The Kopenawa Galaxy: Review of ‘The Falling Sky’ by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
To look across a Yanomami village on a clear night is like seeing the universe in a mirror. Above, the stars glisten like living eyes, their vision unimpeded…
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The Kopenawa Galaxy: Review of ‘The Falling Sky’ by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
To look across a Yanomami village on a clear night is like seeing the universe in a mirror. Above, the stars glisten like living eyes, their vision unimpeded…
I Am Not the Doula For Everyone
At the beginning of our doula-in-training journeys, I think we all want to be the world’s doula. We say yes to every potential client who comes our way…
I Am Not the Doula For Everyone
At the beginning of our doula-in-training journeys, I think we all want to be the world’s doula. We say yes to every potential client who comes our way…
I Am Not the Doula For Everyone
At the beginning of our doula-in-training journeys, I think we all want to be the world’s doula. We say yes to every potential client who comes our way…
I Am Not the Doula For Everyone
At the beginning of our doula-in-training journeys, I think we all want to be the world’s doula. We say yes to every potential client who comes our way…
Anthropology at Work
I would venture to bet that the vast majority of us – perhaps in the range of 99% – work for and in powerful institutions. This is obviously…
Lessons on Branding & Loyalty from the Popcorn Seller
How can a brand give something for free that is helpful to their consumers and also creates brand loyalty? Apple has recently shown that this is not easy…
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Saturday’s (11 October) New York Times carried an article on The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. For anyone familiar with China, the name rings familiar: what China’s government is…
An Anthropology of X
One of the things most guaranteed to raise my considerable ire is the bizarre and frequently incomprehensible jargon of modern social/cultural/socio-cultural anthropology. I'm not a fan of the…
World of Walls
On the show Game of Thrones, state territoriality comes to a spatial end at a gigantic wall, The Northern Wall: a 300-meter-high, eighty-meter-thick rock of solid ice that…
World of Walls
On the show Game of Thrones, state territoriality comes to a spatial end at a gigantic wall, The Northern Wall: a 300-meter-high, eighty-meter-thick rock of solid ice that…
Unemployment & Poverty in Brazil
Although there is considerable literature on conditions of unemployment and poverty in many modernized countries, there is a penuriously small amount on how these issues are addressed in…
Weapons of Anti-Blackness
Chik-V and Ebola and the realities behind conspiracy theories Listening to local radio shows, reading the newspapers, and talking to colleagues and friends it is clear Chikungunya (Chik-V)…
About Those Good Intentions
The following, the final in our series of extracts, comes from my chapter, “Imperial Abduction Lore and Humanitarian Seduction,” which serves as the introduction to Good Intentions: Norms…
Cash, Credit, or The Good Life
When shopping, we behave differently when we pay in cash versus when we use a card (credit, debit, or gift). This is one of those everyday anomalies that…
Cash, Credit, or The Good Life
When shopping, we behave differently when we pay in cash versus when we use a card (credit, debit, or gift). This is one of those everyday anomalies that…
Cash, Credit, or The Good Life
When shopping, we behave differently when we pay in cash versus when we use a card (credit, debit, or gift). This is one of those everyday anomalies that…
BBC: "Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art"
Indonesian archaeology briefly made the news this week with a story about rock art from Sulawesi. The art, which includes the oldest known figurative drawing in the world…
Realism or Iconography? The Pentagon’s Implicit Theory of Visual Representation
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
Understanding finance through fiction
Economic theories are not enough to understand economic processes. At the next Overheating seminar, Nina Boy will show that literary studies can provide important i…
The Kids are more than all right
Both are seventeen. They are too young to vote in places like the US. But we need more of them! Malala! All around the world people know this…
AU PAC 2015 Recap
This past weekend we held our one year anniversary workshop at American University’s Public Anthropology Conference. It was a great session, with many participants (and it was our…