Upward Anthropology at AAA 2014
As most of you probably know, the American Anthropological Association annual meeting is being held in our home town of Washington DC December 3-7. As promised, we will…
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She prefers simplicity to paradoxes, answers to dilemmas
‘Yet, one cannot help being disturbed by the fuzzy utopianism and smug righteousness permeating Naomi Klein’s books.’ I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything, and…
She prefers simplicity to paradoxes, answers to dilemmas
‘Yet, one cannot help being disturbed by the fuzzy utopianism and smug righteousness permeating Naomi Klein’s books.’ I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything, and…
Pamela Klassen, “Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity” (University of California Press, 2011)
Liberal Protestants are often dismissed as reflecting nothing more than a therapeutic culture or viewed as a measuring rod for the decline of Christian orthodoxy. Rarely have they…
Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…
Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…
Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…
Breastfeeding Problems Linked to Mom’s Post-Birth Meds?
“Evidence-based care acknowledges that, sometimes, having no intervention is safest, and, sometimes, having interventions is safest…. Advocating for evidence-based practices and interventions i…
American Anthropological Association #AAA2014 Meetings
The 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association were December 2-7 in Washington D.C. and feature a Searchable Program. I was a discussant for Anthropology and Storytelling,…
‘Homeless Youth’ – a local collaborative film project
@Porchlight1974 @KentSAC @CTunaker @Pelaris #homelessyouth #appliedanthropology Carin Tunaker is a PhD student in social anthropology at the University of Kent. Her research examines the conditions …
New PopAnth launched!
On behalf of PopAnth’s editorial team, I am pleased to announce that today we launched a new version of PopAnth – Hot Buttered Humanity! The new version is…
Ecologies of Happiness – This Anthro Life
Smile! What is the relationship of happiness to place? What is the where of happiness? In part one of our series on happiness, we explore happiness as a…
The coming crackdown in China’s social sciences?
There have been ominous developments in China’s cultural politics recently. In October, Chairman Xi gave a speech at the Peking Forum on Literature and Art, a high-profile event whose title…
“All art is regional”
In a recent exhibition entitled ‘The artist’s landscape’, Jamtli museum in Sweden explores various modes of being tied to locality, and how ‘landscapes’ can be expressed through diverse…
Varieties of community currency
LETS and ‘open money’ The late twentieth century saw a revival of self-organized credit money, paradoxically in the leading centres of western capitalism. LETS, meaning ‘Let’s do it’,…
Why do we need to have so many meetings?
These days my calendar is a source of stress. My morning routine of reviewing my appointments for the day during my commute often leaves me dreading the coming…
Chinese queries | 百度一下
屌丝一个: “Seriously speaking, is 100 wan enough to get out of China?” 飞飞: “You Baidu yixia first, see which country is a bit more reliable” Failed suggestion for…
“humans just like us” (Michel-Rolph Trouillot 2003:137)
Reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s final chapter in Global Transformations, “Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work” and reflecting on what I’ve been teaching in Cultural Anth…
reverse sportscar heist
Meanwhile everybody playing ‘↵Watch Dogs‘ (Ubisoft Montreal 2014) seems to know about the dealer’s showroom in ↑The Loop where you can easily steal a ↑Scafati GT, the…
Two new anthropology blogs from Norway: Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Sindre Bangstad
Lots of new anthropology blogs have been started up recently, most of them have made it into the overviews here at antropologi.info: the anthropology blog newspaper http://www.antropologi.info/blog/ a…
Two new anthropology blogs from Norway: Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Sindre Bangstad
Lots of new anthropology blogs have been started up recently, most of them have made it into the overviews here at antropologi.info: the anthropology blog newspaper http://www.antropologi.info/blog/ and…
