#Podcast Round Up: The Best of January
Last month our dear podcasting heroes at New Books in Anthropology brought us some truly wonderful interviews. And, ever grateful for their work, this…
Read MoreLast month our dear podcasting heroes at New Books in Anthropology brought us some truly wonderful interviews. And, ever grateful for their work, this…
Read MoreDonald Donham’s The Erotics of History: An Atlantic African Example is not a traditional ethnography. The author first became aware of a provocative erotic…
Read MoreDehumanisation is at the core of displacement: it requires that a group of people—because of race, class, migration status, or other factors—have lesser access…
Read MoreOn the fourth and fifth of June, the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted a workshop exploring how…
Read MoreThe Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and practices of homeless men…
Read MoreThose of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, “tribal” lineage-based societies, often…
Read More“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern…
Read MoreLet me start with a confession: Throughout the past year or so I have become somewhat hesitant to attend conferences and other academic gatherings….
Read MoreBruce O’Neill’s (2017) The Space of Boredom is a historically rich and theoretically innovative ethnography of contemporary homelessness and social exclusion in Bucharest. O’Neill…
Read MoreYou know how a common criticism of politicians is that they’re out of touch with the real world? “Does your local representative know the…
Read MoreThis blog post comes from a debate organised by the University of Manchester Anthropology undergraduate society. The title of the debate was “This house…
Read MoreA cold, wet, arctic wind graces the concrete skin of the Tenderloin. Pill Hill, the three-block stretch of inner city urbanity, along Leavenworth Avenue…
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