Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
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Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
Fieldnotes on the Gendered Labor of Prison Visitation
The editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome a special guest post from Orisanmi Burton as part of our series of anthropological reports From the Field The New York State Department…
Niccolo de’ Conti (and others) on the Lontar Palm
Yesterday I put up a post about Niccolo de' Conti, one of the more interesting Europeans to visit Indonesia before the sixteenth century. His account…
Grijs gebied: identiteitsvorming onder Nederlandse meisjes met een islamitische vader
Culturele verdeeldheid in één persoon door Christel de Bruijn Je bent 16 jaar en al je vriendinnetjes willen op zaterdagavond de stad in om te dansen en te…
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…
#Review: Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan #Performance
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a hybrid practitioner-academic who has spent the last couple…
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…
Eight Questions and Seven Theses about Force Multipliers
“Force multipliers: Machines which allow a small effort to move a larger load are called force multipliers. Some examples of force multipliers include: a crowbar, wheelbarrow, nutcracker, and…
Ervaringen of aanvaringen met het toerisme? Hmong vrouwen in Vietnam
Hmong vrouwen op Coc Ly markt, Vietnam. © Brian Snelson, via creative comments. Door Freek Colombijn Op maandag 5 oktober promoveerde Lê Thị Đan Dung op een onderzoek naar Hmong…
#Review: Gender in Refugee Law. From the Margins to the Centre
Since gender sensitivity was first given recognition under the official UNHCR Guidelines in the 1990s, approaches in decision making processes and the legal framework have constantly been influenced…
On “Barbaric Cultural Practices”
According to the most systematic early study of the subject in cultural anthropology, “barbaric cultural practices” include: the invention or practice of the art of pottery the domestica…
Confessions of a Production assistant
Jong geleerd…? © Christine Urias, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Myrthe van der Vlis Voor mijn bachelorscriptie deed ik onderzoek naar de rol van gender in de…
The Ocean Conservatory’s Call for Mass Incineration in Asia: Disposability for Profit, Fantasies of Containment, & Colonialism
The Ocean Conservatory would like to burn 80% of the waste in coastal Asia with US-made incinerators. According to a wide range of experts and grassroots organizations from…
A Geek Anthropologist’s First Time: A MMORPG Experience
Elder Scrolls Screenshot Photo by Author By Rayna Elizabeth Elder Scrolls takes place in the world of Tamriel. Published by Bethesda (who also develops Fallout and Dishonored), the…
Dumpsters, difference, and illiberal embodiment
Food Not Bombs and endeavors like it, I would argue, also create the conditions to queer categories of embodiment like race, class, and sex and interrogate their privileged…
Constructing and Consuming Gender through Media: Call for Papers
Constructing and Consuming Gender through Media Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Mona Abdel-Fadil Submission …
Refugees: Humans-as-Waste?
Discard studies is about more than discarded, wasted, unsaved, and externalized objects. It also includes people.
Cultural Leaders and Laggards, the problem with beer ads
I love this ad. How quickly bashful behavior gives way to full-on performance. And how this disappears (when the woman enters the store). And then reappears (when it occurs to our…
#Crisis, Gender, Time
Economic crises are especially hard on women (Bettio et al. 2013, Manganara 2014, Seguino 2009, UNICRI 2014, Walby 2009) and the Greek crisis is no exception (Athanasiou 2011,…
Article Alert! Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime
“”During the first hour spent in houses with suspected indoor air-quality issues, I would slowly develop an ache in the back of my eyes, which would with time…
#Podcast Interview Round Up: New Books in Anthropology – REDUX
After getting all worked up about new publications via last week’s #Reviews, we thought to indulge a bit more – by revisiting podcasts on new anthropology books all…
Geeks Gone D.I.Y.: A Quick Guide to Zines
By Marissa Lorusso In many societies, the power of the written word is unequally distributed: access to literacy and literature, along with editing, publishing, and distribution don’t always…