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Kia ora, We are the anthsisters – welcome to our blog. We are Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown, Tayla Hancock and Hollie Russell and together we make up the Anthsisters. Although…
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Welcome!
Kia ora, We are the anthsisters – welcome to our blog. We are Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown, Tayla Hancock and Hollie Russell and together we make up the Anthsisters. Although…
Welcome!
Kia ora, We are the anthsisters – welcome to our blog. We are Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown, Tayla Hancock and Hollie Russell and together we make up the Anthsisters. Although…
A joke
Three Mexicans and an Englishwoman walk out of a bar. A guy walks past and asks for a cigarette. He doubles back: ‘No son de aquí ¿verdad?’ ‘De…
Ellen J. Amster, “Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] What is the interplay between the physical human body and the body politic? This question is at the heart of Ellen J. Amster’s Medicine and…
Where do we get our technologies from? (Answer: everybody else)
How much of your success comes from your ability to read? Would you be able to feed and clothe yourself without the help of others? Would you have…
Photography and Activism: Ethnographic Art
This past September, I traveled to Bali, Indonesia, as a still photographer for Elemental Productions, an ethnographic film production studio owned by UCLA anthropology professor Robert Lemelson. The…
‘HBD’
There is a small but rather vocal group of people variously associated with the human sciences who declare that almost everything humans do is related to and primarily…
Leslie Irvine, “My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and their Animals”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Sociology] Homelessness and stigma go hand in hand, and nowhere is this more apparent than pet ownership among the homeless. From nasty looks…
Leslie Irvine, “My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and their Animals” (Lynne Rienner, 2013)
Homelessness and stigma go hand in hand, and nowhere is this more apparent than pet ownership among the homeless. From nasty looks to outright insults – ” you…
Mr. Bones
It was at an Irish bar South of San Francisco one evening in 1978. I had been playing flute for a Step Dancing group, and afterwards started talking…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
How the oil boom is changing nature and society
What are the side effects of extracting oil in the Canadian tar sands areas? – Before I came to Canada, I thought the environmental crisis was the most…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
On Racial Profiling and the ‘While…’ Phenomenon
Following inquiries from some of my international readers, I would like to take a few moments to explain the title of this blog. The ‘anthropology while white’ formulation…
Altered States, part 2 with Ben Gebo – This Anthro Life
Head on over to our Podcasts page and stream the episode or download it for a mind bending journey through the worlds of psychedelics and hallucinogenics, the effects…
The Moral Domain: Conceptual Issues in Moral Psychology. Vilnius . 9-11 October 2014
The Vilnius Experimental Philosophy Lab, the Departments of General Psychology and of Logic and History of Philosophy organize a conference on: The Moral Domain: Conceptual Issues…
Whiteness Without Complex?
A couple of weeks ago I attended an event called ‘Color Without Complex‘, featuring a public conversation between image activist Michaela Angela Davis and ethnographer and publisher Dr. Ya…
“Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence” Book Review
The documentary world has been talking about Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing for a while now, and the buzz has grown since the film’s recent Oscar nomination,…