antropologi.info endlich handyfreundlich
Endlich habe ich es geschafft. Das Design von antropologi.info ist nun "responsive", d.h. man kann die Texte auch auf Handys und Tablets gut lesen. Die Webseite ist auch…
Warum uns das Glück niemals finden wird
«Irgendeinisch fingt ds Glück eim.» So lautet der Refrain eines Songs der Berner Band Züri West. Irgendeines Songs? Nein! Für mich ist «Fingt ds Glück eim?» nicht irgendein Lied.…
antropologi.info endlich handyfreundlich
Endlich habe ich es geschafft. Das Design von antropologi.info ist nun “responsive”, d.h. man kann die Texte auch auf Handys und Tablets gut lesen. Die Webseite ist auch…
antropologi.info endlich handyfreundlich
Endlich habe ich es geschafft. Das Design von antropologi.info ist nun “responsive”, d.h. man kann die Texte auch auf Handys und Tablets gut lesen. Die Webseite ist auch…
A Note about Changing the Name of the Blog and the Podcast Series
Earlier this week, in collaboration with the podcast This Anthro Life, we debuted our new five-part series called “These Anthro Minds” – except that wasn’t the first choice…
Links & Contents I Liked 236
Hi all, I spent the last three days at a great conference! But I also managed to post a new book review and submit my link review on…
Regen op een maandagochtend
door Lysanne Vrooman Op een maandagochtend in februari word ik wakker. Met de slaap nog in mijn ogen pak ik mijn telefoon om te kijken hoe laat het…
Patrick Neveling: “Vote like humans”: Elections in a posthuman political economy
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (SOAS, University of London). As I left Bournemouth train station…
Which humanities?
Alfred Kroeber always used to say that anthropology is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences. But which humanities? After all, ‘humanities’…
Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme (book review)
I stumbled across Conrad Keating’s biography of Ken Warren, a tropical medicine and philanthropic pioneer at the Rockefeller Foundation, by chance and was immediately intrigued. Kenneth Warren and…
Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story – [Book Review]
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Vidula G. Khanduri. A STEM major at Wellesley College, Vidula enjoys dabbling in the crossroads of politics, science, technology, and society. She’s an avid reader …
Michael Jennings: UK Election 2017 manifestos and international development: Common ground and clear water
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bern). With the election coming up today, I…
John Gledhill: It’s Corbyn’s critics who need the history lesson
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bern). In his very carefully argued speech of…
insult, injury, & imagination
after reading an article about DeVos’ Dept. of Educ hinting at rolling back the gainful-employment rule & how it would be more costly to tax payers i thought…
For the Love of Us All, No More Deplorables, Snowflakes, or Nasty Women
8 Labels I Never Want to Hear Again There are several words that have gained in popularity over the last few years that I don’t ever want to…
Negotiating Mozambique’s new commodity frontiers from the perspective of a conservationist
By Kate Symons, University of Edinburgh. [C]onservation is not a priority….. they [Frelimo] want economic growth at any point. So if they find …… coal and gas and…
Alan Bradshaw: On the prospect of a Tory majority!
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bern). As an Irishman living in England, I…
2017: An Ethnographic Renaissance?
I recently read an interview between Smithsonian’s Steven Beschloss and sociologist Matthew Desmond. This article detailed Desmond’s fieldwork in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee…
Die merkwürdigen Kulturbegriffe einflussreicher Herren
Der Kommentar erschien am 6. 6. 2017 in der Wiener Zeitung. Der deutsche Innenminister beschwört eine „deutsche Leitkultur“, der österreichische Außenminister spricht von „kulturfernen Regionen“ und m…
New Deadline: Thomas Marchione Award!
Opportunity for the Recognition of Outstanding Student Research by applying for the Thomas Marchione Award Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this award…