Revisiting The Anthropology of Trump: Ethnography and the Power of Culture
2. The Power of Thick Description. The late Clifford Geertz, one of the great anthropologists of the 20th Century, coined
Why the world needs anthropologists
We’ve been seeing some good discussions lately around what anthropologists can do – and why our perspective on the world is valuable, such as this Huffington Post Blog…
Why the world needs anthropologists
We’ve been seeing some good discussions lately around what anthropologists can do – and why our perspective on the world is valuable, such as this Huffington Post Blog…
On voting
Following the US election result, many people are asking just how all the pollsters got it wrong. Not just wrong, but so very wrong in anticipating the victory…
Emerging #Evidence
My goal is to skirt gingerly around evidence leaving it just where it lies, and instead to prod the contingent margins where iterative social practices and their artifacts…
Established and Outsiders: Women in the Argentinian Political Scene
By Nicolás Pérez Lindo Linarez: student of Anthropology, UNC, Argentina. A rather interesting course of events regarding gender sets the agenda, both … More
Surviving with Guns in Rural Arizona
Fears and beliefs about guns are key to a survivalist culture of self-reliance. A rural silence of twittering birds hung over the remote Arizona settlement built by a…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 9: Dana Ain-Davis On Taylor’s “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
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…