Anthropology, Research, and Advice with Jon Schubert #Anthroadvice
Recently, I sat down with Jon Schubert, Allegra Lab’s new Director of Outreach for a conversation about his research, his position at Allegra Lab, and his advice to…
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A necessary complication: towards a richer understanding of affordances
A comment on Elisabetta Costa “Social Media as Practices: an Ethnographic Critique of ‘Affordances’ and ‘Context Collapse’.” EASA Media Anthropology Network’s 60th e-Seminar, 9-23 May 2017 by Christi…
Anthropology under my skin
What follows is the text of the presentation I gave as part of the the Reclaiming Anthropology panel during the Anthropology in Aotearoa Symposium held at Victoria University…
Women selling sex in the postwar London of Doris Lessing
The Four-Gated City was published in 1969 by Doris Lessing. The passage quoted below describes a single young woman walking west on the Bayswater Road in 1950. The…
The Many Hands Shirt: Reuniting a Family and an Heirloom
In late 2013, I got an out-of-the-blue call from Stella Iron Cloud, a member of the Oglala Lakota (a.k.a. Oglala Sioux) Tribe of South Dakota. She asked if…
CFP: Suspensions: Atmospherics of the Anthropocene (deadline May 26)
This panel aims at expanding the theoretical scope on the Anthropocene by attuning to air, breathe, volatility, atmospheres and suspension as modes of attending to the more-than-solid ecologies…
Het verhaal achter haar Ugandese haar
“Een vriendin op een ‘boda boda’ (motortaxi) op weg naar het Victoriameer” Door Esther Platteeuw Op een warme dag in maart loop ik in de straten van Jinja…
The Rising Trend of Pets at Work
Before you set up a desk for Fido, have you thought through what this really means for your office? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Ain’t It Funny: A Note on Social Reproduction & Self-Reflection
somewhere along the way i’ve begun to laugh when i see people have the “men are trash” arguments on social media every like 2-3 months. everybody blows it up,…
Trump and Russia: My articles and interviews
Here is a selection of notable articles and interviews I did on Russia, in reverse chronological order. If you’re trying to catch up, this is good place to…
social conditions play major role in migrant health
Health is about more than just individual behavior and clinical care, it’s about politics and power, say UConn medical anthropologists. In fall 2016, these migrants were forced to…
The Calculable and the Incalculable – A Brief Note on Sustainability and Post-Industrial Identity in the First Quarter of 2017
Eric Boyd University College London (UCL) “But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter…
Swimming with Joris Luyendijk
3. Ruth Benedict is famous for saying that “the purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.” Is this what you were trying to…
Swimming with Joris Luyendijk
3. Ruth Benedict is famous for saying that “the purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.” Is this what you were trying to…
Swimming with Joris Luyendijk
3. Ruth Benedict is famous for saying that “the purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.” Is this what you were trying to…
Facing the Future
books & arts John Urry. 2016. What is the Future? Malden, MA: Polity Press. 226 pages. One of the greatest rewards of reading John Urry’s latest and, unfortunately,…
Ethnography on Trial
Victoria Phaneuf, Lauren Penney and Lindsey Feldman in southern Louisiana in 2013 while conducting research on the midrange effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. “[Ethnography] is the most…
April 2017
Volume 9 | Number 1 | April 2017 Features Ethnography on Trial by Diane Austin, Lauren Penny, and Tom McGuire “There Are No Straight Lines in Nature”: Making…
What Role Did Autism Play in Human Evolution?
The story of human origins is much more varied and complex than we often recognize. Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at The Conversation and has be…
The dilemma’s of public anthropology. Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
What is the role of the university in the public square? By Matthias Teeuwen On Earth Day last Saturday thousands of scientists in hundreds of cities worldwide took…
An encounter with theory #Anthroadvice
Today we will reflect on what it means to ‘encounter, dwell in, read, critique and make use of theory’. The idea of an ‘encounter’ with theory is particularly…
Follow-Up: The Reasons People Don’t Return Their Shopping Carts
It looks like the shopping cart question hit a nerve — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com