UCL Anthropology launches a joint cross-section seminar series titled “Resilience – Merits and Critique of a Concept. Beginning after November reading week, the series will use insights fr…
UCL Anthropology launches a joint cross-section seminar series titled “Resilience – Merits and Critique of a Concept.” Beginning after November Reading Week, the series will use insi…
This month’s Web Roundup is focused loosely around the theme of the visual. How do we use photography and other mediums to tell stories, and what stories do…
As I discussed in a previous post, works in the Material Vernaculars series are being made available in a free-to-readers PDF edition via IUScholarWorks. The eponymous edited collection Material…
Ethnographic fieldwork is a unique and life-altering experience. But it is also a trying and complicated experience. Even as someone who is relatively new in the field of…
Food was central to the lives of people in England during the Middles Ages in ways different than it is today. As Christopher Woolgar reveals in his book…
In Orientalists, Propagandists and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), Megan Thomas offers a thoroughly researched and closely at… Visit…
We’re back with another post from our friends at Teaching Culture blog! This time we explore podcasting and its potential for Anthropology. Here’s an excerpt, and be sure to…
After some field work in northern Canada, Marie-Pierre wrote two articles about how her field work experiences connected with imagined worlds. You should go read them, because they’re…
Climate change is the nightmare that keeps me up at night. The consensus seems to be that the world will be significantly different within my children’s lifetimes. Many…
And, now, part two of September’s journal posting! (Part one is here.) Medical Anthropology Quarterly “I Hope I Get Movie-star Teeth”: Doing the Exceptional Normal in Orthodontic Practice…
As part of its commitment to promoting best practices for data management, in September 2016 the AAA published online a set of modules, Bringing Digital Data Management Training into…
Hi all, Welcome to another link review-this time at bit more balanced between the 3 parts-so do scroll down to the end ;)!Development news: Lacking punishment for attacking…
Editors note: We asked several scholars which readings they would recommend to students or colleagues interested in familiarizing themselves with the anthropology of ethics and morality. This is…
The aim of this sub-theme is to empirically and conceptually explore the multifaceted politics of valuation, including both the politics in valuation practices as well as the role…
Dear all, These are exciting times at our Communication for Development program! The autumn semester with almost 150 students across all our courses is well underway and we…
“They say everyone’s born a hero. But if you let it, life will push you over the line until you’re the villain. Problem is, you don’t always know…
I am happy to share this note to report that the edited collection Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds has now been published. I am the…
How do you engage students who have never heard of anthropology before? In a community college one finds very few students who have already decided to be anthropology…
By Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins In our first post, we discussed the inspiration and goals behind, as well as the cosmology around, This Anthropological Life. In this…
