What is "sensemaking"? Anthropology in marketing
Quantitative research — which has long been the market research standard — can provide insights into broad patterns and customer metrics. While this ‘big data’ can tell a…
CFP: Towards an ecology of neglected things
Neglected things are pervasive in numerous contemporary practices and imaginaries. Our patchy knowledge about them is co-produced with a specific social order (Jasanoff, 2004), which is politically sh…
Michele Friedner’s “Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India” by Cassandra Hartblay
Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India by Michele Friedner Rutgers University Press, 2015, 216 pages An Indian coffee shop franchise advertises their practice of hiring deaf baristas –…
Notes on the 9th digital ethnography reading (Boellstorff et al 2012)
By Allister Hill PhD student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group On Wednesday 13 April 2016, we spent…
Notes on the 8th digital ethnography reading (O’Dell & Willim 2013)
By Nicholas Hansen MA student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group Wednesday 09 March (12-1:30 @ B009-04-032)…
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Hi all, Your Friday and weekend deserve some new, critical reading suggestions! Development news on Thomas Friedman’s ‘just ask two people’ journalism; Barbie Savior is fun-so what? @UN…
University Destruction INC! RIP University of Helsinki
Today is a black day in the ongoing the destruction of Finnish universities, particularly the University of Helsinki! Under the the pretence of austerity the University will be…
Enduring Uncertainty. Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
On the 14th of April of 2010, I was approached by J. who had come across my doctoral research when desperately searching the net in an attempt to…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 3: It’s in the Resolution
This is the third post in a three-post series of personal reflections on the AAA boycott vote. The first post discussed my own childhood Zionist education, while the…
Actually Existing Silk Roads
by Magnus Marsden **Originally posted at Hurstpublishers.com.** ‘Our country is at the heart of Asia’, Zia, an Afghan trader in his mid-50s who works in St Petersburg’s Apraksin…
Taking Stock
In this post for The Person in the (Big) Data edition of EM, we hear from Giorgia Aiello @giorgishka who demonstrates the ways in which she used both digital and…
Shattered Homes and Hard Choices in Post-Quake Nepal
The days following Nepal’s devastating, 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, 2015, passed for me in a blur of sleeplessness and checking Facebook. I ached to be there.…
Landsbyhøjskole
Jeg er i disse dage i Prøstø på højskoleophold om facilitering af borgermøder, fra tanke til handling og meget meget mere. Lokale ildsjæle, kommunalt ansatte m.fl. tænker ud…
Packers and Movers in Hyderabad
Find Packers and Movers in Hyderabad Packing Moving is a real art for packing moving industry you can not shift your home or vehicle so easily as…
Mark Schuller, “Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti” (Routledge, 2016)
The earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12, 2010 killed and destroyed the homes of hundreds of thousands of people. Mark Schuller‘s book Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti (Routledge,…
Unpredictable Futures: Islam, Citizenship, and Political Possibility in France
This video features a lecture by Mayanthi L. Fernando, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. In this talk she talk examines how Muslim French –…
Elizabeth Povinelli: New Book on Geontopower
Elizabeth Povinelli has a new book forthcoming with Duke, details here. The write up on the book is below, followed by a recent presentation on “Toxic Sovereignties in…
Encircling Empire: Report #27 — Donald Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy
This and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like” our Facebook page and/or follow on Twitter. There are…
Rebranding Anthropology Textbooks
Beloit College Anthropologist, Associate Professor Jennifer Esperanza was feeling frustrated. Why is there always images of "exotic" peoples on the cover of anthropology textbooks? "Wh…
Rebranding Anthropology Textbooks
Beloit College Anthropologist, Associate Professor Jennifer Esperanza was feeling frustrated. Why is there always images of "exotic" peoples on the cover of anthropology textbooks? "Wh…
Rebranding Anthropology Textbooks
Beloit College Anthropologist, Associate Professor Jennifer Esperanza was feeling frustrated. Why is there always images of "exotic" peoples on the cover of anthropology textbooks? "Wh…
Rebranding Anthropology Textbooks
Beloit College Anthropologist, Associate Professor Jennifer Esperanza was feeling frustrated. Why is there always images of "exotic" peoples on the cover of anthropology textbooks? "Wh…
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now: April 27th Edition
April 27th: Hello FoodAnthro readers, after a few weeks away, we have quite a collection of food news for your Wednesday: In the New York Times, Chef Dan…