Trump protests and media exploitation
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about anti-Trump protests and the potential danger of cable news exploitation as they become increasingly violent. An excerpt: Mr. Trump’s seeming…
Category: English
Affect, Attention, and Ethnographic Research: Thoughts on Mental Health in the Field
This year has seen some encouraging openings in a much-needed conversation on academia and mental health (for example: The Guardian, Chronicle Vitae, The Professor is In). Many of…
The latest from Cultural Survival
Reprinted from Cultural Survival Source: Cultural Survival Indigenous community radio stations in Guatemala have found themselves in the midst of a hopeful period regarding their legalizations, as the…
Lifting the Emotional Embargo With Cuba
The June heat was so intense, the air so still, that the open balcony doors offered little relief. Anthropologist Ruth Behar felt her clothes sticking as she looked…
Tanya Cassidy’s and Abdullahi El Tom’s “Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations” by Ben Kasstan
Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom (editors) Bloomsbury, 2015, 255 pages Ethnographies of Breastfeeding offers a timely insi…
Anything but selfies
In every respect we are delighted with the launch of our project. We now engage in daily interaction with thirteen thousand students registered on our FutureLearn course, plus 1,300…
Oekraïne, nationalisme en (anti)democratie: stem niet op 6 april!
Door Thijl Sunier Op 6 april mogen we in een referendum stemmen over een associatieverdrag van de EU met Oekraïne. Ik ben een voorstander van dit associatie-verdrag, maar…
Human Smugglers Roundtable: parsing smuggling from trafficking
In the second of three questions, human smuggling experts share their views on what actually constitutes the difference between human smuggling and trafficking. They all agree that the…
Collaborative PhD Studentship – Workplace Design in the Digital Age
UCL Department Anthropology Project Workplace Design in the Digital Age Duration of studentship 3.5 years (to start 01 Oc…
The Great Chocolate Migration
Last fall, I was sipping Mexican chocolate at a chic little Singapore café. It was a local branch of a New York–based chain, which was started in Israel…
OTG 4: A Closer Look at Indianapolis
I cannot count how many times I’ve been out of state and people have been flabbergasted that I’m from Indianapolis, Indiana. Initially, this is because the idea of…
CFP: Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment
Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment, due by May 15, 2016. This volume will explore the intersection between transgender studies…
Faded Paint and Yellowed Photos: On, Image, Inspiration, and Memory with Javier Urcid
How does a camera and a deep sense of curiosity lead to a lifetime of archaeological research on ancient peoples, their symbols, art, and writing? Ryan and Aneil…
Adulting: Because Being a Grownup Should Only Be a Temporary Affliction
I remember being a kid trying to figure out what set adults apart from the rest of the masses of “watery moles” (Thanks, Florence King, for that reference…
Slow Fish Report: On Value Chains, the Privatization of the Seas, and the Food Movement
David Beriss University of New Orleans Last month I wrote about the existence of the food movement, which a Washington Post writer had suggested did not really exist.…
GW event on Tibet
Pedagogy in Religious Studies in Contemporary Tibet: The Kagyu Tradition at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy When: Monday, March 28, 4pm-5:30pm Who: Tibet Governance Project Where: Elliott School of Inter…
anthro in the news 3/28/16
Children playing in tailings downstream from the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea, 2009. Source: Brent Stirton/Getty Images One of the worst disasters CBC radio (Canada) presented…
What’s Fueling “The Bern?” The Secret Every Marketer Should Know
Yet another view into the world of a “professional” narcissistic anthropologist at work. Posted this morning on the company site / linkedin. On a side note, I was…
The filmmaking case: the ethics of (mis)representation by Anna Wilking
As a visual anthropologist, I went to the field with the intent of making a documentary film about one of my informants, while also conducting ethnographic research with…
Film Screening: The Swap
El Cambalache, a moneyless economy project in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, is screening a documentary we created!
Trolling @AmericanAnthro; PLUS: Savage Minds is Seeking Social Media Manager!
Saturday morning, the American Anthropological Association celebrated its 114th birthday. Sort of. That morning, @AmericanAnthro tweeted something along the lines of: “Today is AAA’s 114th birthday! T…
Round Table: Responses by Milena Belloni
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…
Round Table: Responses by Theodore Baird
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperati…