Klickitat and Twality Legal battles Over Land
By the 1830s, right about the time that “fever and ague” a great plague, likely malaria (Boyd, the Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence,1999) hit the tribes of…
“From Zero to Hero”: The life of Sierra Leonean football players in Scandinavia, by Zora Šašková
Community league game in Lunsar, Port Loko District “Is Foday back home?” I asked Erik, a former Danish Superliga coach and owner of a second division club in…
Diskriminierung und soziale Position
Publikation über den Einfluss von Diskriminierungserfahrungen auf Bildungsprozesse und Lebenschancen Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Albert Scherr und Helen Breit In der Publikation “Diskriminierung, Anerken…
Vad är väl far utan slips?
Det är fars dag. Ett kommersiellt påhitt för att öka handeln eller ett finstämt sätt att fira pappornas roll i barnens liv – det beror på vem som…
Triggerwarnung. Ingeborg Bachmann über eine bereute Vaterschaft
„Alles“ lautet der Titel einer – durchaus verstörenden – Erzählung von Ingeborg Bachmann. In ihr geht es um „regretting parenthood“, um die Frage, welche Konventionen man weitergeben will…
Why Are Languages Worth Preserving?
This illustration represents how Indigenous peoples around the globe, as highlighted by depictions of a few specific communities, are striving to keep endangered languages alive as dynamic source…
Book Review: The Urban Gardens of Havana: Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces by Ola Plonska and Younes Saramifar
In The Urban Gardens of Havana: Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces, Ola Plonska and Younes Saramifar explore the poetics of gardening and narrate everyday life under the gaze of…
Kirakira-navn: En moderne japansk navnetrend
Noen fornavn er vanligere enn andre. I Japan har enkelte gått ekstra langt i å finne unike navn til sine barn. Siden skriftsystemet er ulikt vårt, har navngiving…
Amazon under Fire: A letter of protest by Brazilian scientists published by the New York Review of Books
As Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro stood before the United Nations in September of 2019 downplaying media reports of increasing forest fires under his administration and denouncing world-renowned i…
What are Brand communities?
Brand communities are groups of people who share identity, values and practices with a particular brand. We analyze the phenomenon from an anthropological perspective. La entrada What are…
Feminist Anthropology Is Teamwork
As the launch of Feminist Anthropology was becoming visible in 2019, I found myself working on its editorial board with colleagues with whom I had collaborated over the…
Review: The Way We Eat Now
Bee Wilson The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution has Transformed our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World. Basic Books. New York. 2019. ISBN 978046509377 Richard…
How Names Tell Stories of Loss and Resilience
Bhutanese Nepali performers—including Shyam “San” Rai at center—pose at a cultural festival. Katie Reilly When Shyam “San” Rai was 8 years old, he and his family were forced…
El Cruce de la Muerte: Fieldwork and Carework at the Crossroad of Death
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Amarilys Estrella, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her research examines the role of human…
Happycondríacos: coachers, influencers, jokers.
“La publicidad se basa en una única cosa: la felicidad. […] Pero ¿qué es la felicidad? La felicidad es solo un momento antes de que quieras más felicidad.”…
September 2019 ~ Table of Contents
Volume 11 | Numbers 1-2 | September 2019 Editor’s Note Rylan Higgins, Maria D. Vesperi and Emily Martin. Features Relax, It’s just Culture: Secularizing Conventions in Nonfiction…
OsloMets første Storbykonferanse: viser veien for videre forskning
av Marikken Wullf Wathne og Per Martin Norheim-Martinsen Byer blir i stadig økende grad sett på som essensielle for globale prosesser. De siste tiårene har vi sett et…
Et urbant universitet i rurale Norge (Storbytalen 2019)
Rektor Curt Rice holdt åpningstalen på storbykonferansen på OsloMet. Dette er er en redigert utgave av talen hans. En redigert versjon av talen er tidligere publisert i nettavisen…
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #9
In Section 9 Omar teaches Greta the amount of adjectives required to break government gatekeeping – while Naga defends the precious Ministry data from short term consultants in spite…
Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Together with Lotty Brand, we wrote a piece for aeon about the paper: Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be? The piece was then…
Dear Graduate Student…
Dear Graduate Student, Here we are, well into another semester. Many of you are in the field already or preparing for the field. If you are already there,…
Writing, Silence, and Sensemaking After Fieldwork Trauma
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Kimberly J. Lewis, Associate Director of the Office of Scholars and Fellowships at the University of Richmond. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from…
Book Review: A Future History of Water by Andrea Ballestero
In A Future History of Water, Andrea Ballestero explores the conflict between water as a human right and water as an economic good through ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Costa Rica…