Hartwick Anthropology – The 30 Year Survey!
In the fall of 1987, the Hartwick Anthropology program became an independent department. Fall 2017 marks the 30 year anniversary of Hartwick Anthropology. The 2017-2018 academic year will…
Slow Anthropology in the Age of Trump
In contemporary fast culture, we need a slow anthropology—for everyone. In my last blog post I discussed how the spread of
Slow Anthropology in the Age of Trump
In contemporary fast culture, we need a slow anthropology—for everyone. In my last blog post I discussed how the spread of
Hartwick Anthropology
The 30 Year Survey! In the fall of 1987, the Hartwick Anthropology program became an independent department. Fall 2017 marks the 30 year anniversary of Hartwick Anthropology. The…
How and Why Hazing Evolved
Sailors aboard the USS Lexington celebrate crossing the equator with an elaborate hazing ritual on April 5, 1944. Participants include Her Highness Amphitrite (seated left), King Neptune (seated…
Women in the Middle East Take a Stand
The 2016 edition of the Arab Human Development Report by the UNDP highlighted the challenges of reporting on young women in the region. The report’s authors encountered objections…
An Anthropologist In Situ: Canadian Engineering Education Association 2017 Conference
As mentioned in our previous blog post, I recently spoke about the potential of bringing anthropological ethics into Engineering classrooms (as per my current teaching role). I was…
Call for reviews: #legalanthro
Although Allegra’s editorial team is academically firmly rooted in legal anthropology, this is – we believe – the first explicit collection of new publications of this subfield. It…
Making the theoretical practical: Engaging undergraduate students in research methods by Hannah Mohammad
I am currently an undergraduate student in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London. The Department’s UG program offers students the opportunity to…
‘Ungoverned Spaces’?
by Magnus Marsden **Previously published at Hurst’s blog.** In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Manchester, the term ‘ungoverned spaces’ has returned to the forefront of public debate ab…
Fred Armisen is, like, so mean. So mean.
[this post first appeared in Medium.] A friend told me about seeing a freshman on a university campus in the UK. The kid was clearly in agony. And…
Four salaried PhD positions in Oslo on toxicology and global waste
AnthroTox focuses initially on electronic waste and associated persistent organic pollutants in Tanzania, East Africa. Applications are invited for four Research Fellowship as PhD Candidate in Social …
Uncovering Ancient Clues to Humanity’s First Fires
Although researchers don’t agree on when humans first gained control over the use of fire, they do not dispute the fact that fire played an important role in…
At home in Durban, September 2013, first interview
In September 2103, Alice Sala and Gregoire Mayor, from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and on behalf of the multimedia French-language journal ethnographiques.org came to South Africa to…
Keith Hart @ Home in Durban, 1 of 3 interviews September 2013
In September 2103, Alice Sala and Gregoire Mayor, from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and on behalf of the multimedia French-language journal ethnographiques.org, came to South Africa to…
Anthropology has Always been Out There w/ Ed Liebow and Leslie Walker of the AAA
This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and blog crossover series. While thinking together as two anthropological productions that…
TAL + SM: Anthropology has Always been Out There
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 2 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins, with Leslie Walker This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds…
#Review: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Let us face it: most anthropologists in Europe and North America, this author included, are leftist-liberal, cosmopolitan people. It regularly escapes my colleagues’ and my comprehension, how people…
Michael Muhammad Knight, “Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing” (Soft Skull Press, 2013)
Michael Muhammed Knight writes this book from a first-person perspective, as a piece of creative non-fiction. The book includes a liberal amount of swearing and sexual references, and…
Fast Culture in the Age of Trump
In the Age of Trump, what are the political costs of our fast culture? Consider our fast politics. We have so much day-after
Fast Culture in the Age of Trump
In the Age of Trump, what are the political costs of our fast culture? Consider our fast politics. We have so much day-after
Fast Culture in the Age of Trump
In the Age of Trump, what are the political costs of our fast culture? Consider our fast politics. We have so much day-after