Human Economy Book: Economy For and Against Democracy
We are proud to present the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published by Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York. The book…
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Human Economy Book: Economy For and Against Democracy
We are proud to present the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published by Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York. The book…
The Anthropologist- An Interview with Director Seth Kramer
AAA reached out to documentary filmmaker Seth Kramer to discuss his upcoming film The Anthropologist. At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women:…
Anderson Blanton, “Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South”
Anderson Blanton View on Amazon Anderson Blanton‘s Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), illuminates how prayer, faith,…
Rachel Smith: The “hidden abodes” of temporary migration programs
Organizations such as the World Bank have repeated what has been called the “migration development mantra.” In this, remittances appear as a panacea—or “wonder drug” (Green 2015)—for economic…
A Thanksgiving Story: How lice, a see through nighty and a turkey helped grow compassion
In which Bill Rich, our intrepid do-good principal takes PTA mothers into something of a bordello in order to deliver a Thanksgiving Turkey. The PTA mothers emerge better…
Manuela Bojadžijev and Sandro Mezzadra: “Refugee crisis” or crisis of European migration policies?
“The refugee crisis in Europe is fabricated,” Prem Kumar Rajaram writes in the opening post of this series. It is certainly true that the framing of current events…
Links & Contents I Liked 163
Hi all, Let’s start with this week’s highlights for a change: We have a great piece on UNDP’s social media work, a great essay on how ‘Humans of…
Dialogue as Diversion
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this incisive critique of the dialogue approach to ending the Israeli state’s occupation. Fida Adely and Amahl Bishara r…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Allegra TV: Chiatura, my pride
Today Allegra TV features a film that is the first in a series of five ethnographic films produced by Ian Cook , Stephanie Endter, Anna Dziapshipa and Mikheil…
The Erasures of “Thank you for your service”
Here in the US, it’s Veteran’s Day (in Canada it’s Remembrance Day, in England it’s Armistice Day, and it’s worth thinking about what those differences mean). The utteran…
Valle de los caídos
One of my favorite aspects of my study abroad experience in Spain last spring was learning about the recent history of the country, mostly pertaining to Franco’s rule.…
Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and the Movement (Introduction Part I)
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Bianca Williams. She provides the first contribution to the series “Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and the Movement.” Bianca is…
Linguistic and Local Peripherality: The Case of Chalmatians in Greater New Orleans
In Greater New Orleans, there is an enregistered (Agha 2003) dialect of English that sounds similar to New York City English, making it stand out within the linguistic…
Rewind and Fast Forward, Part 4
In Part 3, pattern-seeking was added to the list of fundamentals of an anthropological perspective, following on from Part 2 where task-based communicative competence was proposed. I’m now on the…
The Financialization of Ebola by Susan L. Erikson
Original Ebola Virus Image by Frederick A. Murphy/CDC; downloaded November 3, 2015. Modification to image by Lukas Henne, November 3, 2015. Far away from the frontlines of the…
Notes on the 5th digital ethnography reading session (Murray 2008)
By Julian Waters-Lynch PhD candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group The November session of the Digital Ethnography Reading Group took place…
25. Digital rights activists vs. Trans-Pacific Partnership: a field-theoretical analysis
This is the 25th post in the freedom technologists series Keynote to the conference “Media, culture and change across the Pacific: perspectives from Asia, Oceania and the Americas”…
Java and Mongols in the Medieval European Sources
In 1292, towards the end of his reign, Khubilai Khan sent a fleet of ships from Quanzhou in southern China to invade East Java, then governed…
Java and Mongols in the Medieval European Sources
In 1292, towards the end of his reign, Khubilai Khan sent a fleet of ships from Quanzhou in southern China to invade East Java, then governed…
Java and Mongols in the Medieval European Sources
In 1292, towards the end of his reign, Khubilai Khan sent a fleet of ships from Quanzhou in southern China to invade East Java, then governed…