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Interview with Keith Hart on Nationalism

by Nika Dubrovsky Keith Hart was then International Director of the Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria and Professor of … More

Post date 1st May 2022
Post author By Neil Turner

“A student and a professor remember the UNC Charlotte mass shooting three years later”: NPR WFAE Charlotte: Sarah Delia

I have not done many interviews on the subject. Here is an NPR article in which I am featured alongside one of my students about the shooting in…

Post date 29th April 2022
Post author By Anthropology365

Kathleen Gough

I could not find a single volume biography, which seems like a gap, but this special issue of Anthropologica from 1993 is a welcome find. Since it is…

Post date 28th April 2022
Post author By john hutnyk

Reflecting Three Years After the UNCC Mass Shooting

Every year at this time, I reflect on the shooting that occurred in my classroom on April 30, 2019, that took the lives of two students, injured four…

Post date 25th April 2022
Post author By Anthropology365

Review: The “Grand Meze” Exhibit at the Mucem in Marseille, France

Rachel Black (Connecticut College) This exhibit runs from May 19, 2021 – Dec. 31, 2023. Is food the most unifying element of the Mediterranean? By focusing on foodways…

Post date 21st April 2022
Post author By foodanthro

Dear Anthropologists that I know.

Dear Anthropologists that I know. It is 100 years since Bronislaw Malinowski’s “Argonauts of the Western Pacific” began the terror of enforcing the participant observation fi…

Post date 21st April 2022
Post author By john hutnyk

Ep # 90: The First Year Special: This Month on TFS.

The Familiar Strange · Ep # 90: The First Year Special: This Month on TFS Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re back with a special panel episode…

Post date 17th April 2022
Post author By The Familiar Strange

Martin Fotta: Towards Anti-War Anthropology: On EASA, CEE and NATO

One of the casualties of Putin’s war on Ukraine will be European critical social science. While the war has instigated important discussions about ‘US-plaining’, ‘Westplaining’ and about Russian…

Post date 14th April 2022
Post author By focaal_admin

Sixty may be the New Fifty but is Twenty Six the New Old?

Author: Sheba Mohammid In Trinidad and Tobago, we may not have Ponce De Leon’s fountain of youth, but we do have a pool. It’s technically an offshore sandbar,…

Post date 14th April 2022
Post author By alex.clegg

Powerpoint Karaoke, a Ph.D. Version

This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Zhou Zhou “You win the lottery! You are a millionaire! You…

Post date 14th April 2022
Post author By Zhou Zhou

South Africa’s two-tier economy (2012-2022) by Keith Hart

This analysis is based on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012. It identifies twelve “pillars” of sustainable … More

Post date 1st April 2022
Post author By Neil Turner

Ethno-graphic collaborations

Author: Laura Haapio-Kirk During my research in Japan, I became increasingly aware of the importance of visual communication, for example stickers and emoji, for how many of my…

Post date 31st March 2022
Post author By alex.clegg

Winners of SAFN’s 2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!

David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…

Post date 31st March 2022
Post author By foodanthro

(Almost) Native Ethnography Meets the Heat of the Tunisian Desert

Post date 29th March 2022
Post author By a Guest Blogger

“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea

Lima, 2015. At the Mistura, an annual food festival in Peru wherein people from the desert, the Andes, and the coast bring their produce and artisanal products to…

Post date 28th March 2022
Post author By foodanthro

Anna Korteweg on the politics of integration, gender and race in relation to people labelled immigrants

Anna Korteweg is a professor of sociology and head of Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Anna Korteweg works on gender, Islam and immigrant integration in…

Post date 26th March 2022
Post author By martijn

Review: Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

David E. Sutton, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples, Berghahn, 2021, ISBN 978-1-80073-223-0 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-80073-224-7 (ebook), 142 pages. Amy Trubek…

Post date 25th March 2022
Post author By foodanthro

(Almost) Native Ethnography meets the heat of the Tunisian Desert

Post date 24th March 2022
Post author By Tony Waters

“What are people claiming when they say that a food is local?” An Interview With David Beriss

Local food or not? Photo by David Beriss David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend…

Post date 21st March 2022
Post author By foodanthro

Ep # 88: Creating Queer Space & The Lenses of War: This month on TFS

The Familiar Strange · Ep # 88: Creating Queer Space & The Lenses of War: This month on TFS Welcome back for another Panel! This week we’re joined…

Post date 20th March 2022
Post author By The Familiar Strange

The TikTok of Anthropology

Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form…