Striking For The Public Good
Should a world class education be reserved for children of the rich?
Ethnography & Tourism: Part II
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…
Ethnography & Tourism: Part II
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…
Mining, Environments and the role of Anthropologists
By Lorenzo D’Angelo, University of Milano-Bicocca The continued economic and ecological crises of recent years have again shown how economists and international leaders have overestimated the ability …
Konflikte als Fluchtursache
Wie hängen Konflikte und Flucht zusammen? Es ist naheliegend, dass Menschen vor gewaltsamen Konflikten fliehen, was vielfältige Beispiele weltweit wie Afghanistan, Burundi und Syrien belegen. Über Kon…
Critical Thinking Series: Education & Colonial Assimilation
Introduction Critical inquiry is understood as a means through which you built and articulate an argument. Morrow & Weston actually do a great job of taking on some…
Striking For The Public Good
Should a world class education be reserved for children of the rich?
Slam that #ethnography! – It is what it is
Here’s yet another round of ethnographic slamming with contributions by Kristine Krause, Lex Kuiper, Marije de Groot, and Carola Tize. You should also check out the first and…
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?
Myths of American Democracy: Contradictions, Troubling Numbers, and Searching for Sense in the System
Debate Prep! Do you find yourself increasingly frustrated at the lack of real conversations between candidates and politicians? Are you confused about why someone who doesn’t walk to…
Two new articles on the election
Too busy to update this site lately. A couple of new(ish) articles on the election: Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories are making his supporters paranoid — and dangerous (10/13/16)…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 7: Faye Harrison on Teaching “Black Lives Matter”
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…
Sidney Mintz Celebration
On Friday, Nov. 18, there will be a celebration of Sidney Mintz at the AAA meeting in Minneapolis. For more information and to RSVP, please go here…
The Dangers of Birth in Tanzania
Women in sub-Saharan Africa have a 1 in 36 lifetime chance of dying from pregnancy-related causes. That’s down 45 percent since 1990, due largely to advocacy campaigns and…
FreeThink #2 – Moving Beyond the Mic: On Collaborations and Working Across Disciplines
Join Aneil, Adam and Ryan for the second FreeThink episode, where they talk unscripted about upcoming projects and potential interdisciplinary collaborations beyond the mic. FreeThink is a new…
Slam that #ethnography! – Breaking boundaries
Welcome to part two of this week’s ethnography slam, this time with contributions by Josien de Klerk, Annelieke Driessen, Susanne van den Buuse, and Sarita Fae Jarmack. Missed…
Uncommon Sense: Terreur, Terroir, Terrace
Terreur, Terroir, Terrace Vectors of Police and Public in France after Charlie Hebdo and La Bataclan Figure 1. Jean-François Gornet, “Street Memorials to the November 2015 Paris Attacks.”…
Eating Identity: Nourishment and the Cultural Contexts of Food
from Exeter/WHO Centre for Culture and Health: We eat for nourishment, but food is about much more than nutrition. What we eat is meaningful, and food is an…
Eating Identity: Nourishment and the Cultural Contexts of Food
from Exeter/WHO Centre for Culture and Health: We eat for nourishment, but food is about much more than nutrition. What we eat is meaningful, and food is an…