A Petition to Change the Name of Lane County
In this new period of “wokeness” there are calls for the elimination of racist names and statues from our institutions. Christopher Columbus statues have been torn from…
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Violence against land defenders
There is important new work on the violence against land defenders worth reading over the summer. Here is a recent article in Global Environmental Change and a write…
ARHE Solidarity Statement
We, in the Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group (ARHE SIG), condemn the recent killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Tony McDade,…
La tesis de Rodrik
Dani Rodrik es economista y profesor en Harvard. Experto en políticas públicas de desarrollo y en comercio internacional está considerado uno de los 100 economistas más influyentes del…
A ‘Non-plush Frog Emporium’: Historical Foodways and Culinary Tourism in Detroit
I recently noticed a ghost sign for Nuenfeldt Frog Legs in Detroit for the first time. Knowing that frog legs were once a big part of Detroit’s food…
On the social nature of toilet paper
You would be forgiven for thinking that the first thing bought in a global crisis would be tinned, dried, and frozen foods; clean water; and medicines—things that enable…
Why my Humanities Library will never be a Total Library–praise be!
Michael Toggweiler The Unitobler Library of the Faculty of Humanities in Bern, Switzerland / Foto: Gabriel Rosenberg Until the beginning of the 1990s, the Faculty of Humanities at…
Why my Humanities Library will never be a Total Library–praise be!
Michael Toggweiler The Unitobler Library of the Faculty of Humanities in Bern, Switzerland / Foto: Gabriel Rosenberg Until the beginning of the 1990s, the Faculty of Humanities at…
‘Maybe When All This Is Over Jesus Will Come Back’: Crisis, Post-Crisis And Millenarian Time
GARETH BREEN The Pursuit of the Millennium is an influential book by Norman Cohn. In it, Cohn shows quite precisely how in Medieval times millenarian movements periodically rode…
How Our Behaviour Affects Virus Evolution
DR GUL DENIZ SALALI COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2), but coronaviruses have been among us for years. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, and…
Cowboys and Coronavirus: Protesting Covid-19 in ‘The Land of the Free’
ROSIE MATHERS Over the last couple of weeks protests have broken out across America against lockdown measures imposed to reduce the spread and contraction of Covid-19. Rallies across…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ‘Co-existing with Covid-19: Moving into the post-pandemic world with the social sciences’
NEW UCL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BLOG SERIES In the UK, as across much of the world, we find ourselves moving slowly into a new version of reality: post-quarantine, but…
The Paradox of Autonomy and Care for Mothers of Adults with Disabilities in Brazil
Since the early 2000s, Brazil has experienced a significant change concerning the rights of people with disabilities in the country. Based on the struggles of the Brazilian Disability…
God’s Daily Briefings: Religious Leadership in a Global Pandemic
TILAK PAREKH The Voice of God Religious leaders possess immense power and influence. Believers may listen to government ministers or public health officials, but, above all, they place…
Memes, Migrants, And The Epidemiological Imagination
JOSH BABCOCK As COVID-19 escalated to officially pandemic proportions early this year, Coronavirus-prevention advice began circulating via Facebook and WhatsApp in Singapore. Mostly in English and…
Pandemic Predictions- The World Post-Covid-19 for Indian Females
DEVASHREE JUVEKAR As the entire world is grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic, many experts and researchers have predicted a number of social and economic changes that the…
Lächelnde Kreise auf dem Bottom
Viele kleine Emojis poppen auf meinem BigBlueBottom auf. Es ist das Corona-Semester und ich verbringe meinen Tag mit farbigen Kreisen. Die lächeln mal glücklich, mal zeigen sie einen…
Mental Health Avenues Amidst A Global Pandemic: Conceptualising The Biosocial Medical Framework Within Urban ‘Green Spaces’
TIFFANY LOERA Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. This is my morning mantra. As I lay in my bed in the early hours of the morning, I am aware of…
Sociological Reflections In Times Of Change And Uncertainty: Managing Risk, Trying To Adapt And Being Creative
CATARINA DELAUNAY Covid-19 crisis is not democratic in the sense that it affects everyone equally regardless of age, gender, class, ethnicity or geographic area where one lives, as…
Nancy Mattina on Gladys Reichard
My interview with Nancy Mattina on Gladys Reichard, ‘America’s least appreciated anthropologist’ is now live over at the New Books Network. Go take a listen! Nancy’s carefully…
Sociological Reflections In Times Of Change And Uncertainty: Surveillance, Control And Punishment
CATARINA DELAUNAY On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on Covid-19. Several countries, across the world, including Portugal, declared a state of…
The ‘Invisible Enemy’: A Critical Look at the Use of Military Metaphors and Anthropomorphisation During The COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMES FOTHERBY In mid-March, before becoming infected with Coronavirus, Boris Johnson declared that his government must act like “any wartime government” while facing a deadly “enemy”. During John…
Awakening to being the “other” A schizophrenic streak
In discussions on COVID-19, it has become a common trope that disciplines like anthropology are particularly relevant and fitting for writing about the pandemic. Indeed, the pandemic unearths…