The competing truths about the dying fish in Gladstone harbor
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Hi all, The latest link review once again reminded me what a fantastic network of friends, colleagues and digital acquaintances I have that do and write about really…
Human Economy Postdoctoral Fellowships and Doctoral Scholarships
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIATHE HUMAN ECONOMY RESEARCH PROGRAMME POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Research Programme has funding for six postdoctora…
Culture like Relativity
One of the prominent ways to think about culture is as a system of symbols or beliefs. For example, Clifford Geertz wrote in 1973: Believing, with Max Weber,…
Social Change: One Petition at a Time?
As a high school student, I remember the excitement of going door-to-door to solicit signatures on petitions of various sorts. Adding one’s name to a list of other…
Killing People is Always Wrong (Andrew Chan & Myuran Sukumaran)
Indonesia is about to execute two Australian men, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, for trafficking drugs. They were arrested in 2005 after a tip-off from the Australian police,…
Should preferences based on authoritarianism and social dominance be treated as moral?
An interesting critical discussion of Jonathan Haidt’s apprach to morality from a social psychology and political science point of view: “Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authori…
Happiness Isn’t (Just) a Personal Responsibility
In a recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, I made the case that our happiness depends on the happiness or the well-being of people around us. We often…
Happiness Isn’t (Just) a Personal Responsibility
In a recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, I made the case that our happiness depends on the happiness or the well-being of people around us. We often…
National Anthropology Day: Looking towards 2016
We celebrated the first National Anthropology Day on February 19, 2015. The celebration was a great success, with more than 80 college campuses, organizations, museums, elementary and high…
Happiness Isn’t (Just) a Personal Responsibility
In a recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, I made the case that our happiness depends on the happiness or the well-being of people around us. We often…
Happiness Isn’t (Just) a Personal Responsibility
In a recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, I made the case that our happiness depends on the happiness or the well-being of people around us. We often…
Alexander R. Galloway, “Laruelle: Against the Digital”
“The chief aim of [philosopher François Laruelle’s] life’s work is to consider philosophy without resorting to philosophy in order to do so.” What is non-philosophy, what would it…
Lisa Stevenson, “Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic “
Lisa Stevenson’s new book opens with two throat-singing women and one listening king. Whether we hear them sitting down to a normal night’s dinner (as the women) or…
Un-doing youth alienation: designs for belonging
2009 Walk for Harmony. Author’s first glimpse of Australian multiculturalism Elizabeth Tunstall “Could I have been Jihadi John?” asks British co…
14. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements
This draft article is the fourteenth post in the freedom technologists series. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements: the case of Spain’s ‘real democracy turn’,…
Blinded by Humanity (book review)
One of the privileges of being able to read, think and write about books in the context of international development work and its people is to explore the…
Call for PhD Candidates
We’re looking for PhD candidates to join our Lab! The More-Than-Human Lab believes that everything is interconnected and interdependent, and we do research that is unusually lively and…
Human Economy postdoctoral fellowships and doctoral scholarships
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA THE HUMAN ECONOMY RESEARCH PROGRAMME POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Research Programme has funding for six postdocto…
Is Customer Social Responsibility The New “CSR”?
Sometimes work and life go together. For Narcissistic Anthropologists like me, this phenomenon happens more often than not. For the last several months I have been building momentum…
Cold showers and amazing little buckets
For the fifth year in a row a dozen students from Leiden University – some of whom were majoring in Cultural Anthropology and others taking part in the…
Buried in Snow! – This Anthro Life
It’s winter time here in the northern hemisphere, and in New England that means snow… a lot it. What can we learn from it? Join Aneil and Ryan…
Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…