An Open Letter to My Grandchildren
Dear Dean and Mona, At four years old and ten months old, you are both too young to understand why the grown-ups around you keep talking about…
An Open Letter to My Children
Dear Nathaniel and Hannah, I am sorry that my generation has failed you. We have bequeathed you a world that has too many problems, too much fear, and too much…
SAFN at the AAAs in Minneapolis
Our section has an exciting lineup of sessions and panels at the upcoming AAA conference in Minneapolis. We have a number of new events and a few changes…
CFP: Repair Matters
This special issue of ephemera aims to investigate contemporary practices of repair as an emergent focus of recent organizing at the intersection of politics, ecology and economy.
Down to Earth: Op zoek naar de wijzen
Still uit de documentaire ‘Down to Earth’ Door Peter Versteeg Het idee dat inheemse volken een wijsheid en spiritualiteit kennen die ‘wij in het westen’ al lang geleden…
#Evidence for the future: time and proof in commercial risk forecasting
“We are an intelligence and analysis company that forecasts. We are not a news organisation that tells stories. We are not political scientists who explain. We do a…
Post No Bills: The Ancient Romans Had a Version of Lawn Signs, Too
The American history of the political yard sign may date back to 1824 when John Quincy Adams had signs printed for his presidential run. Our current wireframe version…
Post No Bills: The Ancient Romans Had a Version of Lawn Signs, Too
The American history of the political yard sign may date back to 1824 when John Quincy Adams had signs printed for his presidential run. Our current wireframe version…
AAA 2016 papers relating to Oceania
The programme for the 115th annual meeeting of the American Anthropological Association (16-20 November) in Minneapolis is now available. I have compiled a list of sessions, papers and…
Trigger Happy with Gunspeak
Our speech echoes the gun-obsessed society in which Americans live. After I was invited to pull the trigger on this article, to draw a bead on gunspeak, to…
Ankara’s Long Arm: Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
By Matthias Teeuwen Last Thursday Professor Thijl Sunier gave a lecture on the backlash in the Netherlands of the coup attempt in Turkey in July. The room was…
Building the Next Generation of Anthropological Archaeology
Welcoming the AD to Amerind in June of 2016. Photo courtesy Annie Larkin and Jane Eva-Baxter American archaeology has long found its home both structurally and intellectually within…
US presidential elections: nothing to celebrate
I do sincerely hope that we won’t wake up tomorrow morning with the terrible news of a Trump presidency. Having said that, the world is already an awful…
SAFN 2016 Distinguished Speaker Lisa Heldke
Please join us for the SAFN reception and distinguished speaker on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 7:45pm at the AAA conference in Minneapolis. This year our distinguished speaker is…
Making #AAA2016 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
It’s officially November and we all know what that means: #AAA2016 is right around the corner. The panic around getting desks cleared and papers/presentations written, comingled with the…
Beyond ‘Trump or Hillary’: a travelogue
You will find no scientific truth in any of the following as I made a personal collection of brief encounters during a summer holiday. In 2016, I drove…
Beyond ‘Trump or Hillary’: a travelogue
You will find no scientific truth in any of the following as I made a personal collection of brief encounters during a summer holiday. In 2016, I drove…
Does #Evidence Matter?
Evidence, whether in law, in natural or social science, or in belief systems, is about establishing certainty. Evidence has thus been central to law, to science, and to…
101 Things We Learned from WikiLeaks’ Podesta Emails
US voters have been given a rare, even unprecedented opportunity to look at the machinery inside an electoral campaign and a foundation, as presented by the insiders themselves.…
Post No Bills: The Ancient Romans Had a Version of Lawn Signs Too
The American history of the political yard sign may date back to 1824 when John Quincy Adams had signs printed for his presidential run. Our current wireframe version…
Jigsaw Anthropology: Do the pieces fit together?
This post is the second in our November guest blogging effort reporting on the AAA Archaeology Division meetings at Amerind that explored the relationship between archaeology and anthropology.…