Nerf Herding
By AP Joseph Hey there! A month into 2018, and there’s already plenty of geek action going on (gaction?) What can you expect from this column, you ask,…
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Hi all, Just another busy week at ComDev with feedback on MA thesis proposals, lectures & a workshop with students on their experiences with communication for development-but, there’s…
The (in)correctness of political correctness
by Ton Salman I’ve just finished reading “The Golden House” by Salman Rushdie. I enjoyed it: it is amusing, irritating, timely, biting and a delight to read. Of…
Neue Stiftungsprofessur in Leipzig: Religionskritik als Gesellschaftskritik?
An der Universität Leipzig wurde eine neue Stiftungsprofessur für Religionswissenschaft und Religionskritik eingerichtet. Ziel ist es die wissenschaftliche, nüchterne und positive Kritik von Religion…
Neue Stiftungsprofessur in Leipzig: Religionskritik als Gesellschaftskritik?
An der Universität Leipzig wurde eine neue Stiftungsprofessur für Religionswissenschaft und Religionskritik eingerichtet. Ziel ist es die wissenschaftliche, nüchterne und positive Kritik von Religion…
Southern Christian Mourning
In the fall of my sophomore year, my friend Kalyssa, who attended Georgia State University, killed herself. While suicide is in itself worthy of a discussion post, I…
A History of Poppies, War, and Death
Source: http://wellcomeimages.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?MIROPAC=N0021523 The opium poppy, effortlessly sprouting across several continents, has captured the attention of humankind for thousands of years…
The Death of a Hungry God
[no-caption] Paul Keil One evening in August 2014, a wild elephant was accidentally killed in Gajbari village* in Assam, a state in northeast India. He was a young…
Brazil’s Dichotomous Treatment of Corruption – PT 2
After the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the Liberal Front Party (LFP), Democratic Social Party (PMDB) and Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) dominated the government of Brazil.…
Risk, Trust, and Fulfilment: Reality Tourism, Continued
The story of the Razor’s Edge company continues to unfold with the latest release of one of their private videos, the kind which have normally been distributed to prospective clients…
Geek Culture and Games in the Classroom
What’s wrong with your patient?Do all the symptoms and signs point to one diagnosis?Or are there multiple diseases at work?Can you remember which symptoms indicate which diseases?This is…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIV
Here are my latest articles and interviews: After a year of Trump, women expect less from men — but demand more (1/22/18) — Globe and Mail Trump’s first State…
Geek Culture and Games in the Classroom
What’s wrong with your patient?Do all the symptoms and signs point to one diagnosis?Or are there multiple diseases at work?Can you remember which symptoms indicate which diseases?This is…
Cultural taboos around food are powerful – could vegans change ours?
As campaigns such as Veganuary become more popular could the way westerners categorise what’s edible start to shift? Yesterday marked the end of “Veganuary”, the campaign to encourage…
Cultural taboos around food are powerful – could vegans change ours?
As campaigns such as Veganuary become more popular could the way westerners categorise what’s edible start to shift? Yesterday marked the end of “Veganuary”, the campaign to encourage…
Book Review: Food, Power and Agency by Jürgen Martschukat and Bryant Simon
In Food, Power and Agency, editors Jürgen Martschukat and Bryant Simon bring together contributors to explore how food, power and agency contribute to the formation of ‘culinary capital’ a…
Peter Hempenstall, “Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
The debate over Margaret Mead’s and Derek Freeman’s conflicting ethnographic reports has gone on for decades. While no longer a hot topic, Mead-Freeman stands as a testament to…
#Review: The Road – An Ethnography of (Im)Mobility, Space, and Cross-border Infrastructures in the Balkans
Central to the capturing cover-image, the downhill stone-paved street of the Pazari district of Gjirokastër, south Albania, reflects the orientation of Dimitris Dalakoglou’s book The Road: An Ethnogra…
Har förbund med djävulen blivit passé?
Det känns som om människan i urminnes tider haft en tendens att skapa någon slags syndabock för sig själv. Någon eller någonting att skylla på för ett och…
Special Issue! The Human, Human Rights, and DNA Identity Tests by Anna Zogas
In addition to the articles highlighted in this month’s regular “In the Journals” post, the January issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values is a themed issue on “The H…
In the Journals, January 2018 by Anna Zogas
Here are some articles of interest published in January 2018. Enjoy! Social Science & Medicine The consequence of “doing nothing”: Family caregiving for Alzheimer’s disease as non-action in…
The Awakening of the Waters: Clean water, health and village sanitation in the Peruvian Amazon
So it was, long ago, people had no clean water to drink. Instead, they drank from muddy swamps and stagnant puddles of algae and slime. One day, Shigentiri,…
The Awakening of the Waters: Clean water, health and village sanitation in the Peruvian Amazon
So it was, long ago, people had no clean water to drink. Instead, they drank from muddy swamps and stagnant puddles of algae and slime. One day, Shigentiri,…
Carving a Niche between Software and Social Science: Anthropology in Industry w/ Natalie Hanson – This Anthro Life
Design and anthropology have been seen together with increasing frequency over the last few years, but how do design and anthropology fit together in relation to industry? And,…