Ep. #15 Designing agency: Vijayendra Rao talks development, anthropology, and making social change
Vijayendra Rao, the lead economist at the World Bank in the research department, talks to our own Ian Pollock about the role that anthropology and ethnography could play in helping…
Zwischen Hausordnung und Mülltrennung – Nachhaltigkeit im Studentenwohnheim
Meine Erfahrungen aus dem Lehrforschungsprojekt Erwartungsvoll stehe ich im Treppenhaus des Studentenwohnheims. Ich warte wie bei meiner ersten teilnehmenden Beobachtung darauf, von der Vielzahl an In…
Call der Under.Docs der Uni Wien
Gerne leiten wir einen Call der Under.Docs weiter: „Wir sind ein Team von Studierenden der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften an der Uni Wien, die eine Konferenz mit dem Titel…
About those Ancestry dot com commercials
In the fall 2017 quarter I kicked off my intro to cultural anthropology course with one of those Ancestry dot com videos. These are all over the place,…
Bison of the Western Rockies
For years, I have stated that the tribes did not have bison in Oregon, so they would not have made tipis. This is why the tribes have…
Agustin Fuentes’s The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Charles C. Roseman
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional Agustín Fuentes Penguin, 2017, 352 pages Agustín Fuentes’ The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (Fuentes, 2017)…
Documentary Review: “Inside Job” is Still Relevant
Lee Hsien Loong “Even as the crisis unfolded, we didn’t know how wide it was going to spread, or how severe it was going to be. And we…
Transparencies 2018
Dear students, friends, alumni and supporters of visual anthropology at Kent, Please join us for the biggest student screening event in the history of visual anthropology at Kent.…
Links & Contents I Liked 283
Hi all, Another great, sunny Friday! So keep the readings for the weekend and enjoy the start of your weekend outside 🙂 ! Development news: Gender Equality Top…
51 essential rules for doing research
Be free. Eat sweets. Do not go to university (but use the university to print for free). Resist academic hierarchy. Do not believe what professors say. Doubt, always.…
Try a Little Legal Tenderness
This financial speculation essay acknowledges the inspiration of the Dick Jensen version of the song, “Try a Little Tenderness,” in its principal guiding pun; it is a suggested…
North Korea: The Undaunted State Tests the Limits of Empire
North Korea is an exceptional state, but unlike an imperial power it lacks a doctrine of exceptionalism. It is exceptional in that it is willing to suffer any…
Touro-terror-ists
Good to see Terror and the Tour appear (in 2016 – I’m a little slow) in Liminalities journal and give Peter Phipps and Malcolm Crick a deserved nod, since…
Ethnography of Oregon Indians 1841: Horatio Hale of the U.S. Exploring Expedition
Horatio Hale’s created what may be one of the earliest ethnographies of the tribes of the Pacific Coast. Remarkable as it is, Hale’s ethnography is both interesting and…
Africa in the World: Event Highlights from Johannesburg
“Africa in the World: Shifting Boundaries and Knowledge Production,” a joint conference of AAA and the African Studies Association begins May 25th in Johannesburg, South Africa. The confe…
Public Anthropology and negotiating what that means on TV.
A few years ago, I wrote a piece on making archaeology popular in which I recounted the ways in which archaeology became part of public discourse through television media, and…
What Clam Thermometers Tell Us About Past Climates
It’s mid-August, 2017, but the temperature in Unalaska, one of the Aleutian Islands that trails off of the western Alaskan coast, is a brisk 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Christine…
Rule of Law by Machine? Not so Fast!
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth post in our Law in Computation series. Back in the mid-1990s when I was a graduate student, I “interned” at a parole…
Starbucks, Racism, and the Anthropological Imagination
Capitalism is generated through moral and economic negotiations. After a series of discrimination allegations, Starbucks announced in April that it would close to eight thousand stores on May…
Jessica Calarco, “Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School” (Oxford UP, 2018)
In what ways do middle class students obtain advantages in schools? In her new book, Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School (Oxford University Press,…
What can Italians expect from the new populist government?
Italy’s prospective PM, Giuseppe Conte, is a 54-year-old university professor with little political experience [Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters] I was interviewed by South African public radio SAfm th…
Vad blir det för väder imorgon?
På väggen i utedasset i min familjs sommarstuga i Stockholms skärgård finns en lista med spådomstecken klippt ur en gammal tidning. Jag har i flera år funderat över…
In eigener Sache: Datenschutz und Bitte um Einwilligung zur Datennutzung
Liebe AbonnentInnen der Teilnehmenden Medienbeobachtung! Auch wenn auf unserem Blog derzeit eher wenig los ist: Tot sind wir nicht, lediglich in der normalen Mühle zwischen Beruf, Familie und…