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Hi all, Time flies…it’s Friday again and you expecting your fix of interesting links and readings for the weekend… Development news: Save The Children’s Saudi connection; the dark…
Autos „Made in Germany“: Symbol für hohe Qualität?
Vor dem VW-Abgasskandal erfreuten sich deutsche Autos großer Beliebtheit in China. Was sagen chinesische Verbraucher heute über Fahrzeuge „Made in Germany“? Frau Ouyan wohnt in der Provinzstad…
Thom van Dooren’s Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction by Eva Giraud
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction by Thom van Dooren Columbia University Press, 2014. 208 pages. Flight Ways begins with a question: at what moment should…
Mindful Algorithms: the new role of the designer in generative design
Editor’s Note: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Che-Wei Wang, (Alicia Dudek (@sayway), is a designer and architect who runs CW&T, a design study with his partner…
Lou and Cee Cee prepare for fieldwork in the future: a world where robots conduct ethnography
Editor’s Note: Kicking off our Co-designing with machines edition is Alicia Dudek (@aliciadudek), Innovation Insight Lead & Design Ethnographer at Deloitte Digital Australia. Using …
Americans are rejecting capitalism — because capitalism rejected them
My latest is for Foreign Policy: Imagine that you’re twenty years old. You were born in 1996. You were five years old on 9/11. For as long as…
SAFN at the ASFS Scarborough Fare
SAFN is a co-sponsor of the Association for the Study of Food and Society conference that will be held in Toronto next week from June 22-25. A number…
Workshop: Opening the Bin – New perspectives on waste, culture and society from the humanities and the social sciences
The purpose of this two-day transdisciplinary workshop is to gather scholars from the social sciences and the humanities together with a few practitioners to critically discuss the places,…
Zoë Goodman: What’s the point of the “Mauss haus”? The gift and anthropology today
On 30 April 2016, a group of anthropological heavyweights congregated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), under the aegis of a workshop…
Consumption, Performance and Identity in Cosplay
By Emma Louise Backe Every year, hundreds of thousands of fans congregate at conventions like San Diego’s Comic Con, Atlanta’s Dragon Con and Emerald City Comic Con, to…
Angus Deaton does not like aid-but he likes the World Bank of 1996
In a long interview with the Swiss Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) (in German) Noble laureate Angus Deaton confirms that he does not like aid. But one paragraph struck…
Jamala, Eurovision, and Human Rights
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Greta Uehling] Many Savage Minds readers will be aware of the victory of Jamala at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. As part of…
African-Americans returning to Ghana: A photo blog
Plague on the wall of the W.E.B Du Bois Museum By Marije Maliepaard. My Master’s research is about African-Americans who return to Ghana after their ancestors got enslaved…
Language learning
Although more and more anthropology students choose to research in sites ‘at home’ where they are already familiar with the language, it has been a long tradition in…
Care on Display
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths College Thursday 23 June 2016 06:30pm – 08:30pm, Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic fi…
Sustainability Is Not a Number – Climate Crisis and Human Cultural Evolution
Meet two of the world’s leading scholars on the relation between biological and cultural evolution – David Sloan Wilson, SUNY Binghamton and Terrence W. Deacon, UC Berkeley. S…
Climate Wars
Fiji’s human history is directly linked to the ebbs and flows of climate change—particularly of sea-level rise. Throughout the Pacific Islands, fluctuating environmental conditions resulting from…
Kirk A. Denton, “Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Kirk A. Denton‘s recent book explores the role of the state in China in shaping particular visions of the past through work in and with museums. Focusing on…
Dance the City
How might an anthropologist use dance to study cities? How about dance ethnography as method? The Liquor Store Theatre project (LST) is a series of choreographed dance performances…
Anthropology Newspaper (beta)
If you felt a little overwhelmed by the wonderful (and extensive!) variety of current anthro blogs posted in the 2016 Anthropology Blog Report last week, you might want to check…