UPDATED 10/29/17, 9:50 am: Edited to include links to helpful resources During the first few months of ethnographic research, many cultural anthropologists recognize that the training you received…
At the bottom of one of my shelves, unopened since undergraduate honours days, I have Max Weber’s book on Religions of India. got to wondering recently how he…
https://en.unesco.org/gem-report/ Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault, says UNESCO …. The Report calls on governments to: 1. Design accountability for schools and teachers…
Epigenetics is a much-debated field of research in the contemporary biomedical sciences. Focusing on the processes of chemical regulation surrounding (hence: epi-) genetic material, epigenetic studies…
I’m reposting this old essay that was published originally in 2015/2016 by Allegra Lab and Qira2at because it related to an new essay that I’m writing right now…
I’m reposting this old essay that was published originally in 2015/2016 by Allegra Lab and Qira2at because it related to an new essay that I’m writing right now…
Hi all, Another full round-up of great readings this week! Development news: The WHO-Mugabe communication #fail; How cash helps in Puerto Rico; the UN’s ceremonial beehives; data risks…
On a late October day in 2016, police detained 17 journalists in a raid on the Istanbul offices of Turkey’s oldest newspaper, Cumhuriyet, as part of the post-July…
Overheating is proud to announce the publication of a free e-book: "Knowledge and Power in an Overheated World", edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schob…
Overheating is proud to announce the publication of a free e-book: "Knowledge and Power in an Overheated World", edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schob…
I’ve got some big news — my best-selling 2015 essay collection “The View From Flyover Country” will be released in an updated paperback version this spring! There has…
On September 22, 2017, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rolled back the Title IX guidelines implemented under the Obama Presidency. The shocking implications of this are too numerous…
Many street dwellers wait to sleep until the sun rises and people bustle through public spaces, providing a level of safety that the homeless cannot find at night.…
OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF DIGITAL OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION AN ANTHROPOCENE PRIMER, Version 1.0 October 23, 2017 The IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute is proud to announce the official…
The Klamath River flows from Southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean through some of the most wild lands of the continental United States. It is home to diverse…
Conferencing – Just can’t get enough! Here on #anthroeverywhere! we’ve got conference fever and we’ve been delving into topics all about conferencing. These topics include Writing better Conferen…
Will Emojis be the death of writing? Are emojis modern day hieroglyphs? Is the increased use of emojis in textual conversations a sign of the end of language as we…
I just read through the first 135 pages of the recently released 320 page OECD Development Co-operation Report 2017-Data for Development. The first part Making data for development…
In October, 2017, I spoke about Overheating at the annual TEDx event in Trondheim, central Norway. The TED format is ideally short, pithy, eye-catching and jaw-dropping. In other…
The Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan, have fought Japanese domination for centuries. As this century unfolds, their efforts are finally paying off. Chris Willson/Alamy Stock Photo Thi…
By Caroline Merrifield (Yale) My friend Zhang is one of the head chefs at the fine-dining farm-to-table restaurant in Hangzhou, China, where I did most of my dissertation…
Questions about Exploitation and Invisible Work in Academia It is an open secret amongst academics that universities exploit the labour of their academic staff, and more importantly, that…
Chekero met Pauline at a local pharmacy in Giyani, a small town in the north-east of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The area is best known to…