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.…
Review: The Sociology of Food
The Sociology of Food: Eating the Place of Food in Society. Jean-Pierre Poulain. Translated by Augusta Dorr. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University This is a…
Surplus value and care
D.D.Kosambi’s summary of Buddhist political economy circa 500bc. From ‘The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline’ 1964. (P113 1996 reprint by Vikas Publishi…
Die virtuelle Umkleide – Verlockung zum Online-Shopping
Wer kennt es nicht? Man probiert zwei Stunden lang die schönsten Kleider im Geschäft an und läuft trotzdem mit leeren Händen aus dem Laden. Der Albtraum jeder shoppingliebenden…
Leises aus der lauten Stadt
Eine Woche ist es nun her seitdem ich chinesischen Boden betreten habe, nach zahllosen Umstiegen irgendwo in der Nähe der Uni angekommen bin und mich wahnsinnig gefreut habe…
What you can REALLY do with an anthropology degree
The Brooking Institute’s Hamilton Project (because after Hamilton everything has to be named after Hamilton) has a new website examining the relationship between career path and college major &#…
How to convince people that drugs need to be legalized: a guide for getting normies on board.
I’ve developed a really nerdy, but kickass, superpower. Give me twenty minutes of one-on-one conversation time with a person, any person, and they will come out of that…
Beauty’s Knowledge: Hawthorne’s Moral Fable “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Leo Coleman
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a nineteenth-century moral fable that sets the fruits of experimental knowledge against obligations to humanity, and stages a dramatic encounter …
The World Has Lost Its Harmony
Something’s not right in the world. In the US, Hurricane Harvey produced 54 inches of rain that flooded Houston and much