Nostalgia for a field Christmas
Image courtesy of shanzmataz. It’s the first time I’ve been away from Christmas in Trinidad since I started fieldwork there in 2011 (oh wait, I was home briefly…
Name Change
So I changed the name of my blog to West’s Ancient World. I think that’s a more accurate reflection of its contents. I thought about West’s Ancient…
Steef Meyknecht (1951- 2015) – A salute by his colleagues
Unexpected sides of the ordinary When Dirk Nijland first took him on as a student in his class in ethno-cinematography (1976/77) at Leiden University, Steef had already embarked…
Name Change
So I changed the name of my blog to West’s Ancient World. I think that’s a more accurate reflection of its contents. I thought about West’s Ancient…
Name Change
So I changed the name of my blog to West’s Ancient World. I think that’s a more accurate reflection of its contents. I thought about West’s Ancient…
Building DIY citizen science technology to see invisible marine plastics
We’ve been working on the problem of making tiny, often invisible marine plastics visible through do-it-yourself (DIY) technologies. You can build your own and investigate your local environment.
Natasha Myers, “Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter” (Duke UP, 2015)
After reading Natasha Myers’s new book, the world begins to dance in new ways. Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke University Press, 2015) is a sensory ethnogr……
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now, December 20th Edition
December 20, 2015: Food Tank put together a list of their 15 favorite books from the last year, which includes sure-to-be-classics on agriculture, food politics, and food security: Food…
Albuquerque on Lances vs War Elephants
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
Diaspora communications and Health seeking behaviour in the time of Ebola: findings from the Sierra Leonean community in London
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
Diaspora communications and Health seeking behaviour in the time of Ebola: findings from the Sierra Leonean community in London
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
Albuquerque on Lances vs War Elephants
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
Albuquerque on Lances vs War Elephants
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
Diaspora communications and Health seeking behaviour in the time of Ebola: findings from the Sierra Leonean community in London
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
Diaspora communications and Health seeking behaviour in the time of Ebola: findings from the Sierra Leonean community in London
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
Money Trees
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
Money Trees
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
Fifty mosques in Tower Hamlets: Religion, modernity, and postmodernity
Tower Hamlets, one of the most ethnically diverse zones in Europe. Source: Wikipedia By Sean Carey According to nineteenth century anthropologists, religion would disappear with modernity, supplanted …
Money Trees
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
Fieldnotes: Stop motion farming
One of the things I planned for my sabbatical is learning how to make stop motion videos for research dissemination / public engagement. I’ve never done it before,…
Surviving the Holidays, Anthropologist Style
As the holidays inch closer, and you’re beginning to dread joining the bag of mixed nuts you call your family, consider approaching them with anthropologists’ eyes this year.…
Links & Contents I Liked 167
Hi all, In-between my last book review for the year and my forthcoming annual blogging review post I am happy to share a comprehensive final link review before…
Marcia C. Inhorn, “The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Marcia C. Inhorn, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2012)… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the podcast. There…