As a multispecies ethnographer and evolutionary anthropologist, I am interested in the ways in which ecological interaction between various taxa affects their selection pressures and evolutionary traj…
What have been billed as momentous EU Parliament elections are taking place this week (May 23–26), and it seemed like the right time to review some Brexit films—one…
Amy Trubek: My conversation with food scholars of Italy revealed a shared belief that there is much potential for a collaborative, global research endeavor about the phenomenon that…
Krimsky, Sheldon. (2019) GMOs Decoded. A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 161 pp. + 9 pp. References Cited. Forward by Marion Nestle. ISBN…
Datum: 12 juni 2019 19.00 – 22.00 uur, Amsterdam Aanmelden is verplicht, zie onderaan. Nederland en België hebben een belangrijke rol gespeeld in de ontwikkeling van het begrip…
This month, we’d like to welcome and thank special guests Dr Jill Sheppard and Martyn Pearce from Policy Forum Pod for joining our semi-themed panel discussion, inspired by…
Together with Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University), Annelies Moors (University of Amsterdam) and Peter Pels (Leiden University) I wrote a short article on ethics and integrity against the background…
I have been involved, over the weekend, in a small twitter debate on the old question of whether anthropology should use qualitative or quantitative methodologies. The debate was…
On April 30, my Liberal Studies class, framed as Anthropology and Philosophy of Science (Syllabus), was the site of a horrific event. Two of my students were…
Hace dos años mi esposo (Igor Ayora Diaz) y yo fuimos invitados por nuestra colega y amiga Encarnación Aguilar Criado a Sevilla para disfrutar de la Semana Santa…
[This is the second installment of Moon Monogamy (And Other Things That Are Bound to Go Wrong) by Savannah Mandel. The first installment is here.] You would think that…
With all the violence in the world and the ever growing movement of mankind toward more violence, it appears there is always a war somewhere…
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Ampson Hagan. Ampson Hagan is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is…
The War on Drugs is an expensive, harmful disaster. It’s the most destructive and racist set of policies that exist in the modern era. But! Did you know that…
Carney, M. A. (2015). The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN: 978-0520285477 Rachael McCormick Universit…
This month Julia (0:59) starts us off with the relationship between loneliness and health after listening to an episode of ‘All in the Mind’, a podcast that explores…
Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. Beacon Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-080704467-4. Laura Valli Washington State University Aaron Bobrow-Strain in White Bread fol…
Peter Kafka has a great piece on Conde Nast, specifically how this once dominant publishing enterprise now struggles and what this means for incoming editor Roger Lynch. “The magazine industry…
Gastauteur: Nadia Fadil Ik wil graag vandaag starten met een persoonlijke getuigenis. Elk jaar geef ik een vak, inleiding tot de antropologie, aan een grote groep eerstejaars studenten…
Lisa Ernst is trained in Cultural Anthropology, Chinese Studies and Islamic Studies and is currently a PhD student in Central Asian Studies at the Berlin Graduate School…
I am a biocultural anthropologist and teach at a university in the southern United States of America. This means that many of my students are religious and haven’t…
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier Met verbazing las ik het artikel over de perikelen rond de promotie van meneer Soroush in Tilburg en het oordeel van de externe onderzoekscommissie (NRC…
This blog post is a transcript of a podcast / interview I did earlier this year with Zack Naylor, the CEO of Aurelius. Among other things, we discussed…