Formulating surveys for building occupants as part of post occupancy evaluation (POE), master planning process, retrocommissioning effort, etc., is always a balancing act. You want to ask enough…
From “No Shame, No Blame: Secrets of Living Well” produced by Vanderbilt Health and Wellness
Comprehensive Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) that focus on the occupant as well as the building and operations are critical for ensuring the success of buildings from an owner’s,…
Tijo Salverda, research associate of the Human Economy Programme in Pretoria and senior research fellow at the Global South Studies Centre (GSSC) in Cologne, sent us this call…
I met the rhizome about two and a half years ago and since then it won’t go away. Honestly once you know about it, you’ll see it everywhere,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Understanding Reflexivity Reflexivity is the awareness of the effect that anthropologists have on their research, the experience of fieldwork and the process of writing ethnography – applying a…
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time on the Cultural Anthropology stand, talking…
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
By Cristiano Lanzano
As I read the article linked to below, as I noticed it weaving in a thread of the American myth of the individual coupled with the image of freedom, adventure…
Hi anthfriends! The following is a paper reflecting on the fieldwork I did with my iwi, Ngāti Rakaipaaka, for my thesis. I presented it last year at the…
Kia ora! Long time no see. We thought we would kick off a new round of blog posts with one of our most popular features ‘anthropology… what kind…
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
By Theodoros Rakopoulos This article was originally published in FocaalBlog Cite as: Rakopoulos, Theodoros. 2015. “Of direct and default democracy: The debt referendum in Greece,” FocaalBlog, 6 July,…
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa” at the 6th European…
Mike Pesca, in one of his artful spiels on The Gist podcast, punctures the conventional wisdom that we Americans want folksy presidential candidates, that we yearn for a…
We often speak of “capitalism” or “the market” as if they are singular things. We are comfortable talking about how the economy is doing, if “it” is up…
Photo: @PrensaComunitar Recent protests in Guatemala–organized through social media and that successfully forced the Vice- president to resign–recall the Arab Spring of 2011. Known as the “Land of…
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE ON WELLCASTSTed Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why…
You may have noticed the Anthsisters have been very quiet lately.. spending all our time writing and finishing our Master’s thesis’ hasn’t left much time for blogging! However,…
Paraguay can’t catch a break. It is where a 19th century war wiped out half the male population; one of the poorest and most unequal countries in the…