Voltaire on Tolerance
The author of Candide knew that this was not the best of all possible worlds. But Voltaire has sound advice about the importance of tolerance, written over two…
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In the Journals, July 2015—Part I by Jason Alley
Here is the first of two postings for this month’s “In the Journals,” featuring a lively collection of summer articles. Happy reading/browsing/downloading! Science, Technolog…
Sorry to bother, but what is the difference between social and cultural anthropology? Is mythology/religion/folklore included in either of them? At what point is something established as a culture?
Hello there. There may be other attitudes to this, but actually the main difference between the two is their origins. Cultural anthropology originated in North America, while Social…
Image + Text – a new series by Juliet McMullin
from Judith Vanistendael, When David Lost His Voice. (London: Self Made Hero Press, 2012). Comics and graphic narratives have grown in popularity over the past few decades, not…
The Many Roles of Popular Culture in Therapy
By Peter Olthoff As many therapists will tell you, if you cannot build rapport with the client, if you cannot establish a solid therapeutic relationship, then you simply…
Grote demonstratie voor het Griekse parlementsgebouw
Van onze correspondent uit Athene Op de avond van de dag dat Griekenland met de overige EU landen een akkoord sloot over nieuwe leningen in ruil voor vergaande…
“42 steps.” SMS poetry from the school corridor
In October 2014 I joined a school project that was about emphasizing the importance of poetry. Different student groups undertook the opportunity to reinterpret traditional poems via videos…
What the German government thinks a “Strategic Partnership for a ‘Digital Africa’” should look like
It was coincidence that the #HackingTeam story broke while I was drafting this post.In one way, these two posts are very much unrelated, but in other ways there…
No Judgments: Fieldwork on the Spectrum by Faye Ginsburg
Spectrum:a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence. (Dictionary.com) The presence of disabili…
State of the art research on social behavior
In Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2015, 3, a really useful open access collection of review papers on state of the art research on social behavior edited by…
Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography (book review)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen. 2015. Fredrick Barth: An Intellectual Biography. London: Pluto Press. Thomas Hylland Eriksen has a well-earned reputation for writing good, short books on large, intractable to…
The Cult’s Eye View: On ‘The Professor Is In’
My latest for the Chronicle is on “The Professor Is In”, a career counseling service that paradoxically highlights the worst elements of academia while encouraging people to join…
An Addendum by Patricia Sunderland: Witnessing and Speaking Charleston
On the evening of June 17th, the murder of nine African Americans took place at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. My Rachel Dolezal post was…
everydayhybridity: For those of you interested in digital…
everydayhybridity: For those of you interested in digital sociology/Anthropology Routledge is offering free online access to a host of journal articles relevant. These are organised into categories p…
Mitch Henriquez: Death by cop in the epicenter of global justice – and the virtues of (hashtag) activism
The Editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome Paul Mutsaers with the latest entry in our ongoing Forum, #Ferguson and Elsewhere He had come to the Netherlands…
Tim Ingold on the “correspondence of lives”
Professor Tim Ingold from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, gave a lecture at the University of Konstanz, Germany on June 17, 2015. Ingold was invited to give a…
Why does everything look the same?
Wooden floors. Open concept. Giant kitchen islands. Marble countertops. Large windows. High ceilings. Walk-in closets. Space for entertaining. Stainless steel appliances. These are some of the… — …
CFP for a Special Issue: Thinking through police, producing theory: the new anthropology of police as mode of critical thought
Abstracts are currently being solicited for a special issue of the journal Theoretical Criminology on the theme “the new anthropology of police as a mode of critical thought”…
Visual Turn II: Teaching to Take Stock
Encounters with art and design by an anthropologist and curious non-expert in visual culture. Earlier this year I was reading the Internet and came across Duke University Press’…
How to make a “vulnerable population” by Laura Stark
“They used my ass and took advantage of me.” This was the story of Eddie Flowers, a former drug addict used in LSD experiments during the 1950s. Leaning…
Poignant Pasts and Uncertain Futures in the Greek Crisis: Ethnographic Snippets from ATM Queues
July 2nd 2015, it is 4.30pm and the temperature is touching 40’c. I am standing in a queue of some twenty-five people outside Ethniki Bank in central Trikala,…