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…
Tag: anthropology
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…
‘Those are our Eiffel Towers, our pyramids’: Why Standing Rock is about much more than oil
Standing Rock is cast as an environmental protest, but the Native American Water Protectors are part of a religious tradition that predates Christianity On May 15, the Dakota…
Interview with Perry Gilmore about “Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki”
Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki chronicles a charming and, indeed, remarkable friendship that developed between two five-year-old boys—one (Sadiki), the son of a traditionally…
How do you raise a child? Insights from a World of Babies
How do you raise a child? Ask any mother, and she’ll offer a long list of things you should do–and shouldn’t do. Not only will three mothers share…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, May 12, 2017
David Beriss 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…
Turismo y música, desde la antropología: Identidades en Venta, de Georgina Flores Mercado y Fernando Nava López
Identidades en venta: músicas tradicionales y turismo en México. Reseña, por Gabriela Vargas Cetina Desde el artículo pionero de Theron Núñez en 1963 sobre el turismo en un…
Anthropology under my skin
What follows is the text of the presentation I gave as part of the the Reclaiming Anthropology panel during the Anthropology in Aotearoa Symposium held at Victoria University…
Zareena Grewal – By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam
We often regard 9/11 as the pivotal moment in which people’s views about Islam and Muslims changed. Notwithstanding the fact that it was indeed a huge moment, the…
Hot Topic: School Lunch Regulation
Kelly Alexander Breaking news from the world of U.S. food policy: President Trump’s new ag secretary Sonny Perdue moves to loosen federal school lunch legislation, thereby slowing healthy food…