Security Theatre
This phrase was used on the BBC world service a few times yesterday in reference to the ban on laptops and other devices from some airports on some…
Bullshit! Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data Syllabus
We came across this syllabus the other day and can think of many ways in which these open access materials and their analysis can be used in anthropology…
CFP: Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology & Science
The Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science (WHEATS) brings together graduate students studying the history of the environment, agriculture, science, or technolog…
Yes we can – and this is how! #Fieldwork with kids
Almost exactly four years ago I arrived at Geneva airport – with my two sons then aged 1 and 4. We had set on our journey almost a…
Researching along in the Arctic: from lecture rooms to research fieldwork sites. A workshop on research issues with Tim Ingold
On 23 March 2017, The Anthropology Research Team is happy to invite Professor Tim Ingold to participate as a guest discussant to a workshop that will be held…
Fornello: Connecting to Culture at the Roots
This post was authored by Theresa Felicetti, the Project Coordinator at the John Brown Heritage Foundation and a two time participant in the Fornello project. I come from…
WITH AND FOR OUR SENSES
Atila Rezler start to fell art at a very young age, his great grandfather was an artist that worked with marquetry, the grandfather an exalted designer, so he was born in between many forms of…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 24: Thurka Sangaramoorthy on Decolonizing Anthropology in the Trump Era
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…
The Power of Vulnerability Revisited
This episode focuses on a conversation between Adam and Amy about a TEDtalk titled The Power of Vulnerability presented by Brené Brown. In this video, Brown breaks down the…
The Power of Vulnerability Revisited
This episode focuses on a conversation between Adam and Amy about a TEDtalk titled The Power of Vulnerability presented by Brené Brown. In this video, Brown breaks down the…
Yes, You Can: Being an Academic and a Mother – REDUX
Can one be an academic and a mother? Of course. Of course you can, and yet, this question is a common one. It is one female graduate students…
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca Part 3
Part 3: Legality (or lack thereof) (In the last post, I promised to start this one with some explanation of what goes into ayahuasca that makes it the concern…
Remembering Teresia Teaiwa: An Open Access Bibliography
Scholars of the Pacific are mourning the loss of Teresia Teaiwa this week. Teresia was an iconic figure in Pacific Studies: A poet and critic, dedicated teacher, and…
EM Thoughts and Readings!
Ellen Messer March 17–St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday during Lent, when Roman Catholics ordinarily forego meat. But this year the Boston-based Roman Catholic Cardinal O’Malley gav…
The Sound and Fury of the Huey Helicopter
What is the most iconic military vehicle ever created? For both visual and acoustic reasons, I’d suggest it’s the Huey helicopter of the Vietnam War era. World War…
MILCH ZUM ANZIEHEN
„Seidenweich und seidenleicht“, „warm wie Wolle“, „Leinen kühlt“, „Pelz ist schwer, weich und wärmend“, „Leder glatt und stabil“, „Baumwolle leicht und praktisch“ etc. All’ diese Materialien charakter…
Latin America’s Gender Ideology Explosion
What’s been called part of the “global war” to destroy marriage, “your latest right-wing conspiracy,” and the driving idea behind the “anti-LGBT backlash in Latin America,” but “doesn’t…
My new book! Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity
I am very pleased to announce that my new book is out. Technically, Amazon and other outlets might not ship it until April 4th, but I saw it…
Kathleen McAuliffe, “This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society” (Mariner Books, 2017)
Kathleen McAuliffe‘s This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society (Mariner Books, 2017) unveils the world of parasites. From the influence…
Dinner time at the ‘Vulture Restaurant’
The national animal On a small piece of grassland near a small village in South Nepal, a local man offers the body of a dead cow to the…
Notes on the counter-revolution
The period since 1945 saw a revolution in world society which, by the 1990s, had turned into widespread popular emancipation from the repressive state controls installed during the…
Rogue: Scholarly Responsibility in the Time of Trump
What if scholars need to go rogue? If anthropologists need to go rogue? In the USA right now, we are not in normal times, but in a new…
Jay Murphy Books&Books Event 24.3.17 – Artaud’s Metamorphosis
If in Florida, get to this on March 24 2017 at 8pm, at: 265 Aragon Ave Coral Gables, FL 33134 (Click here to go to the website): Filed under:…