anthro in the news 11/9/2015
Enset is a survivor when other plants die. credit: DW/J. Brewer A traditional African food crop is money in the bank An article Deutsche Welle described the…
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Ethnographic Poetry and the Leaping Bilingual Mind
[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Melisa is Professor of TESOL and World Language Education at…
How creating your own ritual can bring surprisingly deep meaning
New Year’s Eve of 2007 was grim. My husband and I hosted a party of battered friends, most of whom were under the age of 35. Within the…
Crafting Interactive Journalism
Nico Nico Douga commenters share their opinions during a press conference. Photo courtesy Elizabeth Rodwell To understand the current social movements and protest culture in Japan, it is…
The answer to academic publishing challenges is not always open access
You probably have read about ‘Lingua-gate’ by now where the editors of the linguistics academic journal Lingua quit their job and journal in protest over publisher Elsevier’s pricing…
Water roundup: new books & reports on groundwater and security
Over the weekend I mentioned a new (open access) book on Water, Society, and Technology. There are a couple of other new resources to be had, both from…
The here-and-now-after is online: death and afterlife in virtual gaming worlds
By Peter Versteeg “EVE is real. It’s as real as real life,” says a player of the online science fiction game EVE Online on a forum. “I can’t…
“Rogue, Rogue, Rogue…” – Marketscapes, Criminality and Society in Liberia’s Postwar Borderlands, by Richard Akum
“Rogue, rogue, rogue!!” In many communities in Liberia where the state faces security service provision challenges, this chorus whips up the pent-up wrath of violent mobs. The “rogue,…
Crossing Boundaries: Making Sense with the Sense-able by Christy Spackman
A black plastic garbage bag, held in place by masking tape, covered the drinking fountain jutting out from the brick wall. It was an incongruous sight in the…
Dignity Market
Dignity Market is a place that my friends rented so that disabled people living in different collective homes in and around the city can come there to work,…
Chinese Sources on Indonesia – Romanisation!
Perhaps the most important language for working out a narrative history of ancient Indonesia and Malaysia, besides Malay and Javanese, is classical Chinese. It might actually be…
Are there alternatives to traditional academic publishing models ? #OA
As shown by the myriad of events highlighted during International Open Access Week, the amount of talk and initiatives regarding open science and the transition toward an open access…
Notes on the workshop “Theorising Media and Conflict”
Figure 1. Thinking aloud about the volume Theorising Media and Conflict. Photo courtesy of Philipp Budka. Media Anthropology Network European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Department o…
Halloween and the Dead
Last weekend, a friend and I went to the Netherword Haunted House event on Halloween. We went around 6pm, in hopes of avoiding large lines, but we…
Force Multipliers and 21st Century Imperial Warfare: Practice and Propaganda
If the present provides a hint of what it is to come, the nastiest, ugliest, and bloodiest wars to be fought this century will be between states opposed…
Around the Web Digest: Week of November 1
Ben Carson made our week by opining about Egyptology, a topic he has clearly researched extensively. Help us all stay equally informed by sending me links at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com…
Anthropological Visions of Sustainable Futures, 12-14 Feb 2015
Gillian Conquest & Cathryn Townsend PhD Students University College London The issue of sustainability is making us mad, claimed Bruno Latour in the keynote speech that opened Anthropological…
The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now
November 8, 2015—Inspired by the fantastic “Around the Web Digest” series over at Savage Minds, FoodAnthropology will be compiling and sharing what’s piqued our interest in the world of…
The Dismal “Physics” of Blowback and Overstretch
Countering Scientism with Scientism Another sort of “physics” has emerged, right from within the same establishment of military and political institutions that produced “force multipliers…
Community-led Ebola Action (CLEA) and the Social Mobilisation Action Consortium (SMAC)
The Community Led Ebola Action (CLEA) has empowered communities to do their own analysis and take their own action to become Ebola-free in Sierra Leone. CLEA has focused…