New website
I am in the process of moving all the material here to the new website albertoacerbi.github.io, made in RStudio with blogdown, using the Academic theme of Hugo. Have…
Cultural evolution in the digital age
In the last years, I became interested in how cultural evolution can contribute to the study of cultural dynamics in the digital age, and, at the same time,…
Enforced Assimilation in Tribal Correspondence about the Grand Ronde Boarding School
The natives at the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation underwent extreme hardships. Most of the early years they starved from lack of good effective administration by the federal employees…
Links & Contents I Liked 334
Hi all, Welcome to another #globaldev link review…let’s start at the end: I added a new section (What we were reading 5 years ago) to the blog and…
Med katter på picknick
I Kuppisparken i Åbo kunde man under tisdagskvällen 20.8 träffa på katter och kattmänniskor då ca 30 katter (och en kanin) och ca 60-70 personer deltog i en…
Graduate Student Workshops at AAAs
Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) sponsors a series of special workshops in which small groups of graduate students and…
Cultural evolution and cultural attraction
I am interested in the theoretical debate between cultural attraction theory and “standard” cultural evolution theory. While I have argued that the two approaches are not necessarily in…
Remembering the Forgotten Chinese Railroad Workers
Chinese workers with the Central Pacific Railroad camped close to Brown’s Station, Nevada, in the 1860s. Alfred A. Hart In 1864, 15-year-old Hung Lai Wah and his older…
For korte jakker, sterke farger og hår som titter fram: Slik yter iranske kvinner motstand mot regimet
“Når vi ikke har lov å vise vår misnøye offentlig i gatene, er kroppene våre det eneste verktøyet vi har”, sier Laleh (24). Laleh er en av de…
What Students Deserve in a Textbook
With the recent release of Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology, we asked author Laura Tubelle de González to talk about her new textbook, and her hopes for…
For korte jakker, sterke farger og hår som titter fram: Slik yter iranske kvinner motstand mot regimet
“Når vi ikke har lov å vise vår misnøye offentlig i gatene, er kroppene våre det eneste verktøyet vi har”, sier Laleh (24). Laleh er en av de…
In wessen Gesellschaft lernen wir eigentlich? Grenzen im Feld der deutschen Soziologie — Clara Arnold und Jonas Volle
Anlässlich des diesjährigen Studentischen Soziologiekonkgress in Bochum stellen wir uns die Frage, wer eigentlich hinter den markanten Vortragstiteln steckt. Wie kamen die Vortragenden zu ihren Themen…
Evgeny Finkel, “Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust? Evgeny Finkel, in his new book Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust(Princeton University Press, 2017), answers Charles…
Islands on the Move? Glimpses of loss and damage from Solomon Islands
Prior to the UNFCCC COP23 climate change conference held in Bonn, Germany in November 2017 (and hosted by Fiji as COP23 Presidency), new research from Australian ocean and…
Reviews of the city
Some books reviewed by Pablo Bose (and for me, good company in which to be): From The Journal of Asian Studies, 78(03), 691–696. doi:10.1017/s0021911819000937 ….
“Warspeak” Puts All of Us in the Trenches
[no-caption] Complot/Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In a manifesto posted online shortly before he…
Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 2}: about the Amazon fires
A view of Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau land in the Brazilian state of Rondônia being burned on Sept. 24, 2016. Photo: Gabriel Uchida. https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigen…
Choreographies of magic and mess: AusSTS in Melbourne and Darwin
As the presenter encouraged the academics in the room to consider what it means for nanotechnology to sell itself as ‘magic’, boots appeared outside the window behind him.…
homunculus Revolts: Re-Figuring the Neurological Subject by Zoë Wool
Figuring a Grotesque Norm 1954 Homunculus: Penfield Archives, Osler Library of the History of Medicine This hand drawn illustration rendered in black ink shows two mirror image outlines…
Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, “Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women’s Sport” (Routledge, 2019)
Shortly after the conclusion of the Women’s World Cup earlier this summer, a friend suggested to me that it signaled the long-awaited arrival of soccer as a mainstream…
William Elison, “The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
William Elison‘s The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai(University of Chicago Press, 2018) explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members…
Delaware Indian Dance Rattles Made of Coconuts
The sixth most popular post on this website is a small item called “Coconut Rattles in Florida and Oklahoma.” I have no idea why this should be true…
U.S. Farmers Made in Brazil
Brazil is the second-largest producer of soybeans globally. Diego Giudice/Getty Images On the outskirts of the town of Luís Eduardo Magalhães, Brazil’s capital of agribusiness in the west…
Battery Life: Charging Culture at the End of Energy
Vodka-tonic. Take my picture. Charge my phone. Vodka-tonic. Take my picture. Charge my phone. This (or a similar sequence) is an irritatingly common refrain heard by many waitstaff…