Transience and immigration in the Svalbard Archipelago
ArcticAnthropology is proud to present a guest blog from Ben Corwin on life, migration and relation to the environment on one of the Arctic’s northernmost human settlements: Svalbard.…
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Hi all, New week, fresh linkage! ‘Yoga is helping to end poverty in Africa‘-you, I & Jeff Sachs knew it all along! But there are better stories from…
15. Location technologists: the politics of digital media in a ‘special region’ of Indonesia
Chapter proposal to Location Technologies in International Context, Rowan Wilken (Swinburne Uni of Tech), Gerard Goggin (U of Sydney) & Heather Horst (RMIT), eds. John Postill RMIT University…
The Happiness Scam
The happiness industry, positive psychology and dead-end jobs. How happiness became a scam to hide social inequality and a global economy on a road to destruction Whether it’s…
Anthropology for economists
Do economists read anthropology? Certainly David Graeber’s and Gillian Tett’s books have gained traction. Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” ranks at #19 in Amazon&…
EPIC 2015 Call for Papers (deadline March 17th)
(Click here to go straight to the official EPIC Call for Papers) EPIC2015 will cross the equator to celebrate our 10th anniversary, and our theme Building Bridges reflects…
Third Wave Coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers
Americans are drinking much less coffee than they did in the 1940s and 1950s — down by almost half from a peak in 1946. And such changing trends…
Third Wave Coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers
Americans are drinking much less coffee than they did in the 1940s and 1950s — down by almost half from a peak in 1946. And such changing trends…
Third Wave Coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers
Americans are drinking much less coffee than they did in the 1940s and 1950s — down by almost half from a peak in 1946. And such changing trends…
Third Wave Coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers
Americans are drinking much less coffee than they did in the 1940s and 1950s — down by almost half from a peak in 1946. And such changing trends…
Webinar Wednesday March 18: Applied Anthropology in the National Parks
As the National Park Service (NPS) approaches its centennial in 2016, the NPS Cultural Anthropology and Archeology Programs continue to engage in research with deep roots in communities…
Why I promote book reviews
Book reviews are time consuming and are usually read and shared less than other blog content-so why bother with them? Book reviews have been one pillar of my…
Astuti and Bloch on “Incest, intentionality, and morality”
A thought-provoking article by Rita Astuti and Maurice Bloch, “The causal cognition of wrong doing: incest, intentionality and morality,” in Frontiers in Psychology, 18 February 2015. From the…
The Moment of Clarity
The book’s first hundred pages present a compelling criticism of “default thinking” and excavate the philosophical and methodological foundations of the author’s alternative,…
New Intern at Arctic Centre Rovaniemi
Léon Fuchs, from Versailles My name is Léon Fuchs and I will soon be 24 years old. I am a new intern at the Arctic Centre and I…
The mindless knowledge economy
The creative knowledge worker One of the ideas that underlies the promotion of new technologies is that automation liberates people from manual, repetitive, and boring jobs. With the…
Using Evernote for ethnographic fieldnotes
A while ago I wrote about the fieldnote template I used in MS Word for my PhD research. Now that I’m starting some new projects it’s the perfect…
What is Anthropology?
It’s a question I’ve been asked to ponder in a strangely wide variety of situations lately. Teaching high school Seniors, Juniors, two Sophomores, and 8th graders mathematics this…
Donna J. Drucker, “The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge”
Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of…
Why do reindeer nomads migrate at night in spring?
Anybody who has moved on a sledge, or even snowmobile, in spring in the Arctic, knows the answer to that question. Perfect migration condition in spring: why burn…
The competing truths about the dying fish in Gladstone harbor
"Who pays for your research? Who benefits from a particular version of reality? These questions should be raised time and again to get a better vantage-point for acting…
The competing truths about the dying fish in Gladstone harbor
"Who pays for your research? Who benefits from a particular version of reality? These questions should be raised time and again to get a better vantage-point for acting…