American Music. Listening with numbers
Thanks to Thomas Ball, I am looking at a wonderful article that uses big data to examine American music over 50 years. Here are a couple of excerpts.…
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Re-doing the cycle: menstrual power protests and design
Menstrual art with raspberry syrup. Elizabeth Tunstall Imagine if men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods. Reads one of the sanitary pads Elone Kastrati…
Re-doing the cycle: menstrual power protests and design
Menstrual art with raspberry syrup. Elizabeth Tunstall Imagine if men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods. Reads one of the sanitary pads Elone Kastrati…
Ritu G. Khanduri, “Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World”
Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2014) is a wonderful piece of visual anthropology by Ritu Gairola Khanduri, which uses…
Announcing ethnoGRAPHIC: A New Series
Graphic Adventures in Anthropology This is the final post in a blog series called Graphic Adventures in Anthropology. For several weeks now, guest contributors have been writing about various…
Aligned Anxieties: Rethinking Critiques of the Internet through the Anxieties of Web Professionals
The following is a paper I gave at the 2015 Theorizing the Web Conference on April 18. Below you will find: my presentation with audio, the video of the…
NEW! — Susana Narotzky: Hope for Change: The Problem with Podemos
Podemos is hailed by many as the only hope in a Spanish landscape devastated by austerity. In the elections to the European parliament (2014), Podemos received 7.97 percent…
18. Political technologists and civil society
By Muzammil M. Hussain This is the eighteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. The following are some passages taken (with permission) from chapter 4 of Hussain, M.…
Why Katie Hopkins is so dangerous for development (journalism)
While I checked the #isoj (International Symposium on Online Journalism) and #ijf15 (International Journalism Festival) hashtags from time to time over the weekend for some interesting, inspiring conf…
Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
By Greg Downey. (5000 words) An Italian study in 2012 found that men’s penises were growing smaller over time — two centimetres lost from grandfather to grandson in…
The Corruption Complex
The cultural logics of corruption and how they can be found in T&T Writing about corruption from the petty to the massive in Africa, anthropologist Jean-Pierre Sardan proposed…
A Tale of Two Chins
Cell phones . . . couches . . . gyms and community centers . . . archaeologists of the future will unearth countless artifacts and buildings that will testify…
The Good Life: What Really Matters | Health and Wellness | Vanderbilt University
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE ON WELLCASTSTed Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why…
The Good Life: What Really Matters | Health and Wellness | Vanderbilt University
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE ON WELLCASTSTed Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why…
The Good Life: What Really Matters | Health and Wellness | Vanderbilt University
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE ON WELLCASTSTed Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why…
The Good Life: What Really Matters | Health and Wellness | Vanderbilt University
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE ON WELLCASTSTed Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why…
Tim Anderson: Theorizing the social musician
Capital’s resilience as technologies and cultures change lies in the systematic priority placed on value development and extraction. However, this does not imply that actors in these systems…
Thom van Dooren, “Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction”
Thom van Dooren’s new book is an absolute must-read. (I was going to qualify that with a “…for anyone who…” and realized that it really needs no qualification.) Flight…
Ana María Ochoa Gautier, “Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia”
Beyond what people say, what their voices sound like matters. Voice, as Ana María Ochoa Gautier argues in this marvelous new book Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century…
Is there more to locking up than personal safety?
Do you lock the door to your home when you’re inside during the day? Or do you leave the door open if you are just running out for…
Burying Minority Istanbul: Last Glimpses of the Cosmopolitan City
The Surp Hovhannes Armenian church, in Istanbul’s Samatya neighborhood. Like many of the city’s churches and synagogues, it is heavily fortified. Photo by Mary D’Ambrosio. April …
Some more zany anthropology stuff
I've been trying to carry on the discussion over at Savage Minds on the post I highlighted the other day, but they don't like you commenting on…
Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan: Copyright, capitalism, and a postcolonial critique of Karnatic music
Karnatic music, or South Indian classical music, is understood as “religious” music, deemed to be “divinely inspired,” and performers are seen as embodying the divine. Because of its…