How to Design a Great Poster
Think Visually First Posters are the perfect invitation to a conversation about your research. Since posters are inherently visual, the key to a strong poster is simplicity—their immediate…
Getting Proximate on Israel-Palestine
Alisse Waterston, AAA President This month through next, AAA members are voting on a resolution to boycott Israeli Academic Institutions. This is a huge decision and thus it…
Is Humans of New York’s Refugee Series Public Anthropology?
Mohamad Hafez’s sculptural mural, Between Love and War. Photo courtesy Zareena Grewal In his recent open letter to Donald Trump, Brandon Stanton, the self-described journalist and photographer-blogger…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 1: David vs. Goliath
Last November anthropologists attending the AAA business meeting in Denver voted by an astounding 1040-136 to endorse the resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions, but this was just…
Celebrating Allies – part 4: “Looking text straight in the face”
To conclude this week we wish to highlight the hard work of one more Allie – namely Marie-Louise Karttunen. She has been with us since the beginning, offering…
Review: Cooking Technology
Review of: Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz (ed.) Cooking Technology: Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016). Michael McDonald Florida Gulf…
Eric Dietrich, “Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World” (Columbia UP, )
Although there are many deep criticisms of a scientific view of humanity and the world, a persistent theme is that the scientific worldview eliminates mystery, and in particular,…
Religionswissenschaft & Gender Studies: Selbstbestimmungsrechte und Theorie
Dieser Essay ist vielfach motiviert: Die neue Meta-Diskussion, die Prof. Christoph Kleine kürzlich eröffnete, gehört dazu (auf dieses Interview werden alsbald weitere folgen); Überlegungen zum Thema …
Anthropology Blogging 101: Peeps
This post is part of the Anthropology Blogging 101 series. In this edition of Anthropology Blogging, we welcome Aliah El-houni and Anya-Milana, Co-Editors of Peeps Magazine, an anthropology magazine f…
Does your Business need an Anthropologist? Why yes I believe it does…
Lisa Earle McLeod,Creator of Noble Purpose in business concept, addressed the question, “Does your Business need an Anthropologist?” in her post in HuffPo today. McLeod’s post is a…
Teaching-learning materials on ICT in rural Ghana
Door: Tessa Gruijs During my three months of fieldwork in Ghana for my Master’s research, together with a local NGO I tried to figure out how (future) primary…
Sex/Gender: Part II: What’s Fixed, Changeable, Changing? by Constance Cummings
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary Part 2 of the FPR-UCLA conference on sex/gender, which was chaired by…
CFP: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium
As stewards of a culture’s collective knowledge, libraries and archives are facing the realities of cataclysmic environmental change with a dawning awareness of its unique implications for their…
Celebrating Allies – part 3: Are you looking for a ghostwriter? REDUX
Today we continue to celebrate the Allies who handle so much of behind-the-scenes work that is needed to keep fan-bu-tastic (=fabulous meets fantastic) content appearing on our beloved…
Interesting Opportunity for those willing to Relocate – Pathways to Prosperity
Looking for a new and exciting adventure? The Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) exchange program provides relocation travel funding so that students and postdoctoral fellows have opportunities to participa…
DC event: World Heritage Day on protecting and preserving cultural heritage in the Middle East
Protecting, Preserving, and Presenting the Cultural Heritage of the Near East When: April 18, 8:30am – 12:30pm Who: AIA, ASOR, The Smithsonian Institution, and the GWU Capitol Archaeological In…
The Nachtwinkels of Antwerp
Cities have always been places where different customs, cultures, and individuals come in contact. In Antwerp, Belgium, a large network of nachtwinkels, or “night shops,” sells a basic…
Kulturanthropologie für alle?
Soeben habe ich das Journal „Cultural Anthropology“ online entdeckt. Die vierterjährlich erscheinende Zeitschrift ist peer-reviewed und die nach 2014 erschienenen Artikel sind online koste…
En las plazas se sueña en pie
Semi-automatic translation from the original Spanish: Dreaming while standing in the squares. In France today it is not 12 April but 43 March. And in March they will…
The Tip of an Archaeological Iceberg
Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, England. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.…
Why it’s okay to say Black
I went to a training last week put on by facilitators from Challenge and Change Consulting entitled “Why can’t we say Black?” The point of this session was…
Anonymous and trolling in context
What does the Guy Fawkes mask (from the 2006 film V for Vendetta, based on David Lloyd & Alan Moore’s 1981 graphic novel) mean to Anonymous and their…