大鸡大利 | Year of the Cock
It’s a joke so obvious and trite that I tried very hard to avoid it, but eventually everyone around me was cracking it, and sometimes the cheapest jokes…
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Full scholarships – two-year MA in Anthropology (English language) – Shanghai
The Research Institute of Anthropology of the East China Normal University offers full scholarships for an all-English language Master’s program in Anthropology. The program is two years long,…
Cryonics and Death
A few months ago, there was a story in the news that relates to an interesting aspect of death— cryonics. Cryonics is the science of using…
Resources on digital (visual) anthropology and ethnography
A helpful set of media and digital anthropology resources for teaching and learning. This is a selection of resourceson digital visual anthropology & digital ethnography, collected via the…
Free trade and protection: not alternatives, but always complementary
Sir James Steuart was a Jacobite exile who brought the term ‘political economy’ from Continental Europe to Britain. Almost a decade before The Wealth of Nations he published…
The Immortal Memory: John Bryden’s Burns Supper Speech, Stockholm 2017
My old friend’s speech for January 28th this year. “Burns is one of the reasons I am proud to be a Scot, a socialist, a nationalist, and an…
The New Gambia, by Niklas Hultin
President Adama Barrow greeting the people. Photo by Katarina Höije It finally became clear on January 21, 2017, that Yahya Jammeh, the long-serving autocratic president of The Gambia…
New Book from Kath Weston: Animate Planet
Great looking new title from anthropologist Kath Weston published by Duke (details here). From the website: Description In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans,…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part III
Hello! I’ve been too busy to update this site due to our nation’s continuing collapse. Anyway, here’s the latest since the last time I posted: Donald Trump: Our…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 16: Victor Kumar on James Baldwin, Margaret Mead and Ethnographic Approaches to Studying Race
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to relaunch the second semester of an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagog…
The hybrid media space of nerd politics
Invited paper to the ECPR joint sessions workshop on Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention, Nottingham, UK, 27-30 April 2017. Abstract The rise of WikiLeaks,…
The creation of a “lessons learned place” – Notes on doing research in the coal mine area of Tete, Mozambique
By Nikkie Wiegink, Utrecht University “More studies, more studies! Ok, it is necessary to do those studies, but to what end?!” Carlos (a pseudonym) was furious. It is…
Egypt as “Securocratic” State
There’s a new paper from Maha Abdelrahman of the University of Cambridge entitled “Policing neoliberalism in Egypt: the continuing rise of the ‘securocratic’ state.” Abdelrahman join…
Six Poems
A selection 1982-1999 Various places Refuge (Paresseux nerveux) A short history of knowledge Ishmael at the masthead (View from a balcony, Jamaica) One glad look Nuclear reaction i…
Six poems
A selection 1982-1999 Various places Refuge (Paresseux nerveux) A short history of knowledge Ishmael at the masthead (View from a balcony, Jamaica) One glad look Nuclear reaction i…
Notes from the field: Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 27/11/16-17/12/16
Originally published on the University of Copenhagen’s Asian Dynamics Blog. by Magnus Marsden It seems like a long time since I bumped into two traders in their mid-forties…
Hoger opleidingsniveau migranten leidt amper tot betere arbeidsmarktpositie
Omslag Integratie in zicht? -SCP Door Mehmet Şahin Het rapport integratie in zicht[1], opgesteld door Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP), is op 15 December 2016 gepubliceerd. De onderzoekers…
Jessica Dempsey on Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics
A great new book from Jessica Dempsey (UBC Geography). Description below and a short animated video from her website. The publisher’s description does not do the book justice…
“He’s the least racist person I know”: Racism, the Mad Butcher and Empathy
Great piece by my colleague Catherine Trundle. vicanthropology We’ve all been reading about the celebrity New Zealand businessman the Mad Butcher (Peter Leitch) and his so-called ‘friendly banter’.…
Familiar with Graphic Anthropology? Didn’t think so… by David Johansson
During the second part of this spring sociologist Ugo Corte and I will teach a new master course in the Ethnography of the senses here at Uppsala University.…
Guest Blog: ‘Easy Living’ by Morgan
In the ‘90s, state houses were being sold as part of the market-oriented reforms and the remaining housing stock was rented at market rates. Combined with the cuts…
Why aren`t you more angry? Fossil Fuels and Community Life on Mexico’s Gulf Coast
By Svenja Schöneich, GIGA When starting fieldwork in the Emiliano Zapata community in the state of Veracruz, Mexico in 2016, I was mainly interested in conflicts about hydraulic…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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…