Petitioning the UN on Epidemics and Xenophobia
Please visit change.org to support this petition: In June 2015 The Bellagio Task Force on Epidemics and Xenophobia met to discuss the resurgence of xenophobia across the globe—one most recently prompted by fearful and unsympathetic responses to the Ebola epidemic and those afflicted communities and healthcare workers who returned home. The problem of xenophobia is […]
Gina Athena Ulysse on Sandra Bland
In a piece on Africa is a Country titled “Meditation on Sandra Bland’s self-possession, The Beatles and neo-Black codes of conduct,“ anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse reflects on Sandra Bland. “The image of Sandra Bland I cannot get out of my head is her selfie wearing a blue Beatles t-shirt. Besides being professional black women with […]
Jamaica: A Queer Place
The dump in Riverton has started burning again. A stinking heap of tires, plastic, chemicals, and other run-off, piled high as if an altar to the consumptive labors of residents of Kingston and its surrounding parishes, has confounded slack-handed and resourced-challenged responses to this now familiar but more ferocious blaze sending children to hospital, forcing […]
Calling all Anthropology Students!
Anthropology students, let your voice be heard! Anthropology Now wants to publish your work in its new undergraduate title, Anthropozine. Find out more at https://anthropozine.wordpress.com/contribute-to-anthropozine/ For us, basically anything goes, so you can take the following list as guidelines not gospel: Personal reflections on academic topics, current events Reviews of books, movies, museum installations, etc. Stories […]
Oradour-sur-Glane: Remembering Terror
A Visual Essay. Text and photos by Álvaro Minguito Palomares Oradour-sur-Glane is a symbol of the misfortunes of the Nation. It is important to preserve this memory, so that a similar tragedy never repeats itself. —Charles de Gaulle speech in Oradour-sur-Glane, March 1945 On June 10, 1944, only four days after Allied troops disembarked in […]
Thinking with Bats, Forests and the Cosmos
Thomas Nagel. 2012. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. New York: Oxford University Press. 128 pages. Eduardo Kohn. 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. Oakland: University of California Press. 288 pages. The philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception […]
Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol, A Dialogue
War does not simply shape, shepherd, and injure bodies, or mold and undermine psyches in a unidirectional fashion. Through countless contradictory and incomplete processes, war excites bodies, cultivates capacities, gives value to things, provokes subjective interpretations of surprising behaviors, and forms connections. —Kenneth T. MacLeish, Making War at Fort Hood The first things I noticed […]
The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Politics makes visible that which had no reason to be seen. —Jacques Rancière Whether ultimately approved or not, the Keystone XL Pipeline offers a telling window into the contemporary politics of fossil fuels in North America. Although oil pipelines have been around for a century, they have long been neglected in scholarship and public debate. […]
April 2015
Volume 7 / Issue 1 / April 2015 This issue includes: Features Solidarity and Resistance on the Island of Llingua by Anton Daughters Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol: A Dialogue by Alisse Waterston with Sebastian Junger The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline by David Bond Water Crisis in India: Cross-Currents of Tradition, Nationalism […]
Burying Minority Istanbul: Last Glimpses of the Cosmopolitan City
April 24, 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in what is current-day Turkey. Anthropology Now is pleased to share this piece on contemporary Turkey and reflections on the genocide by journalist Mary D’Ambrosio. We’d disturbed them at dinner, and they leapt up in […]