Blood bowl: The Other Fantasy Football, Part 2: The Block Dice of Sociality
Editorial Note: This is part two of a three part series. Click here to read part one, “Warming Up,” Round 2: Following our defeats across the board in…
Tag: anthropology
Introduction to “Maintaining Refuge”
This introduction is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. The last few years have witnessed a rising tide of concern about a rising tide of refugees and migrants. As…
Anthropology has Always been Out There w/ Ed Liebow and Leslie Walker of the AAA
This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and blog crossover series. While thinking together as two anthropological productions that…
TAL + SM: Anthropology has Always been Out There
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 2 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins, with Leslie Walker This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds…
Anthropology for Liberation readings
Next trimester I’m teaching a new course, Anthropology for Liberation. Here’s the course description: How can anthropology advance human emancipation from racism, gender inequality, class …
New Deadline: Thomas Marchione Award!
Opportunity for the Recognition of Outstanding Student Research by applying for the Thomas Marchione Award Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this award…
Writing “in my Culture” w/ Zoe Wool and Alex Golub of Savage Minds
Click the image above to read the blog post on Savage Minds What a title! This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a…
Savage Ears, Anthro Minds: Writing “in my Culture”
A podcast and blog walk into a bar… Click the image above to check out the podcast on This Anthro Life This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover…
Did children build the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna?
New evidence from Akhenaten’s capital suggests that a ‘disposable’ workforce of children and teenagers provided much of the labour for the city’s construction There’s a whiff of magic…
Review: Real Pigs
Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork Brad Weiss. Duke University Press, 2016. Neri de Kramer University of Delaware This book is an…
Music of Anthropology
For the next issue of Open Anthropology I am assembling a list of articles on music. Consistent with the mission of Open Anthropology, these articles will be open…
Animating Resistance
Anthropology as Public Pedagogy The horned serpent serves as a witness to the events that unfold during the Pueblo uprising. Warren Montoya On January 25, President Trump signed…
Blood bowl: The Other Fantasy Football, Part 1: Warming Up
Editorial Note: This article will be released in three parts over the course of the next month. Stay tuned. Shouts ring out around one of the main halls…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, June 2nd 2017
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…
Year-End Reflections on The 2016-17 Anthropoliteia BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project
Welcome to the last post of the 2016-2017 year of Anthropoliteia’s #BlackLivesMatter syllabus. We’ve invited all of the series contributors to offer their thoughts here as we reflect…
Religion and Economy – Part Two
We need to understand better how we build the infrastructures of collective existence, money among them. How do meanings come to be shared and memory to transcend the…
What EM Is Reading and Watching
Another set of thought-provoking readings and recommendations from frequent FoodAnthropology contributor Ellen Messer. Note that while many of these are inspired by items from the Financial Times, Dr….
La trilogía Xenogénesis, de Octavia Butler
Patrones de ascendencia/descendencia y formas preferenciales en el acoplamiento entre terrícolas y oankalis Octavia Butler (1947-2006) ha sido una de las escritoras de ciencia ficción más influyentes e…
Summer Reading Lists for Food Anthropology
David Beriss Here in North America, the academic year is winding down for most of us and we are planning our summer research, writing, and, hopefully, vacation schedules.…
Misguided exclusivity: On the Anthropology News commenting policy
I’ve been exceptionally dismayed this year by the retrograde, anti-open-access, profit-oriented publication philosophy at the American Anthropological Association. Earlier this year they announc…
Notebooks (Artaud’s for example)
Rereading Jay Murphy’s book Artaud’s Metamorphosis and thinking about the 30,000 pages of notes Marx is said to have written in the last ten years of his life –…
American Food
There is a lot of innovative teaching being done in food studies and we like to feature it here whenever we hear about it. Last year we noted…
VOTE!
David Beriss The time has come to vote in the annual AAA elections. (And this posting is not about food, apologies to non-anthropology readers.) The Society for the…
Good Food Talk Webinars
Every now and then we run across resources for researchers and activists interested in food systems that may be of interest to our readers. We recently received notice…