can vary widely from person to person, taking a monthlong break from alcohol can do your body good. Getty Images Cutting out alcohol if you…
Part Two: Reciprocity and Its Discontents
Patricia G. Lange, California College of the Arts Mary Douglas, a key figure in the field of anthropology, once famously asserted that in small-scale societies, “the cycling…
Rachel Chrastil, “How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children” (Oxford UP, 2019)
In this episode, Jana Byars talks with Rachel Chrastil, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and member of the history department at Xavier University, about her newest book,…
Catherine Besteman, “Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine” (Duke UP, 2016)
Catherine L. Besteman‘s book Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (Duke University Press, 2016) is an important contribution to our understanding of the process of remakin……
Rocket Scientists and Their Games: A Little-Known Slice of History
In the 21st century, game companies are expanding what can be done with 3D interactive tools and virtual spaces. Companies like Epic Games are increasing blurring the lines…
Don Kulick on his book, A Death in the Rainforest
https://www.workman.com/products/a-death-in-the-rainforest Excerpted from original New Books Network podcast https://newbooksnetwork.com/don-kulick-a-death-in-the-rainforest-how-a-language-and-a-way-…
Gemeinsame Stellungnahme zum Urteil über die Verwendbarkeit des N-Wortes
Gemeinsam mit den Fachgesellschaften VAD (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland), dgv (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde) und dem Fachverband Afrikanistik veröffentlicht die DGSKA ein…
Call for Reviews: Anthropology of Climate Change and the Environment
As 2020 started with the apocalyptic images of the Australian bush-fires, we at Allegra, felt there was an emergency to feature the work of environmental anthropologists so as…
Climate change policy
The avowed purpose of policy, whether devised by a government, non-governmental body or an organisation, is to direct action to address an issue, event or interaction, with the…
Wendy Bottero, “A Sense of Inequality” (Roman and Littlefield, 2020)
How should we understand inequality? In A Sense of Inequality (Roman and Littlefield, 2020), Wendy Bottero, a Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester offers a detailed…
Bacchi Ordens Capitel
Då man arbetar på arkiv får man ofta ta emot olika typer av spännande material som berättar en berättelse från forna tider. På våren 2019 kom ett par…
The history of semiotics in anthropology
Someone in one of the my email lists was asking about the history of semiotics in anthropology, and that made me realise that I didn’t know very much…
Can academics change the world?
Via The Conversation: Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned,…
Italia moderna – dieci
Wir sehen ein Appartmenthaus für Urlauber in einem kleinen italienischen Seebad an der Adria. Das Seebad trägt den skurrilen Namen Lido delle Nazioni. Das Haus ist ein Typus,…
„Zwingendes Völkerrecht“ als Grenze von demokratischen Entscheiden gerät in der Schweiz unter Druck
Die Schweizerische Bundesversammlung will Personen, die für dschihadistische Taten verurteilt wurden, in Staaten ausschaffen können, in denen ihnen Folter droht. Dieser Entscheid verstösst gegen das F…
Har du betalat för väskan?
Det här med var man ska sitta på bussen, spårvagnen, tunnelbanan eller tåget är en känslig fråga i Sverige. Jag har funderat på två av de outtalade reglerna…
You know kimchi but how about kimjang?
Sangyoub Park and Sunyoung Cheong At the beginning of the new year, a variety of news outlets and food-related venues usually predict upcoming food trends. USA Today, for…
Buchrezension: Richard David Precht Utopie für die digitale Gesellschaft
Das Schreckensgespenst der Digitalisierung geht um: Maschinen übernehmen unsere Arbeitsplätze. Massenarbeitslosigkeit, Verarmung und soziale Unruhen stehen uns bevor. Dass dies nicht so sein muss R…
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General Howard Visits Grand Ronde, 1876
In 1874, General Oliver Otis Howard, who had served in the Civil War was the Commander of the Department Columbia took command of any Indian conflicts in the…
Toxic Disavowal by Chloe Ahmann
Figure 1. “Residents want out of industrial ghetto.” Photo by Lloyd Fox for the Baltimore Sun, 1998. In April 1998, Jeanette succumbed to terminal cancer. She was only…
Toxicology and the chemistry of cohort kinship by Janelle Lamoreaux
Birth cohort studies are characterized as longitudinal investigations of research subjects with at least one common characteristic, usually being born in the same time and place. Such studies…
Art, the Clinic, and the Political Exercise of Thinking by Eva Marxen
From 2002-2013, the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA) brought together professionals from the fields of psychoanalysis, art therapy, and anthropology to provide different services for a va…