Remembering Francis Bossuyt
The evening before his 31st birthday, biologist Francis Bossuyt went for his daily swim in the lake at Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Manu Park, Peru, and was…
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How scholars in the Middle East developed anthropology more than 1000 years ago
Anthropology emerged in a relatively high scientific level in the wider Middle East before it existed as a discipline in the West. Therefore, the label of colonialism often…
Jared Diamond, “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] It’s pretty common–and has long been–for people to think that the “way it used to be” is better than the way it…
Jared Diamond, “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?” (Viking, 2012)
It’s pretty common–and has long been–for people to think that the “way it used to be” is better than the way it is. This tendency to idealize an…
– Academics, speak out against neoliberalism!
It was one of the worst economic crashes in history: A conversation with anthropologist Gísli Pálsson about the meltdown in Iceland, dubious entanglements between universities…
Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] The Hebrews called it “Eden.” The Greeks and Romans called it the “Golden Age.” The philosophes–or Rousseau at least–called it the…
Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)
The Hebrews called it “Eden.” The Greeks and Romans called it the “Golden Age.” The philosophes–or Rousseau at least–called it the “State of Nature.” Marx and Engels called…
Travels in the Congo: First Things First
So, I’ve been travelling and working in the Congo for about a month now and I already have an awful lot to write about – both the awesome…
Malaysian General Election May 5th: Who can meet the expectations of the majority?
Malaysia’s thirteenth general elections (GE13) will be a battle of the coalitions, pitting the world’s most successful ruling coalition – the 13 party Barisan Nasional (BN/National Front) against…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
A cultural icon
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
When melting glaciers take away people’s water
Poor people are most affected by climate change, economic crises and discrimination. Anthropologist Astrid Bredholt Stensrud wants to find out how people go about i…
Saving Energy: It’s also about culture
– We can reduce our energy use only through a radically different vision of what it means to be modern, says anthropologist Harold Langford Wilhite.
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…