Visualising happiness #EmergingDigitalPractices
Most of us are seeking happiness. Now more than ever, happiness has became one of the most pursued goals, and not just on individual level. Governments and companies…
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What Is & What Ought To Be
“The modern collapse of “Reason” & “History” into all things European represented a failure of reason & history that required self-deception regarding Europe̵…
‘Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture’ edited by Fernando Vidal and Nélia Dias
Fernando Vidal and Nélia Dias (Editors). Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture. 264pp., 11 b/w illus., index. London: Routledge, 2016. $163 (hardback), $52.95 (paperback), $52.95 (eBook) In Endanger…
Social-Problem novels and The Three-Headed Dog
I was interviewed in an old pub in Stoke Newington next to a photo-plaque memorialising Writers and Reformers.* I suppose it was by chance, but maybe not. Campaigners…
Social-Problem novels and The Three-Headed Dog
I was interviewed in an old pub in Stoke Newington next to a photo-plaque memorialising Writers and Reformers.* I suppose it was by chance, but maybe not. Campaigners…
anthro in the news 5/29/17
Ready-to-drink food. Credit: soylent.com programmers hooked on Soylent Salon reported on the popularity of Soylent, a meal replacement powder, in California’s Silicon Valley. The article quotes Jan E…
Ramadan Kareem, my beloved Yemen
Dark clouds over Yemen By Marina de Regt. Last Saturday the holy Muslim month of Ramadan started. Ramadan, a month of fasting and feasting, a month of contemplation,…
Indigenous fire management
Indigenous knowledge and practices are increasingly recognized and incorporated by non-Indigenous governments, businesses, and others into their own projects. While these engagements may often take th…
Indigenous fire management
Indigenous knowledge and practices are increasingly recognized and incorporated by non-Indigenous governments, businesses, and others into their own projects. While these engagements may often take th…
English heritage trinkets
Apparently on sale at National Trust sites are mugs with this marking underneath. Thanks Katherine S for the pointer. My view is to welcome this as an historically…
Festival Culture: the Romanticisation of Informal Settlements?
by Tim Perkin The show ‘Borderline’, a PSYCHEdelight production, recently took part to an arts festival in the UK. The show portrayed a satirical account of the Calais…
Special Issue on the Circular Economy in Journal of Industrial Ecology
“Viewed as a concept by some, a framework by others, the CE is an alternative to a traditional take-make-dispose linear economy. A CE aims to keep products, components,…
Cancer, Care and Hope – A Hospital Ethnography on Palliative Care in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Andrea Buhl Photo 1: Ocean Road Cancer Institute Dar es Salaam, Source: ORCI. The emergence of hospices and palliative care in Africa…
How can we talk about our relationship with images? #ThinkingVisually
Why do images matter? How is it that these assemblages of pixels and ink come to shape not only our own view of ourselves, but also of the…
Paper: Internet for remote First Nation communities in Northwestern Ontario
Budka, P. (2017). Internet for remote First Nation communities in Northwestern Ontario. Paper at “3rd CoRe Workshop – Mobility and Remoteness: What is the Connection?“, Vienna, Austr…
Collusion @collusion #collusion #foreigninterference
Important to read Dan Glazebrook and Sukant Chandan as they take apart the British ‘foreign policy’ machinations that help no-one here or there: https://danglazebrook.com/ https://danglaze…
Looking in the Mirror (Part 3 of 3)
“How can the country go up, when the head of state is a sonless widow,” the priest declared. I quietly took notes. I recorded what I was…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XI
How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back,…
Summer Reading Lists for Food Anthropology
David Beriss Here in North America, the academic year is winding down for most of us and we are planning our summer research, writing, and, hopefully, vacation schedules.…
Vale Ben Finney
I was deeply saddened to hear that Ben R. Finney passed away around noon on 23 May 2017. Ben was a professor in the anthropology department at UH…