Nog een fijne dag!
Door Peter Versteeg. Goedemorgen meneer, ik heb hier een brochure voor u met als titel “Komt er ooit een eind aan pijn en verdriet?” Mag ik die aan…
Top of the Heap: Helen Verran by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Helen Verran, a historian and philosopher of science who is Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin…
In The Journals – April Part II by Michelle Pentecost
Another set of great papers from the journals in April. Enjoy! Social Science & Medicine ‘I knew before I was told’: Breaches, cues and clues in the…
Marshall Sahlins on Hocart’s cosmic polity
Lecture from last Friday at SOAS in London; it starts around 30 minutes in to follow Hocart’s lead to comment on cosmology, governmentality, and anthropology.
Seminar: Indigenous Media 2016
Again, I have the pleasure to teach the Seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. Find below a…
Was ist ein Kulturkreis?
Der Kommentar erschien am 3. 5. 2016 in der Wiener Zeitung. Je mehr sich Europa nach außen abschottet, desto öfter stolpern Leser über Formulierungen wie „fremde Kulturkreise“ oder…
‘The soul of the community’: corporate legal personhood in an indigenous settlement #fictions
In Argentina, indigenous people have been historically marginalised and rendered invisible (Gordillo & Hirsch 2003). However, over the last couple of decades there has been a timid effort…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part II
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Life in America
This is the first in a two-part post in which Lindsay A. Bell (SUNY Oswego) describes her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast…
How to email your professor
“How to Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF)” (Medium.com) by former professor turned academic writing consultant Laura Portwood-Stacer provides an easy step-by-step guide for students on …
Five Mixed Methods for Research in the (Big) Data Age
In this final post for The Person in the (Big) Data edition of Ethnography Matters, we provide a collection of five mixed methods used by researchers to shine…
Trace Interviews Step-By-Step
In this penultimate post for The Person in the (Big) Data edition of EM, Elizabeth Dubois @lizdubois provides a step-by-step account of how the trace interviewing process works. Trace interv…
Presserat verurteilt Falter-Cover
Dem Presserat wird bei der derzeitigen Berichterstattung sicher nicht langweilig – das zeigen schon die vielen gemeldeten Artikel. Um zwei Entscheidungen herauszugreifen: Der Presserat gab letzt…
The Emergence of “Divorce Before Consummation” as a Legal Category in Jordanian Sharia Courts #fictions
Today’s inquiry into the nature of legal fictions takes us to Jordan’s government-run Sharia courts, where the concept of “divorce before consummation” (ṭalāq qabl al-dakhūl) has become something…
What does choice look like in today’s world?
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What does choice look like in today’s world?
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
May at the MMWC
It has been a whirlwind of activity at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures this semester. The spring semester is ending and many students are leaving campus, but…
Aesthetic: The New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy
An intriguing call for papers: Aesthetic: The New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy Auckland, 2-4 September 2016. The Symposium of Gastronomy welcomes scholars, cooks, food writers and armchair foodies…
Stone Points to a Connected World
I was sitting in the brightly lit workroom at the Pitt Rivers Museum on a frigid day in November 2010, when I opened one of the bags that…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part I
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Anthro in the news 5/2/16
Biological anthropologists address sexual harrassment Many physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this at their annual meeting. Source: AAPA Science magazine reported on a special panel at the ann…
Historical Decision as to Mining in Sweden
A – what I would like to call a historical – decision was taken by the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden at the end of February this year (source:…
Web Roundup: The Electronic Over-Soul and our Worst Selves (and Other Mishaps) by Sara M Bergstresser
The web roundup for this month is a sequel to last month’s roundup on Mind, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence. I will address another interface between machines and minds,…
Dig for the humanities
What if: the digital humanities represents a wanna be elaborate theoretical effort with a retrograde political conception and naïve economic complicity – an intellectually restrained class bough…