The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Konferenzbericht: 100 Jahre Sozialwissenschaften als Gesellschaftsgestaltung. Diagnose. Reflexion. Antizipation. Verfasst von Andreas Schulz
100 Jahre Republik Österreich. 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht. 100 Jahre Sozialforschung in Österreich. Im Zuge des diesjährigen Jubiläumsjahres 2018 nahmen sich das Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Men…
A Feminist Analysis of Orthodox Dogspotting
Dogspotting, arguably, was a tenuous thematic precursor to real-world crossover Pokémon Go. Instead of catching cutesy pocket monsters, group members went about spotting (and appreciating) as many can…
Pre-Anthropologists and Colonization
Anthropology as a science grew out of needs of colonizing countries to gain more information about the frontier. The United States in the early 19th century needed to…
Hospitality within hostility: safe migration management in the Mekong
I will be chairing a panel on Knowledge, power and the governance of public policytomorrow morning at the American Anthropology Association’s annual conference in San Jose, where I…
Arctic Youth well-being project participating in circumpolar comparison
The team of the joint Finnish-Russian project studying well-being among youth in Arctic Ria Adams presenting her work within WOLLIE on opportunities and threats for young people’s well-being,…
Training Adorno
Is it mean to advise someone wanting to write on sneakers to go and read Adorno? On trainers/sneakers, surely Adorno would be asking what is so secretive about…
Sequential art for your shopping cart
In the past two years I’ve had the opportunity to read some really fantastic graphic novels, including a few that will be of interest to anthropologists. As we…
Thick data e investigación cualitativa
Se llama Thick Data a la información cualitativa sobre la experiencia de uso y consumo de bienes y servicios en la sociedad. El Thick Data o «datos gruesos…
Paper: The anthropology of digital visuality
Budka, P. (2018). The anthropology of digital visuality: Notes on comparison, context and relationality. Paper at Vienna Anthropology Days 2018 (VANDA2018), Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna, 20 S…
Aber selbstverständlich! (Voll meta, wie du abgehst)
Eine persiflierende Glosse zum Fachverständnis der Kulturanthropologie von Tamara Krabes „Bescheidenheit ist eine Eigenschaft, für die ein Mensch bewundert wird, falls die Leute je von ihm hören sollt…
Nachruf auf Christian Petry
Mit Christian Petry verlieren wir unseren Mentor, Förderer und Freund. Weiterlesen
Jonestown: 40 Years Later
Until the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the mass suicides-massacre at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978 represented the largest number of man-caused civilian deaths in a single event in…
Links & Contents I Liked 301
Hi all, I just returned from 2 great days at AidEx in Brussels-probably one of the best non-conference meeting experiences I had in a long time!While I’m still…
RfM sucht wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter*in
Rat für Migration sucht wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter*in für Geschäftsstelle ab 01.02.2019 Der Rat für Migration (RfM) ist ein bundesweiter Zusammenschluss von rund 150 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wiss…
Web Roundup: Trapped in the Tar Pit by Kathleen Lynch
Earlier this month, Atul Gawande, physician-author and new CEO of the yet-to-be defined health venture formed by JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon, published the long-form New Yorker…
T̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶H̶A̶U̶. Good News! The Free-to-Readers Version of The Expressive Lives of Elders
Good news everyone. The free-to-download-and-read version of the latest title in the Material Vernaculars series–The Expressive Lives of Elders: Folklore, Art, and Aging edited by Jon Kay is…
Speaking Justice to Power Ebooks Available!
The Speaking Justice to Power series is now available as downloadable ebooks. SJP I & II are available on our teaching resources page. You may also download them…
Reading List: 15 Recommended Reads on Colonial Histories, Colonial Legacies
Image Credit: African and Caribbean War Memorial, Windrush Square, Brixton, London (Kelly Foster CC BY SA 4.0) In this reading list, we recommend fifteen books previously reviewed on the…
Design Anthropology: an essential tool for innovation. Interview with Alisson Avila
With almost 20 years of multidisciplinary work between Lisbon, São Paulo and Porto Alegre, and a huge sense of adventure towards work, Alisson Avila is a key actor…
Shannon Spaulding, “How We Understand Others: Philosophy and Social Cognition” (Routledge, 2018))
Social cognition includes the ways we explain, predict, interpret, and influence other people. The dominant philosophical theories of social cognition–the theory-theory and the simulation theory… Visit New Books…
Jerome Lewis and Hannah Knox In Discussion
A recent discussion between CAoS co-founder Jerome Lewis and UCL Associate Professor Hannah Knox, in which they discuss public anthropology in the context of climate change and digital…
Pricing freelance research & design services
Since I returned to freelancing a couple of months ago, I’ve been spending a great deal of time on the business aspects of my work (in addition to…
How Austerity Unravels Social Ties
People collect water from a pump in a small village in Mozambique. Graeme Robertson/Getty Images Roxana* and Rajah are neighbors who live on the outskirts of Nampula City…