Category: English
May the Folk Be With You
In 1979, on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s first UK general election victory, an advertisement appeared in London’s The Evening News. Paid for by the party, the half-page…
Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the Election Hunger Games
With Donald Trump defending the size of his hands, Ted Cruz dropping out of the race the week after recruiting former opponent Fiorina as a running mate, Hillary…
Dumping or Trumping
Bright side of the current reaction. The decline of the European powers was bolstered by the land grab that was the USA – basically the oppression of indigenous…
Domesticating Water
Water is the most immediate requisite element for human survival. For most of humanity’s history (written and unwritten), where people could live was constrained by the need to…
How to Teach Anthropology Without Making Your Students Dumb
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Daniel Souleles. This is the first post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. Yes, this title is clickbait. Please, allow me a…
Philadelphia Street Style: Isaiah, Walnut Street
“I was feeling very Prince today,” Isaiah told me, on his way to a photo shoot. He describes his style as “sleek, edgy, and androgynous,” all attributes the…
Top of the Heap: Helen Verran by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Helen Verran, a historian and philosopher of science who is Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin…
In The Journals – April Part II by Michelle Pentecost
Another set of great papers from the journals in April. Enjoy! Social Science & Medicine ‘I knew before I was told’: Breaches, cues and clues in the…
Marshall Sahlins on Hocart’s cosmic polity
Lecture from last Friday at SOAS in London; it starts around 30 minutes in to follow Hocart’s lead to comment on cosmology, governmentality, and anthropology.
Seminar: Indigenous Media 2016
Again, I have the pleasure to teach the Seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. Find below a…
‘The soul of the community’: corporate legal personhood in an indigenous settlement #fictions
In Argentina, indigenous people have been historically marginalised and rendered invisible (Gordillo & Hirsch 2003). However, over the last couple of decades there has been a timid effort…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part II
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Life in America
This is the first in a two-part post in which Lindsay A. Bell (SUNY Oswego) describes her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast…
How to email your professor
“How to Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF)” (Medium.com) by former professor turned academic writing consultant Laura Portwood-Stacer provides an easy step-by-step guide for students on …
The Emergence of “Divorce Before Consummation” as a Legal Category in Jordanian Sharia Courts #fictions
Today’s inquiry into the nature of legal fictions takes us to Jordan’s government-run Sharia courts, where the concept of “divorce before consummation” (ṭalāq qabl al-dakhūl) has become something…
What does choice look like in today’s world?
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What does choice look like in today’s world?
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Aesthetic: The New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy
An intriguing call for papers: Aesthetic: The New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy Auckland, 2-4 September 2016. The Symposium of Gastronomy welcomes scholars, cooks, food writers and armchair foodies…
Stone Points to a Connected World
I was sitting in the brightly lit workroom at the Pitt Rivers Museum on a frigid day in November 2010, when I opened one of the bags that…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part I
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Anthro in the news 5/2/16
Biological anthropologists address sexual harrassment Many physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this at their annual meeting. Source: AAPA Science magazine reported on a special panel at the ann…
Historical Decision as to Mining in Sweden
A – what I would like to call a historical – decision was taken by the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden at the end of February this year (source:…
Web Roundup: The Electronic Over-Soul and our Worst Selves (and Other Mishaps) by Sara M Bergstresser
The web roundup for this month is a sequel to last month’s roundup on Mind, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence. I will address another interface between machines and minds,…