Paleolithic Ax Debunks Colonial Myth
Earlier this year, a team of Australian researchers led by Peter Hiscock from the University of Sydney published new findings about a fragment of a ground-edge ax—which might…
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Twitter Images of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: New Journal Article
Images have a semiotic density quite different from that of words, So if “a picture is worth a thousand words” how many tweets is it worth? And is…
Slow Politics, Slow Media and Slow Teaching: Toward a More Perfect Union
To quote from a Grateful Dead lyric: “Speed Kills.” As I have written again and again, the widely broadcast childish character
Slow Politics, Slow Media and Slow Teaching: Toward a More Perfect Union
To quote from a Grateful Dead lyric: “Speed Kills.” As I have written again and again, the widely broadcast childish character
Occasional Paper 6: Destructivistas
Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016) With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes…
Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used to be’ runs parallel…
Jessica Greenberg , “After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment” (Stanford University Press, 2014)
Jessica Greenberg’s After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment (Stanford University Press, 2014) explores a dual tension at work in Serbia in the early 2000s.…
Darian M. Parker, “Sartre and New Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling” (Lexington, 2015)
Darian M. Parker joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling (Lexington…
Around the Web Digest- September 4
As Fall begins to creep around the corner in the Northern hemisphere, I present you with this week’s readings. As big data continues to permeate every facet of…
Judging Books by Their Cover
Why we must challenge misrepresentations of race and culture on our textbook covers. Is it possible to claim that anthropology no longer exoticizes and creates cultural Others, when…
Shining diamonds: of global connections and local lifeworlds
By Robert Pijpers, University of Oslo Resources are all around us, they are in the screen you are now looking at, in the Olympic medals that have recently…
Anthro in the news 9/12/16
Having no remains of loved ones adds to the loss Memory site. Source: Creative Commons/Pixabay NBC News reported about the ongoing grief of 9/11 families whose relatives were…
Advice for Grad Students
With the new academic year now underway, anthro everywhere! is happy to finally launch a page that we’ve been putting together for some time: Advice for Grad Students.…
Pricing the EpiPen: Drug Prices, Corporate Governance, and the Financialization of Biomedicine by Danya Glabau
Why does Mylan’s EpiPen cost so much? That was a question many parents of food allergic children found themselves asking this past August, as a flurry of news…
Article Alert for Discard Studies! (August 2016)
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.
Why We Post Tour of Chinese Universities
Between 12th-24th September 2016, Professor Daniel Miller and two researchers on the Why We Post project, Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang, will give a series of talks about…
CLEENIK: A clinic for ethnographic experimentation syndromes
Have you been affected by Ethnographic Experimentation Breakdown (EEB) or Excess of Engagement Stress (EES)? Are you suffering from breach-of-the-canon infection (BOTS)? Do you know how to detect…