Blog Update and Approaching Youth in Open Anthropology
Been doing some significant blog maintenance, trying to make the site look more like Anthropology 2.015. Finally updated the big list of Anthropology Blogs 2015. Please let me…
Category: English
The Shrine of the Cobbler – Spot Check 27
In which I talk about Gary Con, 330 Center Street, and explain a folktale to Rhialto the Marvelous. Ethan Gilsdorf’s piece on Center Street: http://boingboing.net/2014/07/18/a-visit-to-the-base…
A prize for Edward Snowden
But will he be able to travel to Norway? A few months ago, it was as if everybody wanted to be Charlie (Hebdo). This gesture was laudable enough…
A prize for Edward Snowden
But will he be able to travel to Norway? A few months ago, it was as if everybody wanted to be Charlie (Hebdo). This gesture was laudable enough…
Towards Neuro-Social Science: The Politics and Pragmatics of Collaboration by Tara Mahfoud
Workshop Report: King’s College London, 11 December 2014 Introduction Different forms of exchange between neuroscientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars have been emerging, and these have…
Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Brian Boyd
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present the latest in a series of essays reflecting on the decision to support the boycott until…
Julie Billaud , “Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan”
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) by Julie Billaud is a fascinating account of women and the state and ongoing ‘reconstruction’ projects i… Visit…
Research: Policing in the Netherlands – Ethnic Profiling and ‘Debureaucratization’
Paul Mutsaers (born 1984) is a researcher in the Department of Culture Studies at the Tilburg School of Humanities and at the Police Academy of the Netherlands. In…
An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching
A new article or obvious cognition-and-culture relevance by Michelle Ann Kline on “How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and…
Circulating the state idea and establishing a state system in Palestine #anthrostate
Since 2007, the Palestinian government in the West Bank has been working to build a state while under occupation. Already almost entirely dependent on international aid and shedding…
Quick message to questioners
Thank you so much for your questions, I really do appreciate them and have fun answering them. So much so that I like to spend time researching them…
Social Norms and Cultural Dynamics
A Special Issue on “Social Norms and Cultural Dynamics” of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (Volume 129, July 2015) Edited by Michael Morris, Ying-yi Hong and Chi-Yue Chi…
Why I Love the Popular Culture Association
When I first started my research on role-playing games about seven(!) years ago, it felt a bit lonely. My professors and colleagues were supportive but didn’t really know…
New Book On Revolutionary Egypt (With A Chapter By Yours Truly)
I have a chapter in this new book on the Egyptian revolution. In 2012 I traveled to Oxford University to participate in an interdisciplinary conference on the Egyptian…
Documentary: Possessed – The world of hoarders
POSSESSED from Martin Hampton on Vimeo. See http://www.possessed.me.uk to learn more, see extra material, or buy on DVD. ‘POSSESSED’ enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people…
“[T]he central revelation of anthropology…is the idea that the world in which we live does not exist…”
“[T]he central revelation of anthropology…is the idea that the world in which we live does not exist in some absolute sense, but is just one model of reality,…
themercuryjones: John Waters commencement address RISD 2015. A…
themercuryjones: John Waters commencement address RISD 2015. A message to all of us. This is our world now. Let’s take it by storm.
A methodological case of comparative anthropology
Image Courtesy Quinn Dombrowski (Creative Commons) I hear from colleagues in our department that completing a PhD can often be a solitary experience. Anthropologists tend to accept the fact that socia…
Simon A. Wood and David Harrington Watt, ed.s, “Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History”
In the past few decades, radical fundamentalists have become a major force in the global world. Or at least that what we often here in media outlets or…
Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Rosemary Sayigh
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present Part 2 of our series of essays. This piece by Beirut-based anthropologist Rosemary Sayigh joins earlier…
WHY BRANDS NEED TO DO MORE THAN LISTEN
Listening to consumers in order to ‘get closer’ and understand their needs is a common term that I hear within the worlds of branding, marketing and innovation. This…
“The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.”
“The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.” – Margaret Mead (via literary-ethnography)
Exemplary: The case of the farmer and the turpentine by Annemarie Mol
This post is part of our new series, The Ethnographic Case. In 1976, when I was eighteen and he was eighty-four, my grandfather told me the case of the…
anthro in the news 6/8/15
Porn-driven female genital esthetics The Globe and Mail reported on growing industry in women’s genital esthetics, illustrating its point with some details about genital-area waxing and skin t…