Gary Metcalf, “Social Systems and Design” (Springer Verlag, 2014)
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first…
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Gary Metcalf, “Social Systems and Design” (Springer Verlag, 2014)
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first…
A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty
Dear Steven, I’m writing to respond to a letter you posted regarding claims I made in the Guardian about the global poverty narrative. I’m addressing you directly…
Vortrag im Museum Giersch gibt Einblick in die Forschung und das Kunstfilmprojekt „Now I am Dead“
Was bedeutet es heute, als junge Forscherin oder junger Forscher ethnologisch „ins Feld“ zu gehen? Wie wichtig ist eine postkolonial-kritische Reflektion der eigenen Rolle? Und wie ändert sich…
Special Focus: Canguilhem’s Milieu Today
Canguilhem’s historical epistemology continues to inspire historians and anthropologists to attend to how current and former human practices of science shape our conceptualizations and engagement wi…
On the quest for help: From kitchen cabinets to clinics to holy places
Excruciating pains slowed many of the women survivors of war down, bound them to their couches, frustrated interactions with their children, and meant that work was left undone.…
Ep. #30 Bringing your heart home: Tiffany Cain talks Tihosuco identity and heritage projects
“Especially when you’re dealing with questions of representation of the past, politics around the past, especially when you’re dealing with not just the past, but a violent past,…
An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 1 by Keith Hart
Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, well-known for his inspiring YouTube lectures and documentary shorts, has received over a hundred application…
Beginnings of the Umpqua District, Agency, and Reservation
The Umpqua Reservation was located on the central Oregon Coast and was established as a reservation in May of 1856. Previously, there had been another Umpqua Reservation located…
Dreaming Borders: On Cats and Trauma by Malini Sur
I dream of a black cat. She jumps over a barbed wire fence, and across it. She leaps from one side from one side of the fence to…
Web Roundup: Marketing, Masculinity, and Commodity Activism by Katherine Warren
On January 13th, Gillette, a razor blade brand, released a new ad campaign called, “We Believe.” The video ad opens with a collage of news clips that—unlike the…
Call for Book Reviews
By Alissa Whitmore, Book Reviews Editor Do you love thinking critically about your favorite comics, superhero tv shows, or the latest sci fi epic that has hit the…
Links & Contents I Liked 310
Hi all, A good, rich, interesting #globaldev week is coming to its end! Development news: IMF doesn’t like global consultancies (no, really!); new humanitarians; DfID’s privatization; don’t believe…
Mani Rao, “Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
What role does mantra play in the lives of Hindu practitioners? Mani Rao takes us on a journey to three sacred sites across India’s Andhra-Telangana region. The practitioners…
Mani Rao, “Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
What role does mantra play in the lives of Hindu practitioners? Mani Rao takes us on a journey to three sacred sites across India’s Andhra-Telangana region. The practitioners…
Seeing light in a different light
By Matthias Teeuwen Some time ago, I heard Tim Ingold deliver…
Marx Trot on again in 2019?
The Marx Trot is going to return in the summer 2019. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, some old reading (the original posts have comments but…
Using archaeology to understand the past, present, future of climate change
This article originally appeared on The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. A photo from the tragic “Camp Fire,” the most destructive wildfire in California history, shows a…
Business and design anthropology sessions at the March 2019 Society for Applied Anthropology conference
The preliminary program for the March 2019 Society for Applied Anthropology meetings is now available online. Here’s a list of … More
Would Our Early Ancestors Have Watched the Super Bowl?
[no-caption] Nigel Renny/Flickr “It’s not your fault you watch football all day—man has always been captivated by watching stuff,” states a Coke Zero commercial that aired during the…
Writing disability
Writing inequalities Writing disability through rewriting representations of inequality and vulnerability. Image: R. Cupitt 2018 When writing inequalities, the language we use and our writings betray …
Vrouw in Jemen
Door Marina de Regt In het Volkskrant magazine van afgelopen zaterdag 26 januari j.l. doet journaliste Ana van Es verslag van haar bezoek…
David J. Puglia, “Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore ‘Hon’: The Folk in the City” (Lexington Books, 2018)
Folklorist David J. Puglia is an assistant professor at the City University of New York and in his latest book – Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon”:…