Southern Provisions
Ellen Messer Tufts University Shields, David S. (2015) Southern Provisions. The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Did you ever wonder where Carolina…
David Bowie, Anthropology, and the Pleasure of Difference
I’m hardly the biggest David Bowie fan in the world, but when I heard he had passed away I knew I the news would make waves in social media.…
The Shah of Snakes
Why Shahmaran Matters Shahmaran. Photo courtesy Aynur Ocak-Gundogan Within the cultural fabric of Anatolia and the plains of Mesopotamia lies the story of Shahmaran, a beautiful woman with…
Listening to Physical Geology. PART 2: The ecopoetics of data, a few lessons from Björk
More drinks. This time in the midst of a madding crowd, soon after returning from Krakatau, with an Icelandic artist known as Shopflifter. She was wearing a remarkable…
Anonymous Reviewer – we need to talk! #rejection
A while back I experienced bitter disappointment as yet another funding application was rejected. The fact that I was only one of thousands of disappointed applicants did little…
Storytelling and Worldbuilding in The Force Awakens
By Nicholas Mizer Last month Salon posted an insightful article by Gerry Canavan, an assistant professor of English at Marquette University. Canavan talks about similarities between Star Wars:…
Listening to Physical Geology. PART 1: Noise, disaster, and plastic thoughts
Over drinks with a seismologist, I recently learned that you can hear the ocean anywhere on the planet. Anywhere. Did you know that? No matter where you are…
San Bernardino
San Bernardino, National Forest, from Space. The raw satellite imagery shown in these images was obtain from NASA and/or the US Geological Survey. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Long…
What is your body story?
Rather than having an explicit political conversation, I’d like this to be an open space where we can learn from each other’s different realities by sharing our own…
REDUX: A Facelift & Discussion over Academic Blogging – and PLEA for support! #RELAUNCH
What is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’ – or at minimum…
Linktipp
“Wir hoffen immer, und in allen Dingen ist besser hoffen als verzweifeln.” (Goethe, Torquato Tasso) Und doch: Manchmal könnte man einfach nur noch heulen. Die “Süddeutsche Zeitung…
Living Within Assisted Suicide: Drawing a Landscape and its Transnational Movements
Marcos Andrade Neves Organization’s room: procedure and paper work | 2015 Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves Since 1871, upon the inception of the Criminal Code…
Tim Ingold’s One World Anthropology
synthetic zero ” As philosophical fashions lurch from one extreme to the other — from the hyper-relativism of the cultural construction industry to the ever-multiplying essentialisms of the…
History, Power, and a Mapuche Bible: A Shaman’s Story with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo – This Anthro Life
Join TAL’s Aneil Tripathy and Ryan Collins as they interview Ana Mariella Bacigalupo of SUNY Buffalo. Ana’s discussion of her research on Mapuche shamans takes us on an…
A day in campus IT
One day back when I was working in my campus IT job, I jotted down some notes on a day at work. I was in the middle of…
Cassandra Crawford’s Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology by Seth Messinger
Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology by Cassandra S. Crawford NYU Press, 2014, 314 pages The title of this important book gives only the slightest hint of…
Vicki Squire: 12 Days in Lampedusa: The potential and perils of a photo essay
This post is also part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). I visited Lampedusa from 24…
anthro in the news 1/11/16
Buy a kidney, exploit the poor and desperate Washington Post published a weekly “In Theory” piece by medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California at Berkeley.…
Pixel vs Pigment. The goal of Virtual Reality in Archaeology
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Colleen Morgan. Post by Laia Pujol-Tost. Archaeology has a long tradition of using visual representations to depict the past. For most of its…
Zika and Microcephaly: Can We Learn from History?
Aedes aegypti, the mosquito capable of transmitting the zika virus. Photo from Wikipedia. Brazil is facing an epidemic of a severe birth defect: microcephaly (abnormally small head size),…