Becoming an UrbanA Fellow
Are you passionate about sustainability and justice in #cities? Would you like to share your passion, knowledge and skills in a collaborative and creative way? [yes and yes…?!…
CFP: GOSSIP
iStock Psst, have you heard? We’re making a gossip issue. For our January/February issue, Anthropology News is indulging in some loose talk and tittle-tattle. Whether you have…
‘People of the Changing Permafrost Land’ (Churapcha, Republic of Sakha Yakutia, Russia, June 18-19, 2019) ICE LAW subproject ‘Local and Indigenous Perspectives’
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The third community meeting ‘People of the Changing Permafrost Land’ (June 18-19, 2019), which was organised by Anna Stammler-Gossmann (Arctic Centre) and local partners, too…
‘Norwegian fjords: Living with Changes’ (Bugøynes, Norway, June 7 – 8, 2019) ICE LAW subproject ‘Local and Indigenous Perspectives’
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The second community meeting ‘Norwegian fjord: Living with Changes’, organized by the Arctic Centre (Anna Stammler-Gossmann) took place in the remote coastal fishing village …
Exploding Objects: A Month at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
Rose Taylor, PhD Candidate, UCL Anthropology Over the course of four weeks between June and July 2019 I participated in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Summer…
Hetero-Comfortable Avatars
Content warning from author: This post will have instances of sexism, transphobia, and sexual violence. I noticed a masculine voice near me say: “wow Wow WOW!” I turned…
Climate, Fish and Fisheries: Local and Indigenous Perspectives (Rovaniemi, Finland, April 16-17, 2019)
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The first meeting ’Climate, Fish and Fisheries: Local and Indigenous Perspectives’ (organizer Anna Stammler-Gossmann) took place in April 16-17 in Lapland, at the Arctic Cent…
Community meetings: ICE LAW subproject ‘Local and Indigenous Perspectives’
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The Indigenous and Local Perspectives subproject (ICE LAW: Indeterminate and Changing Environments) documents perspectives informed by understandings of land, water, and ice,…
Cymene Howe, “Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019)
This is the first of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2019). Also listen…
The Trials of Tom Gilbert, Convicted of Murdering Wapato Dave and Wife.
On about December 8th 1882, Tom Gilbert, a native man enrolled in the Grand Ronde tribe allegedly murdered Wapato Dave and his wife on their allotment on the…
Jon Bialecki on his book, A Diagram for Fire
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520294219/a-diagram-for-fire Interview by Anna Eisenstein Anna Eisenstein: Your book identifies the miracle as the defining feature of American Charismatic Evangeli…
Call for Papers: Materializing the Transient: Ethnographies and Museums in the Study of (Forced) Migration
Call for Papers: “Materializing the Transient: Ethnographies and Museums in the Study of (Forced) Migration” Göttingen, May 14–16, 2020 About the conference Materiality is a fundamental dimension of…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Realität, Wunsch, Utopie? Rezension von „Die Uhr kann gehen. Das Ende der Gehorsamkeitskultur“ von Karlheinz A. Geißler – verfasst von Christian Leineweber
Einleitung Eine Konsequenz der Schnelllebigkeit des modernen Lebens liegt darin, dass Betrachtungen und Analysen zeitlicher Strukturen gegenwärtig eine immer größere Aufmerksamkeit innerhalb geisteswi…
Suzanne Scott, “Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry” (NYU Press, 2019)
Suzanne Scott’s new book Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (NYU Press, 2019) provides an overview of the convergence culture industry and the world…
Individual based models of cultural evolution
I started my academic career as a modeller (in fact, as an artificial life/robotics researcher: this is my first publication ever), and I continue to believe that computational…
“We will give to you so that you can give to us”: A Tale of Two Manuscripts
I debated for quite a long while as to what kind of second project I thought would be the most useful, given the circumstances. … My main concern,…
Digitales Klassenzimmer: Wie chinesische Schüler überwacht werden
Während man in Deutschland kontrovers über Datenschutz und Privatsphäre diskutiert, werde viele Überwachungstechnologien in China bereits an staatlichen Schulen ausprobiert. Von Smart Uniforms bis zur…
„Klimawandel“. Über Krise und Konsens
Dramatisch sind nicht nur die Krisen, die wir erleben. Dramatisch im Wortsinne sind auch die Krisendiskurse, die eine tödliche Bedrohung des eigenen Lebens, des eigenen Planeten, des eigenen…
Quantitative analysis of large-scale cultural data
I am interested in the analysis of large, naturally occurring, datasets to investigate (especially modern) human cultural dynamics. For example, I used data on dog registrations to analyse…
Agent McClane struggles with Native Culture, Grand Ronde 1886
Into the last decades of the 19th century the Indian agents at Grand Ronde struggled with many aspects of assimilating the tribes to American culture. In fact,…
Selquia’s Charges Against Indian Agent McClane At Grand Ronde
Some letters from the Natives at Grand Ronde are remarkable in the details they reveal of how the people are being treated by the Indian Agents. Shilequa’s…