Tag: anthropology
Ep. #15 Designing agency: Vijayendra Rao talks development, anthropology, and making social change
Vijayendra Rao, the lead economist at the World Bank in the research department, talks to our own Ian Pollock about the role that anthropology and ethnography could play in helping…
Touro-terror-ists
Good to see Terror and the Tour appear (in 2016 – I’m a little slow) in Liminalities journal and give Peter Phipps and Malcolm Crick a deserved nod, since…
Ethnography of Oregon Indians 1841: Horatio Hale of the U.S. Exploring Expedition
Horatio Hale’s created what may be one of the earliest ethnographies of the tribes of the Pacific Coast. Remarkable as it is, Hale’s ethnography is both interesting and…
Geld, wantrouwen en insinuaties – Nieuwsuur en NRC over financiering van moskeeën
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier Nu de storm over moskeefinancieringen weer wat is gaan liggen, is het goed om nog eens te kijken naar de achterliggende aannames die in de…
Residences, Rentals and Redolent Delectables: Women entrepreneurs and the Japanese baking industry
By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor serves me mochi (pounded rice cake) that she…
TFS in Thai: เรียนมานุษยวิทยาไปทำไม?: ประสบการณ์ของสองนักศึกษาปริญญาเอก มหาวิทยาลัยแห่งชาติออสเตรเลีย (What is Anthropology: The reflexive experiences of two PhD students from ANU)
A few times a year, The Familiar Strange will bring you bonus episodes in languages other than English. In today’s episode, Poonnatree (Golf) Jiaviriyaboonya, lecturer in anthropology at…
New Book Chapter On Mediated Experience Of The Uprisings
This just in: I have a new book chapter out on the Egyptian uprisings. The title is “Mediated Experience in the Egyptian Revolution” and it appears in Digital…
James Swan; Fishing Culture of Coastal Washington Tribes
James G. Swan is a legendary scholar of Native people of the Northwest coast. He is an early federal employee in the Oregon territory and lives in the…
Decolonizing Anthropology: Comprehensive Exam Practice
Describe what is meant when anthropology is labeled “colonial.” Anthropology has aided colonization by dehumanizing and stereotyping Natives, by causing an erasure of Native history and identity, by…
Foundations of American Ethnography of the Northwest Coast: Comprehensive Exam Practice
Area 2: Ethnographic Accounts of Pacific Northwest Native peoples This subject entails the discourse and dialogue between Native peoples and societies and ethnographers on the Pacific Northwest…
Ep. #14 Thesis writing, picturing cults, Muslims with caste, & fieldwork boredom: this month on TFS
Ian (1:25) starts us off by asking, just how well-written does a thesis need to be? “As anthropologists, basically what we do is write… whether it’s writing your field notes,…
Should I stay or should I go?
Elm tree, Ottawa At the end of my sixth semester as an anthropology professor, I’m reflecting on what it means to inhabit this discipline (or, maybe, to occupy…
Disciplinary Violence
#MeToo is an opening for change—but can anthropologists look beyond the media moment to confront sexual violence and transform the discipline? Those who speak up to share stories…
Got Food Studies Essays?
The semester is ending for many universities here in North America and students are furiously completing their final papers. There may be food-related research gold in those papers!…
The Rumour of Calcutta – digital book
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, but…
Food Systems Sourcebook
We often get requests here at FoodAnthropology for information on food studies programs and on other resources related to food and nutrition. The collective knowledge of SAFN members…
An Anthropologist’s Obsession with Outlander
I have been on hiatus from blogging for some time, mainly due to two factors. First, I launched a public anthropology podcast, Anthropologist on the Street (huzzah!), which…
Latino Memphis
By Simone Pierre Delerme Memphis’ Summer Avenue has become an enclave with a concentration of Latino-owned restaurants and small businesses. Along the corridor, one will find some…
Gun Violence in American Schools
There is something terribly wrong going on in American schools today. A silent epidemic is spreading throughout the country like a cancer. What does it say about a…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, May 1 2018
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Environmental Anthropology: An Anthropologist’s View of a Cove Cleanup
The curse of the anthropologist: finding culture everywhere in nature. Today, the neighborhood in which my husband and I now live hosted a cleanup in a nearby cove.…
Ep. #13 TFS presents Anthropod: “Podcasts and Pedagogy: audio in the anthropology classroom”
“Storytelling: that’s part of the power of podcasts, and just the power of ethnography in general, to really have people tell their own stories. And I think it’s…
Mushies
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing has written an amazing book. The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015) is all about forests and foraging and revitalising teaching and diasporas…