The Université Laval in Quebec has launched a new series of interviews with (francophone) Canadian anthropologists: Les Possédés et leurs mondes (Anthropologists and Their Worlds). The audiovisua…
The Université Laval in Quebec has launched a new series of interviews with (francophone) Canadian anthropologists: Les Possédés et leurs mondes (Anthropologists and Their Worlds). The audiovisua…
Last fall, a group of researchers – mostly biological anthropologists and sleep researchers – published a study of three ‘pre-industrial’ communities, one in Latin America, two in Africa,…
History suggests that it may be harder to make radical cuts at EPA than Trump and his advisors think. While many politicians have called for eliminating entire cabinet…
According to Oxford online dictionary… Space: A continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied Place: An area used for a specified purpose or activity Sasha…
The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the future is the redemption of the past; loss…
A long over-due crosspost from gnovis! Way back in 2011 I embarked on a project exploring the colloquial distinction between “the Internet” and “the real” — as in,…
“[Urban exploration] is a community of people who by their inherent nature break rules and expectations. Expecting them to then follow the rules of a community is patently…
Why has fake news persisted? We’ve built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions…
Why has fake news persisted? We’ve built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions…
Why has fake news persisted? We’ve built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions…
We recently received the following call for papers which may be a great opportunity for some of our readers. From akutaq to whoopie pie, there are some great…
Back in January of this year, I posted an interview with Janne Flisrand, a Minneapolis business owner and transportation activist, as part of my Anthropologists in Practice series.…
A pleasure indirectly paid for, as were his studies at Oxford, with profits from the East India Company opium trade via both his uncle Preston and his benefactor,…
Ich habe auf meinem Handy eine Countdown-App installiert, dir mir jeden Tag anzeigt, wie viele Tage es noch bis zu meiner Rückreise sind. Heutiger Stand: 37 Tage. Insgesamte…
One of the things I teach my students about power in my Peoples of the World class at Miami University is that power rests in the ways that…
Vom 24-25.11.2016 habe ich an dem Workshop „Prekarisierung, Arbeit & Geschlecht“ in Berlin als Referentin teilgenommen. Der Workshop wurde vom Internationalen Geisteswissenschaftlichen…
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association is now over, as is Thanksgiving. Now that we are over the hump and have a bit of perspective, we…
How exaggerated media reports misconceive the realities of migration and displacement. The current refugee crisis in Europe has once again sounded alarms about increased human trafficking. This is…
Hi all, As the world consumes on ‘Black Friday’ our link review is getting a bit artsy this week to provide food for thought and soul ;)! We…
Hi all, As the world consumes on ‘Black Friday’ our link review is getting a bit artsy this week to provide food for thought and soul ;)! We…
We are running out of time. My interviews and articles about what awaits, written since Election Day: A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss (11/9/16) — Globe and Mail…