[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthrodendum hosts a guest essay by a Brazilian anthropologist looking at how, over centuries, the trope of cannibalism has appeared in everything from the first European travel narratives to contemporary politics.


• Hornet Stories reports on how Ryan Murphy has started a campaign to improve the representation of, among others, people of colour and queer people in Hollywood.


• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox uses the closure of a Wichita café to examine the broader threat to the commons, to the shared spaces of community.


• JSTOR Daily shares seven interesting facts about cranberries.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with self-serve checkouts.


• The LRB Blog notes the political, and general, decline of French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell draws connections between uncontrolled health care industry costs in the United States and Brexit.