Imagining new imaginaries for the university
Are we seeing a shift away from explicitly imagining alternatives to the status quo? Are we even still capable, as a society, of envisaging these alternative imaginaries? There…
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Why Are Some Caves Full of Shoes?
I’ve spent a good chunk of my life hiking the U.S. Southwest, and I’ve kicked my share of sharp rocks and prickly cactuses as I’ve walked across hot…
Reclaiming “Allahu Akbar” from Semantic Pejoration
Allāhu akbar, the Arabic phrase meaning “God is the greatest,” has gained connotations in US public discourse that differ vastly from its meaning among Muslims. Understanding this process…
Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)
Update August 2018: This guest post by Robert Seguin on “Farmers and Foodies of the Future” was originally written in August 2015. Three years on, a post by…
Wendy Laybourn and Devon Goss, “Diversity in Black Greek-Letter Organizations: Breaking the Line” (Routledge, 2018)
Black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) appeared as an initiative from black college students to provide support, opportunities and service, as well as a free space for the black community.…
Fates of Forests in Borneo: A 40-Year Retrospective
By F. E. “Jack” Putz, University of Florida § After barreling through rural Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) for several hours in a double-cabbed pick-up I was grateful when a bed-rider…
The #HiddenCurriculum of Applying to Graduate School (for Anthropology)
A recent conversation on #AcademicTwitter has been about the #HiddenCurriculum, that is, all the things that you’re expected to know but are never formally taught or the hidden…
Call for Posts: Natural Histories
Landskapsstudie från Barbizon. By Carl Larsson, via Wikimedia Commons. {{PD-US}} Long-term field research in a single locale has been central to the environmental sciences, including environmental ant…
What is Design Anthropology? “I have no idea”. Interview with Jan Chipchase
Jan is an award-winning researcher, designer, author and the founder of Studio D. He also founded field equipment brand SDR Traveller. He was previously Principal Scientist at Nokia’s…
Web Roundup: Annals of Injury and Dispossession by Talia Gordon
In a 2013 essay in American Anthropologist, Andrea Muehlebach summarized the concept of “precarity” as “a shorthand for…the multiple forms of nightmarish dispossession and injury that our age…
Is Uncertainty a Useful Concept? Tracking Environmental Damage in the Lao Hydropower Industry
The collapse last week of a major hydropower dam in southern Laos, the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy, as a tropical storm dumped an unknown, but massive, volume of water into…
Meal Kits: Our Culinary Future?
Amy B. Trubek, University of Vermont Americans spend more and more money on food prepared outside the home, and every day cooking becomes more episodic and less…
anthro in the news 7/30/18
Stop them before they stop us – Bumper stickers on a car in Austin, Texas, 2016. Credit: Lars Plougmann/Flickr ethics of AI weapons research The Guardian reported that…
Kein Anker für Schutzsuchende – eine Stellungnahme zu den geplanten AnkER-Zentren
Von Tim Röing, Esther Meininghaus und Simone Christ Spätestens seit der Vorstellung des sogenannten Masterplans Migration durch Innenminister Horst Seehofer sind die geplanten AnkER-Zentren für…
Student Guest Post: 10 things I wish I knew in my first semester as a first gen student
Editor’s Note: This post was sent to use by one of our Anthropology Honours students, Brieal M-T (@mxmoireabh for the Twitter savvy), who has been very open with…
How to Pay Attention by Nick Seaver
The main challenge in running a seminar on the anthropology of attention is that such a thing doesn’t exist.* While anthropologists often think quite deeply about attention, worrying…
Book Review: The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
In The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale offers an indictment of contemporary policing in the US, condemning not only the roles and actions of the US police, but…
Panel: “Digital Visuality” @ VANDA 2018
PANEL “DIGITAL VISUALITY” @ Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2018 (September 19-22, 2018) Convenors: Elke Mader & Philipp Budka Thursday, 20 September 11:00-17:00 Room 4 (New Institute Building (…
Warum fehlt der Rechtsextremismus in einer Statistik der Religionen und Weltanschauungen?
Am 24. Juli erschien der neue Verfassungsschutzbericht, am Freitag davor die Kirchenstatistiken der katholischen und evangelischen Kirche. Es war also an der Zeit für eine Aktualisierung der Religion…
10 Jahre PASS: „Im Kern geht es darum, den Datensalat zu entwirren“
Interview mit Christian Dickmann (Datenaufbereiter) Vor zehn Jahren wurde die Studie „Lebensqualität und soziale Sicherung“, auch bekannt unter der Abkürzung PASS – Panel „Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sic…
Single Shot: Poisoned Hyena
Each entry in the “Single Shot” visual anthropology series presents a single photograph or unbroken shot of video taken during ethnographic fieldwork, plus a short description, with an…
Erste Eindrücke
Nachdem ich nun schon ungefähr drei Wochen – keiner weiß es so genau, denn mit der Ankunft haben wir alle irgendwie unser Zeitgefühl verloren – hier bin, habe…
Robert Reich’s “Inequality for All”: A Documentary Review
Why is there growing inequality in wealth distribution in the US? Is inequality inevitable? If inequality is inevitable, can it be useful? Can inequality become a problem? If…
MLP v Wonderland #mykidcoulddothat #prouddad
Art by Theodor Apollo (he dictated the text to me to save time – his creative process out-runs his letter-craft at this point – and I may not…