• In-sourcing life-saving peanut food The Guardian mentioned the role of Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist, physician, and health activitist, in an article about ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs). RUTFs are small packets of a peanut butter-like paste, fortified with minerals and vitamins. Products such as Plumpy’nut can reverse child malnutrition within weeks. But most RUTFs are [...]
By contributor Sean Carey I am driving along Mile End Road in east London around midnight with a Bangladeshi friend. I am giving him a lift home, after we had paid a brief visit to a “gentlemen’s club” located on the border between Tower Hamlets and the City, the so-called Square Mile, London’s preeminent financial [...]
Read the first issue Ethnographica Journal on Culture and Disability (EJCD) is a new peer-reviewed journal that is grounded in ethnographic research and writing as the principal means of understanding the significations of Dis/Ability. The journal invites scholarly contributions that engage in conceptual dialogues across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities in general, but [...]
By contributor Sean Carey The slim, elegantly dressed blonde-haired woman in her early forties emerges from the side entrance of the House of Fraser into the pedestrianized part of Old Cavendish Street at the junction with Oxford Street, purposefully heading to her next destination. A smile slowly appears on her face as she hears the [...]
The Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal invites contributions for an upcoming guest edited volume on Migration, Religion, and Education. This special issue invites papers from a diversity of international perspectives and country contexts, and from a variety of education disciplines, to address the theme of migration, religion, and education. Education should be [...]
• Russia’s middle class protesting the most The Times of India carried an interview with Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov who teaches social anthropology at Cambridge University, England. Currently in Moscow, he spoke with Srijana Mitra Das about anti-government protests in Russia, a changed public mood and influences like the Arab Spring. • Anthro of hackers “Anonymous is [...]
By contributor Sean Carey So now we know. Mary Portas, the high profile retail expert commissioned by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg, has just issued her review of the high street after a seven-month consultation. Portas became a household name after appearing in the BBC TV show Mary Queen of [...]
Stuart Kirsch, anthropology professor at the University of Michigan, shared a link to a Huffington Post editorial updating the human rights situation there. Written by the Lowenstein International Law Clinic at Yale University, the essay highlights land grabbing and controversial development plans in the West Papua rain forest. The Clinic will be producing a full report [...]
• And deliver us from leaders CounterPunch carried a piece about OWS and commentary about one of its important non-leaders, cultural anthropologist David Graeber: “Mainstream liberals and the Institutional Left frequently criticize the Occupy movement for its lack of public spokespersons and its lack of clear demands. But according to David Graeber, it came very [...]
The Anthropology Department at UC Davis and the Davis Humanities Center will appoint an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Fellow will be involved in the scholarly activities of the Sawyer Seminar, “Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues About the Reconstitution of Worlds” that will unfold during that academic year. The fellow will [...]
