What is Christmas Spirit?
Where does the idea of Christmas spirit come from and why does it hinge so much on behavior? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Time and the Other Primates
books and arts Tomasello, Michael. 2014. A Natural History of Human Thinking. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 178 pages. 18th-Century Questions, 21st-Century Problems Influential c…
CFP: Climate, Agriculture and Food Systems
A CFP of possible interest to our readers. Call for Abstracts/Papers for Special Issue: Climate, Agriculture and Food Systems Special Issue Editors: Gabrielle Roesch-McNally (USDA Climate Hubs, groesc…
The Limits of Environmentalism at Earth’s End: Reindeer Eradication and the Heritage of Hunting in the Sub-Antarctic
By James J. A. Blair, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY) § In the Arctic Circle, a Russian public health plan to cull hundreds of thousands of…
New Articulations of Biological Difference in the 21st Century: A Conversation
This conversation is prompted by continued frustration about how race is discussed and understood by the public and by those researchers who remain determined to draw clean lines…
The True Commercial Spirit of Christmas
I would like to thank Jim Hardison – a man who I have never met but whose work I have read in the context of my own…
CFP: The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic: A nearly carbon-neutral conference
This conference will take place entirely online from 26 June-14 July, 2017. Contributors will not have to travel anywhere and there is no registration fee. Conference presentations will…
The corporatization of aid enables greedy consultants and high executive salaries
As much as I understand the Sisyphusian dimension of the task, I feel that I need to respond to recent Times and Daily Mail reporting on overpaid development…
The corporatization of aid enables greedy consultants and high executive salaries
As much as I understand the Sisyphusian dimension of the task, I feel that I need to respond to recent Times and Daily Mail reporting on overpaid development…
Die Erinnerungen an die DDR: Ansichten aus West und Ost
Quelle: http://www.briefmarken-bilder.de/ddr-briefmarken-1951-bilder/ddr-briefmarke-leipziger-messe-1951.jpg “Geschichte wird so geschildert, wie sie nach der aktuellen Politik hätte sein so…
Time-ing Out of Old Age with Marc Augé #ageing
I have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. When walking through a meadow or…
How to write a book review
An infographic I recently stumbled across stated that “reading one hour per day in your chosen field will make you an international expert in 7 years.” Now,…
Top Thematic Series
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Top Thematic Series
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Top Five In Focus
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Top Five In Focus
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Food for Anthropologists: Hare or Rabbit for Christmas?
Although many anthropologists are vegans, they are all descended from families of omnivores who for generations have eaten specific species of animals on festive occasions. Now, it’s true…
Antropologie in de praktijk: aan het werk
Foto door Mariska van Zanten Door Mariska van Zanten Naar aanleiding de blog van Freek Colombijn, reflecteer ik, als “pas” afgestudeerde antropoloog in deze blog op de eerste baan…
anthro in the news 12/19/16
Source: Getty Images beware the messenger The Herald (Zimbabwe) published a piece about recent CIA reports on Russian hacking by social anthropologist David Price, professor at St. Martin’s…