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…
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Book review of Flemming Rose’s “The Tyranny of Silence”
My review of Flemming Rose’s latest book “The Tyranny of Silence” can be found here. It’s titled Flemming Rose and the absence of empathy. The review is published at…
Pacific Islanders March for Self-Determination
Pacific Islanders March for Self-Determination by Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu Photo by Dan Bacher. Part of the Pacific Islander (Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian) Contingent at the major Climate Change M…
The freedom to love
As a result, a new youth culture rides on love and its insignia of commercialized love (hearts on objects, a flood of cards, new fast food items and…
A New Politics of Distribution
What is a Basic Income Grant and what might it mean for Trinidad and Tobago… My last two columns asked questions about transforming the status quo, such as…
Self-imposed discrimination in brazil
When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a good place to do research for a…
Introducing the More-Than-Human Lab
After five years of research and teaching, the Design Culture Lab has been retired and I’m excited to announce my new adventure: the More-Than-Human Lab. I’ve imported all…
Anthropologists in Practice: An Interview with Janne Flisrand, Network Weaver and Owner of Flisrand Consulting
Anthropologists in Practice is an ongoing series of interviews featuring practicing anthropologists who work outside the academy. The goal of the series is to provide a source of…
Radical Leftists or Mild Keynesians? Syriza’s Transition to Power
By Theodoros Rakopoulos It is not news that the Greek left has abandoned its radical agenda. Syriza steered their wheel rightward way before the election they won at…
Anthropological Documentary for Public Policy in Jakarta
Sarine Arslanian, Visual Anthropology student from 2012, reports from Jakarta and shares her latest documentary. With the support of the Center for Public Policy Transformation, Sarine Arslanian exp…
Terrain as Insurgent Weapon
Below is the abstract of my essay “Terrain as Insurgent Weapon: An Affective Geometry of Combat in the Valley of Death,” which I’ll present at the workshop Space, Materiality,…
Terrain as Insurgent Weapon
Below is the abstract of my essay “Terrain as Insurgent Weapon: An Affective Geometry of Combat in the Valley of Death,” which I’ll present at the workshop Space, Materiality,…
Mobile Roots – Rethinking Indigenous and Transnational ties
The University of Lapland invites proposals for workshops for this interesting conference, in October 2015. I think we Arctic Anthropologists have a lot to say about this! Would…
„Ebola is Real“: Christliche Rhetorik und Wahrnehmungen des Dämonischen in Liberia
Jonas Ecke Anfang August 2014 bin ich aus Liberia, wo ich meine anthropologische Feldforschung zu aus dem ghanaischen Exil zurückkehrenden liberianischen Flüchtlingen durchführte, nach Berlin z…
My home is my (Airbnb) castle?
My mother has new neighbours every week. They live in the flat opposite her. She knows exactly what they pay per week, even per night. She has never…
Reducing Primary Cesareans (Part 2)
Click here to read Part 1: The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement I just listened to an interesting webinar on Preventing Primary Cesareans! The presenter explored much of the…
Reducing Primary Cesareans (Part 2)
Click here to read Part 1: The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement I just listened to an interesting webinar on Preventing Primary Cesareans! The presenter explored much of the…
Reducing Primary Cesareans (Part 2)
Click here to read Part 1: The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement I just listened to an interesting webinar on Preventing Primary Cesareans! The presenter explored much of the…
Reducing Primary Cesareans (Part 2)
Click here to read Part 1: The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement I just listened to an interesting webinar on Preventing Primary Cesareans! The presenter explored much of the…
Creativity, innovation, and the space between cultures
Anthropologists are drawn to places where culture is a little shaky. Normally, culture supplies the meanings and rules with which we understand and navigate the world. And normally,…
Links & Contents I Liked 138
Hi all, Another much-needed link review as interesting reads kept piling up in my Inbox…Development news looks at impact of policy briefs, the cost of post-2015 data collection,…