Our public affair with food porn
Do you ever feel like your social feed is overrun by pictures of food? A report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project from October 2013 found…
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Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Anthropology Calling: PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek
PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek begann sein Studium der Ethnologie, Indologie und Religionswissenschaft im Jahre 1981. Am Anfang seiner mittlerweile fast 25 Jahre währenden Lehrtätigkeit, damals noch ohne fest…
hope: the first anthropological emotion
During the comments from the Anthropology and Storytelling panel at the #AAA2014 meetings: “The first anthropological emotion is hope” (Carole McGranahan). As McGranahan clarified in a fol…
Ebola, Medien und Ethnologie – Offener Brief zum SZ-Artikel „Böser Zauber Ebola“
Die aktuelle Ebola-Krise zeigt, wie wichtig eine gute Zusammenarbeit zwischen Medien und Ethnologie ist, um in der Öffentlichkeit ein differenziertes Verständnis der gesellschaftlichen Reaktionen und …
The Obligation of Gifts
For those of you with Christmas trees, they probably look a little barren following the unwrapping of presents. What did you get for Christmas? — Read more on…
Santa Traditions Around the World
Earlier this week, I shared a link on Twitter to a piece on Brain Pickings on how anthropologist Margaret Mead suggested we talk to children about Santa Claus:…
What Explains the Emergence of Moralizing Religions?
An ambitious article: “Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions”, by Nicolas Baumard, Alexandre Hyafil, Ian Morris, and Pascal Bo…
Applied Anthropology as Limit
Of late I’ve been saying that the constraints that come with applied work are useful for doing good theoretical and empirical work. Just as experimental models bring demands…
Ethnographic films by anthropology students from Heidelberg
Ethnographic film has since long its place in the field of Anthropology. Heidelberg is no exception to this, where every list for a course on ethnographic filmmaking is…
Santa’s Capitalist Alchemy
The anthropology and myth-making of Santa… Now this might upset you. It might even provoke memories of Scrooge himself. But the gold standard of social science research states,…
Coming soon….”Meta-Education: The Movie”
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Transformational Storytelling Anthropology
Modified transcript of discussant comments for panel on Anthropology and Storytelling at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Many thanks to Coralynn Davis, Carole McG…
As Peru’s Glacier Vanish, Villagers Appeal To The Gods
In October 2011, while I was conducting ethnographic research on water and climate change in southern Peru’s Colca Valley, I was invited to join the villagers of Pinchollo…
The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement
There is good news to report: Health Care Professionals are paying attention! When we work on our grass roots advocacy we think that our issues are so important,…
The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement
There is good news to report: Health Care Professionals are paying attention! When we work on our grass roots advocacy we think that our issues are so important,…
The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement
There is good news to report: Health Care Professionals are paying attention! When we work on our grass roots advocacy we think that our issues are so important,…
The Primary Cesarean Reduction Movement
There is good news to report: Health Care Professionals are paying attention! When we work on our grass roots advocacy we think that our issues are so important,…