
Review: Crumpled Paper Boat
By Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani ***Originally published in LSE Review of Books*** Writer James Agee, when commissioned to bring back an enticing story for Fortune magazine about impoverished farmers…
By Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani ***Originally published in LSE Review of Books*** Writer James Agee, when commissioned to bring back an enticing story for Fortune magazine about impoverished farmers…
http://www.depauw.edu/humani…/issue%2017/calarco-iveson.html Or here (PDF): http://www.depauw.edu/…/issue%2…/pdfs/calarco-iveson-pdf.pdf ‘Life and Relation Beyond Animalization’ by …
Mode ist Kunst. Balenciaga, l’œuvre au noir Zwischen Mode und Kunst besteht heute eine offensichtlichere Verbindung, als es jemals in…
World101x Anthropology of Current World Issues in Melbourne to talk to Ghassan Hage from the University of Melbourne about multiculturalism and nationalism in Australia and his work on…
Mit etwas schlechtem Gewissen habe ich festgestellt, dass seit meinem letzten Blogeintrag schon mehr als ein Monat vergangen ist. Das liegt allerdings nicht daran, dass in den letzten vier Wochen…
By Lysanne Vrooman Almost half a year ago, on the 25th of March 2017, it was the sixtieth anniversary of the treaty of Rome.…
White supremacists surrounded counterprotesters at the University of Virginia campus on August 11. Shay Horse /Associated Press On the evening of August 11, a torch-bearing mob assaulted …
Here are my articles and interviews from the past two weeks: Fast Company, Why Puerto Rico Is Not Trump’s Katrina (9/27/17) CPAC, “Perspective with Alison Smith: Mass Shooting…
Hi all, I almost felt overwhelmed by the amount of interesting readings, reports and articles that made it into this week’s review-there is *a lot* of interesting stuff…
Obwohl ich mir eigentlich vorgenommen hatte wöchentlich einen Blogeintrag zu schreiben, ist es nun doch schon wieder eine ganze Weile her. Zwischen Uni, Kontakte knüpfen (und halten), Chinesisch…
In Marshallese culture the environment itself is sacred.[1] Yet American colonizers used ancestral environments in the Marshall Islands for devastating nuclear weapons testing and related environmenta…
A special issue of the journal Visual Anthropology brings together seven scholars exploring visual aspects of political contestation in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring. The issue …
By Aniek Santema Around 2 million Syrian refugees who fled the war have been stranded in Lebanon and many of them live in harsh…
In keeping with our post last Thursday on Writing better Conference Abstracts and crafting better Posters, and with #AmAnth17 next month, I thought it timely to share this article on Ti…
This conference is based on the idea that, not only has this power varied among industries, countries and different periods, but also that the way in which it…
Diesen Eintrag will ich nun schon eine ganze Weile schreiben. Es soll um ein Kulturphänomen gehen, das mir von Anfang an aufgefallen ist. Bevor ich mich endgültig daran…
Volume 9 | Number 2 | September 2017 Features Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum by Emily Martin and Susan…
By: Kimberly Marion Suiseeya (Department of Political Science, Northwestern University)[1] Laura Zanotti (Department of Anthropology and Center for the Environment, Purdue University)[2] Kate Haapala …
The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink. 2nd edition. Carolyn Korsmeyer (ed). Bloomsbury, 2016. Greg de Sant-Maurice (University of Toronto and EHESS) Taste is of interest to…
On the 7th of September 2017, Syrian national Mouaz Al-Nass, a singer and drummer, recorded and then uploaded a video of himself reciting the adhan, the Islamic call…
Blog Editor’s note: This is the first installment in FoodAnthropology’s new series on Latinx foodways in North America. We welcome contributions from researchers in this area. More details…
José Carlos Meirelles, a retired field agent from Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, refers to the current moment for isolated indigenous people of the Amazon as “The Decade…
José Carlos Meirelles, a retired field agent from Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, refers to the current moment for isolated indigenous people of the Amazon as “The Decade…