#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
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…
anthro in the news 11/27/17
Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 2006. Credit: Howl Arts Collective/Creative Commons a crime against humanity Scales of justice. Credit: Pixabay The Toronto Star published commentary co-authored by Stephen Be…
Opening books
Good to be on the same page as Steve Redhead. Thanks Tara Brabazon, from her book “The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age” By Tara…
Inside the Grading Inferno
Like many teachers at this time of year, we are currently in the depths of what feels like ‘the Grading Inferno’ where there are many levels of punishment…
Multimodal Anthropology?
‘A vibrant mode of scholarship’ Practice-based research has emerged as a vibrant mode of scholarship at the intersection of scientific methodologies and aesthetic experience. While b…
Colonialism’s Orchestrated Disasters in Puerto Rico
“María, María, perdí la esperanza, María, María, perdí la esperanza.” I am reminded of these lyrics from the bomba group, Yuba Iré, when I see the pictures and…
Inside the Grading Inferno
Like many teachers at this time of year, we are currently in the depths of what feels like ‘the Grading Inferno’ where there are many levels of punishment…
Coming to Our Senses
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins explore the subject of sensory ethnography – a focus in anthropology that tends to deemphasize…
A Bibliography on Demolition Waste and Deconstruction
By Susan Ross Construction, renovation, and demolition (CR&D) waste can represent from 30 to 50% of municipal solid waste (Yeheyis et al, 2013). Yet this area of discard…