Online red envelopes: An ancient tradition goes viral
In February 9, 2015, WeChat cooperated with the Spring Festival Gala TV show to enable users to “grab” (qiang) hong bao by shaking their phone while using WeChat.…
Online red envelopes: An ancient tradition goes viral
In February 9, 2015, WeChat cooperated with the Spring Festival Gala TV show to enable users to “grab” (qiang) hong bao by shaking their phone while using WeChat.…
Mentoring event with Karen Kelsky at the AAAs
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and Culture&Agriculture (C&A) are excited to announce that we will jointly sponsor two workshops led by Dr. Karen…
Around the Web Digest- October 3
As I continuously wait for the US to abolish Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, here are your readings for the week. All throughout Mexico, indigenous knowledge surrounding…
TaL Back in the Studio! What’s Next??
Adam, Aneil, and Ryan are all back in the TaL studio for the first time in 18 months! And it feels good. Today we talk shop about where…
Anthro in the news 10/10/16
Land rights are key in Colombia Indigenous people want land rights. Source: Bluedotpost.com The Washington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist Omaira Bolaños, Latin America program dire…
Differences between Sociology and Anthropology Disciplines
I’ve often thought about where the fuzzy line between Anthropology and its sibling discipline Sociology resides. Since it’s part of the anthropological prerogative to compare and contrast disciplines,…
PhD position in place/Land-based knowledge
Dr. Max Liboiron (contributing editor of Discard Studies) invites applications to an open PhD position in place-based knowledge. There is no predetermined project for this position other than…
New Radio Program: Objects of Desire
Every day this week, Radio Four will air “Objects of Desire” at 12.04, which explores some of the main concerns of Material Culture Studies: This is the story of…
So You’re Giving a Conference Presentation
Anthropology is one part secondary intellectual engagement and one part applied ethnographic engagement, that moment where the rubber meets the road and those theoretical abstractions and intervention…
Teaching AAA 2016: “The Authority of Number: On Evidence in Statecraft”
This is the sixth post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 5: Meg Stalcup and Charles Hahn on Technology, Surveillance, and Security
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…
Conference Report: “Biopolitics and Psychosomatics: Participating Bodies” by Alev Sen
Biopolitics and Psychosomatics: Participating Bodies 8 July 2016, University of Cambridge Conveners: Darin Weinberg, University of Cambridge Monica Greco, Goldsmiths, University of London Robbie Dusch…
Location, location, location: why South Australia could take the world’s nuclear waste
South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has recommended the state investigate an international storage site for intermediate and high-level (spent fuel) nuclear waste.