Pleased to be on the panel…
…with Twitter’s @sarapics, Johnson & Johnson’s Jaime Veiga & @fazekasdani from Bakamo.Social at an ESOMAR-related event in Berlin in November. The event takes place before the Global Qualitat…
Pleased to be on the panel…
…with Twitter’s @sarapics, Johnson & Johnson’s Jaime Veiga & @fazekasdani from Bakamo.Social at an ESOMAR-related event in Berlin in November. The event takes place before the Global Qualitat…
Anthropologist Interviews
Today, I began a new series on my blog: interviews with anthropologists about their new books! We anthropologists often write wonderful books . . . that find too…
Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read
Kristen Ghodsee’s new book, From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press (in 2016). The discipline of…
Pleased to be on the panel…
…with Twitter’s @sarapics, Johnson & Johnson’s Jaime Veiga & @fazekasdani from Bakamo.Social at an ESOMAR-related event in Berlin in November. The event takes place before the Global Qualitat…
“I know of Malinowski’s despotism”: Mauss to Radcliffe-Brown
The people who fill our theory readers are real people who lived vibrant, quirky lives. It is easy to reduce them to a set of ideas or to…
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, entitled First Strike:…
“The Egyptian Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet”
I had dinner with Robin Wright this week after she delivered the 2016 Grayson-Kirk lecture at Miami University. Egypt was one of seven countries she discussed (along…
The Way Trump Wears His Hat
The Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, is a self-proclaimed billionaire and (apparently) a successful businessman. Yet he claims to be a champion of the disenfranchised working class.…
Links & Contents I Liked 204
Hi all, As my post on the Dancing Missionaries disaster approaches 6.000 hits, another Friday arrived all too quickly and fresh links are due! Development news: More on the…
Live Digital Anthropology Lecture by Prof. Daniel Miller of UCL
On Monday the 24th October at 1pm Twitter, in partnership with Periscope, will begin broadcasting selected university lectures. The first will be from Prof. Daniel Miller as part…
Multimodal Ethnography and the Possibilities for Engaged Anthropology
In our scholarship, we strive to strike a balance between anthropological theory-building and social engagement. To do so we use digital technology – inexpensive cameras and social media…
Links & Contents I Liked 204
Hi all, As my post on the Dancing Missionaries disaster approaches 6.000 hits, another Friday arrived all too quickly and fresh links are due! Development news: More on the…
Sonya E. Pritzker’s Living Translation: Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine by Miao Jenny Hua
Living Translation: Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine by Sonya E. Pritzker Berghahn Books, 2014, 228 pages By: Miao Jenny Hua Chinese medicine names…
Slam that #ethnography! – Imagine further
After a week of performed ethnographic poetry, Robert Desjarlais and Eileen Moyer wrap things up in their concluding remarks. If you haven’t read the posts yet, go back…
Neoliberalism, Brexit, and Higher Education
Is Brexit bad for UK universities? This appears to be the question at the centre of an article from the Times Higher Education titled “UK researchers face uncertainty…
‘American Antiquities’ by Terry A. Barnhart
Terry A. Barnhart. American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology. 594pp., illus., bibl., index. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. $75 (hardcover) The ancient inhabit…
“Is your phone ruining your skin?” Notes from a teen magazine in 2016
When I was a teenager from 1999 to 2005, I ogled my fair share of teen fashion and pop culture magazines. Strangely, over the past couple months, I’ve…
On Solidarity and Molecules (#MakeMuskratRight)
Deferring to molecules rather than social movements when it comes to contamination is a case of power relations.
China im Tennis-Fieber: Auf der Superstar-Suche
Durch zwei Grand-Slam-Siege der chinesischen Tennisspielerin Li Na ist in China ein Tennis-Boom ausgebrochen. Nach dem Rücktritt von Li Na wartet China nun sehnsüchtig auf den nächsten Tennisstar.…
Alter(n) Neu Denken – Forschungskolloquium am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie (LMU München)
Nächste Woche geht es los: das Forschungskolloquium des Instituts für Volkskunde / Europäische Ethnologie der LMU München für das Wintersemester 2016/17. Im Zweiwochenrhythmus stellen Altersforscher_i…
Striking For The Public Good
Should a world class education be reserved for children of the rich?
Striking For The Public Good
Should a world class education be reserved for children of the rich?