“Dinna you get attached tae yon lamb” Fieldwork with Yoda.
Two pairs of eyes looked at me from across the table waiting for my response. A third pair joined them. The four day old lamb cradled in my…
Tag: anthropology
How does an Anthropologist add value in the workplace?
At work I’m not employed as an anthropologist. Not directly anyway; my skills in research and higher education certainly helped…
Teenagers on social media in southeast Italy – quantitative data
In this blog post I will take a look to the quantitative data from my fieldwork, discussing some findings from a questionnaire I conducted with students in their…
Food Studies Awards Galore!
FoodAnthropology recently posted the call for papers for the 2016 ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS conference, which SAFN is also sponsoring and which, if you are looking for an excellent reason to…
And Still the World Pursued–The Management of Waste in Max Mad: Fury Road
By Emma Louise Backe Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.” -The First History Man What are the roots that…
Anthropology of Risk
One day I asked my friend, a manger at Canadian hedge-fund giant DGAM, if he was aware that anthropology had a whole sub-area devoted to the study of…
Shakespeares in the the Ghetto: The Art and Economics of Serbian Hip Hop
I have written a feature essay on Serbian hip hop for the inaugural issue of Peeps, a new Canadian magazine which tracks global cultural trends. The editors call…
Exploring asylum seekers’ sense of belonging through walk-alongs in Heidelberg – by Theresa Leisgang
Walking home: Anthropology step by step Exploring asylum seekers’ sense of belonging through walk-alongs in Heidelberg “Where are you from?” “Here, I am Afghan. In Afghanistan, I am…
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 I was at the Bandar Sunway…
An open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull: What would research and work look like if I was in charge?
Dear Mr Turnbull, If I was in charge of research I would always include children on the research team. Instead of talking about fresh perspectives, I would build…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: December 6 Edition
December 6, 2015: For the Paris climate talks this week, an article in The Conversation argues that food–production, consumption, and everything in between–must be part of the climate…
Public anthropology plenary at the Melbourne AAS conference
I was excited to convene the plenary with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Tess Lea and Greg Downey. Each of them have an amazing track record in bringing anthropology to bear…
CFP: Best Annual Food Studies Conference!
Here is the call for papers for the best annual food studies conference in North America with the most confusing name. This is the annual joint meeting of…
Why the world needs anthropology
Standplaats Wereld has just published a nice report by Giulia Sinatti from the recent symposium, “Why the World Needs Anthropologists – Burning Issues of Our Hot Planet” in…
SAFN at the 2015 AAA Meeting in Denver
Rachel Black SAFN President Connecticut College It was a busy and productive AAA Meeting for the Society for the the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Our section sponsored…
An article! An article!
If there’s one thing that helps to ground you when you’ve felt voiceless or powerless in the past, it’s when you see the writing equivalent of your name…
Curation of Migration
Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) reunites artists, academics and performers that share the experience of serial migration. The flexible format of the workshop exhibits work or specific perform…
Expatriates: Dilemmas and Misconceptions
Those who have chosen to become permanent expatriates at some time or another experience a very disturbing and confusing dilemma. What makes this dilemma so disturbing is it…
ASFS Student Paper Awards!
The Association for the Study of Food and Society has annual student paper awards. Details for this year’s awards are below. Note that the deadline is February 1,…
Amsterdam Ethnographic Film Festival 2015
A whole day of screenings and discussions with anthropologists and film-makers organised by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Vrije Univer…
Australian Anthropology Annual Conference
The 2015 annual conference of the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) will be hosted by the Anthropology Programme at the University of Melbourne from 1-4 December. This year’s conference…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: November 29th Edition
November 29, 2015: Once again, there were more great food reads this week than could be included in one post. Here were some of my favorites. If you…
Writing Cats
Nayanika Mathur – University of Cambridge A few years back I was out on an evening walk in a town on India’s Himalayan borderland with Tibet. For the…
Why popular anthropology?
The core mission of anthropology is the understanding of human behaviour in a world full of cultural and historical diversity. The anthropological commitment to this immense plurality…