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…
Tripping On Good Vibrations: Cultural Commodification and Tibetan Singing Bowls
In September of 2014, science-and-technology news outlets reported on a discovery that supposedly had the potential to revolutionize the field of solar energy. While doing PhD research at…
Fundraiser Jambalaya
David Beriss University of New Orleans I recently asked my food and culture students to write short essays about foods that remind them of places. The objective was…
Halloween is for Anthropologists
By Emma Louise Backe Halloween, it seems, was made for anthropologists. While many anthropologists devote their time in the field to studying supernatural belief systems, arcane rituals or…
Web Roundup: Happy Halloween! by Maria Cecilia Dedios
It is Halloween again! This month’s web-roundup looks at fear and creepiness, why we feel them and, even more interesting, why we enjoy them. Our brains are hardwired…
Notes on the fourth digital ethnography reading (Gehl 2014)
by Katya Tokareva PhD Candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG) In the fourth session of the monthly Digital Ethnography Reading…
Summer Roundup: Inhabitable Worlds, Part Two by Deanna Day
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a second set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
Four ghost stories from Aunt Julia
More so than any other person in my mother’s extended family, Julia was a person who was truly loved. She helped to raise her mother’s children, then her…
The Nexus of Collaboration: Negotiating African American History and Public Interest in Southwest Virginia
Tom Klatka pauses after clearing debris to expose the end of a grave shaft in the Kentland slave cemetery. Note the larger exposed grave shaft in the background.…
What Did Malinowski Eat in Papua?
Malinowski inspecting a Trobriand girl’s soulava necklace. Photo courtesy of Michael Young. One hundred years ago (June 27, 1915 to be precise), Bronislaw Malinowski arrived in the Trobriand…
Unequal opportunity and limited futures
My latest for the Brooklyn Quarterly is on opportunity hoarding, inherited wealth, and what it means for the future of our kids: The gulf separating the current generation…
September 2015
Volume 7 | Issue 2 | September 2015 This issue includes: Features Healing Circles and Restorative Justice: Learning from Non-Anglo American Traditions by Timothy H. Gailey The Law,…
Visit from Czech Republic, University of Ostrava
Premysl Macha, Ph.D. from the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 9. -13. of November 2015.
Visit from Czech Republic, University of Ostrava
Premysl Macha, Ph.D. from the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 9. -13. of November 2015.
What Halloween Masks
October 31st is America’s curious anomaly. On October’s last day, as trees defoliate and nature ebbs towards the deadness of winter, parents mark the day by lifting prohibitions. …
Visit from Czech Republic, University of Ostrava
Premysl Macha, Ph.D. from the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 9. -13. of November 2015.
Visit from Czech Republic, University of Ostrava
Premysl Macha, Ph.D. from the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 9. -13. of November 2015.
Visit from Czech Republic, University of Ostrava
Premysl Macha, Ph.D. from the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 9. -13. of November 2015.
Paradoxes of sustainability
The many faces of sustainability The concept of sustainability – the way most of us use it today – has emerged in the 1960s in response to concern…
Photoshopping the Yemen War
A new post on MENA Tidningen…
Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Movement: to Be or Not-to-Be? #Palestine
A few months ago a fellow anthropologist colleague forwarded me a petition: Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. The main goal is to voice opposition to the…