The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan: Allegra’s Judith Beyer discusses her new book
Sean Guillory of Sean’s Russia Blog spoke with our Publications and Reviews Editor Judith Beyer about her book The force of custom. Law and the ordering of everyday…
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Pacific Reading PDFs Update (12/20/16)
I have just found this amazing resource/blog – highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in Oceania. Beauty of Oceania LINK TO PACIFIC READING DROPBOX These…
Wearing slammerkins and dreaming: Sex work in fiction
In Slammerkin, Mary is a street prostitute in mid-18th-century London. Thrown out of her dismal basement home by a mother absolute in condemnation of Mary’s pregnancy at 14,…
Wearing slammerkins and dreaming: Sex work in fiction
In Slammerkin, Mary is a street prostitute in mid-18th-century London. Thrown out of her dismal basement home by a mother absolute in condemnation of Mary’s pregnancy at 14,…
Review: Real Pigs
Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork Brad Weiss. Duke University Press, 2016. Neri de Kramer University of Delaware This book is an…
anthro in the news 6/5/17
credit: Strategic Culture Foundation online journal 8/31/16 hope for democracy at the grassroots Japan Today published commentary from social anthropologist Dame Henrietta Moore, director of the Insti…
Music of Anthropology
For the next issue of Open Anthropology I am assembling a list of articles on music. Consistent with the mission of Open Anthropology, these articles will be open…
Music of Anthropology
Music, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology For the June 2017 issue of Open Anthropology I assembled 15 articles for an issue titled “Music – Anthropology – Life.” Under the new agree…
Animating Resistance
Anthropology as Public Pedagogy The horned serpent serves as a witness to the events that unfold during the Pueblo uprising. Warren Montoya On January 25, President Trump signed…
#AltAc Anthropology Careers – The draw of experiential design firms
Paul Heartly, a Toronto native and anthropologist, gave unique insight into his hiring PhDs for an ‘alternative’ career. In a 2015 interview for Alt-Ac Advisor, Heartly stated: it is interest…
#AltAc Anthropology Careers – The draw of experiential design firms
Paul Heartly, a Toronto native and anthropologist, gave unique insight into his hiring PhDs for an ‘alternative’ career. In a 2015 interview for Alt-Ac Advisor, Heartly stated: it is interest…
Music of Anthropology
Music, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology For the June 2017 issue of Open Anthropology I assembled 15 articles for an issue titled “Music – Anthropology – Life.” Under the new agree…
Recycling Reconsidered: A must-read text for discard studies
If I could only recommend one text in discard studies, it would be Recycling Reconsidered by Samantha MacBride (2011, MIT Press).
Anthropology in an Age of ‘Dangerous Nonsense’ (Part 1)
In the waning moments of 2016, one man, armed with an AR-15 and “information” about a conspiracy related to Hilary Clinton, walked into a DC pizza parlor hell…
My speech at the March for Truth in St Louis
Today I spoke at the March for Truth at St Louis. Thank you to everyone who came out to the Arch and heard me speak and a special…
On the flexibility of tattoos #ThinkingVisually
Thus far in this thread we have discussed images as powerful communicative links between individuals and society around it. In this post, I want to focus on how…
Nevermore
av Christer Lindberg Det förmodligen mest udda inslaget på årets SANT-konferens i Stockholm var nog min presentation av fotoboken New York’s Raven (Transco-Script, Malmö 2017) under sektionen nya…
Early Career Jobs for IU Folklore and Ethnomusicology Ph.D.s in 2014
In order to answer a question that was posed during the recent Future of American Folkloristics conference, I took a few moments recently to crunch some placement data…
Vale Michael Agar
It is with sadness that I write about the death of Mike Agar on 20 May 2017. Others have written about his life and his passing on redfish.com and Anthropology News.…
Anthropology for Everyone
Michael Wesch and Ryan Klataske of Kansas State University have been working for the past year with WordPress Guru Tom Woodward to create a free “Connected Course” in…