Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 1
Kia ora. Kei to pēhea koutou? For the next ten weeks of weekdays–that’s 55 days in total–I’ll be reading & writing about each piece in Paul Loeb’s edited…
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With summer comes hope
It’s Monday morning and I’m working at home, looking out at the valley, thinking that the year is coming to an end and I don’t know where it…
Conditions & Potentials of Human Life
What is Anthropology? In each generation, the question of “What is Anthropology?” must be answered anew. In 2017, Tim Ingold’s Anthropology and/as Education provides a summation of a…
Do you remember when Australia did this for CHOGM? So its not just a ‘commonwealth’ thing.
Urban beauty. I dunno if I am more disgusted by this event with Ivanka or the WP’ article’s failure to do proper comparative memory work – since I…
Bidding “bon voyage” to la pensée sauvage: Why the “Savage Minds” name change couldn’t come soon enough
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and my ancestors. For many years now,…
Bidding “bon voyage” to la pensée sauvage: Why the “Savage Minds” name change couldn’t come soon enough
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and my ancestors. For many years now,…
Red Tape – Local/Global Culture Visual
Video of a talk with Chris Pinney, Rian Hughes and others http://redtape.rca.ac.uk/2012_02.html Local/Global: The role of culture in the creation and reception of visual communication Performing Art L…
The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals: The right hand knows what the left hand is doing.
This post by Julie Raymond is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. In 2015, the…
Links & Contents I Liked 258
Hi all, Not much to report-the first part of the semester is done and lost of assignments are ready for reading and grading… Development news: Humanitarian Evidence Week;…
New journal: Public Anthropologist
Dear Allies, we are happy to share with you the news about the launch of the new journal Public Anthropologist. Founded by our ally Antonio De Lauri and published by…
AAA at Global Climate Change Conference – “We’re Still In”
This post, the first in a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, was authored by Shirley Fiske. …
FOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE
Ahead of the upcoming AAA annual meeting, here’s a roundup of food and policy news from around the globe: In Brazil, an innovative yet controversial new flour made from…
Allegra Calling for Reviews Editor!
Allegra is looking for a new reviews editor to take over the responsibilities of our Ally Judith Beyer who needs a break to concentrate on the ‘compulsory’ writing of her…
The climate has changed before. But this is different – look at the archeological record
A major new report states unequivocally that humans are changing the planet. Archaeology puts those changes into context – and explains why action is crucial The United States…
The climate has changed before. But this is different – look at the archeological record
A major new report states unequivocally that humans are changing the planet. Archaeology puts those changes into context – and explains why action is crucial The United States…
Port by Jatin Dua
Indian Ocean port cities are worlds of coral and glass. Consider Lamu or Zanzibar on the East African coast with their labyrinthine old towns where ornate buildings made…
Like a Skin
For those of us who have grown up in the ‘West’, we tend to think of religion as a customizable category. Some of us are born into a…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Research on Mature Students’ Educational Experiences
In a follow up from our post on November 2nd, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continues to discuss her new pedagogical research project in collaboration with Ms. Silvie Tanu Halim…
How Archaeologists Uncover History With Trees
In the fall of 1282, a young carpenter went to his favorite stand of juniper trees in southwestern Colorado. That stand contained a large number of tall trees…
An Advance Student Review of Lissa
Reviews of Lissa, the graphic novel launching our new ethnoGRAPHIC series, will start to appear in the next few weeks, including reviews by academics writing for journals, blogs,…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Research on Mature Students’ Educational Experiences
In a follow up from our post on November 2nd, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continues to discuss her new pedagogical research project in collaboration with Ms. Silvie Tanu Halim…
Moral Cities: Religious Belonging and Cohabitation in Urban Spaces. Report from the 2017 German Anthropological Association conference
How do religious subjects, groups, practices and ideas shape and affect the urban spaces of cities like Berlin and Istanbul? How do religious actors establish relations of belonging?…
How do non-Arctic actors’ interests matter the Arctic? – debates around Arctic Circle assembly
From October 13 to October 19, 2017, the Uarctic Thematic network “Arctic Extractive Industries” held a masters/Phd course on the topic of Security, Governance and Geopolitics in relation…
Unraveling an Ancient Code Written In Strings
This khipu, which was made before the Spanish conquest of the Incas, was probably used for accounting, as indicated by the knots in the cords. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images…