Egypt and the Puppet Regime
Politics rules the news cycle on Islam and the Middle East. Given the colonial history of the region, there have been numerous puppet leaders installed or allowed to…
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NEW! — John Levack Drever: Sublime-sound-of-the-one-hand [Ryōan-ji]
My soundscape composition Sublime-sound-of-the-one-hand [Ryōan-ji] sounds out the acoustic ecology of the “quintessential … karesansui dry landscape garden” (UNESCO 1993: 41) Or, put another way, to …
NEW! — Chiara Ambrosio & Caterina Pasqualino: Tending to the Garden
Caterina Pasqualino is an anthropologist whose research within the realm of Gypsy flamenco for the past twenty years has culminated in her seminal book Flamenco Gitan. Her interest…
NEW! — Dave Lewis: “Field Work”
My engagement with the ideas and practices of fieldwork stems from my interest in anthropology and the classification of human “types” through the “science” of anthropometry in the…
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF CA-DDRIG) is coming up on August 17th.* …
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
Facial Paralysis: Somaticizing Frustration in Guatemala by Nicholas Copeland
While conducting ethnographic fieldwork on indigenous political organizing in northwest Guatemala in the mid 2000s, I encountered, quite by accident, an apparent epidemic of Bell’s Palsy—an illness in…
Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that? – words of wisdom from Hayley
Kia ora! Long time no see. We thought we would kick off a new round of blog posts with one of our most popular features ‘anthropology… what kind…
Around the Web Digest: Week of July 26
Happy August readers! Welcome to a month so great they stole a day from another month to make it longer. Let me know about anything cool I should…
A stubborn conundrum
Professor Margaret Lock has published an exhaustive ethnography of Alzheimer disease research in her latest book, The Alzheimer Conundrum. I recently reviewed this book for The Australian Journal of…
I’m in a book
I was looking in Blackwell's bookshop the other day – the big famous bookshop on Broad Street in Oxford – and I came across The Indo-European Controversy…
A photo fell out of a book…
My book group (I say with inner pleasure at finally belonging to one) usually decide on books to read for the coming months by asking for suggestions from…
Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
This Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD) consists of a collection of books, journals and maps related broadly to the Himalayas and its outlying attached ranges including…
Zomerstop
Zoals ieder jaar neemt de redactie van standplaatswereld een paar weken vakantie. Ook het afgelopen academisch jaar werd het wereldnieuws op standplaatswereld belicht vanuit een antropologisch perspec…
Black American Men and Brazilian Women
Any attempt to understand black American men and their relationships with Brazilian women must first consider cultural characteristics and the significance of social values. Now, we are…
In the Journals – July 2015 Part II by Michelle Pentecost
Here’s comes the second round of what you’ll find ‘In the Journals’ from July. For the Special Issue on HIV Criminalisation and Public Health in the latest edition…
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography: literary-ethnography: This is a podcast from a panel session sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology at the 2009 American Anthropological Asso…