Situational Awareness
This morning I was taking notes on my laptop as an officer from the NYPD counter terrorism department’s SHIELD unit gave a room full of academic staff ‘active shooter’…
The International Institute of Not Doing Much #Slow
Browsing the web in preparation of this ‘Slow week’, we came across an online initiative whose Manifesto resonated with Allegra’s very own. Below we reproduce the Manifesto of…
Call for Proposals: Campaigns and Elections
As another presidential election arrives in a year dominated by campaign-related news in the US, we’ll explore campaigns and elections ranging from recent parliamentary elections in Iran, to…
Chinas Veteranen: Altern in Armut
In China häufen sich die Proteste pensionierter Militärs, die sich von der Zentralregierung im Stich gelassen fühlen. Viele organisieren Petitionen und Sitzstreiks gegen Altersarmut und mangelnde Aner…
Participant Outsider?
During my first research trip to northeastern Brazil, an off-duty police officer took me and three local homeless boys to the middle of a sugar cane field and…
Anthro in the news 7/18/16
Colonial legacy and racism feed resentment in France Following the attack in Nice, France. Source: Creative Commons The Sun (U.K.) carried an article on factors behind the attack…
An Interview with Dorothy J. Berry, Metadata Specialist and Project Manager for Umbra, an Initiative of the Givens Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota Libraries
While a graduate student at Indiana University, Dorothy J. Berry concurrently earned an MA degree in ethnomusicology from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and a MLS degree…
Understanding Mass Killings
Media commentary on Micah Johnson, the African-American who killed five police officers in Dallas on July 7, has focused on his animus against white police and his interest…
Teaching AAA 2016: Finding evidence for slow destruction
This is the third 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…
In the Journals July 2016 – Pt. I by Christine Sargent
Check out the first instalment of this month’s In the Journals! Critical public health Global mental health and its critics: moving beyond the impasse (open access) Sara Cooper…
Unapologetically Black?
Savannah Shange on shapeshifting, state violence and ritual regret after a week of shootings. The vigil in Baton Rouge. Photo courtesy L’lerrét Jazelle Ailith Twelve white seven-day…
The Sociocultural Impact of Pokémon Go in Observations, Images & Memes
During @susie_c‘s dad’s toast pic.twitter.com/hSzaLg30VO — pokemon only account (@sarahjeong) July 18, 2016 After the fall, white people were forced to search for pokemon with primi…
CFP: Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery, ASLE Biennial
by Amy McIntyre Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Twelfth Biennial Conference June 20 – 24, 2017, Wayne State University, Detroit,…
One person’s trash…
One person’s trash is another’s treasure… or data, if you are an archaeologist or anthropologist working in a landfill. Places where trash builds up can provide archaeologists important…
Susan Reynolds Whyte’s Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda by Jason Johnson Peretz
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte, editor Contributions by Godfrey Etyang, Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne Mogensen, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte …
Ivory Tower #Slow
From the poetic notes written this morning for today’s opening lecture – I communicated this but not as ‘poetically’: A PhD today is an anachronism. It is hard…
Ostafrikas FlüchtlingeBestandsaufnahme in Tansania
Rund 79 Prozent aller afrikanischen Flüchtlinge leben im östlichen und zentralen Afrika. Dies ist wenig verwunderlich, denn wiederkehrende bewaffnete Konflikte von Somalia, den beiden Sudans, bis hin …
Course Workload Estimator tool
With syllabus prep now underway for many university instructors, we share this interesting tool from Rice University’s Center for Teaching Excellence: Course Workload Estimator. As the tool’s crea…
An Interview with Hannah Davis, Regional Folklife Survey and Program Development Consultant for the New York Folklore Society and the New York State Council on the Arts
Hannah Davis earned her MA in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University and a BA in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University. While at Indiana, she served for…
Derrida on complacency and vulgarity
In Benoît Peeters’ biography of Jacques Derrida, there is an intriguing interview with Derrida that was never published. Peeters writes: In 1992, Jacques Derrida gave Osvaldo Muñoz an…
The Return of the Witch
Before I was old enough to go to school- before I was stupid enough to believe ‘there’s no such thing as witches’… I knew one. She haunted every…