Genetics, Race, and the Practice of Science, Part One
On how the humanities help us think critically about science. Jonathan Marks and I have a lot in common (despite the fact that I am a Christian feminist…
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Supporting Students Impacted by Proposed Immigration Policy Changes
This post was authored by Susan Bibler Coutin, with Anita Casavantes Bradford and Laura E. Enriquez. As an anthropologist who writes about immigration issues, many of my conversations…
The Hidden World of Car Parking Helpers
An informal parking attendant in Bucharest’s historic quarter points out an empty spot to oncoming cars. Ştefan Mako Each day between 7 and 8 a.m., 71-year-old Jan,* his…
Reader Letters #1: Post-election edition
Last week we put out a call for letters from our readers. Here’s our first installment. If you’re interested in submitting a letter to Savage Minds, please keep…
Hutnyk
Tracking down the old man’s arrival records from Europe to Australia. He was a violent drunken shit, but I do appreciate at least his refrain about how we…
Perennial Narratives in Anthropology
Since the 1960s, there has not been any new, innovative or groundbreaking advances in the field of anthropology. Although some good work has been done, most of it…
Ethno everywhere! Workshop
The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting hosted a workshop on November 16th about Ethnographic Writing. In this workshop, Ruth Behar from the University of Michigan and Marcia Ochoa…
Ethno everywhere! Workshop
The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting hosted a workshop on November 16th about Ethnographic Writing. In this workshop, Ruth Behar from the University of Michigan and Marcia Ochoa…
Information and Communication Technology and Wellbeing in the Merchant Marines
Annamaria Dall’Anese, PhD student, UCL Anthropology If the informal use of the internet through personal devices on board merchant vessels encounters barriers due to patchy infrastructure and weather…
‘Ordinary people’ and the problem of populism
The Trump election has once again centered attention on the metaphorical figure of the ‘ordinary person’, which plays a key role at the current moment in history –…
Urban development and the resistance of archaeology #newtonloss
By some estimates, one in ten thousand people in Turkey is an unemployed archaeologist. In an alternative café while on a last-minute contract in Istanbul, I got talking…
3 Historical Examples of “Fake News”
History is littered with examples where the the facts were altered to suit a specific purpose. Here are three instances where falsified public accounts were used to chart…
Around the Web Digest- November 21
So after a week of visiting family for Thanksgiving and slowly accepting the crushing weight of neoliberalism that came crashing down in 2016. I come back with readings…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, November 30, 2016
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
The Anthropology Of Us: A Second Open Letter To Our Students
4. Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony. Last week The White House live streamed the ceremony during which President Obama