Hello from a New Editor
As the fall term draws to a close, and as many of us head to Vancouver for AAA-CASCA, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself…
Is there something “Arctic” to youth well-being in northern settlements?
This was one of the guiding topics discussed at the session hosted by our WOLLIE project during the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference 2019. On the one hand, the…
Äthiopien-Forschung: Frobenius-Institut übergibt Fotos an das äthiopische Nationalarchiv
Rund 20.000 Fotografien und Zeichnungen dokumentieren die Forschungen des Frobenius-Instituts in Südäthiopien zwischen 1934 und 1994. Nun sollen diese Bilder vor Ort einsehbar und für Recherchen nutzb…
AI and User Experience: As Always, the User Comes First
In this interview with my colleague Arun Shastri, we talk about the value and importance of bringing a UX perspective to our work in AI.
#MDGCOMICS: MZUNGUS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENTS! #10
In Episode 10, Going Native, Omar grasps the true meaning of kizunguzungu: but is the dizziness coming from denying local researchers authorship, or from open relationships? (Also, in which…
Why Did Chinese Farmers Switch to Wheat?
Wheat is now a favored crop in many parts of China. Jie Zhao/Getty Images Today China is the world’s biggest consumer of wheat, which the country uses to…
Angela Rudert, “Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Angela Rudert‘s Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is the first academic study of the popular contemporary North Indian female…
Adeline M. Masquelier, “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (University of Chicago Press 2019) is a study of the kinds of experimentation and creative engagements that young men in the urban…
Gespaltene Kollektive. Identität und ihr Missbehagen in Samirs Baghdad In My Shadow
Eine progressive «Identitätspolitik”, die im Namen des Widerstandes gegen nationalistische Beschränkungen betrieben wird, muss verschiedene, disparate “kollektive Identitäten” für ein gemeinsames Ziel…
Divided Collectives. Identity and Its Discontents in Samir’s Baghdad In My Shadow
A progressive “identity politics” pursued in the name of resistance to nationalist retrenchment depends on the mobilization of various disparate “collective identities” around a common aim. But what…
Bioethnography and the Birth Cohort: A Method for Making New Kinds of Anthropological Knowledge about Transmission (which is what anthropology has been about all along) by Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
© Elizabeth F. S. Roberts These are pots and dishes. They transmit food and love. They transmit lead. They transmit class. They transmit enduring inequality and new forms…
2019 Schedule for APLA at AAA/CASCA!
Welcome to the 2019 edition of APLA at the AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting schedule. Below is a list of events, panels, and workshops that are sponsored or co-sponsored by…
Does Generosity Come Naturally?
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS When anthropologist Cathryn Townsend headed into the field in 2009 to study generosity, she knew the project was for her. That’s because she was the…
Video Games, Mental Health, and the Complicated Nature of Playing
Young man plays Fortnite at a gaming competition CC BY-SA 4.0 He melted into the shadows, pressing the ‘E’ key on his keyboard, activating his stealth skill, allowing…
“I Remember the Day I said ‘Okay, I’ve Read Everything,’” an Interview with Carole Counihan
David Sutton Here is the second in my series of video interviews with food anthropologists. This one is with Dr. Carole Counihan, who probably needs no introduction. In…
The Proust Questionnaire: Dr. Carole Counihan
The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not originally devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering…
Why More Security Never Feels Like Enough, by Astrid Countee: Storyslamming Anthropology Series #3
Why More Security Never Feels like Enough Storyslamming Anthropology Series, Story 3. Written and Performed by Astrid Countee In recent years, the terms Public and Anthropology have been…
A Poetics of Dementia by Rosemarie Buikema
One rainy morning in November, I called my mother. “Hi mum, how’re you doing?”“Well, it isn’t much fun to be sitting here in a chicken run all day…
Teri Silvio on her new book, Puppets, Gods, and Brands
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/product/puppets-gods-and-brands-theorizing-the-age-of-animation-from-taiwan/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: What first led you to start thinking about animation? …
Alle Jahre wieder?
Artikel zu entwicklungsorientierter Flüchtlingsarbeit vs. Geflüchtete als Akteur*innen Autorin: Dr. Ulrike Krause Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Genese der entwicklungsorientierten Flüchtlingsarbeit kri…
A Shaligram is Born – Part 2
This second part on the birth of Shaligrams is meant to briefly demonstrate the concrete links between the sacred contexts of Shaligram veneration and the actual practices devotees…
Myths of the Circular Economy
Discard studies spoke with three leading waste researchers about the biggest myths of the circular economy.
Mark Alizart, “Dogs” (Polity, 2019)
Man’s best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and walkers, equally happy curled up by the fire and bounding through the…
Collecting Relationships: the Phenomenon of Ooshies
Anthropologists have long acknowledged that ownership is a far more complex phenomenon than it seems at first. What on the surface appears to be a relationship between you…