Category: English
What really happened on Thanksgiving
(This is the second annual posting of a short, edited snippet of pages 55-66 of Charles Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. In it Mann describes the history of…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
#Review: Boyhood. Twelve Years on Film
“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei, 104). It is nearly impossible, in writing this…
Getting Free in Cleveland
[Savage Minds is pleased to present the last essay in the series “Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and the Movement.” In the past week, events…
Combatting ISIS/Daesh
Clamping down with law and order will not be enough by Thomas Piketty, Le blog de Thomas Piketty, Le Monde online, November 24, 2015 Confronted with terrorism, the…
Post-Script, Still Longer Shadows: Guillaume Lachenal on “In the Shadow of Ebola” by Guillaume Lachenal
This commentary on Gregg Mitman and Sarita Siegel’s In the Shadow of Ebola is intended as a post-script to the forum on the film which appeared earlier this…
A Mighty Purpose (book review)
There is a book (and review) for every season and Adam Fifield’s ‘A Mighty Purpose-How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children’ is a perfect match…
Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media
The Why We Post project is now moving into its final stages at full speed, gearing up for our public launch on February 29th 2016. On this…
Painting Anthropology
My skills as a portrait painter provide me with a helpful ethnographic way of getting to know my “informants” during fieldwork. I invite people to pose for a…
Integrating Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities in the Food Systems Program at the University of Vermont
Today, we will hear from Dr. Amy Trubek, Associate Professor of Nutrition & Food Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences discussing University of Vermont’s Food Systems…
Post Gezi Sensibilities and the Recent Turkish Elections
In Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, Jenny White (2014:198) argues, “In the Gezi clashes, a new generation of citizens, whose expectations have been shaped by twenty-first-century global…
NEW! — Jan Newberry: Restating the case: The social reproduction of care labor
Ever felt like the best conversation at the party is happening in the next room? When I did my field research in an urban neighborhood in Java some…
America’s water cure towns
This is a very interesting piece from citylab, worth checking into if you find previous ways of thinking about human-water (and city!) relationships intriguing.
#Review: Migrants in Translation. Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Contemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly with how to address issues of integration and…
Marcia C. Inhorn, “The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East”
Marcia C. Inhorn View on Amazon Winner of the 2015 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, and the American Anthropological Association Winner of…
What Happened at #AAA2015: The Good, The Bad, and the Bibs
Last week, Denver welcomed about five thousand anthropologists to its Gilded Age (and Gilded Age revival) downtown for the massive anthropological blowout that was the Annual Meeting of…
Post #AAA2015
I’m still applying moisturizer three times a day to rehydrate after the arid Denver conditions. It was an energizing, exhausting, and momentous #AAA2015 as members voted overwhelmingly in…
Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper Award to Bryden and Mittenzwei on Academic Freedom
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper Award to Bryden and Mittenzwei on Academic Freedom
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
Sociologia Ruralis Best Paper Award to Bryden and Mittenzwei on Academic Freedom
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…