El genocidio de “Papa Doc” y su legado de muerte lenta de la población y la democracia de Haití
Read Time:10 Minute, 35 Second Jean Francois Duvalier, mejor conocido como “Papa Doc”, ejerció de dictador de Haití desde 1957 (ini…
“Stop the Shot”: Resistance through Science, Religion, and Law
On August 4, an interesting event took place: “Stop the Shot”. This was a video press conference organized by the Truth for …
Vivir en una irrealidad: de la zombificación al síndrome de Cotard
“La cara norte del corazón” de Dolores Redondo, te sumerge en el apasionante y la vez terrorífico mundo de los “muertos vivientes”, …
“Hygiene” is the Future: Lessons from “Post”-Cholera Haiti by Guilberly Louissaint
This essay is about paying respect. In 2018, after my first summer of preliminary fieldwork in the Artibonite region of Haiti, I …
The ‚Afterlives‘ of Development Interventions: ‚Failure‘ as an Opportunity
Ambitious and well planned development projects fail for various reasons. The afterlife of such “interventions” receives little attention. But local communities try …
Book Review: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett
In There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince, Greg Beckett offers a richly detailed, decade-long ethnography of Haiti that digs …
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Staying with the Feeling: Trauma, Humility, and Care in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Greg Beckett. He is assistant professor of anthropology at Western University (Canada) where his work focuses on crisis, …
Homage to Those Who Hollered before Me/Meditations on Inheritances and Lineages, Anthropological and Otherwise
Homage to Those Who Hollered before Me Silence chose me I didn’t choose silence silence immobilized me I could not breathe in …
CARICOM Confronts the Big House: Trump Attempts to Split the Caribbean over Venezuela
It’s a simple matter, even if one might lose oneself in the various details, names, places, and dates. The Caribbean Community and …
Washing Out Trump’s Mouth with Haitian History
A Haitian artist responds to the “shithole” remark. The day after President Trump referred to Haiti and the continent of Africa as …
Cities as Migrant Emplacement
São Paulo rappers are remaking the cultural space of the city. We’ve joined forces with AAA’s public education initiative “World on the …
Anthro in the news 10/10/16
Land rights are key in Colombia Indigenous people want land rights. Source: Bluedotpost.com The Washington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist …
Charting Charcoal in Haiti
Estimating and Understanding Annual Charcoal Production and Consumption at the National level in Haiti Anthropologists engage subjects at various scales through a …
Book Review: My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin
Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology My Life With Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin, 2016. Duke University Press. My Life with Things is …
Rasanblaj Continua: A Conversation with Gina Athena Ulysse
This past summer marked the release of Caribbean Rasanblaj, a special double issue of the Hemispheric Institute’s journal, e-misférica. Our social media team …
Haiti Photography Project: a quick seven day experiment
Technology for development projects (T4D) typically import expensive and unsustainable equipment when trying to improve a situation. The one laptop per child …
anthro in the news 9/21/15
North American totem pole; source: Erika Wittlieb, Creative Commons Indigenous tourism offers hope CBA Canada reported on a gathering of iIndigenous …
anthro in the news 8/3/15
Seeking Angelina lips The Globe and Mail reported on the growing use by women in Canada of cosmetic surgery, pointing to a …
Pepper water and protests in Haiti
By Scott Freeman Tear gas is not uncommon in Port au Prince. Over the past decade, whether it has been protests over …
Mobilizing concepts across disciplines: An economic analysis
There are many lenses through which we can think about mobility. There is no one correct lens to use; in fact, adopting …
The moral economies of material things
The concept of moral economy is a natural fit to analyses of material culture. In this working paper, I show how the concept …