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Greetings everyone! I wanted to notify my readers & those who regularly use my content both on DATT & DATS that I will be producing content at. patreon.com/Hood_Biologist.…
An example preprint / working paper
This work is driven by the results in my previous paper on LLMs. Create your slides in Markdown – click the Slides button to check out the example.…
De institutionalisering van salafisme – antropologie en ethiek
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier Met verbazing las ik het artikel over de perikelen rond de promotie van meneer Soroush in Tilburg en het oordeel van de externe onderzoekscommissie (NRC…
Links & Contents I Liked 319
Hi all, I had a great short trip to Moldova-hence a slightly belated link review without much of an introduction, but a nice pic of a quaint little…
Links & Contents I Liked 319
Hi all, I had a great short trip to Moldova-hence a slightly belated link review without much of an introduction, but a nice pic of a quaint little…
Sharing & Communicating User Research
This blog post is a transcript of a podcast / interview I did earlier this year with Zack Naylor, the CEO of Aurelius. Among other things, we discussed…
Food for Thought: Nourishment, Culture, Meaning
Call for papers The Food Studies Program, New York University (NYU), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication (CIRCe) and the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Univ…
A Head-to-Toe Tour of the Neanderthal
In 1856, a scattered collection of bones was found in the Feldhofer Cave of the Neander Valley in Germany. Scientists had never seen anything like it. The skull…
Why we must go beyond focusing on the ‘overrepresentation’ of racialized people in HIV criminalization by Eli Manning
We can trace an unbroken record of injustice back through generations, to our grandfathers and our grandmothers, our great-grandfathers and to those before them. We can trace them…
The Last Word(s)
After 11 years at the University of Toronto Press, and over 6 years curating this blog, I’m stepping down, hanging up my hat, moving on (choose what euphemism…
“Now I know how the movies are made”. Living through the horrors of war
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE “When I think about the war, I imagine that it isn’t real,” Valbona tells me during one of my frequent visits to her family home. “It seems…
How the Samoan Tattoo Survived Colonialism
In Samoan communities, men traditionally receive a pe’a tattoo from mid-torso to knees as a marker of maturity. Sandra Mu/Getty Images In the 1800s, a chief in the…
The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush
Unethical social scientific research may negatively impact a society’s trust in our scholarly field. In a recent case of fraudulent research practice the discipline of anthropology, incorrectly, got…
The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush
Unethical social scientific research may negatively impact a society’s trust in our scholarly field. In a recent case of fraudulent research practice the discipline of anthropology, incorrectly, got…
Hacha de piedra, hacha de acero: las mujeres Yir Yoront.
“La suposición del hombre blanco de que su hacha era mucho más eficiente, que su uso le ahorraría tiempo y que, por lo tanto, representaba un “progreso” técnico…
„ETHNOLOGIE HAT MEIN VERSTÄNDNIS FÜR VERSCHIEDENHEIT UND VIELFÄLTIGKEIT GEPRÄGT“
NAME: Nele Gabriel STUDIENFÄCHER: Pädagogik und Ethnologie (Magister), Erziehungswissenschaft und Sonderpädagogik (Diplom) BERUF: Förderschullehrerin __________________________________________________…
Heineken in Africa (book review)
Olivier Van Beemen’s Heineken in Africa-A Multinational Unleashed is probably one of the most readable, nuanced and critical accounts of ‘multinationals doing business in Africa’ that I have…
Heineken in Africa (book review)
Olivier Van Beemen’s Heineken in Africa-A Multinational Unleashed is probably one of the most readable, nuanced and critical accounts of ‘multinationals doing business in Africa’ that I have…
Elana D. Buch’s Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care by Shir Lerman
Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence In American Home Care Elana D. Buch New York University Press, 2018. 263 pages. Elana Buch’s critical and thoughtful analysis of the…
De institutionalisering van salafisme – Een reactie op het Tilburgse rapport
Auteurs: Annelies Moors (Universiteit van Amsterdam) & Martijn de Koning (Universiteit van Amsterdam / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Meer dan een half jaar geleden schreven we een kritische besp…
Ethos Special Thematic Collection: “Extraordinary Conditions, Global Psychiatric Care, and Moral Subjectivity” by Anna Zogas
The March 2019 issue of Ethos, organized by Neely Myers and Kristin E. Yarris, focuses on “Extraordinary Conditions, Global Psychiatric Care, and Moral Subjectivity.” The collection close…
In the Journals, January-February 2019
From: Diane M. Nelson, “Low Intensities,” Current Anthropology 60, no. S19 (February 2019): S122-S133. Welcome back to In the Journals, a brief look at just a few…
The Nature of the Copy
From the dead center of an all-white eye, a lone sapling rose two feet tall. Cyclical ridges and valleys, etched in bioplastic by an unseen watchmaker, encircled the…