How is India’s burgeoning IT industry reshaping the country? What types of capital is IT attracting and what formations does it take? How are software engineers managed? What…
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German universities inspired the reformation of higher learning institutions throughout Europe and the United States (Barth et. al. 2005). Early museum…
Are balance and movement something that can be culturally shaped? Why aren’t female rats being used in drug studies? In this episode of This Anthropological Life we team…
Time. Astronomers, philosophers, physicists, anthropologists, politicians, geographers, and theologians have all pondered the nature and meaning of time. Is it linear or cyclical? Is it reversible? (P…
Bernard C Perley is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he teaches classes in Linguistic Anthropology, American Indian Studies, and Global Studies. H…
In hindsight, the biggest problem with the extraordinary protests in Tahrir Square was the lack of a coherent plan for creating democracy once Mubarak stepped down. I hear that…
Archaeologists Against Trump is the name of a Facebook group. It can also be applied to the writings and actions by a large number of archaeologists concerned with…
This post is the latest in the November guest blog series by the Archaeology Division of the AAA. This post is by Lynne Goldstein. Lynne Goldstein is a…
The Black Lives Matter movement is seeking to put an end to the inequities faced by blacks in the United States. In Sri Lanka, the failure to redress…
The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is over, and, with it, the brief spurt of Twitter traffic that marks the event. Here’s a graph of Twitter traffic over…
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
By: Caitlyn Brandt, Allison Dudley, Will Lammons, and Aaron Trumbo The holidays are upon us once again, and soon many of us will engage in those family dynamics…
Thorsten Gieser, Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Kulturwissenschaft, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany A winter’s day, in a forest in central Germany. At dusk, more than fifty hunte…
(This very impressive reading list from the USA compounds). ((Such scholarship needs to be replicated for other places. And start with the prison support stuff)) http://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-…
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or is remoteness a construct of connectivity?…
It’s been a fun year for me (leaving aside here, you know, many disturbing political events, trends, pomps and circumstances, because this isn’t that kind of blog) because some…
After the results of the election, there was a new kind of energy at the AAA’s, a nervousness and a palpable anticipation. There was a sense that this…
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
two views on the Trump win: class or region? An article in The Minneapolis Star Tribune included commentary from two social anthropologists at the annual conference of the…
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
The 2016 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association — or #AAA2016 #amanth2016 — just concluded in Minneapolis. I’ve been attending these meetings since 1993, and this…
Depanneur in Quebec This is a fun little piece from Atlas Obscura that teachers might want to bring into a discussion of language: What Do You Call the Corner…