Poco a poco: Writing from the Road in Lima, Peru For as long as I have been conducting research in Lima, I have heard that the transit system is an analogy for the city’s character. I first came here in May 2009, and at the time Lima was populated by a tangled, unmapped network of…
Reflections from Papua New Guinea: Making ‘friends’ and the desire for ‘white men’ Not long ago, I received a text message from a young woman, a minor acquaintance I'd only met a couple of times: Hi Barb its something personal bt I think u sud help me out plis… if posible plis I really want 2 make frend wit one of whom u…
Public Anthropology in Greece From Alex Argyriadis, a PhD Candidate in History and Anthropology at the University of Peloponnese, Greece: The first Program on Everyday Life and Culture in Greece was recently instituted at The University of Peloponnese. Founder and Head of the…
James Ferguson and NY Fashion Week? With NY Fashion Week well underway, New York Magazine’s fashion section, The Cut, posted online an article contemplating the mysteries of fashion language – citing anthropologist James Ferguson and sociolinguist Penny Eckert in the process. A…
Cultural Anthropology: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt Cultural Anthropology, the journal for the Society for Cultural Anthropology, has just posted a forum titled: Hot Spots: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt. Check it out for videos and links to discussions and reflections on the first…
Conspiracies are U.S. : On Making Up Truthers, Birthers and Deathers, Part 2 This is Part 2 of a two part series by Prof. Joshua Reno on conspiracies in the U.S. You can read Part 1 here. In the August 2011 issue of American Ethnologist, I discuss how it is that evidence becomes inadmissible, stopping us from giving an…
Conspiracies are U.S. : On Making Up Truthers, Birthers and Deathers, Part 1 It is both disturbing and fascinating to follow the role of conspiracy theories in U.S. politics over the last decade and their apparent relationship to the Internet. One could claim that nothing has really changed, that mysterious and powerful…
U.S. Border Troubles: From Pakistan to Akwesasne Recent protests in Karachi against continued U.S. drone strikes should serve as a reminder that the violation of international law and Pakistani sovereignty in the interests of U.S. security predates the recent discovery and killing of Osama bin…
April 2011 Table of Contents Recycling History and the Never-Ending Life of Cuban Things Sarah Hill Free Water! DIY Wetlands and the Futures of Urban Gray Water Scott Webel Transnational Waste and Its Discontents Joshua Reno When Blue Jeans Went Green…
Death in a Family I am living with a large extended family, an experience that has been both comforting (people are always everywhere) and lonely (what a social misfit I am living so far from my own strong kinship ties!). Seven siblings (now ages 50–35)…
