Introducing the IMTFI Consumer Finance Research Methods Toolkit
Gawain Lynch and I are happy to announce that the CFRM Toolkit is now available. The Toolkit is the final product of our Consumer Finance Research Methods Project, which…
‘Every Day is a Copy-And-Paste’: Waithood Among Tunisian Men
This morning I felt that I couldn’t bear this passivity any longer. I was sinking in my red plastic chair without anything to do. In those moments, when…
An “Ecological Path” in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park: On the Reflexivity of Oil Infrastructure
By Peter Taber, Arizona State University § Satellite imagery of a small section of the Block 31 road entering the Apaika platform area, taken in 2013. Imagery courtesy of…
Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years of Tradition and Innovation
Please come out to the Mathers Museum of World Cultures this Sunday afternoon to celebrate the vernacular arts of Indiana and to help launch our state bicentennial exhibition.…
The ‘wicked grin’ test (as a new creative measure)
How do you know when something in our culture is really good? I think it’s when it makes us grin a wicked grin. This is one of those: Dave Chappelle does…
Interactive reading and beyond – Creating online consensus (and possibly community) one top highlight at a time
I receive a number of emails everyday from various websites that range from teaching innovations and news about higher education to curator services like Pocket. One article set…
Decolonizing Anthropology
Decolonizing Anthropology is a new series on Savage Minds edited by Carole McGranahan and Uzma Z. Rizvi. Welcome. Just about 25 years ago Faye Harrison poignantly asked if “an…
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In 2009, when I first started grad school, a professor asked each student in the cohort to share the anthropological topic areas they planned to focus on in…
Our Living Message for Extraterrestrials
On March 23, 2016, Microsoft brought a new artificial intelligence (AI) online. Named Tay, she was linked to social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and other sites so…
Applying Anthropology for a Safer World
Claim our bodies, claim our right, Take a stand, take back the night! Across the globe, the month of April is a time for communities to mobilize Take…
Tran Ngoc Angie, “Ties that Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law in Vietnams Labor Resistance” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Labour consciousness is not just class-based; it also emerges out of cultural identities, as Tran Ngoc Angie argues powerfully in Ties that Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law…
Environmental historians get wasted: ASEH conference report
What’s my take on this torrent of waste at ASEH? I think it really signals a maturation of a second generation of waste scholarship in environmental history that…
A former ‘frustrated senior aid official’ talks-and the Daily Mail is happy to spin a story of waste and lying bureaucrats
As part of my engagement with popular and public (re)presentation of development issues, I have commented throughout the years on how mainstream media, e.g. CNN, NYT, BBC, the…
Visaliberalisierung für die Türkei – Ein neuer Zuwanderungskanal?
Im Rahmen des umstrittenen EU-Flüchtlingsabkommens vom 18. März 2016 sagte die EU der Türkei unter anderem die dort schon lange angestrebte Aufhebung des Visumzwangs zu. Skeptiker warnen nun,…
Moments when ‘things happen’: BOREDOM – REDUX!
To set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic conferences or the elaborate corridors of international…
SAFN Membership Drive
We’re having a membership drive! SAFN members, please tell friends and colleagues about our section and ask them to join. A lot of people do research on…
Kurzurlaub in China: Zum Ausflug auf die Autobahn
Essen, Tee und ein Schachspiel: Das bereitet man oft für den Tag der Arbeit vor. Allerdings nicht für ein Picknick im Grünen, sondern um für einen Autobahnstau gerüstet…
Archives Matter Conference features cultural anthropologist Gloria Wekker
Archives Matter: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters When: June 2 and 3, 2016 Who: Centre for Feminist Research Where: Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London…
DC event at Georgetown University
The Georgetown Americas Initiative & Institute for the Study of International Migration present: Susan Terrio, Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Author of: Whose Child Am I? Unacco…
Anthro in the news 4/18/16
Global mental health and economics Source: Flickr USA Today carried an article about a report from the World Health Organization claiming that every U.S. dollar invested in mental health…
Cheap Chinese Goods
In a new project, I trace the fortunes of three interrelated communities across four northern Andean cities. Indigenous Otavaleño traders, mestizo apparel producers in the manufacturing cluster of…
Thomas Grisaffi: After the Referendum: Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). In February 2016 Bolivian President…
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Hi all,After a busy week of teaching, blogging and ranting about #allmalepanels let’s enjoy the new week with fresh food for thought! Development news features a great think-piece…