Terrorism: A Challenge for the Social Sciences
In today’s world the stakes are high, the path is long and the challenge is great–time to dig in and continue the fight for science and reason.
Terrorism: A Challenge for the Social Sciences
We live in dangerous times. Our mean streets have become killing fields. During the past year police officers have shot and killed many unarmed African- American men. During…
anthro in the news 12/7/2015
A view of Mauna Loa taken from a Pu'u near The Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station at Mauna Kea. source: Wikipedia Saying no to…
Special Issue of Biosocieties: Neurosciences beyond the laboratory by Michelle Pentecost
Tanja Schneider and Steve Woolgar introduce us to Neuroscience beyond the laboratory: Neuro knowledges, technologies and markets, in this special issue of Biosocieties. Neuromarketing in the ma…
An open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull: What would research and work look like if I was in charge?
Dear Mr Turnbull, If I was in charge of research I would always include children on the research team. Instead of talking about fresh perspectives, I would build…
Writing as Cognition
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Barak Kalir as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Barak is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of…
Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report”
Saba Mahmood View on Amazon It is commonly thought that violence, injustice, and discrimination against religious minorities, especially in the Middle East, are a product of religious fundamentalism…
PLAN’s Plastic-Free Campus Manual
The Plastic Free Campus Manual includes not only consumer alternatives to disposable plastics, but more importantly, organizing advice on running campaigns, working with administration, facilitating c…
In defence of our universal double standards
The two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and mutual accusations about grief, identity, and double standards.…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: December 6 Edition
December 6, 2015: For the Paris climate talks this week, an article in The Conversation argues that food–production, consumption, and everything in between–must be part of the climate…
Hell is not in the Hereafter
My latest post in Lund…
What is a Family? Refugee DNA and the Possible Truths of Kinship by Carole McGranahan
Tashi thought they were his kids. They were his kids. He was the only father they had ever known. He had been their father since the day each…
Far right Front National first party in French regional elections
Very bad results in France’s regional elections: exit polls set xenophobic far right Front National (FN) first nationwide with over 30% of the votes; Sarkozy’s centre-right Republicans at…
December 6, 1986 & 2015: The Resilience of Violence
26 years ago today; I was pregnant, happy, optimistic for my child, who was being born into a world that had just breached the Berlin Wall. It seemed…
Gun Control Podcast – Bring Sanity to Gun Violence
Update 14 June 2017: Re-releasing this Gun Control Podcast from 2015 as the stories break on Alexandria and the San Francisco UPS. I support gun control and a…
Gun Control Podcast – Bringing Sanity to Gun Violence
This gun control podcast was recorded October 2015 for a Natalia Reagan project which was to be titled “Science for Social Change.” At the time, the gun control…
Anna L. Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Anna L. Tsing‘s new book is on my new (as of this post) list of Must-Read-Books-That-All-Humans-Who-Can-Read-Should-Read-And-That-Nonhumans-Should-Find-A-Way-To-Somehow-Engage-Even-If-Reading-Is… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the podcast. There is something wrong…
Anna L. Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins”
Anna L. Tsing View on Amazon Anna L. Tsing‘s new book is on my new (as of this post) list of Must-Read-Books-That-All-Humans-Who-Can-Read-Should-Read-And-That-Nonhumans-Should-Find-A-Way-To-Somehow-Enga… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Who to blame?
Anthropology and trying to understand the explanations people assumer when unexpected events occur… From the horrible to the unpleasant, when unexpected events occur people search for ex…
Who to blame?
Anthropology and trying to understand the explanations people assumer when unexpected events occur… From the horrible to the unpleasant, when unexpected events occur people search for ex…
Who to blame?
Anthropology and trying to understand the explanations people assumer when unexpected events occur… From the horrible to the unpleasant, when unexpected events occur people search for ex…
Pigafetta on the Cannons of ‘Burne’
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan in…
Pigafetta on the Cannons of ‘Burne’
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan in…