Anti-prostitution advocates routinely use absurd over-simplications to make their crusade crystal-clear easy to understand. Campaigning works better when arguments are black and white and slogans are …
Join us for our first ever extended conversation, part of our new “This Anthropological Life After Hours” extended episode series. On occasion we will keep the conversation going…
Recently I feel as if everyone around me is getting pregnant. It started a few years ago and was just a trickle on my facebook page. Now it…
Recently I feel as if everyone around me is getting pregnant. It started a few years ago and was just a trickle on my facebook page. Now it…
Recently I feel as if everyone around me is getting pregnant. It started a few years ago and was just a trickle on my facebook page. Now it…
Recently I feel as if everyone around me is getting pregnant. It started a few years ago and was just a trickle on my facebook page. Now it…
Even deep in the Amazon jungle people feel the consequences of global economic policies. In Peru, Margrethe Steinert is studying how the Asháninka indigenous peopl…
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“That plain little turtle below in the stack, That plain little turtle whose name was just Mack That plain little turtle did a plain little thing He burped…
Back in March, I started a DNA experiment with five friends. I invited each of them to take a genetic ‘ancestry’ test – something that most of them had barely heard…
Dr. Katherine Frank‘s book, Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013), is a fascinating look at the taboo of group…
Back in August 2006 here at xirdalium I wrote ↵an entry [worthwhile, lots of associations] on Gareth Branwyn’s and Peter Sugarman’s 1991 HyperCard classic ‘↑Beyond cyberpu…
Scotland’s vote for Independence and its implications for Tobago On Thursday, Scotland goes to the polls in a referendum on Independence from the United Kingdom. At the time…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] The name of the New Books in Language channel might hint at a disciplinary bias towards “language”. So in some sense Ruth Finnegan‘s Communicating: the…
Although it was ten years ago I started this blog and anthropology portal, I am not sure if there is something to celebrate. The website has been more…
Although it was ten years ago I started this blog and anthropology portal, I am not sure if there is something to celebrate. The website has been more…
Well, here it is—to my knowledge the first ↑English-language review of my book ‘Cyberanthropology’ (2011) [which is in German]. ↑Annika Pissin of Lunds Universitet’s project ↑Digital…
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
As another academic year begins The Castle’s shadow is bringing more and more Kafkaesque darkness to university campuses. That shadow continues to transform our places of higher learning…
As another academic year begins The Castle’s shadow is bringing more and more Kafkaesque darkness to university campuses. That shadow continues to transform our places of higher learning…