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A 2014 Challenge for the Social Sciences
Social scientists are living in increasingly challenging times. In states like North Carolina there is a politically driven movement to dump the “irrelevant” and “unproductive” social sciences a…
A 2014 Challenge for the Social Sciences
Social scientists are living in increasingly challenging times. In states like North Carolina there is a politically driven movement to dump the “irrelevant” and “unproductive” social sciences a…
This year’s Edge question
The new The Edge annual question, and the answers, are now online. The question was: “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?” Here are some answers that could…
Coal is modernity
It has taken us several hundred million years to produce this compressed sunlight, and it has been the driving force of modern civilization for two hundred years. It…
Conflation as Insult (On the Gold Open Access World I Live In)
On Savage Minds, Alex Golub very generously celebrates the recent publication of a large quantity of open access journal articles in anthropology and neighboring fields. I wish to…
Erica Cusi Wortham, “Indigenous Media in Mexico: Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Latin American Studies] Videography is a powerful tool for recording and representing aspects of human society and culture, and anthropologists have long used –…
Erica Cusi Wortham, “Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State” (Duke University Press, 2013)
Videography is a powerful tool for recording and representing aspects of human society and culture, and anthropologists have long used – and debated the use of – video…
Joint PhD degree in the cognitive science of religion
A new Doctoral programme in the cognitive the science of religion has been established by Aarhus University (Graduate School of Arts/Religion, Cognition and Culture Research Unit–see http://www….
A global crisis of desire?
Elephants clashing with human beings on their paddy fields, people dying from kidney failure, climatic uncertainty, increased jealousy leading to sorcery attacks, and the near…
Books average previous decade of economic misery
This paper has been widely covered by popular and scientific media. Here some examples: Why Wasn’t it ‘Grapes of Glee’? Study of Books Find Economic Link, The New…
Summer course on Morality: Evolutionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms, Budapest, June 2014.
The CEU Summer University announces the course: “Morality: Evolutionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms”, June 23-30, 2014, Budapest, Hungary . Application deadline: February 14, 2014. What makes hu…
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Moral Psychology, Seoul, March 2014
A conference on “Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Moral Psychology” sponsored by Korea University and the Rutgers University Research Group on Evolution & Cognition will take place at the Korea…
List of Predatory Publishers 2014
Jaap Timmer: Here’s an interesting list of allegedly predatory journals, but even more interesting is the troll of comments below the list. While I tend to agree with…
The Culture Concept
The culture concept — which overtime has been contrasted, combined, and entangled with the related concepts of society, personality, identity, symbolism and practice — weaves together the history…
Ethnography: An EPIC platform for spreading the word
In 2013 the international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) took a foray into PR, with the objective of explaining the rationale for ethnography to new audiences. Here is…
Ethnography: An EPIC platform for spreading the word
In 2013 the international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) took a foray into PR, with the objective of explaining the rationale for ethnography to new audiences. Here is…
Ethnography: An EPIC platform for spreading the word
In 2013 the international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) took a foray into PR, with the objective of explaining the rationale for ethnography to new audiences. Here is…
Ethnography: An EPIC platform for spreading the word
In 2013 the international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) took a foray into PR, with the objective of explaining the rationale for ethnography to new audiences. Here is…
Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates
It was a great honor and privilege to be invited to deliver the Cultural Anthropology overview for the Five Fields Update sponsored by the Society for Anthropology in…
On The Journal of Folklore Research in 2013
2013 was a very busy year for me. It was a great year, but it was overly full at work and so-called work-life balance thus was not much…
When anthro research and the media collide…
…you can get a flurry of inaccurate headlines, followed by further media analysis pieces that take as their starting point those headlines rather than the underlying research. Especially in…