Teaching tools via Cultural Anthropology
In case you missed it: Since going open-access Cultural Anthropology has created some really interesting resources, including their Fieldsights and Teaching Tools pages (both listed in the sideba…
Revisiting field interviews
I’ve been going back lately to my interviews with French philosophy teachers and students. I just never had time to transcribe or work on most of them during…
Elusive Caimans and the Anthropologist as Devil
books and arts Lucas Bessire. 2014. Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 296 pages. Dust In this poignant and…
Remains of the Day: A Native American Burial Discovered in San Francisco Is Shrouded in a Fog of Acrimony
Computer visualization of the burial arrangement as discovered, working from generic photographs of bones. Courtesy of Peter Colby. On February 25, 2014, at eight in the morning, the…
The CRISPR Hack: Better, Faster, Stronger
Genetic testing technologies, which enable parents to create multiple embryos and then select the “best” for implantation, are already ubiquitous. Image by Jacopo Werther. Licensed under CC Attrib…
April 2016
Volume 8 | Issue 1 | April 2016 This issue includes: Features The CRISPR Hack: Better, Faster, Stronger by Eben Kirksey Remains of the Day: A Native American…
Humanitarian Ownership
Hillary Clinton: Dibs on Women, Children, and Dead People Listening to Hillary Clinton debate Bernie Sanders on April 14, 2016, convinced me of one thing: she owns women,…
On the Brazilian crisis, Pentecostalism and thinking out of the bubble
Pentecostal service in the Brazilian field site. Photo by: Juliano Spyer Brazil is in the midst of a heated national debate between people in favour of, and those contrary…
A Moment of Truth: On the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this timely and poignant essay by Mick Taussig, calling us to a moment of truth in the discipline. Addressing…
Stone Age Site Saved
A Stone Age archaeological site in South Africa has been saved from the threat of diamond mining. The site, called Canteen Kopje, is renowned for its cache of…
Democratic Reflection: Evaluating Real-Time Citizen Responses to Media Content
What has always impressed me about this next method for ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ series is the way in which research participants were able to develop…
David J. Meltzer, “The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of Americas Ice Age Past” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
David J. Meltzer‘s new book is a meticulous study of the controversy over human antiquity in America, a dispute that transformed North American archaeology as a practice and…
Forceful Hope
When I was recently asked to participate in UCL’s Refuge in a Moving World Seminar Series on a panel titled “Forced migration in, through, and from the Middle…
Academia: It’s like Game of Thrones, except there’s no throne
I’m giving season 6 of Game of Thrones as pass because, frankly, I don’t enjoy watching people be cruel to each other the way I used to. And yet in…
Some Organs of My Primate Body
By Daniel Allen Solomon, De Anza College and Cabrillo College § The “monkey temple” on Jakhoo Hill in Shimla hosts a rowdy but well integrated bunch of rhesus…
Urbex in Baltimore
Reporter Jessica Anderson recently interviewed me for this fascinating piece about urban exploration in Baltimore. I enjoyed talking with her about the allure of abandoned/vacant spaces and learning m…
Food…Use It or Lose It?
by Sandy Bonnington Each year 7 million tonnes of food and drink are thrown away in households around the UK with over half of this being perfectly edible…
Globalization: Beyond Discontent
On Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2003). Globalization and its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. “Today, globalization is being challenged around the world….for millions of people globalization…
Two Sections Awarded Funds to Explore Publishing Innovations
The AAA Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing (CFPEP) approved two proposals on April 11, 2016, for publishing innovations grants, one from the Society for…
Call for papers from ASAA/NZ on resilience, recovery and renewal
The Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand is hosting their 2016 Annual Conference on: Resilience, Recovery, and Renewal 24-26 November 2016 Hosted by the University of Canterbu…
Anthro in the news 4/25/16
The banality of U.S. politics Source: Flickr/Creative Commons Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, published a piece in The Huffington Post on the…
Game of Spoilers: A Spoiler-Free Investigation into the Role of Experience in Fandom
By Emily Jackson After surviving the long winter, fans of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones celebrated the premiere of season 6 this Sunday, April 24th. The…
Marina Gold: The end of the pink tide: Cuba
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). Does Obama’s visit herald the…