Follow-Up: The Reasons People Don’t Return Their Shopping Carts
It looks like the shopping cart question hit a nerve — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Trendreport 2017: Migration, Rezession, „Regression“ und Ressentiment
Es ist jetzt vier Jahre her, dass zuletzt ein sogenannter “Trendreport” auf dem REMID-Blog erschienen war (vgl. Trendreport 2013). Was ergibt ein Blick auf die “geistige Situation der…
Sophia Roosth, “Synthetic: How Life Got Made” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Sophia Roosth‘s wonderful new book follows researchers clustered around MIT beginning in 2003 who named themselves synthetic biologists. A historically informed anthropological analysis based on… Visit New Books…
#Anthroadvice with Allegra
When curating this thematic week, I wanted to end with some advice from Allegra Lab’s own editorial team. However, this turned out to be trickier than I had imagined. …
Free Think 6 – Who Are the 13,000?
FreeThink 6 – Who Are the 13,000? In this week’s Free Think, Adam and Ryan introduce a new member of our team, Matt, who will be leading a…
Free Think 6 – Who Are the 13,000?
FreeThink 6 – Who Are the 13,000? In this week’s Free Think, Adam and Ryan introduce a new member of our team, Matt, who will be leading a…
Looking in the Mirror (Part 1 of 3)
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Pasang Yangjee Sherpa. “You become an anthropologist, when you publish,” we were told in a graduate anthropology seminar. If this is true, I…
How do you raise a child? Insights from a World of Babies
How do you raise a child? Ask any mother, and she’ll offer a long list of things you should do–and shouldn’t do. Not only will three mothers share…
Position Announcement: Cultural/Museum Administrator, Tohono O’odham Nation’s Cultural Center/Museum
Position Announcement: Cultural/Museum Administrator, Tohono O’odham Nation’s Cultural Center/Museum
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, May 12, 2017
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Turismo y música, desde la antropología: Identidades en Venta, de Georgina Flores Mercado y Fernando Nava López
Identidades en venta: músicas tradicionales y turismo en México. Reseña, por Gabriela Vargas Cetina Desde el artículo pionero de Theron Núñez en 1963 sobre el turismo en un…
Links & Contents I Liked 232
Hi all, It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in Sweden! Enjoy stimulating readings, great documentaries, a poem & the odd Tweet! Development news: UN’s new top humanitarian is a…
Links & Contents I Liked 232
Hi all, It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in Sweden! Enjoy stimulating readings, great documentaries, a poem & the odd Tweet! Development news: UN’s new top humanitarian is a…
Anthropology, Research, and Advice with Jon Schubert #Anthroadvice
Recently, I sat down with Jon Schubert, Allegra Lab’s new Director of Outreach for a conversation about his research, his position at Allegra Lab, and his advice to…
A necessary complication: towards a richer understanding of affordances
A comment on Elisabetta Costa “Social Media as Practices: an Ethnographic Critique of ‘Affordances’ and ‘Context Collapse’.” EASA Media Anthropology Network’s 60th e-Seminar, 9-23 May 2017 by Christi…
Anthropology under my skin
What follows is the text of the presentation I gave as part of the the Reclaiming Anthropology panel during the Anthropology in Aotearoa Symposium held at Victoria University…
Women selling sex in the postwar London of Doris Lessing
The Four-Gated City was published in 1969 by Doris Lessing. The passage quoted below describes a single young woman walking west on the Bayswater Road in 1950. The…