Romanian shepherds at the baracades
Shepherds protesting in Bucharest. Photo EPA. Everyone once in a while I read a news headline that makes me do a double take: “Romanian riot police fire tear…
Shepherds protesting in Bucharest. Photo EPA. Everyone once in a while I read a news headline that makes me do a double take: “Romanian riot police fire tear…
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Sara Gonzalez as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Sara is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington,…
Faisal party at Versailles Conference. Left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri as-Said, Prince Faisal (front), Captain Pisani (rear), T. E. Lawrence, Faisal’s attendant (name unknown), Captain Hassan Kha…
On Saturday 28 November Alun Withey and I hosted Framing the Face: New Perspectives of the History of Facial Hair, a one day conference funded by the University…
Big Chief, Big Daddy, Big Babysitter to the World If “winning hearts and minds” is at the top of your global campaign agenda for strategic communication, then you…
Territory and Justice: a research network Foreword by Cara Nine Papers delivered by participants at the ?Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers? Workshop (4-5 June 2015, UCC) Paulina…
From the recent conference in Oxford:
Here are the 10 most-downloaded articles from AnthroSource, AAA’s digital database for content from our publications. AAA members get free, unlimited access to AnthroSource. Just login with your…
This post is part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). Even for the kind of conservative…
Anthropology is beyond parody these days. I don’t know if young anthropologists realise how silly they look – I assume they don’t, or they’d stop doing what…
Dear people, my Yamal Nenets people! Dear reindeer herders! Listen, what I am going to say. Mostly I am speaking to you, young people who are living now…
Anthropology is beyond parody these days. I don’t know if young anthropologists realise how silly they look – I assume they don’t, or they’d stop doing what…
Anthropology is beyond parody these days. I don’t know if young anthropologists realise how silly they look – I assume they don’t, or they’d stop doing what…
Encoding Poverty, Backwardness, and Dependency in US Military Imagery Bare feet. Ever since I was a small child, I have been made aware of how not wearing…
Dear readers, this post is late and I apologize for nothing. Send me any links for inclusion here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. I hope you’ve been enjoying the glow of…
More political instability looms in another southern European country. No clear majority emerged from the ballot box in Spain yesterday, and the two-party system seems to be a…
Here are the top ten most-read Anthropology News articles of 2015! 1. Indian Mascots: Naturalized Racism and Anthropology Bernard C. Perley 2. Mentoring the Next Generation of Practicing…
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons Syrian refugees in poverty Marketplace (American Public Media) published a piece on the dire economic situation of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon….
There was a small glitch when our book Second Chances was almost ready to go to press. It was a layout problem. The Table of Contents was congested…
Natasha Myers View on Amazon After reading Natasha Myers’s new book, the world begins to dance in new ways. Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke University…
Image courtesy of shanzmataz. It’s the first time I’ve been away from Christmas in Trinidad since I started fieldwork there in 2011 (oh wait, I was home briefly…
So I changed the name of my blog to West’s Ancient World. I think that’s a more accurate reflection of its contents. I thought about West’s Ancient…