What anthropologists really do
Two books published in 2002, The Best of Anthropology Today and Exotic No More, taken together, provide a chance to find out what anthropologists are up to these days. The…
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50 years of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington
Save the date and join us for our 50th anniversary of anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington #038;d=identicon&%23038;r=G’ class=’avatar avatar-32′ height=’32’ width=’32’ />vicanthropology In 2017 Cultural Anthropology at…
Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken – forthcoming in June 2017
#038;d=identicon&%23038;r=G’ class=’avatar avatar-32′ height=’32’ width=’32’ />Progressive Geographies Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken– edited by S. Ravi Rajan with Adam Romero and Michael Watts –…
Paradise – a living hell: mining, power and dispossession
By Hedda Askland, The University of Newcastle The sun was glittering on the Goulbourn River. The cicadas were loudly calling in the 40 degrees heat. The constant hum…
Border on a Beach
by Sasha Flatau ‘Y aquí, otra frontera’ I’d been walking along a beach called Las Redes in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain with my boyfriend. It was…
If You Can’t Cheat Death, Why Fake It
Recently, I feel as if I have been paying special attention to death much more than usual. What I have noticed is that death itself is constructed and…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part IV
My latest dispatches from the shitshow: Trumps’ America, where even parks employees are enemies of the state (1/28/17) — The Guardian Never again: Muslim ban echoes authoritarian states…
Join us for Ethnography Shelf – an ethnography reading club online and in person
vicanthropology In our previous blog post, Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich noted that her resolution for 2017 is to read six ethnographies. Inspired by this and all the different ethnographies we…
Studying Up in the Age of Trump
In the recent months and weeks since Donald Trump was elected and inaugurated as our 45th president, I’ve seen a lot of anthropologists questioning “what can we do?,”…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 17: Riché Barnes on #BlackFamiliesMatter, Especially Black Mothers
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…
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…
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…