Category: English
Around the Web Digest: Week of November 15
Forgive the lateness, dear readers… AAA fatigue is real. Help me out by sending me links you want featured here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. This post by a linguist in…
Swamp Dialogues: Filming Ethnography by Ildikó Zonga Plájás
In recent anthropological film practice we see a shift from established visual ethnographic paradigms focused on discursive representation (Crawford 1992), towards the realm of interdisciplinary coope…
anthro in the news 11/23/2015
As of November 21, Brussels was on high alert for a possible terrorist attack. source: Smirnoff, Creative Commons What does ISIS want? CBS (Minnesota) carried a brief…
NEW! — Sandy Smith-Nonini: Petrodollar financialization, the state, and fictive production
This article argues that the oil price shocks of the 1970s triggered a wave of global financialization led by Western banks and the US State that disconnected actual…
The Ruination of Written Words
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Gastón Gordillo as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Gastón is Acting Director of the Peter Wall…
CFP: Animals Under Capitalism, University of Bristol, UK
The University of Bristol invites submissions for a 1-day conference to be held on May 25, 2016, on the subject of ‘Animals under Capitalism: Art and Politics’. The…
#Review: The Gloss of Harmony. The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with, and their ‘stakeholders’ from…
AAA2015 research
I didn’t make it to AAA2015, but I wanted to make sure I noted sessions of interest so I can keep an eye out for people, publications, etc.…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: November 22 Edition
November 22, 2015: There’s good news for FoodAnthropology readers this week: it was a great week for internet food reads. Here’s a round of up what captivated FoodAnthropology…
Learning About Police Culture
how might the police and anthropologists collaborate? Those traditional, far-away and so-called exotic groups anthropologists once studied – and “othered” – at the …
Learning About Police Culture
how might the police and anthropologists collaborate? Those traditional, far-away and so-called exotic groups anthropologists once studied – and “othered” – at the …
Learning About Police Culture
how might the police and anthropologists collaborate? Those traditional, far-away and so-called exotic groups anthropologists once studied – and “othered” – at the …
Our language of refusal reveals a shifting stance on prejudice
The ways in which we’re speaking out against Syrian refugees indicates that we are redefining prejudicial discourse. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Immortality: who needs it?
Each day, unbelievable amounts of human energy are channeled into prolonging life. We pour millions of dollars and unending hours into seeking medial advents that may fend off…
Joint PhD in the Cognitive Science of Religion (2016-17 Studentship)
The Institute of Cognition and Culture (ICC) is offering a DEL Studentship for the Doctoral programme in the Cognitive the Science of Religion that has been established by…
Terror in France and ISIS’ Revolution: Anthropologists try to see the whole picture
(draft, post in progress) More surveillance, more bombs, more border controls, less democracy, less freedom: Europe is reacting hysterically after the deadly terror attacks in Paris one week…
Terror in France and ISIS’ Revolution: Anthropologists try to see the whole picture
(draft, post in progress) More surveillance, more bombs, more border controls, less democracy, less freedom: Europe is reacting hysterically after the deadly terror attacks in Paris one week…
Egypt: Open access to online scientific journals, ebooks and encyclopedias for everybody in the whole country
It does not happen often that there a good news from Egypt where I am still living. This news here, although nearly too good to be true, is…
Egypt: Open access to online scientific journals, ebooks and encyclopedias for everybody in the whole country
It does not happen often that there a good news from Egypt where I am still living. This news here, although nearly too good to be true, is…
A Day of Action: Justice for Black Women and Girls on May 21st, 2015
[Have a powerful Trans Day of Resilience! Savage Minds is pleased to present the fourth essay in the series “Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Summer Roundup: Features by Deanna Day
This Friday, we are rounding up a set of feature essays that were published on Somatosphere over the summer. Unlike our previous summer roundups, which have focused on…