Lessons About Refugees From an Australian Immigration Crisis
This article first appeared in the Huffington Post 18. August 2014. I am an anthropologist, I live in Australia and I work with refugees in Malaysia. None of…
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Call for posters: Reciprocity and Social Cognition
The Berlin School of Mind and Brain organizes a symposium on “Reciprocity and Social Cognition”, from the 23rd to the 25th of March, 2015. Keynote speakers will be…
Glagah Beach: Between The Airport and Mine
“Laut untuk Masa Depan” is the tagline that I found not far from the entrance gate of glagah Beach tourism – Kulon Progo Jogjakarta. This area was once…
Glagah Beach: Between The Airport and Mine
“Laut untuk Masa Depan” is the tagline that I found not far from the entrance gate of glagah Beach tourism – Kulon Progo Jogjakarta. This area was once…
Glagah Beach: Between The Airport and Mine
“Laut untuk Masa Depan” is the tagline that I found not far from the entrance gate of glagah Beach tourism – Kulon Progo Jogjakarta. This area was once…
Glagah Beach: Between The Airport and Mine
“Laut untuk Masa Depan” is the tagline that I found not far from the entrance gate of glagah Beach tourism – Kulon Progo Jogjakarta. This area was once…
Figures of Fun: Humor and Stereotype in Monty Python’s Depictions of Intercultural Communication
by Jessica McIntyre (MAA student at Macquarie University) Depictions of humorous and often exaggerated cultural stereotypes can be used either constructively or destructively to identify and explore t…
From a Pacific – Turtle Island Muliwai
By Hinemoana of Turtle Island: Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams, Lani Teves, Fuifuilupe Niumetolu, Maile Arvin, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer We are a group of Pacific Islander women, ac…
Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?
Hands up if you have ever told someone what you are studying and have been hit with the response…”Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?”…
Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?
Hands up if you have ever told someone what you are studying and have been hit with the response…”Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?”…
Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?
Hands up if you have ever told someone what you are studying and have been hit with the response…”Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?”…
Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?
Hands up if you have ever told someone what you are studying and have been hit with the response…”Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that?”…
Forget Colonial Myths: Xatanawa contact puts an end to a century of resistance
They are young and healthy, with strong bodies and carefully trimmed hair, some bearing delicate designs painted on their faces. They carry fine (and sharp) arrows with impeccably…
Forget Colonial Myths: Xatanawa contact puts an end to a century of resistance
They are young and healthy, with strong bodies and carefully trimmed hair, some bearing delicate designs painted on their faces. They carry fine (and sharp) arrows with impeccably…
Forget Colonial Myths: Xatanawa contact puts an end to a century of resistance
They are young and healthy, with strong bodies and carefully trimmed hair, some bearing delicate designs painted on their faces. They carry fine (and sharp) arrows with impeccably…
Forget Colonial Myths: Xatanawa contact puts an end to a century of resistance
They are young and healthy, with strong bodies and carefully trimmed hair, some bearing delicate designs painted on their faces. They carry fine (and sharp) arrows with impeccably…
Government Time, Mission Time, and the nature and violence of alienation
Proud to feature in the first issue of the new Upswell Magazine with an archival/ethnographic piece on alienation – GOVERNMENT TIME, MISSION TIME, AND THE NATURE AND VIOLENCE…
Ebola and Virology – This Anthro Life
Episode 38, Season 3 Amy and Adam are joined in studio again by season 1-2 host Ryan Collins, recently returned from fieldwork in Mexico. We turn our anthropological…
The Problem Isn’t Just Facebook: It’s You Too.
Lately, news of the Facebook emotional contagion study and Facebook Messenger’s permissions, have flooded feeds and inboxes. The former was a paper published in the Proceedings of the National A…
The Perpetually Confused Conflicts in the Middle East–public lecture by William O. Beeman with discussion from Portland Oregon
The Perpetually Confused Conflicts in the Middle East Attached is a recording of a lecture given to the “Thirsters” civic group in Portland, Oregon on August 7, 2014…
Amchi- Tibetan Medicine and Ethical Anthropological Filmmaking
Former MPhil student Elif Eda Tibet tells us about her latest documentary. Amchi is an observational road trip documentary, about an idealistic Tibetan doctor Amchi Karma Chodon journey…
Martians and Mechanical Cages
Trinidad traffic culture and what a anthropologist from Mars might think of it all If an anthropologist on Mars observed many areas of Trinidad from far they would…
Quiet War in the Amazon: "Uncontacted" tribes vs. drug lords and loggers
The Txapanawa[1] have never been alone nor “uncontacted” in their century-long history of resistance. Isolation and resistance go hand and hand in this remote borderland region outside the reach…
Quiet War in the Amazon: "Uncontacted" tribes vs. drug lords and loggers
The Txapanawa[1] have never been alone nor “uncontacted” in their century-long history of resistance. Isolation and resistance go hand and hand in this remote borderland region outside the reach…