
Call for participation: Enacting Environmental Data Justice
Held on Tuesday, August 29, this event will explore possibilities for data justice through a framework of environmental justice.
Held on Tuesday, August 29, this event will explore possibilities for data justice through a framework of environmental justice.
Working in Kurdistan at the site of Qalatga Darband, The British Museum is training Iraqi archaeologists to preserve and study their country’s threatened heritage Iraqi Kurdistan is spectacularly…
As I sit here about to write this (it finally being the “right time”) I am remembering that a week ago around this time my wife and I…
door Ferdous Arachid Rituelen en tradities zijn zaken die van essentieel belang zijn voor een samenleving, en de daarbij horende ‘cultuur’. Ik las op 14 april een opiniestuk…
Charon Crossing the River Styx was painted by Joachim Patinir between 1515 and 1524. A reproduction hangs on the wall of a bar in Málaga’s centro histórico where…
Los Angeles is one of the great food cities of the world. So, logically, it should be one of the great places to have a food studies conference.…
Seit November ist kein neuer Betrag mehr in meinem Blog erschienen. Das ist meiner Schwangerschaft und der anschließenden „Babypause“ geschuldet. Neue Beiträge rund um meines Promotionsthe…
Besonders in der Berliner Modeszene sind Naturmaterialien wie Hanf, Jute und Sisal häufig zu finden. Ob als Umhängetasche, Kleidungstück oder als ein Paar Sneakers. Die weiche, glatte Lederjacke,…
Many of you may have marched (or chosen not to march) at last week’s March for Science. I marched with my partner and young son here in Coimbatore,…
In her book, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity (Melbourne University Press, 2017), Rebe Taylor, the Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of…
This is the presentation I gave at Streaming Television and Second Screening Workshop at Boston University. TV: new rules, new viewers, new challenges from Grant McCracken
Hot off the press! Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff just came out on MIT Press. I have a piece on dirty dollars as art…
Pulling up to a parking spot and finding a shopping cart there can be pretty frustrating. Why do people ignore the receptacle? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Thanks Kaloy Cunanan for recovering this from ascii-land. An article on the multi-function polis in Malaysia, from 1999 Hutnyk 1999 Semifeudal Cybercolonialism Technocratic Dreamtime in Malaysia appea…
In this class, we have discussed preparation for death in multiple instances. In “The Undertaking” a couple prepares for the death of their child and elderly plan their…
This is a clip of an interview of Kaelin Vernon of “Peacefield Farms” with Sam Ford, Grant McCracken and Josh Poling acting as interviewers. The interview was conducted…
With health policy debates in the US ongoing, AN invites proposals for feature articles, commentary, photo essays and other media that shed an anthropological light on health and…
Modern science is full of surprising analytical techniques that can be used in a wide variety of remarkable circumstances. My favorite technique is dendrochronology—the study of “tree time.”…
Chip Colwell. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture. 336pp., 10 halftones, notes, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $30 (cloth),…
Hi all, Another good week for #globaldev debates! Development news: Special section on the aid industry in contemporary America kicks of this review; sweatshops & industrialization in Ethiopia;…
Hi all, Another good week for #globaldev debates! Development news: Special section on the aid industry in contemporary America kicks of this review; sweatshops & industrialization in Ethiopia;…