The Anthropology of Water: Illegal Water
New York bans large soft-drinks, but Concord knows where the true evil hides...In a new step toward understanding water , its availability, and its overall commoditization the town of Concord,...
View ArticleAAA blog: 2013 AAA Annual Meeting Call For Papers – Executive Session...
The deadline for Executive Session proposals of the 2013 AAA Annual Meeting is this Wednesday, February 6. Visit the Meetings page for complete details and to submit your proposal. Click here for...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Kemal İlter is our guest….
Director of Turkish Presidency ‘s Corporate Communication Department, Kemal Ilter, is a guest of our Bilgi Public Relations and Corporate Communicatons MA Programmmm
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Recasting an agenda for peace
The International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its ten-year anniversary last summer. During its first decade of life, both the shadow and the actuality of international justice in the form of...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: A Day in the Life: 3-wheeled Vehicle-based Fruit Vendor
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago Fulbright Fellow Zach Hyman @SqInchAnthro introduced readers to the world of low-resource creativity in China. In this post he takes us into a day in the life of a...
View ArticleC L O S E R: A Postcard from the UK
Closer Blog: A very brief report on my research trip to the UK and my meetings with Dutch Muslims there. Thanks to all of the people I had the opportunity to meet and hope to see you and others in...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 61
Hello all,One of the things I like about my weekly link review is that's it's always a bit unpredictable. So this week's list is much more eclectic and there isn't really a 'theme', well, that's not...
View ArticleSam Grace: What’s your animal?
Some people hate icebreakers – if you’re one of them, maybe pass on this post – but I’ve got one that I learned from my undergrad adviser* that I swear by. The central gist of it is that each student...
View Articleteenthropologist: Carpe Diem/”YOLO”
I hang my head in shame over the fact that it has been months since I last posted anything/went back into the world of teenthropology. To be honest it was hard to keep up motivation in making posts...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Book review – Sienna Craig’s Healing Elements: Efficacy and the...
Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine by Sienna R. Craig University of California Press, 2012 344 pp., US$34.95 paperback It is a truism that the world we live in...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Goodwill Donates Native American Vest to Burke Museum
Goodwill Donates Native American Vest to Burke Museum
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: Human Rights and the Elections in Egypt: Live on Facebook
Now that the parliamentary elections are coming, the NGO Human Rights First is bringing together Egypt’s “Facebook Girl” Esraa Abdel Fattah and journalist and activist Bassel Mohamed Adel Ibrahim for...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Society for Medical Anthropology launches newsletter
Welcome to the new quarterly electronic newsletter from the Society for Medical Anthropology: Second Opinion: News and Ideas. The first issue features details on a joint international conference with...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News On Tuesday, January 29th, President Obama addressed a Las Vegas audience and declared a need for immigration reform. The full transcript of his address can be found at the New York Times...
View ArticleThe Other Sociologist: What The Sociology of Shoes Says About Gender Inequality
High heel shoes were once a status symbol for powerful men, from horse riding soldiers in 16th Century Persia, to European aristocrats in the 17th Century. Since the Enlightenment period, heels became...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Love toilet
James Errington sends this along via Twitter: (Not to be confused with Saturday Night Live's Love Toilet…) So, what is this àixīn wèishēngjiān 爱心卫生间 if it is not a "Love toilet"? There's no problem...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Another Proposed AAA Panel: Human Experience in the...
With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome and subsequent onset of the Genomic/Post-Genomic Age, genetic technology now plays a more prominent role in many aspects of modern day life....
View Articletabsir.net: Egypt Week in New York
Egyptian pianist, Mohamed Shams EGYPT MINI-SERIES FEBRUARY 2013 LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS BRUNO WALTER AUDITORIUM (entrance @ 111 Amsterdam Avenue @ 64th street)...
View ArticleSimple Anthropology Blog: Objects of Time – A new book by Kevin Birth
I came back three weeks ago from my intensive holidays in Peru and there would be many new things to write about. The trip really opened my eyes in many things, not only personally, but also...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Horror Feminism
So, the other say, I made the claim that American Horror Story is a feminist series. Let me explain, based on the two seasons we have so far. As a disclaimer, I should add that AHS is one of my...
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