The day after Leonard Cohen died.
Suddenly the night has grown colder. The god of love preparing to depart.* The chill of the 2016 US elections is still in my bones. Glued to any…
Multimodality Through Twitter: Exploring the Alleyways of Seoul
Multimodality describes an anthropology across multiple media platforms–an anthropology that traverses film, photograph, theater, design, podcast, app and game (to name a few) as well as conventional…
Public Anthropology is More Important Than Ever
As The Geek Anthropologist has expanded over the past several years, the editors have had a number of discussions about our identity as an online publication. Though our…
Anthropology after November 8th: On race, denial, and the work ahead
For some people, the election that just took place might seem like just another choice between the lesser of two evils. One more election that we all learn…
A Plea for Post-Election Empathy From The Intellectuals
Here are links to two brilliant articles addressing the change we are seeing in our country – exemplified by our current presidential election. Cracked: How half of America…
Alliances not self promotion. Bataille would already have joined
Dear comrades on my news feed, Am sure you probably already will have seen this but I’m sending it out in place of any comment about either Trimp…
Teaching Anthropology Through Student Writing Projects on Wikipedia: AAA 2016 Workshop Highlight
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AAA 2016. This post was submitted by Carwil…
Camaraderie in the Face of Greek Austerity
At a pharmacy in Vyronas, Greece, Dimitris (left) provides a referral for medical care while Soula (top center) helps fill prescriptions. All services at this and other community-based…
Links & Contents I Liked 207
Hi all, Have a break from the misery around us-enjoy your development link review ;)! Development news: Can peacekeeping be fixed after Sudan? Reforming the UN’s HR system;…
Links & Contents I Liked 207
Hi all, Have a break from the misery around us-enjoy your development link review ;)! Development news: Can peacekeeping be fixed after Sudan? Reforming the UN’s HR system;…
Mourning in Orlando
Latinx memorials force us to question the whiteness of queer identity and national memorialization. On June 12, 2016, a gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle opened fire at…
In Trump’s America, 72% of the population is disposable
What does that mean? As an affront to order, it means we are pollution. It means we must be aggressively ignored, ordered, or erased. We know this. This…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti (book review)
I had just started reading Mark Schuller’s Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti when hurricane Matthew hit the island. It was a sad and timely reminder to critically analyze and…
Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti (book review)
I had just started reading Mark Schuller’s Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti when hurricane Matthew hit the island. It was a sad and timely reminder to critically analyze and…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
A Short Reflection on the Evidentiality of #Evidence
Evidence sometimes suffers from a peculiar problem. It is not always evident. I call this the problem of the evidentiality of evidence. By definition, evidence is that which…
#teachingthedisaster
On Wednesday morning, amid the turbulent mix of feelings that washed across the country and beyond its borders, an anxious existential question took hold of many of us:…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, November 11, 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…