anthro in the news 3/6/17
Source: Google Images Commons science education K-12 must include humans The Idaho Statesman published an op-ed by John Ziker, chair of the anthropology department at Boise State University…
Understanding hipsters – scholarly and otherwise
Are “hipsters” on their way out, or have they become so normalized in our popular culture that we don’t really notice them anymore? (And, if the latter, is…
David F. Lancy, “The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Developmental psychology seems to tell us how to best to raise our children into competent and decent adults. However, comparing our theories and practices to those of other…
Precarity as Freedom? Youth, Neoliberalism and the Dissolution of ‘Japan, Inc.’
by Shuto Fukuoka It would not be an overstatement to say that the Japanese youth of today are significantly foreign to the one a couple of decades ago,…
GONE RETREATING! #Holiday
Some of our devoted readers may have caught glimpses of cheerful Allies in the French Alps over the weekend… Indeed, we enjoyed the extraordinary fortune of getting together…
Anthropology as speculative realism
Photo by Ashley van Haeften on Flickr By Younes Saramifar In the following blog, Younes Saramifar responds to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, title…
Epitaphs
Although widely culturally variable, it is often an important ritual in death to mark the grave or otherwise physically memorialize the deceased. This is certainly widely practiced in the United State…
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca
Part 2: The New Ayahuasca Churches Yesterday I sat in on a webinar sponsored by ICEERS (the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service) and organized by anthropologist…
Living longer- How long is too long?
Following a paradigm shift from infectious to chronic disease, life expectancy rose for individuals, currently at 78.8 years of age (U.S based). The article linked below addresses how the…
Kurswechsel in der US-Handelspolitik – China als neuer Führer der Weltwirtschaft?
Präsident Xi Jinping in Davos, Außenminister Wang Yi in München – beide propagieren Freihandel sowie Globalisierung und warnen vor Protektionismus. Diese Positionen werden im Westen mit Interesse verf…
Kurswechsel in der US-Handelspolitik – China als neuer Führer der Weltwirtschaft?
Präsident Xi Jinping in Davos, Außenminister Wang Yi in München – beide propagieren Freihandel sowie Globalisierung und warnen vor Protektionismus. Diese Positionen werden im Westen mit Interesse verf…
Hindu Perspectives on Death: Karma and Its Implications
Hindu beliefs about death, specifically about karma, have always intrigued me. While I’m not religious, I’ve been exposed to Hindu beliefs my entire life, and examining them through…
How not to present survey data- 2017 UN Global Staff Survey edition
Last week the UNOG Staff Coordinating Council shared the results of its 2017 Global Staff Satisfaction Survey 2017, “in which 4,000 of you took part last week, representing…
How not to present survey data- 2017 UN Global Staff Survey edition
Last week the UNOG Staff Coordinating Council shared the results of its 2017 Global Staff Satisfaction Survey 2017, “in which 4,000 of you took part last week, representing…
Dreaming about World War Three
Talkin’ World War III Blues Bob Dylan One time ago a crazy dream came to me I dreamt I was walkin’ into World War Three I went to…
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Christina Callicott. I’m guessing that by now most of my readers will have heard of this stuff called “ayahuasca.” Everyone from Stephen Colbert…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part VI
If you got the money, honey, they got your disease. My latest articles and interviews: Globe and Mail: Some call this America’s resistance. Really, we are helping each other…
JOB – SOAS, University of London
A job search announcement that should be of interest to our readers. Note that the position is essentially at the rank of assistant professor and that food systems and…
Reader Letters #2: Trump Edition
Here’s the second round of Savage Minds Reader Letters! We asked our readers to share their thoughts about anthropology in the Trump era for this round, and we…
The myth of the trickle-down effect: What Guinea’s recent upheavals intimate about the country, by Joschka Philipps
The dry season’s dust has again settled on Conakry’s streets, aside from a few marks of ashes and rubble on the sides of the main avenues, everything seems…
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Hi all, Lots of great development and #ICT4D stuff this week! I am also a bit tired after a long week of meetings-so no witty introduction ;)!Development news:…
Construction of Power – Het LaSSA Congres
Van een grote organisatie zoals de Verenigde Naties tot de relaties die men met familieleden heeft, macht is overal aanwezig. Maar hoe komen machtsrelaties eigenlijk tot stand? Deze…
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Hi all, Lots of great development and #ICT4D stuff this week! I am also a bit tired after a long week of meetings-so no witty introduction ;)!Development news:…