Understanding The Social Capital of Fake News
Why has fake news persisted? We’ve built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions…
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CFP: We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of American Regional Food
We recently received the following call for papers which may be a great opportunity for some of our readers. From akutaq to whoopie pie, there are some great…
Anthropologist, Business Owner and Transportation Activist Janne Flisrand Announces Campaign for Minneapolis City Council
Back in January of this year, I posted an interview with Janne Flisrand, a Minneapolis business owner and transportation activist, as part of my Anthropologists in Practice series.…
How the custodian lost (but won); and how the Personnel Director won (but lost): a three-part story.
De Quincey’s first time. Works 2, p43
A pleasure indirectly paid for, as were his studies at Oxford, with profits from the East India Company opium trade via both his uncle Preston and his benefactor,…
Cleaning Up Cairo
One of the things I teach my students about power in my Peoples of the World class at Miami University is that power rests in the ways that…
The good and the bad of #AAA2016 or, THE AAA MUST NEVER USE THAT SCHEDULING APP AGAIN
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association is now over, as is Thanksgiving. Now that we are over the hump and have a bit of perspective, we…
Human Trafficking in a Time of Crisis
How exaggerated media reports misconceive the realities of migration and displacement. The current refugee crisis in Europe has once again sounded alarms about increased human trafficking. This is…
Links & Contents I Liked 209
Hi all, As the world consumes on ‘Black Friday’ our link review is getting a bit artsy this week to provide food for thought and soul ;)! We…
Links & Contents I Liked 209
Hi all, As the world consumes on ‘Black Friday’ our link review is getting a bit artsy this week to provide food for thought and soul ;)! We…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy
We are running out of time. My interviews and articles about what awaits, written since Election Day: A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss (11/9/16) — Globe and Mail…
Discussing “Suffering Slot Anthropology” with Migrant Farm Workers by Seth Holmes
This article first appeared on Anthropology News. I have had the honor many times to present together with Triqui Mexican migrant farmworkers who have shaped my thinking and…
It’s time for #EVENTS: democracy, art and more
With the Fall semester drawing to a close and the end-of-year holidays fast approaching, what better time for one last list of events! 2017 will undoubtedly be filled…
Some Drawing Exercises, or “Etudes”
Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method, by discussing how drawing is integral to seeing, encourages readers to consider drawing as a legitimate ethnographic method. To further…
From Facebook to ‘fakebook’ – who controls the information on social media?
A young Chinese factory worker reading on his smartphone. Mark Zuckerberg finally said that Facebook plans to have a more effective control of misinformation, which is a sharp reversal…
Serious academics & managing your digital identity
One of the things that we try to do on the blog besides offer interesting examples of anthropology everywhere, is to try to highlight advice on professionalization for…
Serious academics & managing your digital identity
One of the things that we try to do on the blog besides offer interesting examples of anthropology everywhere, is to try to highlight advice on professionalization for…
7 December: VU Amsterdam Ethnographic Film Day
What is the value of film as medium for ethnographic fieldwork? With which dilemmas are film-making anthropologists confronted? What is the relationship between visual methods and other methods?…
The Power of a Story: I, Daniel Blake
by Tim Perkin Feature Photo: Wikimedia.org I am no avid film fan. I can barely sit through an entire episode of Breaking Bad or Homeland let alone a…
Terugblik op de Bijeenkomst: ‘Jemen, een Vergeten Oorlog – #WatKanIkDoen?’
Graffiti in Jemen Door Handenur Taspinar Maandagavond 14 november is er in samenwerking met het Grote Midden-Oosten Platform en de afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie…
Paid graduate positions in discard studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland
The following paid graduate positions are available in discard studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland: • Place-based knowledge (natural and/or social sciences) (PhD) • Social Licence and Commu…
Teaching Food with Photos: High Point Food Anthropology
After a long hiatus, we return with the next installment in our Food Pedagogy Interview Series. We hear from Dr. Chelsea Wentworth, Associate Professor of Anthropology at High…
The social role of anthropology’s racist uncle
There’s a certain trope that has been going around for years, and it has hit a peak these days as many people express their collective shock and surprise…