Writing as a kind of observation
This is a piece of writing about writing. The original aim was simply to explore the thought that writing diaries, writing anthropological fieldnotes and maintaining blogs are activities…
Category: English
The Cheerful Pessimist: A shaman’s farewell to Mariano Vicente Kicha
“Ariota pairani…” ‘And so it was long ago…’With those simple words in his rich, sonorous voice, Mariano began each one of the dozens of myths, folk tales and…
The Cheerful Pessimist: A shaman’s farewell to Mariano Vicente Kicha
“Ariota pairani…” ‘And so it was long ago…’With those simple words in his rich, sonorous voice, Mariano began each one of the dozens of myths, folk tales and…
The Cheerful Pessimist: A shaman’s farewell to Mariano Vicente Kicha
“Ariota pairani…” ‘And so it was long ago…’With those simple words in his rich, sonorous voice, Mariano began each one of the dozens of myths, folk tales and…
Do you prefer your sciences hard or soft?
High profile entrepreneur Luke Johnson prefers them hard, at the expense of the soft. I criticised him for his view that research and education funding should be concentrated…
Do you prefer your sciences hard or soft?
High profile entrepreneur Luke Johnson prefers them hard, at the expense of the soft. I criticised him for his view that research and education funding should be concentrated…
Do you prefer your sciences hard or soft?
High profile entrepreneur Luke Johnson prefers them hard, at the expense of the soft. I criticised him for his view that research and education funding should be concentrated…
Do you prefer your sciences hard or soft?
High profile entrepreneur Luke Johnson prefers them hard, at the expense of the soft. I criticised him for his view that research and education funding should be concentrated…
– Time for a radically interdisciplinary global anthropology
Social anthropologists are not only crossing disciplinary boundaries. They have also started studying other species.
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
This material has moved to the updated list of Anthropology Blogs 2017. Thanks!
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…