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Taking Stock: Creative Workers Become a Recursive Public

Notes from Ted Tremper’s closing keynote at EPIC2026: how the Creators Coalition on AI built a shared vocabulary and a role-by-role map of AI’s impact on creative work.

  • Post date 2nd November 2026
  • Post author By Natalie Hanson

What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research

Written by Michael Hudson The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the …

  • Post date 2nd November 2026
  • Post author By Neil Turner

Ashley Thuthao Ken Dam and Stanley Ulijaszek on their book, Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media

https://www.routledge.com/Mukbang-Food-Performance-and-Digital-Media/ThuthaoKengDam-Ulijaszek/p/book/9781032600239 Madhura Rao: In mukbang, creators known as broadcast jockeys (or mukbangers) …

  • Post date 2nd November 2026
  • Post author By |

When Causality Swirls: Toxic Uncertainty in Industrial Aliağa

The smell arrived in the middle of our interview. I was sitting in the trade union’s local center in Aliağa, on İzmir’s northern edge, three days into a…

  • Post date 2nd November 2026
  • Post author By Alexandra Epshtein

“There is a Ghost in the Box!”: Insightful Surprises From a Note-Taking Archive

The Zettelkasten technique involves writing down your ideas on index cards and assigning them a code that allows you to organize and branch out those ideas to connect…

  • Post date 2nd November 2026
  • Post author By Karina Aranda

Shaping AI to Align with Our Values

Notes from Ovetta Sampson’s Mindful AI breakout at EPIC2026: AI models come with values built in, and researchers and designers can work upstream to shape them.

  • Post date 2nd November 2026
  • Post author By Natalie Hanson

Imagination and Isolation: AI as a Collective Accomplishment

Notes from the Deploying Context plenary at EPIC2026: David Ayman Shamma and Brent Hecht on reframing the problem, the cap on cutting labor costs, and why AI is…

  • Post date 2nd November 2026
  • Post author By Natalie Hanson

It Sounded Like Our Market: Why Synthetic People Are Only as Good as the Research Underneath

Notes from the Building and Evaluating Synthetic People session at EPIC2026: an AI moderator, synthetic focus groups and conversational personas, and why synthetic people are only as useful…

  • Post date 1st November 2026
  • Post author By Natalie Hanson

Månedens antropolog: Long Litt Woon

Stafettpinnen går videre i Månedens antropolog! Dette er en spalte som løfter frem bredden, engasjementet og mangfoldet i norsk antropologi, både innenfor og utenfor akademia. Hver måned vil…

  • Post date 1st November 2026
  • Post author By Nor3Weg5@AdmIn

Zum Totlachen – Wenn die Sterbehilfe uns zum Lachen bringt

Welche Rolle spielt die Komik in Büchern und Serien über Sterbehilfe? Anna Elsner und Marc Keller erkunden das Spannungsfeld zwischen Autonomie und Gesellschaftskritik in den Narrationen über den…

  • Post date 1st November 2026
  • Post author By Marc Keller

Listening for the Dead in the Rubber Hills of Sumatra

November 1 2026 Rahardhika Utama Mornings in the Rubber Hills Life in the household where I lived for most of my fieldwork began in the dark, when Pak…

  • Post date 1st November 2026
  • Post author By Sneha Annavarapu

Of Mushrooms and Astronauts: Why AI Needs Us to Make Context Legible

Notes from the Making Research Legible to Machines session at EPIC2026: from mushroom foraging to satellite imagery, why AI needs human and organizational context, and why researchers should…

  • Post date 1st November 2026
  • Post author By Natalie Hanson

SAFN in St. Louis! AAA 2026

Andrew Mitchel and Amanda Kaminsky We are less than a month away from the AAA conference. Amanda Kaminsky and I prepared this list of all the SAFN panels…

  • Post date 31st October 2026
  • Post author By foodanthro

Reinstated: Aberdeen backtracks and brings David Anderson back

Some good news from Aberdeen. Professor David Anderson has been reinstated. From David: I wanted to thank you again. … I am happy to say that the university backed…

  • Post date 31st October 2026
  • Post author By Charles Menzies

Adorno smirking for his US certificate of naturalization.

Nov 26 1943, age 40, male, white, fair complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, height 5 ft 6 and a half inches, 143 pounds, distinctive marks none, married, German,…

  • Post date 31st October 2026
  • Post author By john hutnyk

Back to Class: Designing For, With, and Through the Class Struggle

In 2024, members of the Cargill Tenants Union launched two months-long rent strikes in response to deteriorating conditions at their buildings, culminating in a year-long rent freeze, comprehensive…

  • Post date 31st October 2026
  • Post author By Nathan Kim

Join Us for the 2026 SAFN Business Meeting!

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  • Post date 30th October 2026
  • Post author By rtadams13

After the Flush – Book Talk @ Tufts

  • Post date 30th October 2026
  • Post author By nckawa

Sir Patrick Stewart (1940 – 2026) Rest in Peace

Image source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ_SuU5JWpy/?img_index=2 (1995) Patrick Stewart taught us about “the root metaphors of our own culture” and provided us with “more familiarity with our o…

  • Post date 30th October 2026
  • Post author By Unknown

A call to all musicians

Hello beloveds. Today, I am making a humble request. I’ve been wanting to make this request for a while, but have been hesitant, because asking for help is…

  • Post date 29th October 2026
  • Post author By Hilary Agro

The Lost Synthesizer: How a Kolkata-based Computer Engineer is Redesigning the Vanishing Past of India’s Electronic Music

Introduction On August 20, 2025, at the Goethe-Institut in Kolkata, a Kolkata-based Computer Engineer and Sound Artist named Varun Desai sat down in front of a modular synthesizer…

  • Post date 29th October 2026
  • Post author By Sourav Saha

Knörr, J. (2024) Creolization in Atlantic West Africa: the example of Sierra Leone. In: Lüpke, F. (ed.) The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa, pp. 595-604. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Knörr, J. (2024) Creolization in Atlantic West Africa: the example of Sierra Leone.

  • Post date 29th October 2026
  • Post author By Jacqueline Knörr

El símbol com estímul per l’acció

Comentari per Jofre Alberich, estudiant del màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, enviat el novembre de 2025. El símbol com estímul per l’acció Manuel Delgado Ben intuïda…

  • Post date 29th October 2026
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

Does Everything Belong Back Home? Rethinking Repatriation in the Brazilian Context

The process of repatriation—or the return of artifacts to their origin communities around the world—has taken center stage globally, drawing intense interest from anthropologists, archaeologists, hist…

  • Post date 29th October 2026
  • Post author By Amanda Domingues
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