Fieldnotes: Week 2
I’ve been on research and study leave for two weeks now. This is what’s happened and what I’ve learned so far. TVNZ Sunday broadcast an expose on animal…
Screw the gift economy, a reply to Clay Shirky
I came across a post today by Gaby Dunn called “Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame.” Dunn gives us YouTube and Instagram celebrities…
“Dinna you get attached tae yon lamb” Fieldwork with Yoda.
Two pairs of eyes looked at me from across the table waiting for my response. A third pair joined them. The four day old lamb cradled in my…
Anatomy of a Somatosphere post by Eugene Raikhel
Thanks to everyone who participated in our readership survey last month. One of the things that became immediately clear upon reading the responses was that many of our…
Why we can’t look away
By Kathryn Dudley, Reprinted with permission from the Yale Daily News As students across the country protest institutionalized racism, many commentators have tried to explain what is happening on coll…
Discrimination? Maybe not; Annoying? You bet!
I’m reminded of one of my students, whose parents are Moroccan, who told me that after the Charlie Hebdo attack she would deliberately sit in the no-talking carriage…
An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism
Originally posted on Urbane Adventurer: Amiskwacî:by Zoe Todd, PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen Personal paradigm shifts have a way of sneaking up on you. It started,…
Using attachment theory to understand Facebook stalking
Social media has made digital voyeurism the norm, but some of us are more inclined to pursue online surveillance than others — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How does an Anthropologist add value in the workplace?
At work I’m not employed as an anthropologist. Not directly anyway; my skills in research and higher education certainly helped…
Die Welt zusammen/denken: Krisen, Lebenswelten und Handlungsspielräume – ein Jahr Blog Medizinethnologie
Hansjörg Dilger, Dominik Mattes, Michael Knipper Eingangsbereich Hospital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali | 2010 Hansjörg Dilger Vor einem Jahr erschienen die ersten Beiträge des Blogs…
Ruy Llera Blanes: Revolutionary states in Luanda: “Events” and political strife in Angola
Last 11 November, Angola celebrated forty years of independence—a memorable date. However, these celebrations have been overshadowed by a movement of contestation that has turned a spotlight on…
GOD EXISTS IN YEMEN, part 1: On the meaning of livelihood
If you can rely on God with due reliance, He will provide you with sustenance in such a manner as He provides birds and beasts. (A saying of the…
Flüchtlingsforschung gegen Mythen 2WissenschaftlerInnen diskutieren Behauptungen aus der Flüchtlingsdebatte
Immer wieder stellen Politikerinnen und Politiker sowie Personen des öffentlichen Lebens fragwürdige Behauptungen in den Raum, die durch Medien aufgegriffen und teils zu Stammtischparolen werden. Häuf…
Frogtopia Revisited, or Anthropology is Art is Frog
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Stuart McLean as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Stuart is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He…
Hunting as an Indigenous Right on Taiwan: A Call to Action
[The following is an invited post by Scott Simon. Scott is Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Having conducted…
Pharmaceutical Prosthesis and White Racial Rescue in the Prescription Opioid “Epidemic” by Helena Hansen
Introduction A U.S. public discourse of addiction as a disabling psychiatric condition (as opposed to a moral flaw or social deviancy) was codified into Social Security policy in…
University of North Texas MA focus in design anthropology
For those who are interested in applying anthropology to design and business, and who are thinking about a master’s degree, The University of North Texas is a leader…
anthro in the news 12/14/2015
On refugee-phobia Pilapa Esara Carroll, associate professor of anthropology at the College at Brockport of the State University of New York, co-authored an op-ed in the Democrat and…
New Open Access Series: Anthropology and Photography and open access initiatives from the Global Social Media Impact Study
Haidy Geismar, UCL The movement towards open access has continued to gain momentum in the social sciences, and in anthropology, with important new journals such as Hau;…
Open doors in Paris: when the private becomes public
sebastiendubey.com by Lucrezia Giordano Home is the private space par excellence. It is a place where people can develop their own micro-society, based on the relationship with a…
Climate Change: War Footing or Peaceful Solidarity?
In recent years, prominent voices in the public sphere have drawn an analogy between climate change and warfare. This has led, for example, to calls for massive, coordinated…
Francesca Bray, Peter Coclanis, Edda Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schafer, “Rice: Global Networks and New Histories”
View on Amazon The new edited volume by Francesca Bray, Peter Coclanis, Edda Fields-Black and Dagmar Schafer is a wonderfully interdisciplinary global history of rice, rooted in specific local cases,…