Creating the Blueprint
In this @designopssummit presentation, Jennifer Kanyamibwa shares six life lessons that have informed her work as a Design Program Manager.
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Understanding Experiences
In this @designopssummit presentation, @hollyface1975 reminds us to use our own methods to deeply explore our own teams and how to make them more effective, more integrated, and…
The Underlying Hope of Anthropology: Reflecting on the Work of Jane Hill
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
The Underlying Hope of Anthropology: Reflecting on the Work of Jane Hill
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
Georgien ist viel reicher
Die Buchmesse in Frankfurt ist schon ein paar Tage vorbei. Noch immer stapeln sich Bücher zu Georgien, Sachbücher und Belletristik, auf meinem Schreibtisch. Auf Monate und vielleicht Jahre…
Inter-topia: Productive tensions within the collisions of techno-utopianism and techno-dystopianism | AAA 2018 Panel
Are you going to this year’s AAA annual meeting in San Jose? Come check out this great panel and say hello! Panel: Inter-topia: Productive tensions within the collisions of…
The Dream of the Green Hog Revolution
[no-caption] Ezra Weiss This September, as Hurricane Florence bore down on the North Carolina coast, it spread a soup of stinking effluent from at least 110 lagoons on…
Narrating MeToo by Pamela Runestad
Bill Cosby is in prison, and Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer have been fired. Donald Trump is in office despite his own admission that he has grabbed women…
Color is culture (disruption watch)
Watching for the future feels optional. Watching for disruption, that’s more urgent. One way to look for disruption is to watch our color palette. Cause color is culture.…
Flávio Eiró: On Bolsonaro: Brazilian democracy at risk
Picture a street handcraft market in a touristic village called Porto de Galinhas in Pernambuco, Northeast Region of Brazil. A few days before the second round of the…
Making #AmAnth18 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
The 2018 AAA meetings are upon us and we’re looking forward to getting out from this rainy, cold Toronto weather and into some California sun! In keeping with…
Framing The Revolution In Chinese
It will come as no surprise to most of us that how the Egyptian Revolution, and the Arab Spring more generally, was covered in global media would depend…
Joanna Davidson, “Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a book about change. The Jola, a people living in…
APLA at AAA 2018: No Small Change
Co-Sponsored by the Society for Economic Anthropology and APLA Since 2011, anthropologists have been researching cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the blockchain technologies on which they are bas…
APLA at AAA 2018: Magical Thinking and Tinkering
In a global context of forced mobility, growing inequality, and economic restructuring and austerity, actors in the social domain face an expanding sphere of intervention and, often, shrinking…
APLA at AAA 2018: The Uses of Trust
The English legal historian Frederic Maitland argued (around 1900) that the trust was one of the great innovations of his country’s legal development: a flexible legal mechanism that…
Serie Seniorprofessuren / Prof. Rainer Voßen im Interview
Wer sind eigentlich die knapp 30 Seniorprofessorinnen und –professoren an der Goethe-Universität, die sich auch nach ihrer Pensionierung noch in der Lehre engagieren? In einer mehrteiligen Serie werde…
Review: Burger
Burger (Object Lessons): Carol J. Adams. London: Bloomsbury. 2018. 174 pp. ISBN 9781501329463 James P. Verinis Anthropology and Sociology Roger Williams University Along with personal stereo a…
How to read a t-shirt (and the future)
Listening for the future is a tricky thing. If we listen far enough out into the future, we are dealing with very weak signals. Or, better, we are…
Should you major in Cultural Anthropology?
A first-year student in my Anthropology 101 course emailed to let me know that they found the class readings intriguing and that they loved to learn about cultural…
Should you major in Cultural Anthropology?
A first-year student in my Anthropology 101 course emailed to let me know that they found the class readings intriguing and that they loved to learn about cultural…
Is Space a Human Place?
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS From space junk and the International Space Station to space colonization and SpaceX, space is becoming a more human place. What will it mean when…
"Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-End Coffee"
Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-end Coffee
“The Hope Is in Organizing:” An Interview with Iconic Farmworker Activist Dolores Huerta
Post author Andre Fernando Biehl is a junior at Princeton High School in Princeton, NJ. As part of an independent social science project, he has been working with…