Developing Responsible AI with David Gray Widder and Dawn Nafus
Contemporary AI systems are typically created by many different people, each working on separate parts or “modules.” This can make it difficult to determine who is responsible for…
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sNAPAshots: Lauren Penney
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/Lauren-Penney-sNAPAshot.mp4 Dr. Penney participated in this interview in her personal capacity on September 21, 2022. Transcript 0:00 [On Screen I…
The Breath We Leave: SAR Literary Day 2023
It was the kind of morning best spent in a worn chair next to a lamp reading a good book. Rain pelted at the r…
Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy…
Written by Jehron Muhammad (RE: Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy defined by Colonial and Post-Colonial History) Africa’s placement in global …
For Mark
A few of us held a Japanese version of an Irish/Klingon wake in honor of our friend and colleague Dr. Mark Hollstein who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly…
Why I Ask My Students to Swear in Class
An anthropologist uses explicit insults to get students thinking about gender and power in everyday language. Plus, a brief explainer on the slang term “sus.” ✽ “Insult me,”…
Michael Jackson, “Friendship” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
In Friendship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant…
“In Tokyo, Skipping the Hot and New for Enduring Haunts”
Photo and story from The New York Times, 5/29/23. Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express…
The sweetest globalization ever… (maybe too sweet; you might want to drop it on the floor a few times and then expose it to smoke for a while to get to a more realistic taste…)
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Ancient DNA Supports Swahili Oral Traditions
Two researchers explain how ancient DNA research is helping to restore the origin story of the Swahili people along the coastal region of East Africa. This article was…
Ökonomische Anthropologie im (Nach-)Krisenmodus
Just zu dem Zeitpunkt, als ich 2008 in Bahrain für meine Masterarbeit zum Thema Islamic Finance Feldforschung betrieb, brach im euro-amerikanischen Raum eine kapitalistische Welt zusammen. Spekulation…
Care and its Resistances
I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit the Gens manifesto, which, as the authors state in the interview, serves as a “declaration of an intention, a call…
Racial anthropology from Germany to India
“Race” has travelled the world along with many anthropologists. Racial knowledge—as the set of thinking that apprehends human diversity through essentializing relatively fixed categorizations of peopl…
A Better Way to Namasté
Namasté is no longer just a pleasant Hindi greeting, but an English lexeme; a unit of language in the form of a word or phrase that has become…
Bonnie Urciuoli on her book, Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/UrciuoliNeoliberalizing#:~:text=Bonnie%20Urciuoli%20is%20Professor%20Emerita,diversity%20in%20U.S.%20higher%20education. Ilana…
Annabel’s amazing school zine project on Ho Chi Minh
done in class 2, in 2022, Nottingham. anabels-2023-zine-project-on-hcmDownload
One of my greatest accomplishments as a professor: Turning a French student into a Hanshin fan!
Continuing the theme of having great pride in my students… In my Globalization class we spend some time talking about global sports and I use baseball as an…
Tribal Reactions to the 1851 Treaties
In the history of treaty making , there were two treaty periods for western Oregon, 1851, and 1853 to 1855. The 1851 treaties, 19 of them, were negotiated…
My students continue to make me proud…
My student (from several years ago), Dan, is the guy with long hair drinking and rocking out. Video: VALKYRIE ZERO – Frogs Of The Round (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wj5gHFoCA
Artificial Intelligence (AI) & ChatGPT in development and humanitarian work-a curated collection
As AI, ChatGPT & broader discussions on the tools & technology behind it enter the digital #globaldev discussion sphere, I started a curated collection of articles & podcasts…
Tazeen M. Ali, “The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam” (NYU Press, 2022)
The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the WMA has…
This Anthro Life 2023 trailer
Just a little trailer for 2023 new listeners to This Anthro Life! Learn more about the podcast here: thisanthrolife.org This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network,…
Awards! Money! Food!
I’m running a field school in Puerto Rico with a focus on ethnography and food sovereignty. Here I am raising my cup of morning coffee to all of…
Links & Contents I Liked 484
Hi all,Welcome to another review after the weekly tour-de-Internet to highlight some great #globaldev readings; global governance, human rights, US arms sales, UN peacekeeping, the capitalistic histor…