Kids in the middle Recognizing the important role of children as cultural translators By Kendall Powell 04.02.2019 Originally published: https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/kids-mid…
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Ampson Hagan. Ampson Hagan is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is…
Carolina Schneider Comandulli Extreme Citizen Science Research Group Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability Indigenous and environmental rights are under threat in Brazil from Jair Bolso…
What does it mean to be famous on the Internet? How do people become Internet celebrities, and what can that celebrity be used to do? Dr. Crystal Abidin…
What does it mean to be famous on the Internet? How do people become Internet celebrities, and what can that celebrity be used to do? Dr. Crystal Abidin…
**Republished with permission from Tossed Observations Inc.** by Jonathan Craig Suspenseful, cinematically impressive, and majestically scored, Jordan Peele’s latest feature-length effort is, on balan…
Think you could eat a cricket? What about a spider? In this episode of TAL Adam Gamwell and guest host Andrea Eller are chatting with Julie Lesnik about…
Think you could eat a cricket? What about a spider? In this episode of TAL Adam Gamwell and guest host Andrea Eller are chatting with Julie Lesnik about…
Ett av historiens mest kända sociala experiment är Stanfordexperimentet eller Stanford Prison Experiment. Det arrangerades av Philip Zimbardo (professor i psykologi) 1971. Syftet var att bättre förstå…
My latest paper is now out entitled, The Moral Geography of the Earth System. It is currently free access here (thanks Wiley!). And it is permanently open-access here,…
During the debate about global poverty that erupted earlier this year, one fact kept getting repeated: maybe poor people’s incomes haven’t increased enough to lift them out…
In her new book, American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press, 2019), Ann Gleig makes a major contribution to scholarship on American Buddhism. Gleig focuses on meditation-based…
Drawing from Sylvia Wynter’s call for rethinking our category of “human”, Melissa Johnson‘s ethnography Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize (Rutgers University Press, 2018) demonstrates how ent……
Drawing from Sylvia Wynter’s call for rethinking our category of “human”, Melissa Johnson‘s ethnography Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize (Rutgers University Press, 2018) demonstrates how ent……
In her new book, American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press, 2019), Ann Gleig makes a major contribution to scholarship on American Buddhism. Gleig focuses on meditation-based…
Du har sikkert høyrt at folk kan seie noko slikt som at «der snakkar dei nynorsk» eller «han snakkar meir bokmål enn meg». Kanskje irriterer du deg over…
Hi all, I’m on my way to Copenhagen for two great events with David ‘socialmedia4D’ Girling and Olivier van Beemen’s talk on his book Heineken in Africa. Development…
Hi all, I’m on my way to Copenhagen for two great events with David ‘socialmedia4D’ Girling and Olivier van Beemen’s talk on his book Heineken in Africa. Development…
I was looking for a way to introduce J.’s latest aid worker novel Cross-Border without sounding like a middle-aged academic, but it is hard to avoid some tropes…
I was looking for a way to introduce J.’s latest aid worker novel Cross-Border without sounding like a middle-aged academic, but it is hard to avoid some tropes…
What principles might guide education programmes for refugees? How can a collection of texts inspire individuals, groups or institutions to start programmes (or to do them better)? How…
This is an open call to all city-makers to share projects that address issues of (un)sustainability and (in)justice in cities. Are you a policy-maker, activist, entrepreneur, intellectual, citizen…
[written as an anthropological response to the New Zealand massacre of March 2019. I was in the field, doing ethnographies.] I’ve spent the last month out of the…