Solving a Riddle About the Dawn of Art
Figures of horses in the Atxurra cave system in Spain astounded archaeologist Diego Garate, who shines his headlamp on this previously unknown panel of artwork. Diego Garate On…
Kulturanthropologie im Museum: Interview mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemeyer
Lea Hennrich spricht mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemeyer (Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Tübingen) über Kulturanthropologische Forschungen im Museum. Im Rahmen unserer Vortragsre…
حواران عن الأننثروبولوجيا على يوتيوب Two interviews about anthropology in Arabic
هنا روابط لحواريت طويلين معي عن علم الأنثروبولوجيا وعن عملي العلمي على يوتيوب، الأول قام به أحمد يعد زايد في صالونه الفلسفي في الإسكمدرية في فبراير 2017 والكلام…
حواران عن الأننثروبولوجيا على يوتيوب Two interviews about anthropology in Arabic
هنا روابط لحواريت طويلين معي عن علم الأنثروبولوجيا وعن عملي العلمي على يوتيوب، الأول قام به أحمد يعد زايد في صالونه الفلسفي في الإسكمدرية في فبراير 2017 والكلام…
Book Review: Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties by Becky Yang Hsu
In Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties, Becky Yang Hsu draws upon two microfinance projects in rural China in order to explore the social relations and cultural…
Logging on to the Anthropocene
These days many academics like to talk and write about public scholarship. In my discipline, anthropology, there is no shortage
Logging on to the Anthropocene
These days many academics like to talk and write about public scholarship. In my discipline, anthropology, there is no shortage
Mobile Apps for Ethnographic Research – #RoR2018
Ethnographic research is difficult. It’s a challenge to find the right assistants, get access, recruit the right people, keep a schedule, make time for note-writing and transcription, and…
Revisiting ‘States at Work. Dynamics of African Bureaucracies’
‘States at Work’ aims to contribute to the academic debates on processes of state-building in Africa, and, among development practitioners, on the role of the state in development,…
Flüchtige Leben, gesundheitliche Versorgung: Medizin und Migration – ein Kongress-Bericht
Caroline Meier zu Biesen Über die Grenze. Eine wachsende Zahl Flüchtender erreicht Südtirol. Aufgrund aktueller Migrationsbewegungen intensiviert sich die Debatte um ihre medizinische Versorgung. Bild…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part II
Thanks to some amazing role models in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, where I studied, I have always known that it is possible…
After the Workshop, Before the Fieldwork (12/12)
A photograph of the project team and special guests on the steps of the Anthropological Museum of Guangxi in Nanning. December 12, 2017. Photograph courtesy of the Anthropological…
Beauty by Lynn M. Thomas
In the late 1990s, a group of Japanese researchers set out to investigate whether small-scale gold mining operations near the shores of East Africa’s Lake Victoria were resulting…
Taste and Terroir as an Anthropological Matter – Summary
Happy New Year! Abigail Adams and I are the new co-editors of the SAFN blog. Our heartfelt thanks to David Beriss, the long-time editor and constant champion of…
anthro in the news 1/15/18
Flag of the Republic of Haiti. Credit: Wikipedia Haiti pride The Haitian Revolution defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and established the only country in the world based…
‘Collecting, Ordering, Governing’ by Bennett et al.
Tony Bennett, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis, and Conal McCarthy. Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government. 360 pp., 46 illu…
Von Beziehungen und ihren Tücken
Bonn, Münsterplatz. 4. November 2017: Erste teilnehmende Beobachtung meines Lebens Ich bin überfordert. Heillos überfordert. Es stürmen tausend Eindrücke auf einmal auf mich ein. Ich weiß gar nicht,…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Applying an ethnographic approach
Last week, I shared my recent experiences being hired as a research assistant at Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation to conduct a case-study on a local example of…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Applying an ethnographic approach
Last week, I shared my recent experiences being hired as a research assistant at Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation to conduct a case-study on a local example of…
Book Review: The Sociology of Food: Eating and the Place of Food in Society by Jean-Pierre Poulain
In The Sociology of Food: Eating and the Place of Food in Society, Jean-Pierre Poulain offers an account of how food has emerged as a new field within sociological…
Diversity + Inclusion in Higher Education, part 1 – This Anthro Life
Welcome listeners to the first installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series, bringing together This Anthro Life with Brandeis University. For those of you who are new…
The state of the state in #Africa
How political authority and legitimacy are sustained in societies marked by socio-economic inequality and political exclusion has been a long-standing preoccupation in the social sciences. Especially …
The Anthropology/Poetry Nexus–An Interview with Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Can artists and social scientists inhabit the same universe? Melisa (“Misha”) Cahnmann-Taylor embodies that nexus. Her advanced degrees include an MFA in poetry . . . and a…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part XXIII
Here are my articles and interviews from the past week: Trump’s racism is more than rhetoric — it forms policies and ruins lives (1/13/18) — Globe and Mail The…