28. Trans-Pacific Partnership a threat to internet freedom
via Liberationtech @Liberationtech 31m31 minutes ago #TPP Deal Signed in #NewZealand is a Threat to Your Internet Freedom The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal was signed by New Zealand…
Lentil Underground
Ellen Messer Tufts University Carlisle, Liz. Lentil Underground. Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America. NY: Gotham Books, 2015. Lentil Underground is a book that…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part One
Rumors, Threats and C-Sections in Rural Yucatan. Veronica Miranda, U Kentucky. Series Introduction by Eliza Williamson and Mounia El Kotni. Introduction Eliza Williamson Mounia El Kotni In her…
Jubilation During Trying Times: Carnival in Guinea-Bissau
~ an essay with photos ~ For decades, the small West African country of Guinea-Bissau has been plagued by coups, misrule, political instability and non-existent infrastructures. It is often describe…
They flirt, they share porn and they gossip
The last four months of 2015 were tough. I was locking myself in a claustrophobic student carrel every day, spending 9 hours staring at a computer screen but…
What Is an Animal?
What is an animal? Take a moment to think about it. Without doubt your dog and cat are animals, as are the birds singing out your window. What…
Taking Risks in Teaching Anthropology, Part II
This is the second of a two-part blog post in which Suzanne Z. Gottschang from Smith College outlines the benefits of integrating real-world examples into an introductory cultural…
The anthropologist and the key
Penetrating unfamiliar social worlds It is still dark when I hit the highway towards the setting sun. I am travelling east and then north to visit five groups…
The anthropologist and the key
Penetrating unfamiliar social worlds It is still dark when I hit the highway towards the setting sun. I am travelling east and then north to visit five groups…
Structurele nostalgie of gewoon pret? De 78-toeren plaat
door Freek Colombijn De Nederlandse muziekindustrie schijnt het goed gedaan te hebben in 2015, maar de trend van fysieke muziekdragers als CDs is een gestaag dalende verkoop. De…
#LoldiersofOdin: Do you work internationally?
Loldiers of Odin, I have been deeply impressed by your upstanding actions and determination to keep our streets safe – and joyful! Via your actions you have set…
Maha Kumbh Journal during the making of “Kalkimanthankatha – Part 1.
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Ashish Avikunthak The early months of 2013 saw one of the largest congregations of mankind in the 21st century transpiring at the confluence…
Felicity Callard and Des Fitzgerald’s “Rethinking Interdisciplinarity Across the Social and Neurosciences” by Jörg Niewöhner
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity Across the Social and Neurosciences by Felicity Callard and Des Fitzgerald Palgrave (Pivot series), 2015, 160 pages The first thing you notice when picking up a…
The Hidden Cultural Values of Massholes and Y’all Qaeda
Y’all Qaeda may be the newest sarcastic term for the Oregon militiamen, but embedded in the critique of militiamen as terrorists akin to Al Qaeda and ISIS (another…
AFHVS 2016 STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER AWARDS
We have received the following announcement from the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. Please note that students cannot apply for both this award and the ASFS awards,…
To Follow or Not; Paying Attention to the Ghomeshi Trial
I’ve been resisting following the Ghomeshi trial. Partly, I’m enabled by circumstance–a temporary fragility of anatomy with accompanying pain & analgesics have occupied me for th…
Paper call: Engaging with treasures of the subsurface between extractivism and spiritualism, 20-23 July 2016
Dear colleagues at this year’s European Association for Social Anthropology congress in Milano, we got a session accepted on extractive industries where we want to go beyond the…
The Darkest Truths
In 2007, Caroline Sturdy Colls—then a 21-year-old University of Birmingham graduate student—made her first visit to the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, Poland. As a prospective forensic-archaeology scho…
Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century
Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class In February 2016, I was honored to participate in several sessions around the theme “Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teachin…
Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century
On 4-5 February 2016, honored to participate in several sessions around the theme “Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century.” The idea of…
10 Trillion Gallons of Water Should Drown China’s Yangtze Gorges World Heritage Application
The Three Gorges Dam Main Wall, 2006. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Yangtze River begins in the Tibetan Plateau and flows eastward into the East China Sea at Shanghai. …
REDUX: Boredom and the “Life Unlived” – Sapiens-Allegra Writing Competition!
Most of our devoted Allies will remember that we started this year with a bang, aka by launching the SAPIENS-Allegra writing competition to discover new public anthropologists. For…
Infrastructure as Iron Cage
Weber’s metaphor of the iron cage is one of the most famous in all of sociology. It’s certainly stuck with me: I keep a bookmark in my copy…