The Paradox of Donald Trump’s Appeal
Offensive and bombastic rhetoric is key to Donald Trump’s campaign. Why are voters drawn to this taboo-violating candidate? Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Associated Press Donald Trump is the …
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#Podcast Interview Round Up January-April: New Books in Anthropology – REDUX
Hi there pod-pickers, here’s another earful of podcasts for you to squeeze into your drums, freshly prepared by our audiophile associates New Books in Anthropology. As ever each…
Ghettos
Ghettos. We commonly associate the term today with places like “effective social or ethnic ghettos, from the favelas of Brazil to the mostly black urban neighbourhoods of the…
Review: Sacred Rice
Davidson, Joanna. (2016). Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in West Africa. Oxford University Press. (249 pp.) Reviewed by Mark Dailey Green Mountain College, Poult…
Mass Violence and Teachable Moments
This past weekend, Orlando, Florida witnessed the worst mass shooting in America’s recent history. This violent, planned attack in a public place is tragic, and our hearts go out…
Islam, broadcast media, and the remaking of religious experience in Mali
See below a seventh (7th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Moral crises: magical and secular solutions (Gluckman 1964)
via HAU journal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons | © Max Gluckman. ISSN 2049-1115 (Online). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau4.2.025 REPRINT Moral crises Magical and secular solution…
Christen in China: Von Internetkritik und Kirchenschließungen
Die Stimmung gegenüber Christen in China ist bedenklich. Priester und Anwälte werden verhaftet, Kirchen abgerissen. Dies spiegelt nicht nur die aktuelle Abschottungspolitik der chinesischen Regierung …
The Right to Own Living Memorials
Are you an organ donor? Have you donated your body to science? Have you donated a loved one’s body to science? If you answer yes to any of…
On the Brazilian crisis, Pentecostalism and thinking out of the bubble
Pentecostal service in the Brazilian field site. Photo by: Juliano Spyer Brazil is in the midst of a heated national debate between people in favour of, and those contrary…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 1: David vs. Goliath
Last November anthropologists attending the AAA business meeting in Denver voted by an astounding 1040-136 to endorse the resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions, but this was just…
Konvertiten in China: Was war nochmal Islam?
Terror, Gewalt, Extremismus: in diesem Zusammenhang wird auch in China über den Islam berichtet. Dennoch schließen sich vermehrt junge Menschen dieser Glaubensrichtung an. Im Netz berichten sie…
Ancestral Lines, Second Edition
At the core of the Teaching Culture series of ethnographies is John Barker’s Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest. This…
Ladders to Other Worlds
As a symbol of cultural continuity, the wooden pueblo ladder connects its users to their ancestors, the universe, their spiritual beliefs, and one another. Pueblo Indian communities in…
Mate: The Drink Beyond a Drink w/ Guilherme Heiden
Coca and Mate by Guilherme Heiden and Adam Gamwell Mate (pronounced mah-tay), or more commonly known as yerba mate for English speakers, is an herbal tea drink native…
Build Karma Points on Social Media
Everyday salutations such as ‘Good Morning’, ‘Good Afternoon’, ‘Good Evening’ etc. are common social media interactions of the people of Panchagrami, used to keep …
KontaktkulturEN: Ausstellung an der Hochschule für Gesundheit (hsg) in Bochum
Christiane Falge Ausstellungseröffnung am 19.01.2016 | Sinan Yaman, 2016 Die Ausstellung KontaktkulturEN wurde von Prof. Christiane Falge initiiert und entstand in Kooperation mit Prof. Christian…
Making Sense of Violence Against Minority Women: Notes on Skepticism, Discomfort & Privilege in #Fieldwork
What is it like to do fieldwork within a marginalized social group? Especially when you – the researcher – hail from the dominant community? How do you deal…
Interview with Edward E. Curtis IV
The goal should be human rights, freedom, and dignity for all, and Black Muslims in the United States have been at the vanguard of this struggle in the…
Charles Taylor on: Democracy, Diversity, Religion
Particularly relevant given the charged contexts of late:
What war? Whose war?
Internal changes must come about. © Cindy Cornett Seigle, via creative commons. By Thijl Sunier The day after the attacks in Paris, the French President François Hollande declared…
Landscapes: Panel Selection #CFAS
Today our coverage of the Biannual Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society continues with selected notes from panels – brought to you by Maija Lassila and Aleksis Toro,…
Research Colloquium: Climate Change, Food and Human Sustainability
The following notice was received here at FoodAnthropology and may be of interest to our readers with interests in theological matters: The 2016 CrossCurrents / Auburn Research Colloquium…
The here-and-now-after is online: death and afterlife in virtual gaming worlds
By Peter Versteeg “EVE is real. It’s as real as real life,” says a player of the online science fiction game EVE Online on a forum. “I can’t…