Reckonings: Participant-Observation from a Distance
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Sienna Craig. I am going to use this space as a Savage Minds guest to sort through some of the images, questions, and…
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The Limits of the Virtuoso
Via @jbouie Pierre Bourdieu, in his famous critique of structuralism from Outline of a Theory of Practice, says: only a virtuoso with a perfect command of his “art…
My Airbnb home is my market
Where better to carry out an interview about Airbnb than in the lobby of a hotel? Sarah* and I met a couple of weeks after I posted my…
What’s our conclusion? Introducing ‘scalable sociality’
Scalable Sociality Right now we are finishing the last of our eleven volumes from this project, a book which will be called How the World Changed Social Media.…
#Review: Every Twelve Seconds. Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Long-term vegetarian (and member of The Beatles) Paul McCartney famously observed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all become vegetarians. Part of the motivation behind Timothy…
After knocking: Picturing youth itineraries
Look at me and explain „who do you want to be in ten years?”. „I want to be a famous professor, living abroad. I want to publish a…
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Is an academic boycott effective?
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present this final essay in a series dedicated to the issue of the boycott. Previous essays by…
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good. So it…
Creating In/Abilities for Eating by Dikaios Sakellariou
I am lying in bed. It is 4 am. The TV is flickering. I am listening for it, I am waiting for it. Next to me a gentle…
Unravelling Goliath
The editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Christopher Gaffney with a commentary on the current crisis at FIFA and its implications “Unfair Players” Photo by Christopher Gaffney CC BY-NC-PSA 4….
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
CFP: Dirty business: economies of the used, the used up, and the useless // SES 2015
Our panel for the annual meeting of the Swiss Ethnological Society will be structured around three questions: What paths do discards take? What factors and mechanisms account for…
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
The limits of naivety for the study of money
What would happen if anthropologists, for some limited purposes, abolished the division between academic writing and journalism that Mauss himself observed and that has prevented us from grasping…
REDUX: 10 Tips for Surviving Fieldwork & Blogging! #Anthroadvice
Today’s post was originally published on June 3rd, 2014, as part of last summer’s fieldwork thread. Next week we’re sharing some of the fruits of our recent call…