Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations 2015
Welcome to another year of my cultural anthropology dissertation picks. Every year my scanning of the year’s dissertations reveals different prominent themes, as informed by my search…
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Why do you love anthropology?
Why do you anthropology? We thought we’d get an early start celebrating Valentine’s Day and the Feb. 18 Anthropology Day event by sharing the #AnthroLove. Read the responses below from…
Myths perpetuated by the Ghomeshi trial (re-blog)
(Re-blog from PressProgress.ca) A Toronto court heard final arguments Thursday in the trial of former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi is charged with four counts of sexual…
Meet Your Makers: First Contact Scenarios in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
By Emma Louise Backe Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) was an epic, existential prologue to Alien (1979) over twenty years in the making. The movie expands upon the universe…
Health in a Rwandan Hospital Garden
Hospitals have many tools at their disposal. A garden is not typically one of them (not in the healthcare system I am accustomed to in the United States,…
Achy Breaky Heart
This Valentine’s Day Anthropology News takes an alternative look at contemporary romance. Ilana Gershon shares her reflections on relationships and breakups, based on research for her 2010 book,…
REDUX: From Crisis to the University of Utopia aka MURI!
We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind both ourselves and others: when policy making is…
Why is the “Tears of Joy” emoji everywhere?
While it doesn’t quite seem that we’re ready to chat in all emojis and only emojis, they are serving to modify our responses and add meaning in an…
Why Is the “Tears of Joy” Emoji Everywhere?
Although it doesn’t quite seem that we’re ready to chat in all emojis and only emojis, they are serving to modify our responses and add meaning in an…
Why is this reading so hard?
by Pat Thomson via The Impact Blog patter It’s a fact of scholarly life that some of the reading we do is just plain difficult. Sometimes this is…
I’ve Got the Neanderthal Blues
I have pale skin, red hair, and freckles; my skin shows signs of permanent sun damage even though I’m not yet 40; I’ve had bouts of depression; I…
NEW! — Plácido Muñoz Morán: Writing on “Walking in Barcelona”
The planning of fieldwork in anthropology is always shaped by a combination of expectation, uncertainty, and adventure. Before I began my own fieldwork in Barcelona in 2013, I…
“Creative Connections” with J.R.R. Tolkien: Teaching Anthropology with Imaginative Literature
In Part One of an ongoing series, Leah McCurdy (University of Texas, San Antonio) shares her ideas for integrating imaginative literature into the anthropology classroom. How do J.R.R.…
Future heritage? The ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ approach in Zanzibar and Amsterdam
This is what seems to me the most striking conclusion of the symposium 'Finding Stories: The role of immaterial culture in city planning', organised on 30 January in…
Future heritage? The ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ approach in Zanzibar and Amsterdam
This is what seems to me the most striking conclusion of the symposium 'Finding Stories: The role of immaterial culture in city planning', organised on 30 January in…
CFP: AAA 2016 in Minneapolis
Call for Papers Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Your opportunity to present at the 115th American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN November 16-20, 201…
Affiliation in an age of precarity
If you submit an article to a journal, they always ask you to list your “affiliation.” Typically this means name, academic department, name of college/university, email and mailing…
Heroism and hope – ‘still breathing’
By Saskia Jenelle Maarsen. The other day I was listening to the song ‘Alive’[1] performed by Sia. Sorrow, resilience and fierceness can be heard when Sia screams that…
Black, Feminist and Unfunded: Advice on Fieldwork in New York City
Initially my project was about Afro-Caribbean domestics. Unfortunately I did not get funding and the summer courses I was scheduled to teach were canceled at the last minute.…
CFP: Multispecies panels at the ASA2016 (Durham 4th-7th)
Panels at the ASA 2016 (Durham 4th-7th July) As the deadline for the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists is this Monday (15th February), we’d thought…
Heritage Destruction in Cholula, Mexico
Heavy machinery working next to the Guadalupe psychiatric hospital at the base of the Great Pyramid of Cholula and sanctuary to the Virgen de los Remedios. Photo courtesy…
Changing the Media
Yesterday I did an “Ask Me Anything” with the site Wiselike and got a lot of interesting questions. One of them, on problems with the US media, was…