Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
Am I alone, or is there an exponentially expanding audience of people who have grown tired of our fight club presidential politics? In this 2016 political season, which…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Lockjaw from Telephone Publishing. Book launch.
Dreamflesh was a loose group of writers, graphic artists and musicians who would have rejected the term “collective” in favour of something more like, say, “gang”. They produced…
If I was going to be interviewed about blogging by The Geek Anthropologist: 15 questions
(… this is very informal…) Why do I blog? When you work outside academia and you’re not actively researching you still want to write, you still want…
#allmalepanels in international development are about more than just the absence of women
At least my tweet on the recent high-level World Bank Global Infrastructure Forum 2016 made it into the top 5 tweets for the hashtag #investininfra: Nothing says “inclusive…
On the margins of politics
I am going slightly out of depths with this post, traversing into the territory of yet-to-be-formed thoughts, which could either be speculations or reflections; responses, or idiosyncratic musings.…
On Drones
Al-Jazeera has recently published an article on an American serviceman who helped design the drone program in Afghanistan. The article is online here. I published my critique of…
Lezing Meld Islamofobie – Islamkritiek, moslimhaat en racisme
Op 21 maart jongstleden presenteerde Meld Islamofobie haar eerste jaarrapport. Onderstaand stuk is de tekst van mijn korte lezing die avond over het begrip islamofobie. Laat me om…
Ethnologen im Beruf mal anders
Für das Magazin SHIFT habe ich einen jungen Mann porträtiert. Er heißt Peter Wolf und arbeitet als Hebamme in Berlin. Warum ich von ihm hin und weg war,…
The Construction of Anthropological Knowledge and the Construction of Research
To mark the publication of the newest ethnography in the Teaching Culture series, Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood, the…
Coffee To Go
For the last couple of months, my husband Jerry and I have been traveling across Southeast Asia with a coffee maker. It’s a little lightweight Black & Decker…
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,…