Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Angelique Haugerud. “America is a shining example of how to hold a free and fair election, right?” asks Bassem Youssef, a comedian and…
Megan Crowley-Matoka’s “Domesticating Organ Transplant: Family Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico” by Parsa Bastani
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Family Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico Megan Crowley-Matoka Duke University Press, 2016, 336 pages In Domesticating Organ Transplant: Family Sacrifi…
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.…
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…