Dear dendrites: Quarantine ethnography
Here at Anthro{dendum}, we receive a light stream of correspondence by way of our contact form. Usually they are pitches for guest posts or questions following up on…
Author: Matt Thompson
Sequential art for your shopping cart
In the past two years I’ve had the opportunity to read some really fantastic graphic novels, including a few that will be of interest to anthropologists. As we…
Turning the page
This summer I started a new job. My former position, in museums and special collections, was grant funded. We worked that contract until the money was gone. And…
Designs for the Pluriverse — [book review]
In Designs for the Pluriverse : Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, theorist and distinguished critic of development Arturo Escobar joins a chorus of works that…
Anthropology Bite Club
The first rule of Bite Club is that we’re going to talk about cookbooks. The second rule of Bite Club is I need some of ya’ll to…
Illustrated Man #11 – (H)afrocentric
Re-spawn. Its been on since dawn. Illustrated Man check your king with a pawn. Don’t know where but I send ’em Make my posts now on Anthrodendum Hey,…
Remembering the Mexican Revolution with Aunt Julia
Growing up in Austin, Texas, Diez y Seis — Mexican Independence Day — always seemed to hold an official, albeit minor, status in the state capitol. This was…
Remembering the Mexican Revolution with Aunt Julia
Growing up in Austin, Texas, Diez y Seis — Mexican Independence Day — always seemed to hold an official, albeit minor, status in the state capitol. This was…
Illustrated Man #10: The Vision
I first started blogging about anthropology and comic books back in 2012 in an occasional series titled Illustrated Man. It lasted for about nine posts before petering out…
Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story – [Book Review]
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Vidula G. Khanduri. A STEM major at Wellesley College, Vidula enjoys dabbling in the crossroads of politics, science, technology, and society. She’s an avid reader …
Artisanal Anthropology Workshop
Savage Minds is pleased to announce our first workshop in artisanal anthropology. As we imagine a future for our discipline that is both sustainable and ethical, it is…
Black flags from Rome: Mafia and Isis, as before Mafia and Al Qaeda
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Stefano Portelli. Stefano is a cultural anthropologist with a doctorate in Urban Studies, his primary fieldsites are a barrio of Barcelona and the…
Faculty work, librarian work, and life balance
Tis the season. As my professor friends hustle to write final exams and grade them, only to press through to letter grade submission and finally revel in winter…
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene [review]
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Cthulhu, Great Old One and Special Collections Librarian at Brown University. When the puny mortals at Savage Minds invited me to review the…
Now accepting reader letters
We here at Savage Minds want to hear from you, our readers. To further this goal we are creating a new “Reader Letters” feature and we encourage you…
The Anthro/Zine strikes back!
Anthro/Zine, a venue for undergraduate publication from the team behind Anthropology Now, has entered its second year of publication. The premise behind the project is to provide a…
What is arXiv and how can we get one?
After ckelty’s post on the SSRN/Elsevier merger fellow mind, Ryan Anderson, gave me a shout out in Twitter, ArXiv for social science research anyone? @savageminds @culanth @haujournal @jmtromble…
Anthro/Zine Highlights: Student Report from Bali
Now in its second year of publication, Anthro/Zine is the undergraduate companion to Anthropology Now. Each new issue, published under a Creative Commons license, is released online to…
Infrastructure as Iron Cage
Weber’s metaphor of the iron cage is one of the most famous in all of sociology. It’s certainly stuck with me: I keep a bookmark in my copy…
Inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Place and Memory after Disaster
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Pablo Figueroa. Pablo is an assistant professor in the Center for International Education at Waseda University in Tokyo. In this position, he teaches courses on glo…
Return of the Anthro/Zine
Last May I introduced you to Anthropozine, a new undergraduate venue associated with the journal Anthropology Now. The concept behind the zine was to get college students interested in…
Four ghost stories from Aunt Julia
More so than any other person in my mother’s extended family, Julia was a person who was truly loved. She helped to raise her mother’s children, then her…
Homo Naledi’s other revolution
When the Homo Naledi discovery was announced I was excited to see that the initial publication was in an open access journal, eLife. In fact to me this…
Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 2
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You…