(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a “book club” webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan‘s latest book with its author. This précis introduces the discussion.) On a hilltop in what i…
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
A new book by the archeologist David Wengrow: The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Princeton U.P.)The blurb: It has often been …
An interesting, methodologically innovative paper by Jamie Terhani in PLoS One on the phylogeny of “Little Red Riding Hood.”Abstract: Researchers have long been fascinated by the strong continuit…
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Thinking about “Noise” in the history and practice of music means thinking in opposites. Noise is both a musical genre, and…
Thinking about “Noise” in the history and practice of music means thinking in opposites. Noise is both a musical genre, and is not. It both produces a global…
For those who attended the “Why the world needs anthropologists” symposium in Amsterdam yesterday here are the slides. For those that didn’t attend I hope the notes with…
[Qui in Italiano] Why do nomad camps exist? One of this blog’s initial goals was to account for my 2007-2008 ethnography of nomad camps in Florence. In fact,…
Hungarian radio reported that the government’s spokesman said it was “not a secret” that Hungary wanted to become the regional hub for Chinese railway construction. Negotiations were…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology and Society] Addiction has recently emerged as an object of anthropological inquiry. In a wonderful, focused volume of ethnographies of addiction in……
Addiction has recently emerged as an object of anthropological inquiry. In a wonderful, focused volume of ethnographies of addiction in a wide range of contexts, Eugene Raikhel and…
Published on The National Interest (http://nationalinterest.org) Source URL (retrieved on Nov 25, 2013): http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/iran-has-right-enrich%E2%80%94-america-already-recognized…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-o-beeman/iran-nuclear-program_b_4332182.html?utm_hp_ref=tw HUFFINGTON POST The Iran Accord — Profoundly, and Primarily, Symbolic November 24, 2013 William O. …
[Cross-posted from New Books in Native American Studies] Is genetic testing a new national obsession? From reality TV shows to the wild proliferation of home testing kits, there’s ample evidence it…