REDUX: Scenes of #Gentrification
Scene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer cafes, independent bookstores, second hand antiquaries, esoteric health…
anthro in the news 2/22/16
Food trends in the UK BBC News reported on results from a long-term study of changes in food consumption in the U.K. since the 1970s: Pasta is rising,…
There’s No Shame in Shame
Everyone feels shame somewhat differently. However, new research suggests that the underlying triggers of our shame have much in common. A study published today in Proceedings of the…
“Bioculturalism” — An interview with Benjamin Campbell by Benjamin Campbell
This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related others talking seriously, and thinking practically, about how to synergize biological and social scientific approaches to human health and w…
Philadelphia Street Style: Charlene, Walnut St
I’m taking a break from posting my pictures from New York Fashion Week. After a while, those images start to get old. All flash and no substance. Clothes…
Bud Caddell
Whenever I have the chance to talk to Bud Caddell, I take it. This’s because while I know the future is badly distributed (in Gibson’s famous phrase), I fervently…
In the Journals, February 2016 Part I by Melanie Boeckmann
This month’s reading list, part I American Ethnologist The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Europe: Forum Representing the “European refugee crisis” in Germany and beyond: Deservingness and difference, life…
Build Karma Points on Social Media
Everyday salutations such as ‘Good Morning’, ‘Good Afternoon’, ‘Good Evening’ etc. are common social media interactions of the people of Panchagrami, used to keep …
Feel the heat – Fuel innovation in Ghana
“We call it biochar,” Professor David Millar explains enthusiastically to the delegation of civil servants visiting him at his office. During my visit to our Field School in…
Gentrification, diversification & events – let’s take it SLOW!
Ever so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is ‘slow food for thought‘. Indeed, one of the…
The Shape of Things to Come in Libya (Part 2 of 2)
A New World Recolonization Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State, March 20, 2011, to Jeffrey D. Feltman: “Can we get a statement from the Libyan opposition…w [with]…
Dialogs before Suicide – An interview
Dialogs before Suicide – An interview In 2011, I made a single-shot feature film – Rati Chakravyuh (2013, 105 minutes) that was a summit of my life long…
Brian Epstein, “The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2015)
The social sciences are about social entities – things like corporations and traffic jams, mobs and money, parents and war criminals. What is a social entity? What makes…
How to do a household waste audit–and why
A waste audit is an analysis of a localized waste stream from your building, household, classroom, town or business. It can identify what types of waste that local…
The Digital Future of Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
What follows is an open letter of invitation written by Mike Fortun in connection with an upcoming meeting of the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group…
Around the Web Digest – Week of February 14
I hope your Día del Cariño was full of love of some form – the version of the holiday I experienced in Guatemala pertains to a much wider definition…
Cishetpatriarchy is not community
I AM A GENDERQUEER BLACK TRANS MAN. I am racialized as Black, a Trans man, genderqueer, bi, & a descendant of stolen Africans on Indigenous peoples’ stolen land…
29. Freedom technologists bibliography, M-Z
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART 2 This is the twenty-ninth post in th…
For anthropologists, is interdisciplinarity ever truly a meeting of equals?
I recently read a Twitter post which asserted that interdisciplinarity was never a meeting of equals. As an anthropologist working outside of an academic department I met this…
Arabic Papyrology Database
Andreas Kaplony, H-Mideast-Medieval, Saturday, January 2, 2016 The Arabic Papyrology Database (APD) team wishes you a happy New Year. Our present: new, handy features implemented in the APD…
Possibilisme En
Framtiden i våre hender, landbrukspolitikk og klimaendringer Jeg har skrevet et essay i Morgenbladet som handler om to ting; 1) om forskjellen på dommedagsprofetier og realisme i klimasaken,…
Jedediah Purdy on the Anthropocene, After Nature
I’ve mentioned Jedediah Purdy’s new book previously. It is an interesting read of American environmental politics and a comparison of different “environmental imaginations” tha…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part Four
Humanizing Birth in Bahia, Brazil Big changes in birth care are underway in Brazil. Excessive rates of cesarean section delivery and persistently high maternal mortality have inspired a…