A Very Informative Video on Circumcision
So, I’ve just recently discovered Ryan McAllister, PhD and his videos on birth and circumcision, and I highly recommend you view his video on Child Circumcision (aka genital…
Tag: anthropology
A Very Informative Video on Circumcision
So, I’ve just recently discovered Ryan McAllister, PhD and his videos on birth and circumcision, and I highly recommend you view his video on Child Circumcision (aka genital…
Closed fists of Ebola
I did long term anthropological fieldwork amongst the polio-disabled communities of Freetown between 2008 and 2012. The research fed into my doctoral dissertation: „Where parallel worlds meet: civil…
Fieldwork is haunting me, thanks to WhatsApp
When is the end of fieldwork? (Photo:Merlijn Hoek CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When is it that fieldwork finishes? Thanks to social media, the separation between being in the fieldsite…
Affirmative action in brazil: is it necessary?
Recently, I came across an article in Lasa Forum Spring 2013 edition in which Edward Telles and Marcelo Paixão assessed the significance of Affirmative Action in Brazil.…
Fundraiser Jambalaya
David Beriss University of New Orleans I recently asked my food and culture students to write short essays about foods that remind them of places. The objective was…
Halloween is for Anthropologists
By Emma Louise Backe Halloween, it seems, was made for anthropologists. While many anthropologists devote their time in the field to studying supernatural belief systems, arcane rituals or…
Notes on the fourth digital ethnography reading (Gehl 2014)
by Katya Tokareva PhD Candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG) In the fourth session of the monthly Digital Ethnography Reading…
Cannabis Culture in Denver
From the editor: Attending the AAA meetings in Denver? The announcement below is for an event that looks into legalized marijuana in Colorado. This will no doubt touch…
Online relationships with strangers can be ‘purer’ than with offline friends
“Internet dog” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. As illustrated in the cartoon ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’, published by The New Yorker in 1993, the…
Food in Culture and Social Justice at Oregon State University
Today, we will hear from Joan Gross, Professor of Anthropology discussing Oregon State University’s Food in Culture and Social Justice program. This post is part of SAFN’s Food…
Damsels & Demons: Women in Horror Part II
By Emma Louise Backe Part I of the series can be read here. The genre of horror is one that is not overtly concerned with gender, and yet…
[Anthropo]logy beyond the human?
Yesterday, 19/10/15, the Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) network launched what will hopefully become an annual round-table event to bring postgraduate researchers and staff togeth…
Four Legs Good: Working With A Canine Research Assistant
Karen Lane – University of St Andrews The dog saw the elderly woman before I did. Walking up Market Street in St Andrews my mind was elsewhere (I’d…
Multispecies anthropology in the media: The polar bears are coming to town
The anthropologist Martina Tyrrell looks at life in Arviat, Hudson Bay, when polar bears come to town. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34490185
Truthtelling
At some point this year, my dissertation shifted from a (largely unwritten) traditional ethnography to an intentional experiment on writing/thinking/doing disability as a scholar. This was a change…
New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on #performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the reflexive, relational, and embodied dimensions of perfo…
Food, Culture, and Social Justice in Oregon and Ecuador
Joan Gross Oregon State University 2016 Intercultural Learning Community with Oregon State University The goal of this learning community is to gather a multicultural group of people (undergraduate…
Damsels & Demons: Women in Horror Part I
By Emma Louise Backe Each culture suffers from its own hauntings. We perform ceremonies to guide the ghosts back to their graves and lay out offerings of food…
Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity
Review of: Warner, Mark S. 2015. Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Ashanté Reese Spelman College Mark S. Warner’s…
Normativity and social visibility
It has been exactly a year since finishing 15 months of fieldwork in Trinidad. Stories for this blog have moved further and further away from cool stuff that…
(New Book) Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism
From ALERT PRESS: Click here to order a printed copy, or, Click here for the free e-book (pdf) Friends and allies, partners and protégés, extensions and proxies—the vocabulary…
Routines of everyday life
It is a classic observation of anthropologists that we seek to document the everyday activities of people within various cultural contexts in order to provide evidence for making…
AAA 2015 sessions and papers relating to Oceania
The preliminary programme for this year’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (18-22 November) in Denver is out and looks great. With my AAA Melanesia Interest Group…