Originally posted on Urbane Adventurer: Amiskwacî:by Zoe Todd, PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen Personal paradigm shifts have a way of sneaking up on you. It started,…
Social media has made digital voyeurism the norm, but some of us are more inclined to pursue online surveillance than others — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
At work I’m not employed as an anthropologist. Not directly anyway; my skills in research and higher education certainly helped…
Hansjörg Dilger, Dominik Mattes, Michael Knipper Eingangsbereich Hospital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali | 2010 Hansjörg Dilger Vor einem Jahr erschienen die ersten Beiträge des Blogs…
Last 11 November, Angola celebrated forty years of independence—a memorable date. However, these celebrations have been overshadowed by a movement of contestation that has turned a spotlight on…
If you can rely on God with due reliance, He will provide you with sustenance in such a manner as He provides birds and beasts. (A saying of the…
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Stuart McLean as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Stuart is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He…
[The following is an invited post by Scott Simon. Scott is Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Having conducted…
Introduction A U.S. public discourse of addiction as a disabling psychiatric condition (as opposed to a moral flaw or social deviancy) was codified into Social Security policy in…
On refugee-phobia Pilapa Esara Carroll, associate professor of anthropology at the College at Brockport of the State University of New York, co-authored an op-ed in the Democrat and…
Haidy Geismar, UCL The movement towards open access has continued to gain momentum in the social sciences, and in anthropology, with important new journals such as Hau;…
sebastiendubey.com by Lucrezia Giordano Home is the private space par excellence. It is a place where people can develop their own micro-society, based on the relationship with a…
In recent years, prominent voices in the public sphere have drawn an analogy between climate change and warfare. This has led, for example, to calls for massive, coordinated…
View on Amazon The new edited volume by Francesca Bray, Peter Coclanis, Edda Fields-Black and Dagmar Schafer is a wonderfully interdisciplinary global history of rice, rooted in specific local cases,…
In this blog post I will take a look to the quantitative data from my fieldwork, discussing some findings from a questionnaire I conducted with students in their…
Dr Samuel Randalls Department of Geography University College London The notion that climate change should invoke security-laced rhetoric and a military-style response is not new (de Goede and…
Professor Merrill Singer Department of Anthropology University of Connecticut Asserting the Manhattan Project, the effort that developed the first nuclear weapons, as a model for addressing global cli…
Professor James Fairhead Department of Anthropology University of Sussex As a coalition builds to escalate war in Syria and neighbours, several of our princes and politicians have been…
Professor Hans A Baer School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne Various scholars and climate activists have proposed a framework for climate change campaigning based on…
Professor Dominic Boyer Director, CENHS, Rice University http://culturesofenergy.org/ Even if one were the sort who believed that war solved anything, there would still be the issue of identifying…
On Sunday 7 July 2015, the Cameroon Radio and Television in its weekly Sunday Program, Cameroon Calling, broadcasted what shocked the public audience. It had chosen as its…
door Dirk de Hoog De faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen dreigt flink te moeten bezuinigen en dus ook de afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie. Sommige mensen vrezen zelfs dat die…