Morgenbladet og Gülenister
I Morgenbladet Nr. 43./4.-10. november 2016 fortelles historien om «juks, vold og forfalskning» ved Drammen montessoriskole. Jeg skrev i mitt blogginnlegg Gülens mystiske makt at «Mangfoldhuset og lik…
What Else Ho Reha Hai? Reflections On My Fieldwork Website
Several of us here at the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition recently had the pleasure of reviewing submissions for our annual Christine Wilson Award. Winners…
“The Arab Spring: Five Years After”
Third World Quarterly has a special collection of articles on “The Arab Spring: Five Years After.” The collection of six papers is edited by Richard Falk, of Princeton,…
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Why Do Postmortem Reviews Seem Destined to Fail?
Organizations need a mechanism to evaluate potential options for change. Is there anything salvageable from the postmortem? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In the Journals – October 2016 by Livia Garofalo
Here is our “In the Journals” roundup for October. In addition to a rich selection of abstracts, also of interest this month are a Special Issue of Osiris on the “History of…
Why Do Postmortem Reviews Seem Destined to Fail?
Organizations need a mechanism to evaluate potential options for change. Is there anything salvageable from the postmortem? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Dokumentation der Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung Konferenz 2016: Videos, Fotos, Medien
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“Nor are we big enough to have a place for you as a cameo carver”: Kroeber on why Berkeley wasn’t good enough for Sapir
In my past few walks down the history of anthropology, I’ve tended to focus on white guys being cruel to each other. I thought I’d try to widen…
Plato and the birth of ambivalence
I’ve been teaching a class on anthropology of education this fall, and we spent the first several weeks of class reading various moments in educational theory and philosophy (Rousseau,…
“First Strike”
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
GRIL – Stoler “Duress”
A glitch in child sleeping patterns, and unemployment, means I’ve had a lot more time to think (and rethink) and of late get to read. So much so,…
Anthropology and Environment Society at the 2016 AAA Meeting
Anthropology and Environment Society Panels and Events at AAA 2016 INVITED SESSIONS Friday, November 18, 2016 10:15 – 12:00 pm UNCOMMON TERRITORIES OF THE ‘COMMON GOOD’ (Oral session…
Kunsten at give slip
Koncert med Simon Kvamm, der for godt et år siden flyttede vest på: fra Vesterbro til klitmøller. Sange og snakke om det enklere liv. Og om at nyde…
Casting out Violence
In New York queer youth ask how art can combat violence. To exist is to resist. We have heard this phrase uttered by activists representing marginalized communities, from…
Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 3: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic…
Chinesischer Film: Interview mit Regisseur Wang Xiaoshuai
Im September 2016 kam der chinesische Film „Red Amnesia“ 闖入者 in die deutschen Kinos. Kurz nach der Aufführung hat SAC mit dem Filmmacher Wang Xiaoshuai王小帅 über seine Werke, sowie den…
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Hi all, Don’t leave the office or desk without clicking through your favorite development content summary 🙂 Development news: Chemonics discriminated against 124 African-American applicants; Bono-man,…
Links & Contents I Liked 206
Hi all, Don’t leave the office or desk without clicking through your favorite development content summary 🙂 Development news: Chemonics discriminated against 124 African-American applicants; Bono-man,…
American Confederates and the Origins of Archaeology in the Amazon Basin
When Confederate immigrants began growing crops in the Brazilian Amazon, they found fertile soils that offered a window into pre-contact Amerindian peoples and their way of life. Nicholas…
Methods for Conducting Community Based Participatory Action Research in Schools and Communities: 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…
A Gift of Giving with PIFFT
November 4, 2016 Dear Members, I write with great excitement to announce the launch of the Palestine-Israeli Fellowship Fund for Travel (PIFFT), a project that emerged as one…
Milieuvriendelijk gedrag in de VS is niet zo makkelijk
Door Freek Colombijn Europeanen staan vaak snel klaar om de Amerikanen te bekritiseren om hun milieuonvriendelijke gedrag. We hebben maar ten dele recht van spreken, want veel beter…