What Does It Mean to be Human? Your Questions, Answered
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS In this season 2 finale of the SAPIENS podcast, hosts Jen Shannon, Chip Colwell, and Esteban Gómez field questions from listeners on Twitter and at…
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Alberto Cairo, “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and…
Stephen Le, “100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today” (Picador, 2016)
There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of meat,…
What did you do in the war Pop?
Your article, What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, published in History and Anthropology, Volume 30 Issue 5, is now available…
Histórias of Zika by Luísa Reis-Castro
For English click here. Era o ano de 1947. Em uma floresta chamada Zika, em Uganda, liderados pelo médico-entomologista escocês Alexander J. Haddow, pesquisadores colocaram macacos-rhesus em p…
Back to the Anthropological Future: Reflections on the Annual Meetings in Vancouver
Many decades ago, I traveled to the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Francisco. Still a graduate student, I accompanied three fellow anthropologists-in-traini…
Beata Jungselius takes the Page 99 test
My page 99 is found within the chapter ”Summary of findings and contribution of thesis” of my thesis ”Using social media” in which I explore social media use…
Rahul Advani on page 99 of his dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation is the first time in the dissertation that I provide an ethnographic example of how marginalized educated young men native to Pune assert…
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, “Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato‘s Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) is a book about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes…
Emanuela Grama, “Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania” (Indiana UP, 2019)
Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Emanuela Grama‘s new book Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania (Indiana University Press, 2019) explores the socialist…
#Review: Punk and Revolution
In Punk and revolution: Seven more interpretations of Peruvian reality, Shane Greene locates the distinctive elements of Peruvian punk in the context of the political and urban environment…
The Collapse of Societies
By now, the entire world is aware of the historic and unprecedented events occurring in the United States. It seems trite to characterize these events as…
Addendum to Gardening in Eden
”Archaic” Homo sapiens subspecies were widespread across Africa and Eurasia. Not all looked like Neanderthals – many were clearly much more like anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens. …
Ka’hosadi Shasta Peoples of Oregon and California
Chief John, Tecumtum, was the leader of the Rogue River Confederacy for over a year in southwestern Oregon. The Confederacy formed when tribal bands on the Table Rock…
Anthropology without airplanes
By Peter Versteeg and Herbert Ploegman “The Future is a Metaphor” – Ursula K. Le Guin “You have a video conference in twenty minutes,” the voice on the…
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Hi all, Many readers are enjoying their Thanksgiving week & I will enjoy a week in Armenia next week!In the meantime, some food for thought & discussions at…
Book Review: Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room by Daniel Beunza
In Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room, Daniel Beunza analyses how the use of economic models and the moral disengagement this has created…
Call for Papers: Cultural Heritage and Technology
Via Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences The project “Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts” (DigiCONFLICT), in cooperation with Editorial Board of the biannual…
Third R.A.I Photo Salon: Photography and Tourism
Via Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology and Chair of the RAI Photography Committee Sfakian man Manousos Kaftanis is being photographed by a passing traveller at a kiosk in…
Cultural evolution in the digital age
Media coverage: Sturen algoritmen ons gedrag? Dat valt best mee, Trouw (The Netherlands) Tout ce que vous pensiez savoir d’Internet est (sans doute) faux, Le Point (France)
Global Giants: American Empire and Transnational Capital
Review of Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips (Introduction by William I. Robinson). New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018. LCCN 2018017493; ISBN 9781609808716 (pbk.); ISBN 9781609808723…
When Harmony Silences Resistance
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong hold up their hands to represent their five demands for the city’s government. Vivek Prakash/Getty Images Since Samuel (a pseudonym) started marching…