Carpe Diem/”YOLO”
I hang my head in shame over the fact that it has been months since I last posted anything/went back into the world of teenthropology. To be honest…
Category: English
Barbara R. Ambros, “Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] It opens with a parakeet named Homer, and it closes with a dog named Hachiko. In the intervening pages, Barbara Ambros explores…
Barbara R. Ambros, “Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
It opens with a parakeet named Homer, and it closes with a dog named Hachiko. In the intervening pages, Barbara Ambros explores the deaths, afterlives, and necrogeographies of…
Urban camps. A conference session
After having reflected so much on the conditions and the history of camps for Roma in Italy (and France…), I decided to expand my reflections globally and comparatively.…
Leang Neak Ta Ceremony of Spirit Mediums in Cambodia
Last week my friend Paul Christensen invited me to attend a ceremony of spirit mediums with him. The day was fascinating – full of sounds, smells and sights…
The second anniversary
Two years have passed since the outbreak of the revolution in Egypt. Today, there is no end in sight. Since more than a week (I returned to Egypt…
The second anniversary
Two years have passed since the outbreak of the revolution in Egypt. Today, there is no end in sight. Since more than a week (I returned to Egypt…
Mali Meditations
I cannot predict the outcome of what may turn out to be a long lasting military conflict in Mali. Even so, it is worthwhile to pay attention not…
Mali Meditations
I cannot predict the outcome of what may turn out to be a long lasting military conflict in Mali. Even so, it is worthwhile to pay attention not…
Mali Meditations
I cannot predict the outcome of what may turn out to be a long lasting military conflict in Mali. Even so, it is worthwhile to pay attention not…
Mali Meditations
I cannot predict the outcome of what may turn out to be a long lasting military conflict in Mali. Even so, it is worthwhile to pay attention not…
Mali Meditations
I cannot predict the outcome of what may turn out to be a long lasting military conflict in Mali. Even so, it is worthwhile to pay attention not…
Mali Meditations
I cannot predict the outcome of what may turn out to be a long lasting military conflict in Mali. Even so, it is worthwhile to pay attention not…
The Neoliberalized, Debt-plagued, Low Wage, Corporatized University
The latest issue of Anthropologies, including my submission, is now available (see table of contents below). I recommend reading all the articles in full and have quoted selected…
Anthropological Video Games?
Via The New Yorker: A cluster of teenagers gathered around a small table, and passersby could hear them exclaim, “Asian! Yeah, I knew it!” and “Aryan? That seems…
Concepts in #digital #anthropology
Just updated the reference resource on my blog with entries on everything from cyberspace to identity – full list of updated and added subjects below: Cyberspace Network Society…
Concepts in #digital #anthropology
Just updated the reference resource on my blog with entries on everything from cyberspace to identity – full list of updated and added subjects below: Cyberspace Network Society…
Concepts in #digital #anthropology
Just updated the reference resource on my blog with entries on everything from cyberspace to identity – full list of updated and added subjects below: Cyberspace Network Society…
Concepts in #digital #anthropology
Just updated the reference resource on my blog with entries on everything from cyberspace to identity – full list of updated and added subjects below: Cyberspace Network Society…
AARON SWARTZ. GUERILLA OPEN ACCESS MANIFESTO
By Aaron Swartz. July 2008. Reposted to honor his goals, to remember him, and to motivate change in the justice system that failed him. His suicide is…
What are traditional societies for?
From a great review of Jared Diamond’s book The World until Yesterday, by Wade Davis in The Guardian “Traditional societies do not exist to help us tweak our…