Anthropology as Open Marriage
A New Life Style for Anthropologists This blog-post reproduces my comment on Paul Shankman’s “The Public Anthropology of Margaret Mead: Redbook, Women’s Issues, and the 1960s” publis…
Tag: Sexuality
#Podcast Interview Round Up: The Best of March
This month’s round up of the best anthropology podcasts brought to you in collaboration with the ever amazing New Books in Anthropology features motorcycles, Catalonians, sex work and the truth.…
Grid girls and the Presidents Club: Women and sexist jobs
In 1995, my friend’s 17-year-old daughter Ermina was looking for work in Santiago, Chile. The obvious job available to her was posing in a short skirt beside cars…
Dick description: Writing sexy
Let’s start with an anthropological classic: Geertz’s thick description of the Balinese cock fight which sometimes reads like a dick description[1] (“uninventive obscenities” anticipated by Geertz 197…
Positionalities: How my partner did field-work with me
I was standing in front of one of the work stations at Mastercut, the hairdressing salon I did my ethnographic fieldwork at. Two or three weeks in the…
Every Day is Heterosexual Pride Day
Are you a heterosexual? Feeling discriminated against by a persecuted minority? Why can’t we celebrate what makes us common and powerful? Just because we’re not unique, it doesn’t…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 26: Sameena Mulla on Missing Black Girls and Women
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…
Latin America’s Gender Ideology Explosion
What’s been called part of the “global war” to destroy marriage, “your latest right-wing conspiracy,” and the driving idea behind the “anti-LGBT backlash in Latin America,” but “doesn’t…
#REVIEW: SEX AND UNISEX: FASHION, FEMINISM, AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
Fashion is deeply expressive of social and individual identities, and thus, changes in fashion trends reveal much about changes in culture. This contention is a familiar one within…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 10: Sameena Mulla on AAA2016
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 7: Faye Harrison on Teaching “Black Lives Matter”
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
How a Teacher’s Race Affects their Ability to Teach about Race
I met with someone from the Diversity and Equity Office at the University where I teach part-time yesterday. We’ve agreed to collaborate on a few classes for my…
Book Forum––Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria by Todd Meyers
Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category Between 1670 and 1820 focuses on the socio-medical category before its better-known (and more heavily studied) late ninet…
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…
Three Millimeters by Christine Labuski
The first time I encountered Judy I was with Dr. Erlich, gathering fact sheets about vulvar pain conditions. Dr. Robichaud, the other physician at the Vulvar Health Clinic…
Sex/Gender: Part II: What’s Fixed, Changeable, Changing? by Constance Cummings
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary Part 2 of the FPR-UCLA conference on sex/gender, which was chaired by…
Sex/Gender: Part I: Why Now? by Constance Cummings
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary Emerging theories in neuroscience – fueled by new technologies in brain im…
Fieldwork is haunting me, thanks to WhatsApp
When is the end of fieldwork? (Photo:Merlijn Hoek CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When is it that fieldwork finishes? Thanks to social media, the separation between being in the fieldsite…