Review: Intimate Eating
Anita Mannur Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. 180 pp. ISBN 9781478017820 Fabio Parasecoli (New York University) What d…
Tag: Gender
Susan Paulson: Gender-aware care in pandemic and postgrowth worlds
Coronavirus has provoked some of us to think about our worlds in new ways and to consider different horizons of change. Yet in many pandemic-related discourses and policies,…
Ethnographic Monographs – or now for something else?
By Herbert Ploegman; Didi Boldewijn, Maya Roettger and Lorenzo Horwitz; Alice Riva, Claudia Rapisarda, Elisabeth Jongmans and Jasper Schotte; Ashley Prather and Maira van Emden Two crumpled up…
Race, Security, and the Contradictions of Humanitarianism
In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We – this is Till Mostowlansky, an anthropologist at The…
Two Pioneering Female Archaeologists
Precocious. Prolific. Audacious. Magnanimous. Each of these terms describes archaeologist Hannah Marie Wormington and her protégé Cynthia Irwin-Williams.* As pioneering female archaeologists in an are…
Loneliness and Despair in the Field: Revisiting my First Fieldwork
By Marina de Regt. Recently, during a supervision meeting with three of my Master students (all of them women), one of them asked about my own experiences in…
#MeToo Anthropology and the Case Against Harvard
On February 4, The Harvard Crimson broke the news of an open letter, signed by 38 faculty members, in support of John Comaroff. This prominent professor of anthropology…
Review: Cheffes de Cuisine
Rachel E. Black, Cheffes de Cuisine: Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen. University of Illinois Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-252-04400-7 (hbk); ISBN: 978-0-252-08605-2 (pbk); ISBN: 978…
What’s the Appeal of Deep Voices in Men?
Deep voices, like singer Barry White’s bass-baritone, are seen as appealing across a variety of cultures and sexual identities. POP-EYE/ullstein bild/Getty Images For many people, Barry W…
Egyptology Has a Problem: Patriarchy
Ramses II built many temples to his own divinity, like the Ramesseum in Luxor, originally called the Temple of Millions of Years to imply his reign would never…
What Egyptian Pharaohs Can Tell Us About Modern Tyrants
Using religion to justify his rule, King Taharqa is shown nestled protectively between the legs of the god Amen in his animal form, implying the king knew the…
Van VMBO-kader naar een master Antropologie: Het verhaal van Rayn Ramkishun
Door Zoë Tjon A Ten. “Geinig, ik zal nooit weten wat die mensen hier doen, waar ze zich mee bezig houden, wat hun interesses zijn, hoe ze praten…
Viktoria Weber über Geschlechterrollen im Wandel
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 2 Minuten Interview mit BA Absolventin Viktoria Weber über die Rolle(n) von Frauen in sozialistischen Theorien, im Realsozialismus der UdSSR wie im postsozialistischen Erinnerung…
Chris Knight: Wrong About (Almost) Everything
A review article on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Allen Lane, 2021. The Dawn of Everything’s central idea…
Unsung Heroes: Jakarta’s Waste Picker Women and Their Unpaid Care Work
by Rachma L Putri “I think, as long as I remember, I never felt happy about my life. There is always too much burden in my life” said…
Head of a Maiden
My poem “Head of a Maiden” is my response to the recent New York Times article “Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A.”…
Das bleibt in der Familie? Wie sich Familienkonzepte auf dem Spielfeld Hinterlassenschaft begegnen
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 12 Minuten Foto von Crew auf Unsplash Ein Beitrag von Isabella Hesse Unsichtbar, doch nicht zu übersehen „After he passed away… in the apartment there where…
Über den eigenen Körper bestimmen: eine Frage der Menschenrechte
Der Rücktritt von Kathleen Stock wird derzeit hitzig diskutiert. Nach Protesten gegen ihre transfeindlichen Äußerungen hat sie ihre Professur niedergelegt. Entgegen aller Cancel Culture-Rufe geht es w…
Representation matters
It may seem obvious to some, but when I came out 35 years ago, I never saw relationships like mine the way we see them now in advertising,…
Why English Might Let Go of “He” and “She”
Pronouns are giving us trouble. English speakers face a dilemma. The current structure of our language is exclusionary with regard to gender: The personal pronouns “she” and “he”…
Preserving Black Women’s Stories as a Labor of Love
Irma McClaurin holds up her first book, Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America. Ray Carson/University of Florida Photographic Services, 1996. Used with permission of University…
Matryoshka Song
If you missed the introduction to “Matryoshka Song,” you can find it here. I put an awl case on my belt around my waste, just like the placard…
Rethinking Masculinity: Fathers as Caregivers
The author, Aaron Jackson (center), with Wayne (left), a father whose thoughts about masculinity change as he raises his son Nick (right). Aaron J. Jackson This article was…
Archaeologists Should Be Activists Too
Archaeologists are well-suited to help organize protests such as this “Count the Vote” rally in 2020. Jon Irons When Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paused counting votes for one night…