Water in Yomibato: Guest post by National Geographic writer Emma Marris
I traveled last November to Manu Park in the Peruvian Amazon with writer Emma Marris to guide her among the Matsigenka people for a story she published this…
Water in Yomibato: Guest post by National Geographic writer Emma Marris
I traveled last November to Manu Park in the Peruvian Amazon with writer Emma Marris to guide her among the Matsigenka people for a story she published this…
Water in Yomibato: Guest post by National Geographic writer Emma Marris
I traveled last November to Manu Park in the Peruvian Amazon with writer Emma Marris to guide her among the Matsigenka people for a story she published this…
Everyone is the establishment
For Quartz, I wrote about how the phrase “anti-establishment” has lost all meaning: The 2016 election is unprecedented on a number of levels. The two candidates with the…
Are Palestinian Scholars Our Colleagues? Boycott and the Material Limits of Friendship
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions publishes this powerful reflection by Alireza Doostdar on how opposition to the boycott rests on an unquestioned assumption that Israel…
Threatened, Forgotten, and Lost Foods
An intriguing call for papers for a 2017 conference in France: Threatened, Forgotten and Lost Foods: Causes and Mechanisms of Their Decline 14th – 21st centuries TERESMA Conference 4-5…
Vernacular and Vulgar Humor on Chilean Tumblrs: Negotiating National and Local Belonging
By Nell Haynes Social media is no longer the geek domain it once was, with the Americas and Europe approaching a fifty percent penetration rate, and an overall…
Hurricane Katrina’s Forgotten Survivors
Following Katrina, progress rebuilding New Orleans has been uneven. In the Lower 9th Ward, house foundations are still a common sight. Max Becherer/Associated Press When Hurricane Katrina…
Un Manjar: Viral Chilean slang
In Chile, “manjar” is a kind of sweet sauce, similar to dulce de leche or caramel. It’s often used as filling in layer cakes or atop pancakes.…
Tasks for acceleration 2.
Success and failure of the left. Accelerated change via anti colonial and revolutionary movements in the peripheries but the metropolitan left was never strong enough to shake complicity…
Tasks for accelerationists?
The long wait for the transformation of the world: begun with the anti colonial push back against colonialism, itself subjected to cooption and complicity under the new post…
Make the C.V. Great Again: An argument for a short-form C.V.
This is the second post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. Oh god, more title clickbait. I’m going to lose this guest blog gig if…
Grad school has always sucked: “I am sorry to be so discouraging, but the truth requires it”
This is the start of a new series in the history of anthropology where I will document the way that grad school in anthropology has always sucked, there…
The Violence of Capital
by Andrew Sanchez Since 2006 I have conducted research in Jamshedpur, the industrial company town of the Tata Corporation in eastern India. My work interrogates the systemic relationship…
Lynn Davidman, “Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
In Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews (Oxford University Press, 2015), Lynn Davidman, Robert M. Beren Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas, utiliz……
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Udan Agung
We are announcing the first piece in a new series that we will be promoting on the Psycho Cultural Cinema blog on “Visual Ethnographic Marginalia” which are multimedia…
Washington, DC, film screening May 18 of The Anthropologist documentary
Film Screening, “The Anthropologist” Who: The Wilson Center in partnership with George Mason University When: Wednesday, May 18, 2016. 3pm – 5pm Where: The Wilson Center Ronald Reag…
Sexualkunde in der Schule: Wenn Bienchen ins Leben helfen
Wie macht man Sexualkundeunterricht richtig? Eine Frage, die auch in China vermehrt diskutiert wird. Im Netz berichten Lehrer und Schüler aus eigener Erfahrung. Sexualkunde als…
Should Chimps Be Considered People Under the Law?
A New York State Supreme Court ruling in 2014 decided that chimpanzees are not persons with rights because they cannot bear legal duties and responsibilities. But this is…
Building the Great Firewall of Cameron
Deemed the “Great firewall of Cameron”, UK Prime Minister has since 2013 aggressively pursued web censorship in the UK. Without transparent and democratic processes enacted, the government has…
Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: a conference report by Elizabeth Fein
Last September, a group of scholars gathered at the State University of Rio de Janeiro for “Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: A Cross-Cultural Workshop”.…
New publication: Critical and Creative Ethnography After Human Exceptionalism.
I’m pleased to announce that The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, myself & Genevieve Bell, will be published later this year. For…
Shared Sanitation: Bathroom Access and Facilities Around the World
Questions of bathroom access tend to have the greatest impact on the poor and the marginalized. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com