Downsides to Thrift: Germans Saving Too Much Water
Germans need to flush their toilets more often, says Hans-Jürgen Leist, a scientist at the Ecolog Institute in Hanover, as quoted in a Wall Street Journal article. In…
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“Fixing Culture”: The Case of Olive Garden
thenarcissisticanthropologist: A classic dilemma that so few corporations ever actually take the time to scope and solve. But there is an anthropologically-based solution possible here—starts wi…
Ferguson and the Founding of Sovereign Violence
The following is a post by one of our members, Mike Roller – a modified version of the talk he will present at the upcoming Public Anthropology Conference.…
Review: Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte.
Budka, P. 2014. Review of Hess, S., Moser, J. & M. Schwertl (eds.). Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2013; 332 pp. Anthropos, 109.2014/2: 694-…
The Visual Imperium
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…
Love, Haters and Hipsters: The Irony of Being A Millennial
I have officially decided that I’ve spent too much time commenting on a recent Facebook thread started in the last day by fellow bloggers Eve Kerrigan, Rachel Gall and Anna Akbari,…
Public Anthropology – This Weekend!
This is just a reminder that we will be at the Public Anthropology Conference at American University this weekend to stir up some trouble and crack open the…
Special Episode: Police Militarization, Race, Trust, Violence and Ferguson, MO – This Anthro Life
Join Amy, Ryan, Aneil and Adam and special guest Delande Justinvil for an important episode of This Anthropological Life as we take head-on the complex issues of race…
Art Connects
The power of art, dance and song in empowering the education and social connection of young Trinidadians… How much do we really know about the youth of Trinidad…
Metrics: An Addendum on RAE / REF
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things: We have had overwhelming support from a wide range of academics for our paper on why metrics are inappropriate for assessing…
When a sleepy fishing village becomes Brazil’s oil capital
40 years ago it was an insignificant fishing village, now Macaé is Brazil’s bustling oil capital. While the oil rush is widely celebrated, both the favelas of the…
Pentagon Photography and Visual Anthropology
Could it be any more obvious how the Pentagon has learned to mimic certain styles of anthropological photography as shown in the instance above? Resembling any of a…
Why Ello.co is a bad idea
5 years is a long time in terms of the internet. Let’s assume that you have been on the it during this period. Chances are quite high that…
Why Ello.co is a bad idea
5 years is a long time in terms of the internet. Let’s assume that you have been on the it during this period. Chances are quite high that…
From Sligo to the Big Apple
One hundred years ago, in October 1914, Irish fiddle player Michael Coleman left his native County Sligo to travel to America. He first got work performing at music…
30% off Materializing Poverty
Rollup, rollup! AltaMira have just sent me discount flyers for my book. If you were considering buying it but were holding off because of the price, now’s the…
The Global South Shapes the Future of Money
This week we post the YouTube video of Prof. Supriya Singh’s lecture “The Global South Shapes the Future of Money”, delivered in Pretoria on 19 August 2014. Supriya…
Linguistic violence | 语言暴力
I was reading through 《平台魅力与舞台诱惑》 (Platform Glamour and Stage Lure: The Actors in China’s Internet Communication, edited by Yang Boxu and Xu Hong, 2011) when I came across…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Birth by the Numbers Update
Eugene Declerq and the team at Birth by the Numbers have very recently updated their statistics and their video! Two years ago I posted the video Birth by the…
Birth by the Numbers Update
Eugene Declerq and the team at Birth by the Numbers have very recently updated their statistics and their video! Two years ago I posted the video Birth by the…