Digital Deities?
A new study by economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tells us that Internet searches for “God” are way down. He notes that this is true even in cases of catastrophe:…
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September 19th: International “Talk like a Pirate Day” – Who Knew?
Our calendars are full of special weeks and days to memorialise, commemorate and bring attention to the plight of people with special needs, those underserved, forgotten, marginalised and…
“Estranged Bodies: Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Imaginary” – Special Issue of Body & Society by Anna Zogas
In addition to what’s “In the Journals” so far, and the inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, September brings us a special issue of Body & Society edited…
What’s special about social media in small places?
‘Normal friend: ‘Wow, how beautiful you are!’ / Best friend: It’s Shrek on the phone, says he wants his face back.’ Meme shared on Facebook by Comix From…
Imploding Families
Arriving at work today I was met by my coworker who wanted to talk. We’ve worked together for about three years and I see her when she comes…
In the Journals, September 2015 (Part 1) by Anna Zogas
Here is the first round of “In the Journals” for September. Happy autumn reading! American Anthropologist Commitments of Debt: Temporality and the Meanings of Aid Work in a…
Anthropologies #21: The Challenge of Motivated Reasoning: Science, Education, and Changing Climates
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Next up we have an essay about climate change and education from Joseph Henderson and David…
Applying, Designing, and Bringing Anthropology to the Public – This Anthro Life
Welcome back listeners new and old to the new and exciting season of This Anthropological Life! This season we at TAL have a lot of new content and…
Europa kan vluchtelingen goed gebruiken
door Erik van Ommering Europa kan gemakkelijk oorlogsvluchtelingen opvangen. Niet piepen dus, maar gewoon: welkom zeggen, vindt promovendus Erik van Ommering. Het groeiende aantal vluchtelingen dat N…
A Geek Anthropologist’s First Time: A MMORPG Experience
Elder Scrolls Screenshot Photo by Author By Rayna Elizabeth Elder Scrolls takes place in the world of Tamriel. Published by Bethesda (who also develops Fallout and Dishonored), the…
Mahmoud Mamdani – Settler colonialism: then and now
Mahmoud Mamdani’s new article Settler Colonialism: then and now, is now out in Critical Inquiry, which builds on talks like this one at Princeton (which I could not…
The Story of Seething & being a little bit Stupid
David Jeevendrampillai, UCL Anthropology Image 1: The Story of Seething Exhibition. Jan – May 2015. UCL Anthropology (Photo Credit: Timothy Carroll). UCL promotes itself as a leading global…
Keep It Clean Day! Your contribution to a cleaner ocean
Plastic Soup and The Ocean Cleanup In 1997 Charles Moore “discovered” the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean: large areas in the ocean…
Notes on the third digital ethnography reading session
by Will Balmford PhD Candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG) This session we discussed Helen Kennedy’s 2003 article Technobiography: Rese…
Cambridge Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference
The one-day Cambridge Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on Friday 9 October 2015. Programme and registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26237. The Moral Psychology…
Life After #Fieldwork: of leaving the field, entering liminality and relocating the mind #fieldnotes
The bulky and weirdly shaped package I hold in my hands weighs nearly 20 pounds. 20 pounds of memories materialize in a final leaving present that now makes…
Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference final summary
Final summary of the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference. Please read on… In a panel on Power, Partnerships and Participation, Elan Lazuardi presented her work with Outreach Workers in 3 cities in…
Teaching Anthropology of/through Games, Part 2
By Krista Harper with Sam Anderson In my last blog post, I described my recent course on “Anthropology of/through Games.” Students in the class played, analyzed, and designed…
Universit(ar)y journeys: an ethnographic play
Last year Mick Taussig gave a short course to doctoral students at the University of Helsinki on the relation between research and writing. Ethnography, he repeated several times…
What articles from AAA would you like to see opened on Race and Racism?
With our inaugural co-edited issue on Hello Anthropocene: Climate Change and Anthropology closing back up after six months of free access (and with thanks to Ryan Anderson for…
Bridging the Divide Between Ethnic Studies and Anthropology
When I was hired as assistant professor and program head at Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) in August 2014, I encountered a beleaguered, yet not quite…
References Needed! #Crowdsourcing
Mark Goodale is currently writing Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction for NYU Press. The manuscript is due at the end of December 2015. One of the ideas…
Brett Hendrickson, “Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo”
Brett Hendrickson View on Amazon Mexican American religious healing – often called curanderismo – is a vital component of life in the US-Mexican borderlands. In his book Border Medicine:…