Cybernetics and Anthropology – Past and Present
I continue to wrestle with the legacy of cybernetics in anthropology – and a future premised on an anthropological bases for the digital. https://histanthro.org/notes/communication-without-…
I continue to wrestle with the legacy of cybernetics in anthropology – and a future premised on an anthropological bases for the digital. https://histanthro.org/notes/communication-without-…
What can be the fate of humanity? There has been a lot of attention paid recently to the question of “Peak Oil” worldwide, and what our industrial civilization…
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positions…
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positions…
Amrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D. 2007) and Psychoanalyst (Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 2019). She is the author of Women’s Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of…
Remembering serving on this film festival doco jury. A great experience: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/docu-on-kol-filmmakers-karbala-journey-wins-award/articleshow/87875803.cms …
‘There are not many mistakes as significant as the conception that class consciousness is a matter of morality’ (Reich [1935] 1971: 24) < the one who must steal…
Sure, rescuing Matt Damon from Mars is easier than fixing Earth, but planetary survival is imperative and cannot be left to NASA’s zero-gravity speculative research project or the…
The Entanglement If the 18th century gave us the Enlightenment, which was a mixed blessing, as they say, what are we to make of what the 21st century…
On January 15, 2025, from 8:00 – 10:00 AM, we (the shrine elders and the recruited volutnteer/visual anthropologist) held the Tondo Matsuri at our local shrine, Ubusuna Jinja,…
SAR Moments: The Enduring Puzzle of Inequality, Insights from Archaeology at Chaco Canyon …
In this excerpt from A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India, Asiya Islam examines the lives of educated young women working in precarious jobs in Delhi’s service sector. The…
Highlights from a Year of SAR Native Artist Fellowships …
The Silent Knight: Ideologies of Languagelessness in BATGIRL (2000-2006) by Mike Mena Why study comics? Simple: they reflect and refract ideologies present in everyday life. Comics are a…
This presentation introduces the framework and key themes of my dissertation, which explores the lives of Chinese tech workers in Silicon Valley through an anthropological and sociological lens.…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty. This article was originally…
In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus. ✽ I keep my…
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Gerald Roche, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe…
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson. 2024. Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer. University of California Press. 264 pp. ISBN: 9780520401563. Yingkun Hou (Southeast Missouri Stat…
The deadline to submit proposals to the best food studies conference in North America has been extended to January 31! You still have time to submit a proposal.…
A translator’s notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a megadam. “Translation Notes” is part of the collection…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/six-paintings-from-papunya Jennifer Biddle: As a way of beginning, could you briefly introduce yourselves, and what brought you together on this project. …