Jarrod Gilbert, “Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Terrorism and Organized Crime] Jarrod Gilbert is very lucky that he comes from a country the size of New Zealand. With only 4 million people…
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Camille Robcis, “The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France”
[Cross-posted from New Books in French Studies] Only in a place like France do the texts and theories of towering intellectual figures like Claude Levi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan come…
Inequality as a Key Global risk: What Can Be Done?
By Tijo Salverda
Journal “Cultural Anthropology” goes open access
The Society for Cultural Anthropology, in March 2013, announced plans for Cultural Anthropology to become an open access journal. Starting with its February 2014 issue (volume 29, number…
H. Glenn Penny, “Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800”
[Cross-posted from New Books in History] If you have spent a bit of time in Germany or with German friends, you may have noticed the deep interest and affinity…
The Curious Incident of the Solatube in the Daytime; or The Good, the Bad and the Noisy – Another Reason to Commission Systems and Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
The Curious Incident of the Solatube in the Daytime; or The Good, the Bad and the Noisy – Another Reason to Commission Systems and Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
The Curious Incident of the Solatube in the Daytime; or The Good, the Bad and the Noisy – Another Reason to Commission Systems and Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
The Curious Incident of the Solatube in the Daytime; or The Good, the Bad and the Noisy – Another Reason to Commission Systems and Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
Nazi Architecture as Affective Weapon
I wrote this essay as a guest writer for one of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist by Léopold Lambert. Thanks to Léopold for the invitation to contribute to his series…
Nazi Architecture as Affective Weapon
I wrote this essay as a guest writer for one of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist by Léopold Lambert. Thanks to Léopold for the invitation to contribute to his series…
Modernity isn’t philosophical
Here’s a tidbit from before Sarkozy was President that gives a certain sense of how his administration was likely to regard philosophy, and the humanities in general: «…
Ghost in the Machine – Another Reason to Use Vacancy Sensors, Commission Systems & Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
Ghost in the Machine – Another Reason to Use Vacancy Sensors, Commission Systems & Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
Ghost in the Machine – Another Reason to Use Vacancy Sensors, Commission Systems & Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
Ghost in the Machine – Another Reason to Use Vacancy Sensors, Commission Systems & Engage Key Stakeholders
The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE)…
Eight Ways You’re Wrong About Iran’s Nuclear Program–Yousaf Butt [The National Interest]
Published on The National Interest (http://nationalinterest.org) Source URL (retrieved on Jan 30, 2014): http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/eight-ways-youre-wrong-about-irans-nuclear-program-9723 Ei…
David N. Livingstone, “Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Intellectual History] A report to the General Assembly of Scottish Presbyterians of 1923 contains the following passage: “God placed the people of this world in…
David N. Livingstone, “Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
A report to the General Assembly of Scottish Presbyterians of 1923 contains the following passage: “God placed the people of this world in families, and history which is…
Relationship Thinking
Nick Enfield — ethnolinguist at the Max Planck institute for psycholinguistics (and contributor to ICCI) — has published a new book, Relationship Thinking. Here’s the blurb from Oxford…
A Fictive Birthday with Real Debts
Photo Credit: Erik Bähre By Erik Bähre This week we publish a guest feature by Erik Bähre, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology,…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…