How Marketing Changed the Way We See Avocados
Once upon a time, Americans didn’t know what to do with "alligator pears." Now we can’t get enough — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Part 2: Life Lessons From Prince: Four Things I Learned After Four Days At Paisley Park.
I found myself asking this morning why I chose to break this blog up into 4 pieces instead of just pulling it all together in one sitting and…
Seminar: Indigenous Media 2017
Seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. Course Description “Indigenous media matters because indigenous people d…
The American Obsession with Lawns
Lawns are the most grown crop in the U.S.—and they’re not one that anyone can eat; their primary purpose is to make us look and feel good about ourselves —…
AnthroVice
Grumpy Grad Student I am an early tenure-track professor with a needy grad student advisee. I appreciated my PhD advisor’s practice of briefly checking in with my mental…
Zareena Grewal – By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam
We often regard 9/11 as the pivotal moment in which people’s views about Islam and Muslims changed. Notwithstanding the fact that it was indeed a huge moment, the…
Links & Contents I Liked 231
Hi all, You’ll notice the new layout; there have been a few problems with Blogger’s dynamic themes so I switched to a more traditional one. The blog loads…
Links & Contents I Liked 231
Hi all, You’ll notice the new layout; there have been a few problems with Blogger’s dynamic themes so I switched to a more traditional one. The blog loads…
The Making of a Community Activist
The construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline in Puerto Rico’s Jobos Bay would threaten one of the island’s largest estuaries and the people who depend on it.…
FREMDE, VÖLKER UND KULTUR – DER FORSCHUNGSGEGENSTAND DER ETHNOLOGIE
Was haben Geographie, Zoologie und Astronomie gemeinsam? Sie werden nach ihrem Forschungs-GEGENSTAND benannt. Wie die meisten wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Während sich die Geographie buchstäblich d…
– Overrun by fast changes
What do you do when a global cooperation pollutes your hometown, while the owners live on a different continent? Who can you complain to when your job is…
– Overrun by fast changes
What do you do when a global cooperation pollutes your hometown, while the owners live on a different continent? Who can you complain to when your job is…
– Overrun by fast changes
What do you do when a global cooperation pollutes your hometown, while the owners live on a different continent? Who can you complain to when your job is…
The Assault on Journalism (book review)
3 May marks the annual World Press Freedom Day. The Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research (Nordicom) which hosts the UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression,…
The Assault on Journalism (book review)
3 May marks the annual World Press Freedom Day. The Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research (Nordicom) which hosts the UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression,…
How Marketing Changed the Way We See Avocados
Once upon a time, Americans didn’t know what to do with "alligator pears." Now we can’t get enough — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Lisa Messeri, “Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds” (Duke UP, 2016)
What kind of object is a planet? Lisa Messeri‘s new book asks and addressed this question in a fascinating ethnography that explores how scientific practices transform planets into…
More 5-star reviews for The Three-Headed Dog
I love the customer reviews posted on The Three-Headed Dog‘s Amazon page and wish there were a reply-function so I could talk with the writers. Take E Silheit,…
When Science Fiction meets Religion: The Case of Jediism
By Maria Menegaki Based on the paper ‘When Science Fiction meets Religion: The Case of Jediism’ which I presented in Piran, Slovenia in 2015 in terms of the…
Racial Purity is a Lie and Here’s Why
With the recent increase in folks’ throwing shade and swastikas on other people’s ethnicities, I thought I’d take a moment to remind us all that racial purity is…
Hot Topic: School Lunch Regulation
Kelly Alexander Breaking news from the world of U.S. food policy: President Trump’s new ag secretary Sonny Perdue moves to loosen federal school lunch legislation, thereby slowing healthy food…
Trump Talk
Two old friends, the anthropologists, Paul Stoller, an American and Emile Martin, a Frenchman, are having lunch in Paris
Trump Talk
Two old friends, the anthropologists, Paul Stoller, an American and Emile Martin, a Frenchman, are having lunch in Paris