Power cuts create new inequalities
Lack of energy not only harms businesses in Nepal, but also contributes to new class divides, pollution and migration to richer countries.
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Alberto Acerbi on cultural evolution
Alberto Acerbi’s excellent blog hosts a noteworthy discussion of Claidière, Scott-Phillips and Sperber’s recent PTRS paper on cultural attraction. Alex Mesoudi, Thom Scott-Phillips and Dan Speber join…
How to Talk about Terror – This Anthro Life
Episode 30, Season 3 In “How to Talk about Terror” we delve into the rise of terrorism as a political and media term framing violence within the world…
Interviewed by David Steiman
Beautifully produced by David Steiman at Pasadena City College.
Learning as soul-making
“After years of experimenting with social media and praising the learning potential of these tools, Wesch realized that they don’t automatically establish either genuine empathy or meaningful bo…
To Live in this World
by Jordan Thomas and Kenzie Wade, Digital Ethnography Class of 2014 This past semester, seven of the eleven students in my Digital Ethnography class moved into a continuing…
What I’m writing these days
I haven't posted anything in a while, primarily because I've been busy. I've been planning and researching a book on ancient Indonesia, writing out detailed chapter plans and…
From the Amazon to Australia: A Dumontian analysis of ayahuasca healing
The psychoactive beverage ayahuasca is used differently in Australia compared to in its homeland of indigenous Amazonia. The simplicity of this statement is haunted by an immense complexity. The…
Waiting for emancipation: the prospects for liberal revolution in Africa
MP3 of the Audrey Richards lecture in African Studies at Cambridge University, 22nd May 2014 This was an improvised talk lasting 49 minutes. It contains several verbal mistakes:…
Waiting for Emancipation: The Prospects for Liberal Revolution and a Human Economy in Africa
You can now listen to the 2014 Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies, delivered on Thursday 22 May in Cambridge by Professor Keith Hart, co-director of the…
Babies’ and birds’ causal understanding
A very interesting comparison between crows and humans in a new (free access) paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B entitled “Of babies and birds: complex tool…
The Eye of the Needle: Ethno-fictional tale about jaguar transformation published in Anthropology and Humanism
The pale light of a half moon filtered through the forest canopy and dappled the path where she tracked a maddening stench. Hunger tore at her belly like a…
The Eye of the Needle: Ethno-fictional tale about jaguar transformation published in Anthropology and Humanism
The pale light of a half moon filtered through the forest canopy and dappled the path where she tracked a maddening stench. Hunger tore at her belly like a…
The Eye of the Needle: Ethno-fictional tale about jaguar transformation published in Anthropology and Humanism
The pale light of a half moon filtered through the forest canopy and dappled the path where she tracked a maddening stench. Hunger tore at her belly like a…
The Eye of the Needle: Ethno-fictional tale about jaguar transformation published in Anthropology and Humanism
The pale light of a half moon filtered through the forest canopy and dappled the path where she tracked a maddening stench. Hunger tore at her belly like a…
The Disintegration of Iraq Has Begun–William O. Beeman–New America Media
http://newamericamedia.org/2014/06/the-disintegration-of-iraq-has-begun.php The Disintegration of Iraq Has Begun New America Media, News Analysis, Wi…
The Power of Vulnerability – This Anthro Life
Episode 29, Season 3 Vulnerability evokes multiple feelings simultaneously-intense discomfort, respect and awe, intimacy, and fear. Why does it resonate so broadly and deeply across contexts? What sh…
Inter-Reflexions Photography 2014
For those of you who missed the Inter-Reflexions video and photo exhibition on June 3rd, worry not. You can now watch the videos on line, just click on…
Morris B. Hoffman, “The Punisher’s Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] Why do we feel guilty–and sometimes hurt ourselves–when we harm someone? Why do we become angry–and sometimes violent–when we see ot……
Morris B. Hoffman, “The Punisher’s Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Why do we feel guilty–and sometimes hurt ourselves–when we harm someone? Why do we become angry–and sometimes violent–when we see other people being harmed? Why do we forgive…
Jan Chipchase’s guide for pop-up field studios
A pop-up studio in Myanmar, Photo by Jan Chipchase. Editor’s note: Jan Chipchase, a former creative director of Global Insights at Frog Design and principal scientist at Nokia,…