Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Abyssinian fundamentalism and cyberwar in Eritrea
Here is the eighth (8th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Islam, broadcast media, and the remaking of religious experience in Mali
See below a seventh (7th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
The role of race in the Democratic race
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about fractures in the Democratic Party and a disturbing racial divide in the Sanders-Clinton race: Mr. Sanders did not create the…
How new voter ID laws might sway the election
For Quartz, I wrote about restrictive new voter ID laws that may disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of non-white voters in swing states, potentially handing a victory to Donald…
Philadelphia Street Style: Nikki, off 4th Street
I stopped Nikki as she was about to step into a tattoo shop on 4th Street to get her elbow done. “It’s going to suck!” she told me.…
Correlation (and causation…)
Just as every year I make a point of telling students that Africa is not a country, many instructors often find themselves lecturing students about how correlation is not…
Exotische Folklore: Barok
Barok musici in San Ignacio de Moxos, Bolivia Door Ton Salman Het zijn, wereldwijd, tijden van eerbetoon aan culturele tradities. Tot en met in de vakantiefolders worden de “authentieke…
Power, culture and the state press in Ghana
Here is a sixth (6th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen…
Rumours and the reinvention of the Internet in Ghana
See below a fifth (5th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen…
Fish Kills and Protests on the Islands of Chiloé
Protesters set fire to a barricade near Castro. Photo courtesy Richard Vercoe Southern Chile’s Archipelago of Chiloé is a region best known for its mythology, historic churches,…
Anthro/Zine Highlights: Student Report from Bali
Now in its second year of publication, Anthro/Zine is the undergraduate companion to Anthropology Now. Each new issue, published under a Creative Commons license, is released online to…
Curating Gathering Voices
An Exhibition at the American Philosophical Society On April 15th the American Philosophical Society (APS) opened the third in a series of exhibitions on Thomas Jefferson—a member and…
Rules of the Underworld
Since the beginning of Mexico’s drug war in 2006, approximately 80,000 people have been killed in organized crime–related incidents. More than 26,000 others are still missing. Despite attempts to…
Awakening to Ruins
I’m reading through Robert Ginsberg’s The Aesthetics of Ruin (2004) again and came across this wonderful poem he wrote about the different options for a ruin (120): Awakening to ruins…
How Anthropology Can Transform Global Health Efforts
In the context of global health crises from tuberculosis to HIV/AIDS and Ebola, Jean Hunleth discusses How Anthropology Can Transform Global Health Efforts (American Association of Universit…
Links & Contents I Liked 183
Hi all,I’m a bit proud of myself that the Link Review has become a regular weekly feature again amidst the approaching grande final of the semester! Development news…
Book Forum–Jeanne Favret-Saada’s The Anti-Witch by Eugene Raikhel
In The Anti-Witch, Jeanne Favret-Saada revisits fieldwork she first described in her classic Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage in a more reflective mode and conceptually ambitious…
Baumwoll-Nachthemd oder Negligé? Materialität und Repräsentation von Nachtwäsche im Krankenhaus
Schlafanzug, Nachthemd, Negligé oder Nichts? Was zieht man an im Krankenhaus? Ist neben Bequemlichkeit und Hygiene auch hier der Blick der Anderen (vgl. http://blog.kulturding.de/?p=3867) ein maßgebl…
Portrails 2016
Portrayal – a depiction of someone or something in a work of art or literature; a picture Trail – a mark or a series of signs…
trashed film paragraph on Reagan-Arnie-Trump
I dunno where else to dump this, which will now not be used in a review I was writing on regional film traditions: Yet here is a topic…
Black Disabled Woman Syllabus
Vilissa Thompson, Disability Rights Consultant & Advocate, has created the Black Disabled Woman Syllabus in response to the lack of intersectionality she has seen in disability studies. …