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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…
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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…
Call for reviews: Recent publications on #Race
It’s a theme that has been the subject of countless books, articles, monologues and debates: race. We’ve touched upon it in many of the reviews posted, but never focused…
Wisseling van de wacht
Door Georgette Veerhuis. StandplaatsWereld mag een nieuw lid verwelkomen in haar redactie en dat – je raadt het misschien al – ben ik! In deze introductieblog vertel ik…
Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist SM?
Hey folks, Kelty here, Savage Minds blogger, demeritus. The AAA is coming up and with it several celebrations of ten years of Savage Minds! It is also about…
Changing Tides: Celebrating Women’s Valor on Veterans Day
This Veterans Day, Americans will celebrate the sacrifice and heroism of those who served in uniform from World War I to the most recent wars in Iraq and…
Zionism, Anti-Blackness, and the Struggle for Palestine
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents Jemima Pierre’s powerful critique of anti-Black violence in Israel and its connections to the oppression of Palestinians…
Two More Views on Anthropologists and Boycotts
Note from the editor: Anthropology News shares here two essays that discuss the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement (BDS) as it relates to current discussions among anthropologists. As a…