Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part XVI
My latest articles and interviews: The Trump ship may finally be sinking (8/21/17) — Globe and Mail Steve Bannon may be a bigger asset to the White House outside…
Category: English
As the summer winds down…GET OFF MY LAWN!!
At the beginning of the summer, Krystal D’Costa wrote an intriguing piece about The American Obsession with Lawns. Don’t think you’re interested in green, gardening? This post has…
Data overload
How do we proceed to live in a world in which data overwhelms us? At every point we seem to be participating in capture schemes that reduce us…
The forgotten story of how a toxic spill and a book launched Britain’s environmental movement
When in 1963 some farm animals in the parish of Smarden in Kent became sick and died, suspicions fell on a nearby pesticide factory run by a division…
Historical Eclipse Fake-Outs
Public memory can be problematic. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Path of Climate Change
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Courtney Cecale. In the 1980s the Pastoruri glacier was one of the greatest adventure tourism destinations in South America. Over 100,000 people visited…
Follow up: #Tinder as a research method
Following the unexpected popularity of my May article Tinder as a Methodological Tool I was asked by Allegra to write a follow up expanding on the subject and…
Teaching in place: fostering relationality and reciprocity in the classroom in 2017
view of the Rideau River from Carleton University campus, Ottawa, Canada It’s that time of year again when professors like myself are editing, updating, or drafting syllabi…
The Church of the Solar Eclipse
Extreme eclipse chasers travel the world roughly every 18 months to witness a total solar eclipse from inside the path of totality. Murray Anderson-Clemence/Getty Images Glenn Schneider r…
Links & Contents I Liked 246
Hi all, August still seems to be a bit quieter as we are slowly getting into gear for a new semester and new academic adventures! Nonetheless, there’s always…
Great anthropologists who fought fascism
Some of you who — unlike me — have not had family members murdered by nazis or had every synagogue in their home town firebombed in the same…
Reproducing the Speculative: Reproductive Technology, Education, and Science Fiction by Kaitlyn Sherman
Walter, a Synthetic, quietly makes his rounds in the brightly lit, pristine interior of the Covenant, a Weyland Corporation Spaceship. Fingers pressed to the translucent, impermeable glass, he…
Jediism as Religion: Anthropology for a Changing World
Last Thursday, anthroeverywhere! wrote about Gillian Parrish’s post on Jedi-training in the classroom, which they use as a means to teach implicit skills such as empathy to students. Today, w…
A Moment of Bad Faith
Two days ago we learned the true nature of Donald Trump’s beliefs. He is an apologist for the KKK and American neo-Nazis
A Moment of Bad Faith
Two days ago we learned the true nature of Donald Trump’s beliefs. He is an apologist for the KKK and American neo-Nazis
A Moment of Bad Faith
Two days ago we learned the true nature of Donald Trump’s beliefs. He is an apologist for the KKK and American neo-Nazis
‘Rivers of bones’: rituals of life, death and hunting in the American west
Communal bison hunts were used by Native Americans for upwards of 11,000 years on the great plains to procure meat and other goods for the winter It’s still…
Cooking Up an International Market for Quinoa – new essay by Adam Gamwell and Corinna Howland out today on SAPIENS!
Hey there in Anthro Land, we’re thrilled to let you know TAL’s Adam Gamwell and Corinna Howland have published a feature photo essay on everyone’s favorite food – quinoa…
Checking in with the 2017 AAA Interns
The AAA Internship Program is funded through generous contributions from our members. To make a donation and support the future of this program visit our website. Karina Nogueras As I…
Cooking Up an International Market for Quinoa
The bright-red cuchi wila quinoa has a bitter-tasting outer coating, called saponin, that protects the plant from predators and houses a black seed. This heritage variety of quinoa…