It’s not just about Chinese migrant workers
Chinese female migrant workers working in a local reflective vest workshop. Photo by Xinyuan Wang A question always strikes me as I write up ethnography and prepare for…
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Siblings and Disability – Part I
Disrupting Assumptions and Digging Deeper Growing up with a sister who had CHARGE syndrome and was deafblind, there were many times when I felt alone in my experience.…
Autophony: Listening to your eyes move by Anna Harris
This post is part of our new series, The Ethnographic Case. One doctor, seven medical students and an anthropologist crowd into the patient’s very small hospital room. The doctor…
A few comments on ‘Speaking Our Minds’
By Paulo Sousa and Karolina Prochownik We would like first to thank the ICCI team for the invitation to participate in the book club around Thom Scott-Phillips’ Speaking…
Rights and Responsibilities: Anonymous Peer Review
Anonymous peer review has the power to transform. It can turn trust into suspicion; it can be uplifting or leave you without a leg to stand on. It…
Why do children but not apes acquire language?
(This post forms part of our “book club” discussing Thom Scott-Phillip’s latest book with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) In his introduction to Thom Scott-Phillips’s Spea…
Around the Web Digest: Week of June 14
This week either the anthroblogosphere was quiet, or I was too distracted by the hoopla surrounding Rachel Dolezal to keep up… help me out by sending me links…
Exporting livestock
I recently wrote an Op Ed piece on government and industry failure to adequately communicate with New Zealanders about live export. It was published in the Dominion Post,…
Anthro in the news 6/22/15
Hate in America In the wake of the shooting in Charleston, many wonder what drives a person to commit a hate crime and whether hate groups have influence. …
Mass Extinction, Security & Intervention in the Anthropocene
Originally posted on synthetic zero: “No Promises: Mass Extinction, Security and Intervention in the Anthropocene The concept of ‘security’ is paradoxical. It acknowledges the fragility of life and…
Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy: A talk from the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair
Below is a talk I gave at the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair earlier this month, Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy. It’s ‘notes toward’ because it is not…
Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy: A talk from the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair
Below is a talk I gave at the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair earlier this month, Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy. It’s ‘notes toward’ because it is not…
‘Speaking Our Minds’ Book Club: A précis of the book by Thom Scott-Phillips
We are thrilled to open our second book club, devoted to Thom Scott-Phillips’ book, Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it…
Coming to Malaysia – protection, responsibility and labour
The so-called ‘boat people crisis’ in the Andaman Sea has been brewing for a long while. Economic migrants and refugees attempt the perilous sea crossing to reach safety…
“I’m crazy for the moment.” A quest for rituals #1
„-T.: OMG! Doherty claims he’s clean. That’s not Doherty anymore. ”Sex, Drugs and rock’n’roll” prince of the 21th (sic) century is now dead to me. – T. added:…
Anonymity, Ethnography, and Alice Goffman: Welcome, journalists
I think I’ve written and thrown away three separate posts on the Alice Goffman debate trying to find something to say that people will find interesting. I personally don’t find the…
Aid agencies must continue to adapt to changing demands of Ebola crisis
Some of the UK’s leading aid agencies’ prevention work, such as safe burials and awareness raising, in response to the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone is “impressive” but…
Social media and new rewards in learning
Photo by Elisabetta Costa Education has become an important topic of investigation in our comparative research. Last May we also explored and presented our findings in a…
Creating Methods that Speak Across Disciplines in Medical Anthropology by Emily Mendenhall
María and I finished our three hours together with a blood spot and a hug. It was an extra long hug, and I couldn’t be sure if it…
The Character of Sexual Harassment at Cons
By Emma Louise Backe At an event where hundreds of individuals from around the country converge in capes and costumes, the symbols and trappings of heroism, we don’t…
Thinking in an Emergency Or, Free Tents as a Cautionary Tale
The seduction against thinking in an emergency comes, as we have seen, from two sources: first, from a false opposition between thinking and acting; second, from a plausible…
Resolations 2015
“Film can rescue anthropology and deliver it from its confines.” The introduction from film-maker Hugh Brody to this year’s screening of ethnographic projects made by the…