The Surreal World of Money
What’s your favorite coin? Is it a refined, delicate, and dignified Roosevelt dime? A useless but comfortingly familiar Lincoln penny? The ubiquitous Washington quarter? I prefer silver dollars,…
Women as guardians of Human Security in the Arctic?
11 September, talking about Human Security. Is that by coincidence or a slight hint at the terrible events in New York in 2001? It was not quite a…
El 11 de septiembre
Am letzten Montag war der 11. September 2017. Ohne Zweifel ein denkwürdiger Tag für viele Menschen. Für mich war der 11. September lange Zeit nur mit dem Gedenken an die Terroranschläge…
Angela Nagle on Mark Fisher.
A worthwhile, slim book. Overly dissected by sectarian and signalling types, but worth the late read. Filed under: trinketization
Experimental Ethnography: 31 Prompts | 实验民族志：31个提示
Not all experimentation is ethnographic. Not all ethnography is experimental. The intersection of ethnography and experimentation collapses into a black hole with a fluctuating event horizon, swallo…
crouchsliding tutorial with slash
A crouchsliding tutorial with keypresses visible, slow motion, freeze frames, and explanation in voiceover. The tutorial aims at conveying an understanding of the basic principles, and sugges…
forbidden places
From Megahealth to Heavy Armor in a second or so, and more exploits of the strange qualities of the pots combined with Ranger’s Dire Orb. Going out…
More than Local Arrangements: How Conference Logistics Can Speak to Values by Sarah Pickman
In the fall of 2016, my colleagues Tess Lanzarotta, Marco Ramos, and I met as the core organizers for the “Critical Histories, Activist Futures” conference to hammer out…
In the eye of the storm
Photo: Navy/ NRL Monterey by Dimetri Whitfield It is the morning of Wednesday, September 6, 2017. My eyes are only open through trepidation. I was barely able to…
‘Collecting Mesoamerica’ Exhibition Review
Collecting Mesoamerica: The Hemispheric Roots of U.S. Anthropology. A recent exhibit (May 8 – July 7, 2017) at the Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, curated by Lindsay…
Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine and Racial Violence by Sarah Pickman
A Reframed (and Reflexive) Conference Report Organized and Edited by Tess Lanzarotta and Sarah M. Pickman After a conference ends – after the last paper coffee cup…
anthro in the news 9/11/17
Super Mario games follow player character Mario’s adventures in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom. Credit: Pixabay. games, technology, and nostalgia CNBC reported on the revival of some classic vid…
Resources for Anti-Racist Pedagogy
As a scholar who “grew up” in anthropology decades after the crisis of representation debates emerged, I am well aware of the colonizing power dynamics in our discipline’s…
Toxins or Toxicants? Why the difference matters
When we accidentally call toxicants “toxins,” we are also accidentally naturalizing industrially-produced chemicals and their politics.
When the Bulldozer comes – Burning bridges or renaissance in the making?
Kai Roder, University of Leipzig For over a decade the Tanzanian state has tried to enlarge its share of mineral revenues generated by foreign large-scale mining (LSM) companies.…