Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bianca C. Williams. Sunday night, October 15, I watched women across my social media timeline bravely and vulnerably share their stories of sexual assault…
(Warning: Blade Runner 2049 spoilers.) From the outset of Blade Runner 2049, Agent K (Ryan Gosling) is promised the possibility of a miracle. No longer more human than…
Eating the Ocean. Elspeth Probyn. Duke University Press, 2016. L. G. Brown (Indiana University) In, Eating the Ocean, Elspeth Probyn contributes to an anthropology of food in two…
We are very pleased to bring you a set of thoughtful engagements with Emilia Sanabria’s remarkable book, Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil (Duke University…
By Aniek Santema Around 2 million Syrian refugees who fled the war have been stranded in Lebanon and many of them live in harsh…
by Esther Platteeuw
Fisherwomen have played a significant role in Iceland’s history, and yet their contribution has been, for the most part, overlooked. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS In the mid-1700s, a seawoman in…
Archaeological small finds can tell us a great deal about how status, gender, and identity are situated in and on the body. In December 1759, John Page noted…
Walter, a Synthetic, quietly makes his rounds in the brightly lit, pristine interior of the Covenant, a Weyland Corporation Spaceship. Fingers pressed to the translucent, impermeable glass, he…
When Google engineer James Damore wrote his now-infamous memo about how woman are naturally unsuited to work at Google, anthropologists everywhere groaned inwardly. Our discipline’s lot in life…
I see shows like Star Trek as emblematic of a transitional period in American masculinity — at least on TV. The 50’s would have been pure Kirk, with…
Well, look, we’re going to have a border. It’s going to be a real border, and we’re going to build a wall and it’s going to be a…
Beyond ABC: sexual mobility in Uganda By Esther Platteeuw Quote on a classroom wall in Wairaka – From January to March 2017 I conducted my fieldwork in Uganda to…
Paintings: Khadija MADANI ALAOUI, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez Door Edien Bartels en Lenie Brouwer Feminisme, radicalisering en extremisme zijn grote woorden. Hoe breng je die bijeen…
Dark clouds over Yemen By Marina de Regt. Last Saturday the holy Muslim month of Ramadan started. Ramadan, a month of fasting and feasting, a month of contemplation,…
One could write numerous things about masculine domination in French philosophy, and many have done so. Right now, for instance, I’m engrossed in Michèle Le Doeuff’s programmatic 1977 essa…
“Een vriendin op een ‘boda boda’ (motortaxi) op weg naar het Victoriameer” Door Esther Platteeuw Op een warme dag in maart loop ik in de straten van Jinja…
An emergent feminized/queered resistance could unsettle the masculinist politics of today’s populist leaders. In an age marked by the global ascendency of right-wing populist politicians, from Donald…
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
The neighbour baking mandasi early in the morning Liza Koch My day starts at 5:15 because of the noise outside. The sun is rising and people are…
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Sehr geehrte NZZ-Redaktion, sehr geehrter Herr Axel Mayer, In Ihrem Diskussionsbeitrag „Gender-Studies: Die Geschlechterillusion“ vom 04.04.2017, zeigen Sie die unumstößlichen Naturgesetze auf und ver…
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is the first woman Minister of Education in France, in office since 2014 in the second half of François Hollande’s presidency. (Before becoming Minister of Education she w…