anthro in the news 11/2/2015
Caption: Arizona desert. source: Creative Commons The killing field of Arizona Pacifica Public Radio [U.S.] aired a piece on the implications of the election of Republican Paul Ryan…
It’s Not Easy To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Unscholarly Confessions on Reading
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Katerina Teaiwa as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Katerina is Head of Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies,…
It’s Not Easy To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Zanzibar in trouble?
I took the family for a holiday on the paradise island Zanzibar. White sand, turquoise water and colorful marine life. Easy living. The last two days we left…
Urban Space, Virtual Space, and the Media In Egypt
What is “the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring” and, particularly, what is the relationship between its physical and virtual locations? That’s the question…
A Circular Economy? Disruptive Innovation Festival
What is the circular economy, exactly? Is it capitalism with better accounting? Is it about scaling up recycling and reuse? Is it about consuming less, and producing less,…
Trafficking: The globalisation of weak thinking and dumb language
What isn’t on this list of signs of human trafficking? Has there ever been a vaguer term than abuse of vulnerability? It could describe being a parent or…
Seminar: Media & visual technologies as material culture – students’ projects
The following joint student projects are conducted in the seminar “Media and visual technologies as material culture” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that persists …
Spiders!
I like spiders a lot. I think they're brilliant: not only do they look gorgeously primeval, they help to keep the house free from flies and mosquitoes,…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
Why It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
The broad discrimination and pervasive violence that ‘different’ Americans must confront every day is a national disgrace that reflects the widespread ignorance and deep-seated bigotry that pers…
„Deserted Island“. Gedankengänge nach einer Begegnung mit Geflüchteten
Tamara Leydel Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung für Geflüchtete Leipzig Dölitz | 07.08. 2015 | Credits: Caruso Pinguin https://www.flickr.com/photos/110931166@N08/19755672574/in/album-72157656515350228/ D…
“We cannot give up hope” – A conversation with Gish Amit on his book #Palestine
Gish Amit is a historian who has been involved in non formal education for twenty years. He taught cinema and literature at the Arab Democratic School in Jaffa,…
Some thoughts about the 9/11 Memorial and Museum
Haidy Geismar, UCL I recently spent an afternoon at the site of the former twin towers, where now there lies, imprinted on the foundations, one of the largest…
My new book is coming soon….
Before January 2016, my new book, “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College, will be published by Cornell University Press. You can sign up on…
Affirmative action in brazil: is it necessary?
Recently, I came across an article in Lasa Forum Spring 2013 edition in which Edward Telles and Marcelo Paixão assessed the significance of Affirmative Action in Brazil.…
European Primary Sources for Ancient Indonesia
I've recently been delving into the European primary sources on ancient Indonesia, including Pliny the Elder, Marco Polo, Niccolo de' Conti, Antonio Pigafetta, Afonso de Albuquerque…
Rewind and Fast Forward, Part 1
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Michael Agar]. A couple of months ago I was having dinner with an old friend in Seattle. He stopped his fork in mid-flight and…
What Halloween Masks
A very thoughtful consideration of Halloween from the eyes of little children. Perhaps because I have spent the past two days at grief workshops, this article made me…