Category: English
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
A House to Make a Home? w/ Guest Mengqi Wang – This Anthro Life
“A House to Make a Home?” Season 3, Episode 27 Aired 5/27/14 We are joined by guest expert Mengqi Wang to delve into the fascinating world of housing,…
Chinese premier says China will establish environmental institute in Kenya
Among the pledges made by Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the African Union meeting in Addis Abeba on 5 May, increasing the credit line to African countries to…
Broaching neoliberalism via old civilizational traditions?
Do old civilizational traditions still play a role in economic life today? In a new project, Overheating researcher Chris Hann wants to show that so-called civilizational anal…
INTER-REFLEXIONS-2014
Reflexion– expression without words; a remark expressing careful consideration; a calm, lengthy, intent consideration. Inter– Between, among; mutually; reciprocally Marlowe L…
The moral economies of material things
The concept of moral economy is a natural fit to analyses of material culture. In this working paper, I show how the concept has applications to all three research projects…
Reflections and Reports on Open Access Published in the New Issue of Cultural Anthropology (@culanth)
The new, May 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now. It is the second issue of the journal to be made freely available online, which means anyone…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] “[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man…
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan” (Duke University Press, 2013)
“[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man who starved to death in an apartment…
Let There Be Light! – This Anthro Life
Season 3, Episode 26 – Aired 5/20/14 Light is all around us, but we don’t often think about it. Light comes to us as energy, as necessary for…
News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News A recent study finds that undocumented youth, known as the “Dreamers,” are becoming increasingly disenchanted with political parties in the US. Attorney General Eric Holder and…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here – History Under Water: Clim…
Special Conversation: Reflections on Anthropology: Why do we do what we do? – This Anthro Life
For our 25th episode we bring you a special, raw moment in the show in which we turn the conversation more directly to ourselves as anthropologists. The show…
Oh no, forgot about you there..
Wow, Teenthropologist readers, it has been quite a while. I apologise profusely for my lack of posts in the past year. To summarise, work took over my life…