Dr. Louis Olsen (MOCA 1 of 2)
Louis comes to visit me in my office I am very saddened by the recent passing of my friend, colleague and fellow anthropologist, Dr. Louis Olsen. My deepest…
Tag: anthropology
GBAS Mexico 2023
Sesión plenaria de apertura. Foto GVC. Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos en el Global Business Anthropology Summit 2023, un congreso sobre antropología de negocios que tuvo…
Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy…
Written by Jehron Muhammad (RE: Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy defined by Colonial and Post-Colonial History) Africa’s placement in global …
Tribal Reactions to the 1851 Treaties
In the history of treaty making , there were two treaty periods for western Oregon, 1851, and 1853 to 1855. The 1851 treaties, 19 of them, were negotiated…
Awards! Money! Food!
I’m running a field school in Puerto Rico with a focus on ethnography and food sovereignty. Here I am raising my cup of morning coffee to all of…
GO HAVE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF
THERE IS ALSO AN ARTICLE VERSION: Congratulations, we’re delighted to let you know that your article is now on Taylor & Francis Online. Studying tourism means going to have a…
5 etnografías para enamorarse de Yucatán… y de la etnografía!
Fui invitada por la firma sheperd.com a escribir recomendaciones sobre cinco libros. Decidí escribir sobre etnografías de Yucatán. Escogí el libro Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, de John…
Association for the Study of Food and Society Racial Justice Research and Pedagogy Fellowships
Very exciting opportunities from our colleagues at the Association for the Study of Food and Society! As food studies scholars and practitioners, we are keenly aware of transnational…
The Household’s Basket: Households in a Basket, Part 2
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a policy by the Greek government designed to help…
Radio Guest: “Anthropologist traces the “multi-species politics” of javelinas and humans”
I was a guest on the Marfa Public Radio show, Nature Notes, discussing my research on human-javelina relations in Texas. Listen for a sneak peek at some of…
Hair Cutting Holland
By Fridus Steijlen – There are things in daily life that seem to always continue without notice. For me, one of them is going to the hairdresser, more…
Book Review: Beyond colonial futures – Ethnofuturism and World Beyond: An Anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction
By Christopher Marcatili McGavin, Kirsten (ed.). 2022. World Beyond: An anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction. Sydney, Aus: Hibiscus Three. In the remote mountains of Papua New…
The Rumour of Calcutta update
27 22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall,…
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members …
UNCC Shooting Four Years Later…
Yesterday marked the fourth year since a shooter entered my classroom in Kennedy 236, took two lives, and changed dozens more forever. The University of North Carolina at…
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania – By Cristina A. Pop – Someone has a fondness for purple decor, I decide, as I look around the examination…
Civilians caught in the middle of Sudan conflict
Written by Jerhron Muhammad Recent Sudanese history paints the current conflict waging between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the …
The Household’s Basket: Households in a basket
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during the past year Greece has been faced with…
Returning to UNC-Charlotte Approaching the 4th Anniversary of a Mass Shooting in My Class
Tomorrow, I get on a plane to fly to Charlotte, NC to attend the unveiling and dedication of a new memorial for Reed, Riley, and the other victims…
Meta-Reflection as a Teaching Tool
This semester I taught a new course called “Wicked Science,” which examines the challenges posed by wicked problems — those problems that defy solution because of fundamental di…
Avatar 2 indulgences
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse…
Dissertation Manuscript Outline: Human-Javelina Relations in Texas
Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of…
Paleoanthropology: The Ancestor Worshipping Death Cult
Firstly, this is satire. I love all of my paleoanthropologist friends. Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. However, it is also a low-k…
Austerity: An Economy of Words? Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …