Why Anthropologists Don’t Whisper Well
CEOs should hire anthropologists. After all, these CEOS speak to a complex set of stakeholders. How useful to have someone, an expert, whispering in their ear. But it turns out…
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In the Journals – June 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. The summer…
Hmong Gardeners in America’s Dairyland
A garden isn’t just a patch of dirt where we plant vegetables, herbs, and flowers. A garden is a chronicle of culture. What we choose to grow often…
Open Access Book: Indiana Folk Arts
This year is a big year for the Mathers Museum of World Cultures in a number of respects. Two of these weave together. Its the state bicentennial for…
Trump and Brexit
From my latest for the Globe and Mail: The 2000 race led to the phrase “red states and blue states”. Republican red states are usually in the middle,…
De dag van Brexit: Stof dat opwaait, stof dat neerdwarrelt en stof tot denken
Voorblad van The Sun op 24 juni Door Rhoda Woets Op de dag die Nigel Farage uitriep tot dag van de onafhankelijkheid van een Brussels monster, word ik…
1000 Risks and Birth-and-Death in Cape Town by Kathleen McDougall
“I was willing to die,” Terri told me, “I just didn’t want to have another caesarian.” She referred to her vaginal birth after three c-sections (a VBA3C), which…
Conversations
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, Aarhus University § Photo by author. i. I carry home the shock of green wheat it nods as I walk. Yesterday we saw the…
The #slow professor (book excerpt)
The Slow Professor originated in telephone conversations about coping with our academic jobs. Not reading an email sent by the department chair at 10:45 p.m. until the next…
When Worlds Collide: A tale of parenting and an optimistic undergraduate
I am pleased to welcome guest blogger Jess Thompson to anthropod. In this post Jess shares her experiences of being a parent and university student, adding to our…
A Taste of the Basque Country
My first trip to the Basque Country, an ethnic nation straddling northwest Spain and southwest France, was not academic in nature; I was there with my partner David…
A Tale of Two Museums
Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Among Basques, it used to be “the anthropologist as hero.” By the turn of the new millennium it was “the architect…
Re/telling the story of Canada’s Residential Schools
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada investigated the impact of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools system on students, their families, and indigenous peoples across Canada more broadly. …
Anthro in the news 6/27/16
Heed this: Political break-ups in comparative perspective Source: Creative Commons Wired carried an article about the Brexit vote, drawing on research by Peter Turchin, associate professor of evolutio…
Introducing the Public Anthropology Institute
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Faye V. Harrison, Carole McGranahan, Matilda Ostow, Melissa Rosario, Paul Stoller, Gina Athena Ulysse and…
Waking up to Brexit
by Paul Boyce On the morning of 24th June I had what I have since learnt to be a common experience. I lay in bed in conscious abeyance;…
How to keep in touch with anthropology
Annual Day of Anthropology, 20 May 2016 By Ina Keuper For many students the last week of their studies at the anthropology department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)…
Social Media and Brexit
One of the common claims made about social media is that it has facilitated a new form of political intervention aligned with the practices and inclinations of the…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edited Out of History
How the Absence of Black and Brown Children from the Historical Record Could be Hazardous to Your Health When Lewis Hine took a job as the photographer for…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
The True Cost
by Rebecca Prentice **Originally published in Anthropology of Work Review (2016).** The global fashion industry is worth more than two trillion dollars, creating jobs, economic growth, tax earnings, a…