Intrinsic Motivations and a Secret of the Good Life
In the Sunday NY Times, Amy Wrzensniewski and Barry Schwartz argue that the secret of success is internal versus instrumental motivation. They find that being driven by intrinsic…
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The Culture Consultant: The Importance of business anthropology – 1/2
“Corporations live or die by their connection to culture”. This quote by the anthropologist and author Grant McCracken brings to the forefront the importance of culture within the…
Creative Intersubjectivity in Performance
Ethnomusicology Forum has just released a special edition on “Creative Intersubjectivity in Performance” with contributions from Elizabeth Betz, Monika Winarnita, Sean Martin-Iverson, Paul…
When Science, Customer Service, and Human Subjects Research Collide. Now What?
Now What?CC BY-ND Frits Ahlefeld I’m frustrated that the state of public intellectualism allows us, individually, to jump into the conversation about the recently published Facebook “Emotio…
berners-lee on snowden
It’s been almost eight years that I ↵last quoted ↑Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, here at xirdalium. On 1st August 2006 I republished the following…
The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 1: Quantifying Productivity, Health and Larger Societal Costs
As designers, we have a responsibility to investigate and present the social costs and benefits of our designs to all key stakeholders. Whether its building safe routes to…
The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 1: Quantifying Productivity, Health and Larger Societal Costs
As designers, we have a responsibility to investigate and present the social costs and benefits of our designs to all key stakeholders. Whether its building safe routes to…
The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 1: Quantifying Productivity, Health and Larger Societal Costs
As designers, we have a responsibility to investigate and present the social costs and benefits of our designs to all key stakeholders. Whether its building safe routes to…
The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 1: Quantifying Productivity, Health and Larger Societal Costs
As designers, we have a responsibility to investigate and present the social costs and benefits of our designs to all key stakeholders. Whether its building safe routes to…
Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art
I am looking forward to being in Hamburg, Germany, in August, for this unusually interesting event. My own talk is called Disqualified: Why sex workers suffer social death…
Noisy Neighbors
So I went to see Neighbors. The premise of film plays upon a fundamental fear of middle class social life in America–the
Noisy Neighbors
So I went to see Neighbors. The premise of film plays upon a fundamental fear of middle class social life in America–the
Reproducing Rights and Wrongs: Personhood, Religious and Reproductive Freedoms, Gender, and SCOTUS – This Anthro Life
Episode 32, Season 3 Special Episode on the Supreme Court’s rulings over religious freedom and freedom of speech. On this week’s episode we take on 5 recent and…
Article: Social media in remote First Nation communities
Molyneaux, H., O’Donnell, S., Kakekaspan, C., Walmark, B., Budka, P., Gibson, K. 2014. Social media in remote First Nation communities. Canadian Journal of Communication, 39(2): 275-288. Abstract Comm…
Guest post: Are China’s NGOs entering Africa?
In April this year, two groups of Chinese journalists visited East Africa on a reporting trip. This post is translated from an unpublished article written by one of…
The field and The Field – Adventures in Multi-sited Ethnography
“Fieldwork is not what it used to be”, to quote the title of Faubion and Marcus’ 2009 edited volume on the changing nature of social/cultural anthropology in the…
Benjamin Lieberman, “Remaking Identities: God, Nation and Race in World History”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] What do you say to someone who suggests that genocide is not just destructive, but constructive? This is the basic theme of Benjamin…
William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, “The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion””
[Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] What brings us together as scholars in Religious Studies? Are the various social phenomena commonly grouped together as religion really that similar? The Sacr… Visit…
