What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
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What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] “[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man…
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan” (Duke University Press, 2013)
“[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man who starved to death in an apartment…
Let There Be Light! – This Anthro Life
Season 3, Episode 26 – Aired 5/20/14 Light is all around us, but we don’t often think about it. Light comes to us as energy, as necessary for…
News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News A recent study finds that undocumented youth, known as the “Dreamers,” are becoming increasingly disenchanted with political parties in the US. Attorney General Eric Holder and…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
Special Conversation: Reflections on Anthropology: Why do we do what we do? – This Anthro Life
For our 25th episode we bring you a special, raw moment in the show in which we turn the conversation more directly to ourselves as anthropologists. The show…
Oh no, forgot about you there..
Wow, Teenthropologist readers, it has been quite a while. I apologise profusely for my lack of posts in the past year. To summarise, work took over my life…
Denise Brennan, “Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Gender Studies] Denise Brennan‘s second book, Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (Duke University Press, 2014), examines how individua… Visit New Books in…
Denise Brennan, “Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States” (Duke UP, 2014)
Denise Brennan‘s second book, Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (Duke University Press, 2014), examines how individuals who were trafficked into forced labor g… Visit…
Ethnographic writing, poetics, and sensory sensemaking
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all” ~ Oscar Wilde Recently I came to realise…
Explorers
“Nowadays being an explorer is a trade, which consists not, as one may think, in discovering hitherto unknown facts after years of study, but in covering a great…
Orpheus – the most haunting love story ever told
Modern re-imaginings of Greek myths are a popular storytelling trope – my favourite of recent years being Anais Mitchell’s excellent folk opera Hadestown, which sets the story of…
Ironies and Oburonis: Navigating Foreignness in Ghana
Ghana began on the plane. It was 1am on my connection from Casablanca to Accra, and I was sitting next to a sleepy-eyed toddler and his mother, who…
A great metaphor
In May 1814, representatives came from near and far for the national congress to draft a constitution for Norwegian independence from Denmark. On May 16th, delegate Gustav Peter…
Kinship, theology and deep grammar
One of the most salient paradoxes in the study of kinship systems is their sheer analytical complexity, from the point of view of an external observer, and simultaneously…
Deparmental Lectureship in Cognitive Anthropology, Oxford
Applications are invited for a Departmental Lectureship in Cognitive Anthropology, effective from 1 September 2014, tenable until 30 September 2015. The post is based at the School of…
Magical Mentors
Graduation always makes me think about importance of mentors in a person’s life. Indeed, universities are trying to make mentoring more central to their missions. Universities have mentoring…