In Argentina, indigenous people have been historically marginalised and rendered invisible (Gordillo & Hirsch 2003). However, over the last couple of decades there has been a timid effort…
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
This is the first in a two-part post in which Lindsay A. Bell (SUNY Oswego) describes her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast…
“How to Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF)” (Medium.com) by former professor turned academic writing consultant Laura Portwood-Stacer provides an easy step-by-step guide for students on …
In this final post for The Person in the (Big) Data edition of Ethnography Matters, we provide a collection of five mixed methods used by researchers to shine…
In this penultimate post for The Person in the (Big) Data edition of EM, Elizabeth Dubois @lizdubois provides a step-by-step account of how the trace interviewing process works. Trace interv…
Dem Presserat wird bei der derzeitigen Berichterstattung sicher nicht langweilig – das zeigen schon die vielen gemeldeten Artikel. Um zwei Entscheidungen herauszugreifen: Der Presserat gab letzt…
Today’s inquiry into the nature of legal fictions takes us to Jordan’s government-run Sharia courts, where the concept of “divorce before consummation” (ṭalāq qabl al-dakhūl) has become something…
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
It has been a whirlwind of activity at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures this semester. The spring semester is ending and many students are leaving campus, but…
An intriguing call for papers: Aesthetic: The New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy Auckland, 2-4 September 2016. The Symposium of Gastronomy welcomes scholars, cooks, food writers and armchair foodies…
I was sitting in the brightly lit workroom at the Pitt Rivers Museum on a frigid day in November 2010, when I opened one of the bags that…
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Biological anthropologists address sexual harrassment Many physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this at their annual meeting. Source: AAPA Science magazine reported on a special panel at the ann…
A – what I would like to call a historical – decision was taken by the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden at the end of February this year (source:…
The web roundup for this month is a sequel to last month’s roundup on Mind, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence. I will address another interface between machines and minds,…
What if: the digital humanities represents a wanna be elaborate theoretical effort with a retrograde political conception and naïve economic complicity – an intellectually restrained class bough…
Kat has gotten quite adept at recognizing the potential in the clothes her mother no longer wants. That bleached denim jacket was hers. So was the Gap sweater.…
Learning about a conflicting past Separating a protestant neighbourhood from a Catholic neighbourhood and an industrial complex on the other side of the street, the 15-meter-high wall is…
Learning about a conflicting past Separating a protestant neighbourhood from a Catholic neighbourhood and an industrial complex on the other side of the street, the 15-meter-high wall is…
Portable toilets and urine on colonial era statues are reconciliations ruins, the things leftover that heritage helps to frame but yet cannot fully explain. As matter that remains…
This case begins with an unsettling email. It came from a powerful man of the church, a Mennonite executive, and it was a response to an email from…