Pacific Islanders will pay the price for Trump and Kim’s nuclear escalation
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s war of words is threatening to become a real nuclear war as North Korea has announced that it is seriously considering attacking Guam.…
Author: Rex
Re-materializing the Immaterial Economy: Sareeta Amrute’s Encoding Race, Encoding Class
(This occasional post is a book review that comes to us from Alisha Wilkinson and Meg Stalcup. Meg Stalcup is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Ottawa,…
Perspectives: An Open Access Intro Anthro Textbook
(This guest post by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González announces the launch of what I believe is the first open access textbook for an introduction to cultural…
The duodenum is a noble, noble organ and I am totally, totally willing to own that name.
anthroduodenum /anTHrəˈd(y)o͞oəˈdēnəm/ or /anTHrōˈd(y)o͞oəˈdēnəm/ n 1. an anthropology blog dedicated to breaking down the most important issue facing our discipline. 2. the hard, under-appreciated, b…
What happened on 12 July: A lot.
July 12 was a historic day for net neutrality, with 1.6 million comments sent to the FCC and over 3 million phone calls made to congress. Anthropologists did…
Today is the day: Help take back the net
It’s July 12th, the day of an Internet-wide day of action. As you can tell from the banner on our landing page, Savage Minds/Anthrodendum is protesting against threats…
Updated History of Anthropology timeline — now with ‘homepage’!
I (actually, Kerim, who is hosting it) updated my history of anthropology timeline. I’ve also added a homepage for the timeline on my personal website. This page explains how…
When the Internet goes dark on 12 July, so should anthropology
I’ve written on this blog before about the Trump Administration’s recent changes to net neutrality rules. These rules will let your Internet Service Provider — your cable or…
Which humanities?
Alfred Kroeber always used to say that anthropology is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences. But which humanities? After all, ‘humanities’…
Vale Michael Agar
It is with sadness that I write about the death of Mike Agar on 20 May 2017. Others have written about his life and his passing on redfish.com and Anthropology News.…
Clifford Geertz: Ethnographer?
Why was Clifford Geertz such a popular anthropologist? Because he connected anthropology and the humanities? Because he was a great writer? One answer that often comes up is…
Vale Ben Finney
I was deeply saddened to hear that Ben R. Finney passed away around noon on 23 May 2017. Ben was a professor in the anthropology department at UH…
Bronislaw Malinowski: Don’t Let The Cosplay Fool You
If there’s one picture that epitomizes White Guys Doing Research, it’s this one: The canonical author of the canonical book, naked black people, white guy in white clothes being…
Facebook in Papua New Guinea: What Happens When The Net Isn’t Neutral
If you care about open access, you should care about net neutrality. There are obvious reasons why: After all, there’s no point in putting your preprints online if…
The biggest threat to open access is a closed Internet
Many open access advocates were disappointed (but not surprised) when the American Anthropological Association decided to renew its contract to publish with Wiley, which means that the AAA…
This Saturday I’m Marching for Science and You Should Too
This Earth Day, 22 April, People across the world will be celebrating the important role that science plays in supporting human freedom and prosperity. This is an event…
#AAA2017 registration sucked. I hope its not a sign of things to come.
Even if you are not attending #AAA2017 in Washington, D.C. you have probably already heard about how much it sucked to try to register for it. The stories…
Anthropology is an empty pint carton, and our existential projects are the ice cream
Because I regularly teach the history of anthropology, I have thought a lot about classical texts and the shape of our discipline. I also recently had a chance…
Remembering Teresia Teaiwa: An Open Access Bibliography
Scholars of the Pacific are mourning the loss of Teresia Teaiwa this week. Teresia was an iconic figure in Pacific Studies: A poet and critic, dedicated teacher, and…
Open Access and Anthro in Community Colleges: HELLZ YES.
I was originally going to title this post #OA & @SACC : HELLZ YES, but I was afraid that would be too hard to understand. But what isn’t…
Editing Wikipedia > Writing Letters to the New York Times
Various bits of social media began vibrating rapidly recently when it was discovered that white supremacists had fooled Google into providing inaccurate information about Boas and cultural relativism…
Gareth Dale on Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) is difficult to summarize. A patriotic citizen of his native Hungary, he spoke German at home and identified with German intellectual culture. He was a…
The Anthropology of Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
Ever since the pioneering work of Mary Douglas on risk back in 1992, anthropologists have understood that there is a difference between what is actually dangerous and what…
Year of the Mushroom
In the next week or so, many of us will celebrate the year of the rooster. The year of the monkey, which we are just saying good bye…