Thesis Review: Tasting Tea, Tasting China
Photograph: by the author – Cha xi design in Hengshan Temple event Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms and the Everyday Culture in Dalian. Yingkun Hou. Ph.D. Thesis in…
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#Hackademics- Hacks for Succeeding in Academia #1: Balancing Family Drama Trauma Fieldwork & Teaching
I recently participated in a webinar with the American Association of Biological Anthropologists and the Sausage of Science Podcast. We discussed mental wellbeing in academia and Dr. Rebecca…
Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea (Book Review)
by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness of where their fish comes from, or of…
Liberal Revolutions and the African Future: An Interview with Keith Hart
Economic anthropologist Keith Hart (KH), one of the leading figures in African studies, spoke to Social Transformations editor Lisandro Claudio … More
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESApplied Anthropology »Cultural Anthropolog…
Ten Treasures (and a Bonus): A Selection of Anthropological Gems You Might Have Missed from the Past Few Years
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…
2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
Preparing for Ida, New Orleans, photo by David Beriss We had so much fun last year, we are once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day…
Sweet Opportunity: SAFN Student Representative
Amanda Jean HiltonSAFN Nominations Chair Calling all grad students! Please consider being the Student Representative for SAFN! This is a great opportunity to get involved in SAFN and to…
The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
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Keir Martin: Great Resignations and Bad Colleagues: Reflections on an Anarchist Anthropology
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is a book that fizzes with a multiplicity of ideas; so many that they seem on occasion to overgrow the boundaries of the…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2022
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won (or been commended) by the prize juries over…
Africa 2021: Perplexing, horrendous, dramatic and inspiring by Jehron Muhammad
Africa’s year 2021 was perplexing, horrendous, dramatic but also inspirational. It can be summed in the “two-ness” of the sojourn … More
The year 2021 on Closer – Salafism, Racism and COVID19
Welcome on my annual overview of the most read posts on Closer. It was another year with COVID19 and lots of discussions on race, security and Salafism. Here…
Infrastructures of inequality: Caring tweets, public health, and COVID-19 in Delhi by Emilija Zabiliūte
One tweet asks for help finding a hospital bed in Delhi, India’s capital. Another asks where to find oxygen. These tweets joined a sea of similar pleas for…
Food Justice and Cultural Appropriation: How do Place and Nostalgia Fit?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at the University of New Orleans. You can read…
Cultural Dimensions of health – Introduction
Cultural Dimensions of health Contents Cultural Dimensions of health. 1
Review: Research Methods in Digital Food
Joseph Leer and Stinne Gunder Strom Grogager, eds. Research Methods in Digital Food Studies. Routledge. London and New York. ISBN: 978-0-367-81926-2 (hbk);ISBN: 978-0-367-81927-9 (pbk…
The Food Security Myth: Struggle Toward Food Sovereignty in Benin
Segnide J. Guidimadjegbe Oregon State University I was born and raised in Benin, a West African Country that is used to be called “Dahomey.” Very young, my sibling…
Soapbox: on slips and trips.
In the business of selling cultures for quids, and other random translations Once upon a long ago, there was a time when I was more rebelliously young, and…
Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union Part 2 by Keith Hart
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) It … More
On the Edge of the Body
By Renata Carvalho Anthropology’s many attempts of conceptualising the body into clear and useful analytical categories has raised significant ontological questions that problematise the very basi…
30 Minute Methods in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, TDTU.
The most useful thing I heard anyone say (it was Olivia Harris) about a methods course is that it should never be a discussion of how to, but…
30 Minute Methods: Jack Boulton at TDTU KhXH&NV
Jack Boulton 30 Minute Methods talk at TDTU, KHOA KHXH&NV,: 30 November 2021 ‘TV, film and literature sci-fi as part of the new literary turn in anthropology’ For…