– Time for a radically interdisciplinary global anthropology
Social anthropologists are not only crossing disciplinary boundaries. They have also started studying other species.
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Joanne Benham Rennick, “Religion in the Ranks: Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces” (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
What is the role of religion in the military? What are the roles of religious chaplains in the military? How are important issues such as post-traumatic stress, religious…
Big data, asymmetry and business
[This post is a little longer than initially planned – it’s about a 15 minutes read] It was of little surprise that big data figured as a major…
Indescision as creativity
In 2012, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw exhibited “Chopin at his most indecisive”, showing how Chopin continually revised his works with new versions and annotations. The exhition…
A 5-Step Approach to Reading Scholarly Literature and Making Notes
Reading academic literature is a skill that all college and university students must acquire, but as professors, we don’t always think about how that happens. Equally, making usable…
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Growth vs sustainability: Off to explore one of today’s main contradictions
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is getting ready for fieldwork close to The Great Barrier Reef that may be about to become a victim of Australia’s economic growth.
Anthropology Blogs Update: Additions, Revisions, New Blogs
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Some Possible Anthropological Futures: WCAA vs. SSCI
By Gordon Mathews It’s become increasingly recognized that the world has multiple anthropologies—that anthropology is not only a Euro-American endeavor but a global endeavor. One reason…
“Reviews that made me cry”
I’m borrowing this expression from one of Biella Coleman’s tweets, not to emphasise her message, but since it embodies well my feelings regarding a review report on one…
What anthropologists have been talking about for the last four decades?
Find out the answer in one graph: http://backupminds.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/anthropology-co-citation-graph/ Enjoy!
On Korean American students in Illinois
Continuing with my sequence of book reviews, I recently sent LATISS a review of Nancy Abelmann‘s fascinating 2009 book The Intimate University. It should be coming out in…
Also a crisis of learning
Our models for learning are inadequate. To solve humanity’s biggest crises we have to learn how to learn together in new ways, says Fred Steier who will be…
War with Syria Would Fulfill Neoconservative Plan for Middle East Regime Change (Beeman–New America Media)
http://newamericamedia.org/2013/09/war-with-syria-would-fulfill-neoconservative-plan-for-middle-east-regime-change.php# War with Syria Would Fulfill Neoconservative Plan for Middle East Regime Change …
Dream Tobacco: For "Apa" Mariano
It was a brilliant September afternoon on the upper Manu river, at the end of the dry season when strong breezes and gathering clouds announce the coming of…
Dream Tobacco: For "Apa" Mariano
It was a brilliant September afternoon on the upper Manu river, at the end of the dry season when strong breezes and gathering clouds announce the coming of…
Dream Tobacco: For "Apa" Mariano
It was a brilliant September afternoon on the upper Manu river, at the end of the dry season when strong breezes and gathering clouds announce the coming of…