Marco Rubio and the Shallow Pit of American Politics
Politicians like Pat McGrory, Rick Scott and alas, Marco Rubio seem to consider the general pursuit of knowledge not only a waste of time but a waste of…
Marco Rubio and the Shallow Pit of American Politics
Politicians like Pat McGrory, Rick Scott and alas, Marco Rubio seem to consider the general pursuit of knowledge not only a waste of time but a waste of…
Marco Rubio and the Shallow Pit of American Politics
Politicians like Pat McGrory, Rick Scott and alas, Marco Rubio seem to consider the general pursuit of knowledge not only a waste of time but a waste of…
Marco Rubio and the Shallow Pit of American Politics
Politicians like Pat McGrory, Rick Scott and alas, Marco Rubio seem to consider the general pursuit of knowledge not only a waste of time but a waste of…
„We Are Only Helping!“ Volunteering and Social Media in Germany’s New „Welcome Culture“
Astrid Bochow Collection point at the Johanniter’s, Rosdorf | Astrid Bochow „What is new about the current refugee crisis in Germany?“ asked Janina Kehr in this blog on 19…
Active Collections: A Brown Bag Talk with Rainey Tisdale
Filed under: History, Material Culture, Mathers Museum, Museum Anthropology
Active Collections: A Brown Bag Talk with Rainey Tisdale
Filed under: History, Material Culture, Mathers Museum, Museum Anthropology
The Thrill of Discovery – This Anthro Life
Whether exploring a ruined tomb by torchlight, submerging to great depths in search of lost ships, or sending lone robot emissaries to search the stars, human experience is…
Human Economy Book: Economy For and Against Democracy
We are proud to present the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published by Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York. The book…
Human Economy Book: Economy For and Against Democracy
We are proud to present the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published by Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York. The book…
Human Economy Book: Economy For and Against Democracy
We are proud to present the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published by Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York. The book…
Human Economy Book: Economy For and Against Democracy
We are proud to present the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published by Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York. The book…
The Anthropologist- An Interview with Director Seth Kramer
AAA reached out to documentary filmmaker Seth Kramer to discuss his upcoming film The Anthropologist. At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women:…
Anderson Blanton, “Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South”
Anderson Blanton View on Amazon Anderson Blanton‘s Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), illuminates how prayer, faith,…
Rachel Smith: The “hidden abodes” of temporary migration programs
Organizations such as the World Bank have repeated what has been called the “migration development mantra.” In this, remittances appear as a panacea—or “wonder drug” (Green 2015)—for economic…
A Thanksgiving Story: How lice, a see through nighty and a turkey helped grow compassion
In which Bill Rich, our intrepid do-good principal takes PTA mothers into something of a bordello in order to deliver a Thanksgiving Turkey. The PTA mothers emerge better…
Manuela Bojadžijev and Sandro Mezzadra: “Refugee crisis” or crisis of European migration policies?
“The refugee crisis in Europe is fabricated,” Prem Kumar Rajaram writes in the opening post of this series. It is certainly true that the framing of current events…
Links & Contents I Liked 163
Hi all, Let’s start with this week’s highlights for a change: We have a great piece on UNDP’s social media work, a great essay on how ‘Humans of…
Dialogue as Diversion
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this incisive critique of the dialogue approach to ending the Israeli state’s occupation. Fida Adely and Amahl Bishara r…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Allegra TV: Chiatura, my pride
Today Allegra TV features a film that is the first in a series of five ethnographic films produced by Ian Cook , Stephanie Endter, Anna Dziapshipa and Mikheil…
The Erasures of “Thank you for your service”
Here in the US, it’s Veteran’s Day (in Canada it’s Remembrance Day, in England it’s Armistice Day, and it’s worth thinking about what those differences mean). The utteran…