Can Rat Bones Solve an Island Mystery?
When I ask her “So how big are the rats?,” E. Grace Veatch, a graduate student in zooarchaeology at Emory University, smiles and immediately holds her hands apart…
Book Review: Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class edited by Nathan Connolly
Inspired by the collection The Good Immigrant, Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class brings together 22 stories reflecting on working-class lives and experiences…
#review: becoming legal
The cover-image of Ruth Gomberg-Munoz’s book Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed Status Families depicts a group of protestors holding placards – one which reads ‘We want our…
Weltanschauliches – Aus dem Land der Tugend zum Reich der Mitte
„Im/Am Anfang war das Wort“, so heißt es nicht nur in einem der Bestseller schlechthin im westlichen Kulturraum, sondern auch bei der Vorstellung vom „Anderen“ im Allgemeinen und…
Sea Level Rise Threatens Archaeological Sites
Graves that are more than 400 years old in Jamestown, Virginia, lie near the first Protestant church in what later became the United States. Jamestown is just one…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XX
Here’s a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) — Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the…
Unpicking an (A)moral Anthropological Stance: Ongoing violence in Myanmar
Author: Justine Chambers, Doctoral candidate with the Department of Anthropology, School of Culture, History and Languages (CHL) at the Australian National University. You can read more about her…
Cuántos usuarios son necesarios para un test de UX y usabilidad?
Usuarios necesarios para un test UX: Con solo 5 usuarios se pueden conocer el 90% de los problemas de usabilidad en el marco de una investigación de experiencia…
#review: space of boredom
Bruce O’Neill’s (2017) The Space of Boredom is a historically rich and theoretically innovative ethnography of contemporary homelessness and social exclusion in Bucharest. O’Neill spent nearly three …
Factory Inspections, in Chicago and more
Click on the link to go to the site. And a huge number of other report on Inspections here: And how about this one? Women in the…
Last Update, Before We Plunge In!
One last program update before heading up to DC. I recently received notification from alert readers about the following panels, which are food-related and interesting. One of them,…
We’re at the AAA Annual Meeting!
AN is at the Annual Meeting in Washington, DC this week. We are covering events from panels to installations to gallery sessions and more. Check out the website…
Why Al-Jazeera America Never Gained Traction
“Can Al Jazeera English leverage its ‘Egypt moment’ into an American audience?” That question was asked back in 2011 by William Youmans and Katie Brown in a 2011 article…
Food at the Museum
A brief reminder about two off-site events during the AAA meetings in DC: The SAFN distinguished lecturer, Paula J. Johnson, is a curator, project director, and public historian…
#review: anthropology and law
The task of reviewing Mark Goodale’s Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction was weird, in a fractal way. The book itself, the object of my review, is, in…
Savage Minds is dead! Long live anthro{dendum}!
This will be the last post on the domain savageminds.org, but the site will live on. It will live on both at this address (savageminds.org) where there will…
Savage Minds is dead! Long live anthro{dendum}!
This will be the last post on the domain savageminds.org, but the site will live on. It will live on both at this address (savageminds.org) where there will…
SAFN Program Updates
A very timely reminder from SAFN program co-organizer Abigail Adams about events coming up this week! This is your SAFN Programs Co-organizer for the AAA annual meetings, looking…
Andrew S. Charles, Siuslaw Informant 1931
In 1931, the coastal tribes were in the midst of a lawsuit against the federal government. The tribes of the southern coast, between the California border and North…
Speaking out loud and remaining invisible (or: is graffiti literature?)
[Update 16 April 2018: The complete, final version of the entire photo essay is now published and can be downloaded here: http://www.samuli-schielke.de/CityOfWalls_SamuliSchielke_in_EverydayAlexandria…
Doing Anthropology in Troubled Times
We live in troubled times. In America, we have as president a dangerously unstable and profoundly ignorant man bent on undermining
Doing Anthropology in Troubled Times
We live in troubled times. In America, we have as president a dangerously unstable and profoundly ignorant man bent on undermining
Doing Anthropology in Troubled Times
We live in troubled times. In America, we have as president a dangerously unstable and profoundly ignorant man bent on undermining