Peer Review Boycott: Say No to Political Censorship
By: Charlene Makley and Carole McGranahan Would you peer review manuscripts for a journal or press that politically censors its content? If your answer is no, then please…
Situating Knowledge
As an anthropologist working at the intersection of anthropology and development studies I sometimes undertake work for development organizations. The kind of work I do does not fall…
Solutionism – The Role of Technology in Solving SocioTechnical Problems
It all began, over a year ago (June 2016), with what author Ethan Zuckerman described as hate-linking. Through this practice, Zuckerman stumbled upon and read an article by…
Ulla Berg on her new book, Mobile Selves
CaMP Anthropology https://nyupress.org/books/9781479803460/ Interview by Ilana Gershon If you were in a long customs line, like the one in the complex and evocative vignette with which you ope…
Goat Rodeo vs. dumpster fire
One of the pleasures of American English is its gift for new and pungent metaphors. My new favorite: goat rodeo. I used it often while driving with my…
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…