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AVMOFA: University Bucket

Universities have a long history. Buckets even longer. Nevertheless, perhaps not many times in the past have universities and buckets crossed each other’s paths. This is a story…

Post date 26th June 2015
Post author By Sonja Trifuljesko

How Information Builds a Community

Social media has changed the way we access and process local news. It empowers individuals to share what they know, which can be both good and bad as…

Post date 26th June 2015
Post author By Scientific American Blog: Anthropology in Practice

Committing Crimes during Fieldwork: Ethics, Ethnography, and “On The Run”

At this point the debate about Alice Goffman’s book On The Run looks something like this: Goffman writes a successful ethnography. Journalists are peeved that Goffman followed social science …

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By Rex

Personal and public aesthetics: What I learned from my own visceral reactions in the field

Photo by Nell Hayes At first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but over the first several months in my fieldsite in northern Chile I…

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By ucsanha

Photography and the humanity of the moment – final year student projects

Robert Frank commented that ‘photography must contain the humanity of the moment.’ What better combination then than photography and anthropology? In their final term year some visual anth…

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By CarolineB

Elizabeth Lunbeck’s The Americanization of Narcissism by Jonathan Sadowsky

The The Americanization of Narcissism Harvard University Press, 2014, 384 pages. Historians have not handled psychoanalysis very well. The clumsy reductionism of much of the psychohistory movement is…

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By Jonathan Sadowsky

Review of The Logic of Connective Action by Bennett and Segerberg

The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics. W.L. Bennett and A. Segerberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 240 pp. John Postill RMIT…

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By John Postill

Alignments across disciplines

By Ira Noveck & Tiffany Morisseau (This post forms part of our “book club” discussing Thom Scott-Phillip’s latest book with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) This book …

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By International Cognition and Culture Institute

#Review: Sing the Rage. Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

Anger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate the human rights…

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By Gabrielle Toborg

Welcome new blogger Uzma Rizvi!

Savage Minds has long been looking for an archaeologist whose writing would mesh well with our own (predominantly cultural anthropological) sensibility, and so when Uzma Rizvi guest blogged…

Post date 25th June 2015
Post author By Kerim

The Ethics of Ethnography, and Alice Goffman’s Ethnography about Crime in Philadelphia

Post date 24th June 2015
Post author By Tony

Slotwoord ABv-dag: Antropologie die ertoe doet

Op 29 mei vond in het Museum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden de jaarlijkse “Dag van de Antropologie” plaats, georganiseerd door de Antropologen Beroepsvereniging (ABv). De thema’s van de…

Post date 24th June 2015
Post author By standplaatswereld

Islamic Africa: New Brill Journal

Islamic Africa is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal published online and in print. Incorporating the journal Sudanic Africa, Islamic Africa publishes original research concerning I…

Post date 24th June 2015
Post author By tabsir

Combinatoriality and codes

I read this book as part of an interdisciplinary reading group at Cardiff. As we found, there’s a lot to agree with in the book, but the commentary…

Post date 24th June 2015
Post author By Liz Irvine

Criminal Negligence?

By Josh Lepawsky, Joshua Goldstein, and Yvan Schulz On 12 May 2015 the United Nations Environmental Program announced the release of a new report called Waste Crime –…

Post date 24th June 2015
Post author By guestauth0r

The moment after anticipation #2

(*This paper is part of a larger place mapping project.) The least preferred places in Riga tended to be mentioned by teens where they had concerns about their…

Post date 24th June 2015
Post author By csabaracs