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…
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“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…
quantification prescribing interaction
Artist and composer ↑Ben[jamin] Grosser, currently teaching at the School of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two days ago has published his fine article “&da…
What the life of a pair of flip-flops can teach us about migration, inequality and studying up
Photo: Cíntia Regina, flickr During the recent (nearly) two years, I’ve been interviewing researchers that are part of the research project Overheating. The three crises of globalisation: An…
What the life of a pair of flip-flops can teach us about migration, inequality and studying up
Photo: Cíntia Regina, flickr During the recent (nearly) two years, I’ve been interviewing researchers that are part of the research project Overheating. The three crises of globalisation: An…
Coca-Cola Life Launch: Inspired Creative
thenarcissisticanthropologist: Now that this product has hit the shelves in the U.S. I’m doing a “Throwback Monday” to honor product innovation and marketing that makes the universa…
Salon: "Why we’re obsessed with glamorizing archaeologists"
There's an interesting article on Salon right now on archaeologists and their profession, tied in with a new book, Lives in Ruins, by Marilyn Johnson, about the same…
Applications for PhD studentships in Cognitive Science at CEU, Budapest
PhD studentships are available for the doctoral program in Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary. Application deadline: February 1, 2015. The Department of Cogn…
Neuroanthropology of ethics
Handbook of Neuroethics edited by Jens Clausen and Neil Levy, published by Springer. Springer has just published the Handbook of Neuroethics that features a section dedicated to Neuroanthropology…
Graduate Resilience
the culture of post-graduate research at UWI can be described as tough in terms of adequate supervision yet the students themselves demonstrate resilience in this tough working environment…
Whatever happened to prog?
Progressive rock can be seen as a barometer of the Zeitgeist of its time. Not only was there optimism, but there was also a wide…
Whatever happened to prog?
Progressive rock can be seen as a barometer of the Zeitgeist of its time. Not only was there optimism, but there was also a wide…