When Worlds Collide: A tale of parenting and an optimistic undergraduate
I am pleased to welcome guest blogger Jess Thompson to anthropod. In this post Jess shares her experiences of being a parent and university student, adding to our…
A Taste of the Basque Country
My first trip to the Basque Country, an ethnic nation straddling northwest Spain and southwest France, was not academic in nature; I was there with my partner David…
A Tale of Two Museums
Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Among Basques, it used to be “the anthropologist as hero.” By the turn of the new millennium it was “the architect…
Re/telling the story of Canada’s Residential Schools
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada investigated the impact of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools system on students, their families, and indigenous peoples across Canada more broadly. …
Anthro in the news 6/27/16
Heed this: Political break-ups in comparative perspective Source: Creative Commons Wired carried an article about the Brexit vote, drawing on research by Peter Turchin, associate professor of evolutio…
Introducing the Public Anthropology Institute
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Faye V. Harrison, Carole McGranahan, Matilda Ostow, Melissa Rosario, Paul Stoller, Gina Athena Ulysse and…
Waking up to Brexit
by Paul Boyce On the morning of 24th June I had what I have since learnt to be a common experience. I lay in bed in conscious abeyance;…
How to keep in touch with anthropology
Annual Day of Anthropology, 20 May 2016 By Ina Keuper For many students the last week of their studies at the anthropology department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)…
Social Media and Brexit
One of the common claims made about social media is that it has facilitated a new form of political intervention aligned with the practices and inclinations of the…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edited Out of History
How the Absence of Black and Brown Children from the Historical Record Could be Hazardous to Your Health When Lewis Hine took a job as the photographer for…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
The True Cost
by Rebecca Prentice **Originally published in Anthropology of Work Review (2016).** The global fashion industry is worth more than two trillion dollars, creating jobs, economic growth, tax earnings, a…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
Edith Turner And The Anthropology of Collective Joy
In cynical moments when I need to ponder the wonders of human existence, I think about the work of Edith Turner, a monumental anthropologist who died on June…
#Slow Week! An introduction
Those who have followed Allegra’s adventures from its creation in 2013 will probably remember that our initial motto was “Slow down!”. Prior to launching the website, Allegra’s…
Anand Pandian, “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” (Duke UP, 2015)
Do we live in a real world or a ‘reel world,’ in which life begins to feel like a film? In this wonderful ethnography of the Tamil film…
On Miniatures: a dialogue
In a new series of postings, we draw two research projects on miniatures together in dialogue: Miniatures Matter Jonathan Walz, Rollins College Jonathan Walz is an anthropologist who…
Get Excited and Buy Things
By Nicholas Mizer Around the time I first met Marie-Pierre and joined up with TGA I was trying to develop an understanding of what someone is likely to…
Wedding Crashers
After marriage equality became the law of the land, lawmakers across the United States doubled down on discrimination. Author Ryan Thoreson is a scholar in residence at the…
Between Male and Female
Laverne Cox, the actress who plays Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, made television history by being the first openly transgender actress to…