Source: Google Images/Creative Commons Syrian refugees in poverty Marketplace (American Public Media) published a piece on the dire economic situation of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon….
There was a small glitch when our book Second Chances was almost ready to go to press. It was a layout problem. The Table of Contents was congested…
Natasha Myers View on Amazon After reading Natasha Myers’s new book, the world begins to dance in new ways. Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke University…
Image courtesy of shanzmataz. It’s the first time I’ve been away from Christmas in Trinidad since I started fieldwork there in 2011 (oh wait, I was home briefly…
So I changed the name of my blog to West’s Ancient World. I think that’s a more accurate reflection of its contents. I thought about West’s Ancient…
Unexpected sides of the ordinary When Dirk Nijland first took him on as a student in his class in ethno-cinematography (1976/77) at Leiden University, Steef had already embarked…
So I changed the name of my blog to West’s Ancient World. I think that’s a more accurate reflection of its contents. I thought about West’s Ancient…
So I changed the name of my blog to West’s Ancient World. I think that’s a more accurate reflection of its contents. I thought about West’s Ancient…
We’ve been working on the problem of making tiny, often invisible marine plastics visible through do-it-yourself (DIY) technologies. You can build your own and investigate your local environment.
After reading Natasha Myers’s new book, the world begins to dance in new ways. Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke University Press, 2015) is a sensory ethnogr……
December 20, 2015: Food Tank put together a list of their 15 favorite books from the last year, which includes sure-to-be-classics on agriculture, food politics, and food security: Food…
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
Tower Hamlets, one of the most ethnically diverse zones in Europe. Source: Wikipedia By Sean Carey According to nineteenth century anthropologists, religion would disappear with modernity, supplanted …
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…