The Power of Vulnerability Revisited
This episode focuses on a conversation between Adam and Amy about a TEDtalk titled The Power of Vulnerability presented by Brené Brown. In this video, Brown breaks down the…
This episode focuses on a conversation between Adam and Amy about a TEDtalk titled The Power of Vulnerability presented by Brené Brown. In this video, Brown breaks down the…
This episode focuses on a conversation between Adam and Amy about a TEDtalk titled The Power of Vulnerability presented by Brené Brown. In this video, Brown breaks down the…
Can one be an academic and a mother? Of course. Of course you can, and yet, this question is a common one. It is one female graduate students…
Part 3: Legality (or lack thereof) (In the last post, I promised to start this one with some explanation of what goes into ayahuasca that makes it the concern…
Scholars of the Pacific are mourning the loss of Teresia Teaiwa this week. Teresia was an iconic figure in Pacific Studies: A poet and critic, dedicated teacher, and…
Ellen Messer March 17–St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday during Lent, when Roman Catholics ordinarily forego meat. But this year the Boston-based Roman Catholic Cardinal O’Malley gav…
What is the most iconic military vehicle ever created? For both visual and acoustic reasons, I’d suggest it’s the Huey helicopter of the Vietnam War era. World War…
What’s been called part of the “global war” to destroy marriage, “your latest right-wing conspiracy,” and the driving idea behind the “anti-LGBT backlash in Latin America,” but “doesn’t…
I am very pleased to announce that my new book is out. Technically, Amazon and other outlets might not ship it until April 4th, but I saw it…
Kathleen McAuliffe‘s This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society (Mariner Books, 2017) unveils the world of parasites. From the influence…
The national animal On a small piece of grassland near a small village in South Nepal, a local man offers the body of a dead cow to the…
The period since 1945 saw a revolution in world society which, by the 1990s, had turned into widespread popular emancipation from the repressive state controls installed during the…
What if scholars need to go rogue? If anthropologists need to go rogue? In the USA right now, we are not in normal times, but in a new…
If in Florida, get to this on March 24 2017 at 8pm, at: 265 Aragon Ave Coral Gables, FL 33134 (Click here to go to the website): Filed under:…
Tëpi Pajé (Photo: Barbara Arisi) By Barbara Arisi Tëpi Pajé was a powerful shaman of the Matis people. He was called xó’xókit, a word that names the one…
Reclame voor Citraland Door Freek Colombijn Een risico van antropologisch veldwerk is dat we soms vergeten hoe sterk we gebonden zijn aan onze eigen ervaringen. We doen…
Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, the Hartwick College Department of Anthropology presented a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price, Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s…
Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, the Hartwick College Department of Anthropology is pleased to present a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price, Professor of Anthropology…
The CIA and Anthropology Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, the Hartwick College Department of Anthropology presented a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price, Professor of…
We have realized a big museum goal–establishing a paid internship program at MMWC. Please check out the announcement (below and here) and encourage bachelors and masters students to…
celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2013 Source: thepipe26, Wikimedia holidays and sociality The Daily Item (Sunbury, PA) carried an article about local celebrations of St.…
In the popular imaginary a pimp is a mean man engaged in pushing a few prostitutes around and taking their money. Usually portrayed as black or foreign, he…
Didier Fassin, in an important recent intervention, directed our attention to the “public afterlife of ethnography.” We as anthropologists do not and cannot expect to control how anthropological theor…