Support Academics for Peace! Sign the Petition!
Recently, a petition written by Turkish academics has circulated online, demanding an end to the Turkish government’s attacks on the Kurdish provinces of the country. Since the website…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Call for Posts: The Nature of Infrastructure
The concept of infrastructure draws attention to as-yet-unseen synergies between technology, culture, and materiality. What does this concept have to offer environmental anthropology? While we can saf…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Article Alert! Redefining pollution and action: The matter of plastics
From the specific case of marine plastics, Liboiron’s paper offers a more general point that those of us who study discards need to remember to take seriously: How…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
In his Big Man discourse, Mr. Trump says that no one else can do what he can do. He offers no specifics about how he will fix the…
Mixed Exhibits: The best of both worlds?
Post by Laia Pujol-Tost: Archaeology is mostly about materiality. Its epistemological foundation is based on the relationship between humans and the material culture. Some of this objects, will later…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: January 18 Edition
January 18, 2016: Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, FoodAnthro readers! There has been quite a bit of new in the past week. If you have a link…
Trump, Fear and the Big Man
Donald Trump is nothing more — and nothing less — than what anthropologists used to call a “Big Man.” As I listened yesterday to his hour-long speech at…
The Case of the Cake: Dilemmas of Giving and Taking by Rima Praspaliauskiene
In my fieldwork at the Cardiology Unit at Vilnius public hospital I encountered what I call “the cake case.” In 2009-2010 I was in Lithuania to study how…
anthro in the news 1/18/16
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons Autism that can kill Kim Shively, professor of cultural anthropology at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, published an article in the Morning Call (All…
The genie is out of the bottle – it’s foolish to think encryption can now be banned
Politicians have turned their sights on encryption once more following terrorist outrages in Paris and San Bernardino, California. A country that once welcomed encryption, France is now considering…
Aisha Durham, “Home With Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture”
Aisha Durham View on Amazon Is hip hop defined by its artists or by its audience? In Home With Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture (Peter Lang, 2014) Aisha…
Ulla Berg, “Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.”
Ulla Berg View on Amazon Ulla Berg’s new book Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. (New York University Press, 2015) highlights the deeply…
Notes on the 6th digital ethnography reading session (Pink, Horst, Postill et al 2016)
By Allister Hill PhD student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne On Tuesday 15 December we wrapped up the last of the Digital Ethnography Reading Sessions…
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Hi all, On the official first day of the spring term I am particularly welcome our 150+ new and returning ComDev students who have enrolled in one of…