Artisanal Anthropology Workshop
Savage Minds is pleased to announce our first workshop in artisanal anthropology. As we imagine a future for our discipline that is both sustainable and ethical, it is…
Snip – day three casualties. Kill your darlings. Draft paras that did not make the final edit
Of course the screen has long been a global industry with a global logistics, and every ‘international’ production – a movie, drama or news – involves battalions of…
Maintainers II, April 6-9, 2017: Program & Registration
The program is up and registration is open for Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders, which will be held at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ…
Bijeenkomst 10 april – ‘Doe Normaal’ – Over de normalisering van islamofobie
Datum: 10 april 2017 Tijd: 16.00 – 18.00 uur Universiteit van Amsterdam Op maandag 10 april van 16:00 uur tot 18:00 organiseert de UvA, afdeling antropologie, in samenwerking…
Cristina Bicchieri, “Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Humans engage in a wide variety of collective behaviors, ranging from simple customs like wearing a heavy coat in winter to more complex group actions, as when an…
Women as national education chiefs
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is the first woman Minister of Education in France, in office since 2014 in the second half of François Hollande’s presidency. (Before becoming Minister of Education she w…
Web Roundup: Moral enhancement by Jane Roberts
This month’s web round up focuses on notions of treatment as enhancement…or vice versa? I’ve recently come off a stretch of spending quite a lot of time reading…
Don Kalb: The EU at 60: the Treaty of Rome is a smoke screen
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). The…
Links & Contents I Liked 226
Hi all,A busy week wrapped up with a fresh book review and the Friday link collage! Development news: Why do expats earn more than locals? Southern online workers…
Links & Contents I Liked 226
Hi all,A busy week wrapped up with a fresh book review and the Friday link collage! Development news: Why do expats earn more than locals? Southern online workers…
Save Academic Freedom in Hungary: Defend CEU
You may have seen the latest cheerful news from Hungary this week! In a breach of the freedom and autonomy of higher education institutions in Hungary and around…
Failing in the field (book review)
I bought Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book Failing in the field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong as a potential addition to our Research…
Failing in the field (book review)
I bought Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book Failing in the field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong as a potential addition to our Research…
Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church
New religious movements The sweeping generalization that God is disappearing from the Netherlands seems to affirm the idea that modern secular nations like the Netherlands are finally being…
Mobiliteitsproblemen in een gated community
Pakuwon City (alle foto’s in dit stuk zijn gemaakt door Freek Colombijn) Door Freek Colombijn Normaal zoek ik voor veldwerk in Indonesië een verblijfplaats in een kampon…
Waiting for… #EVENTS
What do you know: its YET AGAIN time for events! This month our eye was caught by a delightful spread of events addressing transition, cities, waiting, forms of representations…
Actually scary critique
Back in 2011 I facilitated a workshop at the University of Chicago on “actually scary critique.” The workshop didn’t really work out because it never really reached its object;…
Gemischte Paare in China: Leben mit Vorurteilen
Von bewundernden Blicken bis zu arroganten Kommentaren haben sich interkulturelle Pärchen an unterschiedliche Reaktionen auf ihre Liebe gewöhnt. Die Bloggerin Jocelyn Eikenburg plaudert im Netz aus de…
Gemischte Paare in China: Leben mit Vorurteilen
Von bewundernden Blicken bis zu arroganten Kommentaren haben sich interkulturelle Pärchen an unterschiedliche Reaktionen auf ihre Liebe gewöhnt. Die Bloggerin Jocelyn Eikenburg plaudert im Netz aus de…
The Ethical Battle Over Ancient DNA
A new controversy has arisen over recent scientific analyses conducted on ancient Native American remains that were uncovered in the 1890s at Pueblo Bonito, an archaeological site located…
UMARMUNG- EIN MUSS & GLEICHZEITIG EIN NO GO
Das sich gegenseitige Berühren, der Körperkontakt, ist ein wesentlicher Teil der Körpersprache, die nicht weniger wichtig ist als die verbale Kommunikation. Im Gegensatz zum reinen Informationsübermit…
More snips from the cutting room floor
Despite the geopolitical machinations of superpowers and regional interests, there has been through the crises of imperialism, WW2 and the independence period, a parallel progressive leftist culture r…
Book Report Entry #3: Taking Notes from Field notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology
In our continued feature of Fieldnotes: A ‘guided journal’ for doing anthropology by Luis A. Vivanco, we’re delving into his fourth chapter on Taking Notes in his Doing Fieldwork sectio…
Book Report Entry #3: Taking Notes from Field notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology
In our continued feature of Fieldnotes: A ‘guided journal’ for doing anthropology by Luis A. Vivanco, we’re delving into his fourth chapter on Taking Notes in his Doing Fieldwork sectio…