Social Anthropology meets “the cognitive challenge”
Social Anthropology devotes an exciting special issue to “taking up the cognitive challenge”, edited by Rita Astuti and Denis Regnier, with contributions by (among others) Tamara Hale, Charles…
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It’s A Revolution! The Resurgence of Vinyl and Being Present
I was raised on great music. Music we listened to in our “den” – usually on vinyl or cassette (once my older brother became a teenager and got…
3rd Cascadia Seminar, “Ethnographic Adventures in Medical Anthropology”: Conference Brief by Nadine Levin
On Friday, April 24, more than 50 attendees gathered to hear the keynote—and kick off a weekend of stimulating talks and discussion—for the 3rd Cascadia Seminar, “Ethnographic Adventures…
“The art of observation (during travel, etc.) consists in this: the seeing of great things in little…”
“The art of observation (during travel, etc.) consists in this: the seeing of great things in little things, the whole in the part — even the infinitesimal part.”…
Citizenship Versus Denizenship
What is the difference between people who live in a nation state as members with rights and responsibilities, and those who live there without accepting such rights and…
If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution
Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci discussed this article in The Trouble with Cultural Evolution, Footnotes to Plato.
Kevin O’Neill, “Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala”
Kevin O’Neill‘s fascinating book Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala (University of California Press, 2015) traces the efforts of multi-million dollar programs aimed at s……
“Anthropology will continue to get a bad rap as long as we anthropologists think and write about the…”
“Anthropology will continue to get a bad rap as long as we anthropologists think and write about the human condition in obtuse ways. When I talk about my…
Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Fabulous Art from Abandoned Flip-flops
Cleaning up beach waste in the form of abandoned rubber flip-flops . . . recycling landfill-able castoffs . . . training low-income men and women in job skills and…
A tale of two signs — and two cities
My latest for the Guardian is on the “Black Lives Matter” and “We Must Stop Killing Each Other” signs that are planted on lawns throughout the St. Louis metropolitan…
Budapest Conference on Cognitive Development
The Cognitive Development Center at the Central European University is pleased to announce the fifth annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development in Budapest, Hungary (J…
Links & Contents I Liked 147
Hi all, As our academic term is approaching its grande finale with 15 MA thesis examinations and a great seminar my link review is a bit shorter and…
Introducing New Team Members
Name Tags by EmDashPaperCo on Etsy By Marie-Pierre Renaud I want to introduce you to some of our team members you may not know yet, but who’s work…
The bookCASE: Introduction by Emily Yates-Doerr
This post is an introduction to our new series, The Ethnographic Case. We launch this series with a question: What is an ethnographic case? As ethnography is a…
Tristes Tropiques: Revisited
When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that time, I spoke absolutely no Portuguese but…
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment…”
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder at that which one would not have been able to guess.” –…
Anthro in the news 6/1/15
Not funny In an article in the Huffington Post, Christa Craven, assistant professor of anthropology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and chair of women’s, gender, and sexualit…
Caribbean military encounters
How the relationship between the Caribbean and foreign military forces in the 20th century had many different incarnations and forms, and left lasting legacies… The Caribbean Studies Ass…
theticklishpear: Remember how I said in this past series (Let’s…
theticklishpear: Remember how I said in this past series (Let’s Talk About: Culture) that everything you write is culture? I was serious.