Smileys in SA: Women’s Work, Social Value, and the complex story of “recycled meat”
Langa Township, Cape Town. Smoke billows as Yonela sears a sheep head with a hot metal rod, cleaning off any remaining wool. This is part of the cleaning…
Tag: anthropology
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions – review
In The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions, Adam Kuper interrogates the history of anthropological museums and considers questions of colonialism, race, and …
Position Available!
The Department of Anthropology at SMU invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Economic Anthropology. The position is at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are looking…
Field tales from the end of the world – pt. 1
By Wiebe de Jong – How I ended up here I finished my masters in anthropology back in 2008 at Radboud University Nijmegen, and after at about five…
A Human Economy for Emergent World Society – Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart What are we to make of a world society whose formation is driven by an explosive …
Settlement and the South Willamette Valley Wetlands
The settlement of Eugene and the whole southern valley settlement centers was guided by advice from the Kalapuyans and the presence of seasonal wetlands on the plains. Two…
Seasonal Lifeways of the Tualatin
The Tualatin Plains The Tualatin Plains was a vast oak savanna. From General Land Office survey field notes there was noted a large number of oaks and oak…
Remembering my Friend, Véronique Amenan Akpoueh (d., Aug. 3, 2023)
Ours was not an ordinary friendship. Race, class, religion, citizenship, educational background, and (for fourteen years) parental status divided us. Language brought us together. Curiosity and inte…
A Human Economy for Emergent World Society
Written by Keith Hart World society has been formed as a single interactive network in our time. Universal means of …
27 words for elephant
In English, an elephant is an elephant. Ok, we have words for a group of elephants (a herd) and baby elephants (a calf), but these are general words…
Review: Edible Economics
Ha-Joon Chang. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2022. Xxvi + 192 pp. ISBN #9781541700543 David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) T…
Reflections on not flying: one year on
Gareth E. Hamilton, University of Latvia Rail Baltica works outside Riga’s central railway station. Author’s photograph Today on the way to the office, I witnessed a small piece…
Anthropology as a revolutionary project: David Graeber’s political legacy
Written by Keith Hart This talk has four parts. In the first I excavate the revolutionary origins of modernanthropology and …
A Failure in Capture: An Experiment in Multimodal Interactive Ethnography where ‘Nothing Happens’
The video below this text is interactive.[1] To view, click play and follow the instructions you see on the screen. As you watch, look for areas that you…
Knowing Food: SAFN at the 2023 ASFS/AFHVS Meeting
Jennifer Jo Thompson The 2023 joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food in Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (ASFS/AFHVS) was held…
Dr. Louis Olsen (MOCA 1 of 2)
Louis comes to visit me in my office I am very saddened by the recent passing of my friend, colleague and fellow anthropologist, Dr. Louis Olsen. My deepest…
GBAS Mexico 2023
Sesión plenaria de apertura. Foto GVC. Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos en el Global Business Anthropology Summit 2023, un congreso sobre antropología de negocios que tuvo…
Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy…
Written by Jehron Muhammad (RE: Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy defined by Colonial and Post-Colonial History) Africa’s placement in global …
Tribal Reactions to the 1851 Treaties
In the history of treaty making , there were two treaty periods for western Oregon, 1851, and 1853 to 1855. The 1851 treaties, 19 of them, were negotiated…
Awards! Money! Food!
I’m running a field school in Puerto Rico with a focus on ethnography and food sovereignty. Here I am raising my cup of morning coffee to all of…
GO HAVE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF
THERE IS ALSO AN ARTICLE VERSION: Congratulations, we’re delighted to let you know that your article is now on Taylor & Francis Online. Studying tourism means going to have a…
5 etnografías para enamorarse de Yucatán… y de la etnografía!
Fui invitada por la firma sheperd.com a escribir recomendaciones sobre cinco libros. Decidí escribir sobre etnografías de Yucatán. Escogí el libro Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, de John…
Association for the Study of Food and Society Racial Justice Research and Pedagogy Fellowships
Very exciting opportunities from our colleagues at the Association for the Study of Food and Society! As food studies scholars and practitioners, we are keenly aware of transnational…
The Household’s Basket: Households in a Basket, Part 2
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a policy by the Greek government designed to help…