World Anthropology Day: Grokking as a Geek Anthropologist
In honor of World Anthropology Day 2017, we’re sharing the text from an AnthroTalk presentation on what it means to do geek anthropology, given at George Washington University…
“Revolutionary Egypt” Book Gets a Facebook Page
Its a book about the “Facebook revolution”, right? So it is only appropriate it finally gets its own Facebook page–concurrent with its coming out in paperback and as…
Scholarly paths that lead beyond the university
I’ll admit, my love of cardigan sweaters was what first caught my attention and prompted me to read this article about professional development and careers beyond academia: Life After…
Supporting the Resistance
Well, 2017 has certainly burst out of the gates, with Trump signing executive orders the way a bull wreaks havoc in a china shop, and the resistance using…
The world is running wild
– It is all accelerating too violently and too fast and we are lacking restricting mechanisms that would slow us down, says Thomas Hylland Eriksen in an interview…
The world is running wild
– It is all accelerating too violently and too fast and we are lacking restricting mechanisms that would slow us down, says Thomas Hylland Eriksen in an interview…
Research challenges the view that environmental regulators are anti-business
Interactions between regulators and the private sector at the federal and state levels typically are collegial, and that both sides work to build and maintain cooperative partnerships.
The world is running wild
– It is all accelerating too violently and too fast and we are lacking restricting mechanisms that would slow us down, says Thomas Hylland Eriksen in an interview…
The world is running wild
– It is all accelerating too violently and too fast and we are lacking restricting mechanisms that would slow us down, says Thomas Hylland Eriksen in an interview…
#REVIEW: SEX AND UNISEX: FASHION, FEMINISM, AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
Fashion is deeply expressive of social and individual identities, and thus, changes in fashion trends reveal much about changes in culture. This contention is a familiar one within…
On Food and Labor, Briefly
David Beriss Andrew Puzder has decided to withdraw his name from consideration for Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration. As I pointed out a few weeks ago,…
The Joys–and Uses–of Teaching Anthropology
Yes, I’ve retired from full-time teaching. Yes, I sometimes miss it, and may well return to the classroom from time to time. For now, I was tickled to…
object lesson: dolls on an anthropologist’s shelf
You can learn about a culture by looking at iconic artwork or inspiring architecture — and also by examining seemingly mundane cultural products like dolls. Dana Professor of…
Failing The Moral Test: Canadians Must Redress Our Nation’s Abuse Of Children
the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children* On Valentine’s Day, 2017, Justice Edward Belobaba of…
Failing The Moral Test: Canadians Must Redress our Nation’s Abuse of Children
the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children* On Valentine’s Day, 2017, Justice Edward Belobaba of…
Lessons from the Catwoman: Extinction and resilience of Amazonian fauna [exerpt from SAPIENS]
Francisco Evangelista, a Paumari Indian who grew up along the Piranha River within the Purus River basin in the Brazilian Amazon, tells a tale from his boyhood about…
Lessons from the Catwoman: Extinction and resilience of Amazonian fauna [exerpt from SAPIENS]
Francisco Evangelista, a Paumari Indian who grew up along the Piranha River within the Purus River basin in the Brazilian Amazon, tells a tale from his boyhood about…
Being and being reviewed: Books as pieces of self
Being and being reviewed is a play on the English title of Kajsa Ekis Ekman’s book Varat och varan: Being and being bought. Hers is an ideological diatribe…
Lessons from the Catwoman: Extinction and resilience of Amazonian fauna [exerpt from SAPIENS]
Francisco Evangelista, a Paumari Indian who grew up along the Piranha River within the Purus River basin in the Brazilian Amazon, tells a tale from his boyhood about…
Reproductive Travelers
Examining the migratory pathways of a global reproductive industry. We’ve joined forces with AAA’s latest public education initiative “World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration”…
Overcoming the Fear of Death Psychedelically
Researchers at NYU and Johns Hopkins Universities have found that a single dose of the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, can diminish depression and anxiety related to…
Lessons From a Forgotten Amazonian Slaughter
For decades, conservationists have viewed subsistence hunting by Indigenous peoples in the Amazon as a contributing factor to “empty forests”—forests where trees remain but wildlife is all but…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 19: Anne Galvin on Reflexivity and the White Anthropologist
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…