Category: English
Halal Bacon
If you are strict about halal foods or kosher foods, pork is probably not on your normal grocery shopping list. But there is something about the taste of…
In Defense of Ethnography
In these troubled times in which inhumane global forces threaten our future, we need that ethnographic depth of understanding both to recognize our human fragility and marvel at…
In Defense of Ethnography
In these troubled times in which inhumane global forces threaten our future, we need that ethnographic depth of understanding both to recognize our human fragility and marvel at…
A Silent Crisis: Race, Disability, and Health Disparities in the U.S.
I recently gave a talk on race, disability, and health disparities at the CEDD 2015 Cross-Systems Summit in Austin. In an effort to ensure that my work is…
The social costs of export agriculture in San Quintin, Baja California–An Interview with Christian Zlolniski
Workers in the fields, San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico. Image courtesy of Christian Zlolniski. Earlier this month I had the opportunity to interview Christian Zlolniski about his ongoing…
In Defense of Ethnography
As students and faculty head back to college campuses to begin a new academic year, there has been a steady stream of uninformed criticism of the practice of…
anthro in the news 8/24/15
Islamic State vision driven by dreams An article in the Independent (U.K.) draws on a recent paper by Durham University emeritus reader in anthropology Iain Edgar regarding the role…
Community Vitality and Sustainability Depend in Part on Its Equitable Walkability
As I read the article linked to below, as I noticed it weaving in a thread of the American myth of the individual coupled with the image of freedom, adventure…
Community Vitality and Sustainability Depend in Part on Its Equitable Walkability
As I read the article linked to below, as I noticed it weaving in a thread of the American myth of the individual coupled with the image of freedom, adventure…
Community Vitality and Sustainability Depend in Part on Its Equitable Walkability
As I read the article linked to below, as I noticed it weaving in a thread of the American myth of the individual coupled with the image of freedom, adventure…
Community Vitality and Sustainability Depend in Part on Its Equitable Walkability
As I read the article linked to below, as I noticed it weaving in a thread of the American myth of the individual coupled with the image of freedom, adventure…
Forget the outrage: Stop signing away your author rights to corporations.
Earlier this summer here at the Savage Minds editorial offices, we had a temporary informational mishap that led some of our staff to believe that the mega-publisher Elsevier…
Applied Careers for Anthropologists: Job Search Strategies and Tips at the AAA Annual Meeting
Dr. Fatimah Williams Castro gives AAA blog readers the inside scoop on her professional development workshop at the 2015 Annual Meeting. NAPA Workshop: Applied Careers for Anthropologists: Job Search…
Savage Minds Reader Survey Results Part 2: Education, Work & Debt
Earlier this year we conducted the Savage Minds Reader Survey. Kerim described some of the demographic results in this post. Here I’ll provide a very brief recap. The…
Your accent is we-ahd
I grew up a Navy brat, bouncing from coast to coast in the U.S. until the 11th grade, when I hunkered down in the South for more than…
So What Exactly is ANTHROPOLOGY?
I had no idea what anthropology was when I began college, I just knew I loved the course titles. “Language and Culture”. “Gender, Sex, and Sexuality”. “Religion and…
Asking Gramsci’s question #crisis
Some object to the word ‘crisis’. However, it is useful for describing the sense that what seemed to be an understandable present and a plausible future have become…
Xenophobia and Nativism
New paper published! Xenophobia and Nativism Hervik, Peter. 2015. ”Xenophobia and Nativism. In “International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Wright, James D. (editor-in-ch…
Ny artikel: “Race, ”race”, racialisering, racisme og nyracisme”
Studiet af racisme og racialisering i Danmark er komplekst og behæftet med stærke moralske og politiske interesser og følelser. Ofte omtales racisme og race uden reference til den…
Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 1
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You…
Last day in Paris (2011)
I’m not sure whether this little descriptive passage from my fieldnotes will ever have much use in academic discourse, but it does remind me quite vividly of urban space in my fieldsite.…
New book – After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jedediah Purdy
Interesting new title from Harvard University Press can be found here: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world…