CFP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art
The conference will address ‘technical lands’, sites where global knowledge practices and aesthetic categories have converged to literally transform the physical geography of the land. Harvard, April…
“Just the Tip”
So, since October I’ve been accompanying Savage Minds’ social medias, trying to keep everything updated and making sure we have a continuum of posts on Facebook and Twitter.…
Ebola: why has the previous existence of Ebola in the Mano river region not been discussed?
Empty Ebola Treatment Center at ELWA outside Monrovia. November 1, 2016 Passage from a medical journal from 1982: The results seem to indicate that at least Liberia…
Books I Liked 01 (short book reviews)
One of the things I realized this year is that I am actually reading more interesting books than I am able to review individually for the blog. To…
Books I Liked 01 (short book reviews)
One of the things I realized this year is that I am actually reading more interesting books than I am able to review individually for the blog. To…
Mapping the world?
At anthro everywhere! we’ve already written a couple of posts about how maps powerfully represent certain social realities. Today’s post adds a couple of new resources for teaching…
Mapping the world?
At anthro everywhere! we’ve already written a couple of posts about how maps powerfully represent certain social realities. Today’s post adds a couple of new resources for teaching…
Wind Energy
By Alexander Dunlap Wind Energy is undoubtedly my favorite of all the energy systems, which retains an immense potential for ecological sustainability. This potential, however, can be utopic,…
Generating Extractive Industry Capitalism: Corporate Foreign Policy and the Resource Frontier
By Paul Robert Gilbert, University of Brighton Each year in the Autumn, London’s Geological Society hosts ‘FINEX: Exploration Meets the City’ in their well-appointed premises on Piccadilly. Perhaps…
A Show of Horses and Men
A man rides a white horse against a bright blue sky. The image evokes a sense of heroism, of freedom. Unlike the stereotypical prince charming or cowboy, however,…
Unravelling Academic Precarity #UniversityCrisis
In conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that derive from them. From such conversations we regard…
Teaching the Anthropology of Elections in times of Trump
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the #teachingthedisaster series. This is post in the #teachingthedisaster series comes to us from Maria L. Vidart-Delgado. Maria lectures in…
Deutschland in Sicht
Heute vor vier Monaten bin ich abgereist. Ich weiß, dass es einigen von uns gleich geht: Wo ist die Zeit geblieben? Ist es so schnell vorbei? Ich habe…
Behold, a timeline of the history of anthropology!
I am extremely happy to announce today that I’m making open access my timeline of the history of anthropological theory. This timeline has over 1,000 entries, beginning with…
“Making a Bill” in Search of Health
CC 4.0 by TravelingOtter The Poorest, Sickest State Mississippi is the U.S.’s poorest state and has the lowest rates of insurance coverage. Mississippi also has very poor health…
ASFS Student Paper Awards
Students! Check out these awards for undergraduate and graduate essays from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. These are great opportunities for fame and recognition.…
Web Roundup: Something Rotten – Scent, Morality, Good and Evil by Sara M Bergstresser
A well-known quote from Hamlet is “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” This, of course, refers to the illegitimate and immoral reign of the fictional King…
Is the Term “People of Color” Acceptable in This Day and Age?
One day a student approached me after class and asked, “What should I call students who are of Asian descent? Is it OK to just say Asian, or…
Can microbes, pigs and humans be co-workers?
What would it mean to consider that non-human beings also do work? Is it possible to have other forms of food production, not through human domination, but collaboration…
Can microbes, pigs and humans be co-workers?
What would it mean to consider that non-human beings also do work? Is it possible to have other forms of food production, not through human domination, but collaboration…