Debating the End of the Human Terrain System, Part 1
The US Army’s official caption: “Survey strategy–Human Terrain Analysis Team, Iraqi Police, and U.S. Soldiers with 354th Military Police Company in support of 1st Battalion, 68th Arm…
Creed: Learning About the Life of Men in America
Sometimes we can learn a great deal by going to the movies, which is why I encourage my students to see films. The recently released film, Creed, is…
Funding for Collections Research at Indiana University
This wonderful program of the Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study provides support for researchers–including community-based scholars–to study collections held at Indiana Unive…
The Game of School
Strategies are the main learning outcome of all those years of school. Anyone who flunks strategy basically flunks school. Anthropology is a field of inquiry not only focused…
anthro in the news 12/28/2015
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons To address ISIS, social science essential Two social scientists at the University of Oxford,, one a social anthropologist and the other an economist, co-authore…
In Memoriam, Sidney Mintz, 1922-2015
Professor Sidney Wilfred Mintz, affectionately known as “Sid,” passed away on December 26, 2015. In a first and now widely-shared post, Elizabeth Dunn succinctly conveyed the thoughts of…
Corbyn has no choice but to sack the Blairites
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn could soon sack major figures of the shadow cabinet that are opposed to his agenda, especially the principled anti-war stance on the Syrian…
“Free Basics” – does it really matter to the poor in Panchagrami?
Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons: Facebook The launch of Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’, a rebranding of internet.org, has been a hot topic in India for the past few months as Facebook tries to…
Varoufakis announces pan-European movement to “democratise the EU”
In a recent interview for the Italian magazine L’Espresso, former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis announces the formation of a new Pan-European movement in February 2016, with…
The closing of Öresund – On borders, trains and state power
With the so-called “refugee crisis” and the terrorist attacks in Paris in Europe, several European countries have either reinstated border controls to their neighbors or are planning to…
The closing of Öresund – On borders, trains and state power
With the so-called “refugee crisis” and the terrorist attacks in Paris in Europe, several European countries have either reinstated border controls to their neighbors or are planning to…
Hvad fik dig til at flytte vestpå?
Et spørgsmål jeg har fået flere gange i løbet af de sidste par ugers tid. Og det er også et både relevant og aktuelt spørgsmål, nu hvor der…
Food Studies Post-Doctoral Position – NYU
The Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at NYU invites applications from outstanding candidates for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The position is within the Food…
REDUX: Responsibility and Scholarship in the Current Political Moment – Graduate Conference | 25-26 September 2015
Anthropology today is in a moment of creative rupture, redefinition, and profound possibility. Our collective intellectual energy is directed toward contemporary social and political issues with a new…
Bagram Santa
Easily lending themselves to multiple forms of misunderstanding, the Pentagon nevertheless regularly produces images of military personnel dressed as Santa Claus. This too is a pattern, minor in…
EPIC 2016 Call for Participation
EPIC 2016 Minnesota, 29 August-1 September The premier international gathering on ethnography and design in industry Call for Participation – Papers, Case Studies, PechaKucha and Tutorials The E…
Romanian shepherds at the baracades
Shepherds protesting in Bucharest. Photo EPA. Everyone once in a while I read a news headline that makes me do a double take: “Romanian riot police fire tear…
Writing with Community
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Sara Gonzalez as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Sara is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington,…
Use All Five interviews Grant McCracken
This is an interview that Zsa Zsa (left) and I did recently with Ryan Ernst at Use All Five. Thanks, Ryan.
Der Respekt des Händeschüttelns
Der Kommentar ist am 23. 12. 2015 in der Print-Ausgabe der Wiener Zeitung erschienen und abrufbar auf Genios. Es häufen sich Berichte, wonach muslimische Macho-Männer sich weigern, einer…
Geopolitics in the Middle East: A new century dawns
Faisal party at Versailles Conference. Left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri as-Said, Prince Faisal (front), Captain Pisani (rear), T. E. Lawrence, Faisal’s attendant (name unknown), Captain Hassan Kha…