Seeing Through? The Materiality of Dioramas (1600-2010)
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Why it’s easier for India to get to Mars than to tackle its toilet challenge
In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the United States and the European Union) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars…
Not Getting Closure: Reflecting on the Vindication of Gaetan Dugas by Greg Clinton
Now drowned in the torrent of post-election analysis, on October 26, 2016, the journal Nature published a study which traced genomic data in an effort to map the spread…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, November 21, 2016
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
On capitalist utopia and the rightful share
by Deniz Seebacher & Julia Büchele The title of James Ferguson’s latest book (2015) draws from (arguably) “the world’s most widely circulated development cliché”: Give a man a fish,…
Banditry and the Politics of #Remoteness in the Highlands of Madagascar
Over the past few years, the resurgence of rural banditry in many regions of Madagascar has been an important topic of public and political debate. Local and national…
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene [review]
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Cthulhu, Great Old One and Special Collections Librarian at Brown University. When the puny mortals at Savage Minds invited me to review the…
Why to Read Winnicott after the US Election, and How by Leo Coleman
Commentary and speculation after this election have focused on voters’ motives and emotional states, and, especially in the day or two after the result, why experts didn’t know…
Links & Contents I Liked 208
Hi all, We enjoyed a great teaching seminar with our students in Paris! Now back to work and Friday blogging… Development news: India’s farm suicide widows; Nepal’s slow recovery;…
Links & Contents I Liked 208
Hi all, We enjoyed a great teaching seminar with our students in Paris! Now back to work and Friday blogging… Development news: India’s farm suicide widows; Nepal’s slow recovery;…
REZEKI: Gold and Stone Mining in Aceh
“REZEKI: Gold and Stone Mining in Aceh” was produced jointly by SEATIDE and the University of Milano-Bicocca. The 52-minute film is based on Giacomo Tabacco’s and Silvia Vignato’s…
This is the place to be (book review)
As I wrote before, I like book reviews. They provide me with one of the most attractive aspects of my engagement with ‘communication for development’-reading interesting and innovative…
This is the place to be (book review)
As I wrote before, I like book reviews. They provide me with one of the most attractive aspects of my engagement with ‘communication for development’-reading interesting and innovative…
Vamos a la lucha!
By Lieke Prins During the three months of my fieldwork in Medellín (the second-largest city in Colombia) I researched the political ideology of social science…
Being there: Humanitarian #remoteness
During World War II, Ruth Benedict conducted research about Japan at a distance. Challenging the stereotypical image of the white male researcher risking his life alone under fire,…
Trump and Anthropology
“We are the new Indians…there are people today who want to discover us again, who want to conquer, enslave, and colonize us, and who want to use us…
SAFN Members at the AAA in Minneapolis, We Need You!
Are you in Minneapolis for the annual AAA meeting? Are you a SAFN member or someone interested in the anthropology of food and nutrition? We need you! Friday,…
Hashtag Chaos: #AAA2016 vs. #amanth2016
As I’ve done over the past 3 years, I ran Twitter searches for the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting this evening. Unlike previous years, though, the #AAA2016 hashtag…
A Review of Virtual Reality Ethnographic Film, or: How We’ve Always been Creating Virtual Reality
By Haley Bryant Upon opening my eyes, I see that a figure has appeared on the horizon: a young boy adorned in the iconic red vestments of the…
Now accepting reader letters
We here at Savage Minds want to hear from you, our readers. To further this goal we are creating a new “Reader Letters” feature and we encourage you…
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Where to find Alternative News Sources
Check out Simon Fraser Universities Alternative News Sources page. As described at the top of the page: For the purposes of this guide, “alternative” means that which does…
Where to find Alternative News Sources
Check out Simon Fraser Universities Alternative News Sources page. As described at the top of the page: For the purposes of this guide, “alternative” means that which does…