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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…
Some reflections on research on development assistance and participatory development
The development assistance agenda has since the 70-ties been dominated by a decentralized approach, and participatory development, including the basic presumptions that development activities should t…
Life on water: a photographic tale from Cambodia
Back in August 2012 I spent a day at the Vietnamese floating village at Kampong Chnnang, central Cambodia. Lying at the mouth of the Tonle Sap Lake, much…
Wildcat Way Promo Video
A little promo produced by Kansas State University
Sand in My Syllabus; Teaching Anthropology ‘Way Off Campus
In December 2012, I was invited to Oslo to give a presentation on pedagogy. This is what I said: I’ve taught anthropology in university classrooms; a lot. Many…
End of Year Reflections on American Culture and Politics
It is clear that lists of events are sometimes indicative of social and political change, but do they tell us anything about the state of contemporary American culture…
End of Year Reflections on American Culture and Politics
It is clear that lists of events are sometimes indicative of social and political change, but do they tell us anything about the state of contemporary American culture…
End of Year Reflections on American Culture and Politics
It is clear that lists of events are sometimes indicative of social and political change, but do they tell us anything about the state of contemporary American culture…
End of Year Reflections on American Culture and Politics
It is clear that lists of events are sometimes indicative of social and political change, but do they tell us anything about the state of contemporary American culture…
End of Year Reflections on American Culture and Politics
It is clear that lists of events are sometimes indicative of social and political change, but do they tell us anything about the state of contemporary American culture…
End of Year Reflections on American Culture and Politics
It is clear that lists of events are sometimes indicative of social and political change, but do they tell us anything about the state of contemporary American culture…
[Book Review] Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
My review of Nick Dines’ Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples is available via the Open Anthropology Cooperative Press. You can read/download the full…
New Media Practices and the 2012 Presidential Elections
The past few posts I have written all belong to a collection of case studies about new media practices and the 2012 elections. I want to collect them…
Unwanted: Don’t bother earning a degree in anthropology or archaeology
Yahoo! Education (an appropriate name, I’d say) has today published an article on the top 5 most unwanted, unhelpful degrees a person could possibly waste their time earning.…
Newspapers
So, after a long hiatus brought on partly by my web-host deleting my website and not keeping any back-ups (!), and partly by me being busy with work…
Signe Rousseau, “Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet” (AltaMira Press, 2012)
The other day I found myself in a cooking situation that’s fairly common: I had a few odd ingredients–some oxidized strips of bacon, a withered red pepper, a…