Night-Time Wanderings and the Out-of-Place
As I walked home late one night last week, I came upon a scene that perhaps many of us are familiar with. In a dark corner of a…
How does language shape our worldview?
Dinosaur Comics (Ryan North, 2005) At least since the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, anthropologists and linguists have considered how language shapes how we understand and experience the people, places, thin…
CFP: Integrating waste systems: interrogating system boundaries and performance possibilities (AAG 2016)
Integrating waste systems: interrogating system boundaries and performance possibilities American Association of Geographers, April 2016 Lily Baum Pollans, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, M…
How does language shape our worldview?
Dinosaur Comics (Ryan North, 2005) At least since the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, anthropologists and linguists have considered how language shapes how we understand and experience the people, places, thin…
2016 U.S. Presidential Election: Views from Bolivia
Daniel M. Goldstein I have known the Aliaga family for 24 years, since I first arrived in Bolivia to study Quechua in 1992. My wife and I were…
Graphic Anthropology Field School by Kim Tondeur
The Graphic Anthropology Field School (GrAFs) is a project launched by Expeditions, an independent network of scholars in the human sciences. For 11 years, we have been holding…
Slam that #ethnography! – Introduction
Have you ever been in a conference room, listening to one presentation after another, only to realize that they all seemed strangely similar? As in, following the same…
“Plädoyer für systematische Flüchtlingsforschung” – Interview auf Deutschlandradio zur Flüchtlingsforschungskonferenz
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Malinowski and Hats
The alternate title for this post was going to be “Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, and Boas walk into a bar…”. This is a little autobiographical passage from pages 46-48 of History,…
Links & Contents I Liked 203
Hi all, Back from a short trip, good discussions about my latest post on Christian mission misrepresentations, time for weekend readings! Development news: Better journalism on Haiti; Coca…
Links & Contents I Liked 203
Hi all, Back from a short trip, good discussions about my latest post on Christian mission misrepresentations, time for weekend readings! Development news: Better journalism on Haiti; Coca…
Special Issue! The Politics and Practices of Evidence in Global Health by Anna Zogas
For September 2016, Charlotte Brives, Frédéric Le Marcis, and Emilia Sanabria edited a special issue of Medical Anthropology titled “The Politics and Practices of Evidence in Global Health.̶…
Top of the Heap: Adia Benton by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of Top of the Heap, I was delighted to work with Assistant Professor Adia Benton from Northwestern University. I think it’s probably common for people to talk…
Hospitality within hostility: safe migration management in the Mekong
The annual Australian Anthropology Conference is approaching (12-15 December 2016). Besides co-chairing a panel on Humanitarianism in the Time of Anthropocene I will also present a paper in…
The relevANTH Guide to Choosing a Culturally Sensitive Halloween Costume
Just… no. It’s that time of year again, when millions of Americans hit the streets dressed as terrifying celebrities, food items, and ethically questionable depictions of others’ cul…
A perfect digital (shit)storm: U.S. Christian missionary communication from Uganda
One of the recurring themes and aims of the blog is putting contemporary examples of popular communication about development issues into a broader context. The aim is to…