Free Online Tools for Instructors
This list of free online tools for instructors began from thinking about the kinds of tools that we use in our own teaching and researching — but also…
Free Online Tools for Instructors
This list of free online tools for instructors began from thinking about the kinds of tools that we use in our own teaching and researching — but also…
Why Anthropologists Failed to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
By: Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar In 2016 the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions for their involvement in the illegal occupation of Palestine both gathered significant steam…
Dijon vous craignez
I’ve been working on a paper about the failure of left-wing internationalism at the “European counter-summits” (at least the two that I was able to observe in 2010 and 2011),…
Are You Not Entertained: TGA’s Favorite 2016 Movies, Television & Media
In 2015, mainstream geek culture began to emerge as more than simply a popular and bankable enterprise–throughout the year, creative projects in the genre provided models of diversity…
How Rumors Tap and Fuel Anxieties in the Internet Age
I sometimes like to joke that anthropologists looking for the strangest and most exotic society on earth should do fieldwork in the United States. As if to prove…
On writing from elsewhere
My childhood imagination enhanced stories told to me by my elders of where we were from, and my history embraced the possibility of exciting seafarers, noble learned men…
Strategische Prozessführung im Flüchtlingsrecht – Gemeinsam Rechte für Schutzsuchende durchsetzenKurzer Tagungsbericht
Von Laura Hilb und Lisa vom Felde Am 18. November 2016 fand eine Tagung zum Thema „Strategische Prozessführung im Flüchtlingsrecht“ organisiert von der Refugee Law Clinic Gießen (RLC)…
Of Primates and Persons
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Coltan Scrivner for the month of January. Coltan will be writing a series of posts on personhood from different disciplinary perspectives. When I…
How to make doing your independent consulting taxes a little less… taxing ?
It’s been a while – about 8 months – since I transitioned from independent consulting to a full-time in-house job, but I jumped back into that world briefly…
anthro in the news 1/2/17
Source: Google Images too much complexity The Guardian carried an op-ed arguing that greatly increased social complexity and global connections are recipes for disaster: “…the endless marketisation a…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Looking Back and Looking Ahead
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
Spotlight on Scholars: Rachele Dini and why the literature of waste matters
Between the age of seven and ten, I was obsessed with Barbie, and this playing spilled out far beyond my bedroom: it involved looking around the house, in…
Diet as a New Identity
Photo by Gaya Nikolsky By Gaya Nikolsky Who are you? No, let me rephrase that to avoid a complicated philosophical debate. What is your identity? Okay, although this…
Help a researcher out by taking this short survey on neighborhood blight in Detroit!
My dissertation research involves interviewing Detroit residents city to learn more about how blight affects peoples’ daily lives. I’ve created a very brief questionnaire as an extension o…
Fractocurrentism and the anthropologist of the future (TAOTF) …
Will be a world view Will reconceptualise disciplinary thinking and skill sets TAOTF will be better known TAOTF will probably do fiewldwork at home, locally or … –…
Bildungsreform in China: Freiheit bei der Fächerwahl
Natur- oder Geisteswissenschaft? – Für einen dieser Zweige mussten sich chinesische Schüler vor ihrem High-School-Abschluss bisher entscheiden. Eine Bildungsreform soll dies ändern. Die freie Fächerwa…
Web Roundup: Moving forward in the face of uncertainty and debatable facts by Jane Roberts
And so ends 2016 – a year many have regarded as pretty topsy-turvy and trying at times. The focus of this month’s web roundup relates to how we…
Why do Leaders Fail?
This is an opinion piece that some might say loosely fits within the realm of anthropology. And yet, if one could say that anthropology is the genealogy and…
2016: The Ending of the Year of Beginnings
Probably the most memorable year in decades, 2016 was a non-stop accumulation of turning points and landmark events. In broad terms, we began to witness the demise of…
In Line Quotation-Dec-2017
“The meanings of human actions are obscured by ritual, custom, idea or other forms of underlying background influence.” – Neil Turner