Message from the AAA President: Member Engagement Alert!
In closing my first AN President’s column, I declared AAA a safe, accessible and shared space that welcomes anthropologists to come together to discuss, deliberate, agree, disagree, and…
Practicing Anthropology in User Experience, Design and Business (AAA Webinar)
Last week I did a presentation for the American Anthropological Association about applying anthropology in user experience, design and business. There are ample career opportunities for anthropologist…
US Anthropology is Imperial, not Universal
Part Two of: “Canadian Anthropology or Cultural Imperialism?” Read Part One “today numerous topics directly issuing from the intellectual confrontations relating to the social particularity of Ameri…
Top 10 (or thereabout) of 2015
As we embark on yet another Allegra year, let’s take a look back: what were your favorite posts for 2015? Reading this list of our ‘Top 10 or…
Herd overproduction and star overproduction
I’ve been thinking about certain scholars who have written, for lack of a more precise way of putting it, a lot. The sort of people who seem to…
Southern Provisions
Ellen Messer Tufts University Shields, David S. (2015) Southern Provisions. The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Did you ever wonder where Carolina…
David Bowie, Anthropology, and the Pleasure of Difference
I’m hardly the biggest David Bowie fan in the world, but when I heard he had passed away I knew I the news would make waves in social media.…
The Shah of Snakes
Why Shahmaran Matters Shahmaran. Photo courtesy Aynur Ocak-Gundogan Within the cultural fabric of Anatolia and the plains of Mesopotamia lies the story of Shahmaran, a beautiful woman with…
Listening to Physical Geology. PART 2: The ecopoetics of data, a few lessons from Björk
More drinks. This time in the midst of a madding crowd, soon after returning from Krakatau, with an Icelandic artist known as Shopflifter. She was wearing a remarkable…
Anonymous Reviewer – we need to talk! #rejection
A while back I experienced bitter disappointment as yet another funding application was rejected. The fact that I was only one of thousands of disappointed applicants did little…
Storytelling and Worldbuilding in The Force Awakens
By Nicholas Mizer Last month Salon posted an insightful article by Gerry Canavan, an assistant professor of English at Marquette University. Canavan talks about similarities between Star Wars:…
Listening to Physical Geology. PART 1: Noise, disaster, and plastic thoughts
Over drinks with a seismologist, I recently learned that you can hear the ocean anywhere on the planet. Anywhere. Did you know that? No matter where you are…
San Bernardino
San Bernardino, National Forest, from Space. The raw satellite imagery shown in these images was obtain from NASA and/or the US Geological Survey. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Long…
What is your body story?
Rather than having an explicit political conversation, I’d like this to be an open space where we can learn from each other’s different realities by sharing our own…
REDUX: A Facelift & Discussion over Academic Blogging – and PLEA for support! #RELAUNCH
What is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’ – or at minimum…
Linktipp
“Wir hoffen immer, und in allen Dingen ist besser hoffen als verzweifeln.” (Goethe, Torquato Tasso) Und doch: Manchmal könnte man einfach nur noch heulen. Die “Süddeutsche Zeitung…
Living Within Assisted Suicide: Drawing a Landscape and its Transnational Movements
Marcos Andrade Neves Organization’s room: procedure and paper work | 2015 Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves Since 1871, upon the inception of the Criminal Code…
Tim Ingold’s One World Anthropology
synthetic zero ” As philosophical fashions lurch from one extreme to the other — from the hyper-relativism of the cultural construction industry to the ever-multiplying essentialisms of the…
History, Power, and a Mapuche Bible: A Shaman’s Story with Ana Mariella Bacigalupo – This Anthro Life
Join TAL’s Aneil Tripathy and Ryan Collins as they interview Ana Mariella Bacigalupo of SUNY Buffalo. Ana’s discussion of her research on Mapuche shamans takes us on an…
A day in campus IT
One day back when I was working in my campus IT job, I jotted down some notes on a day at work. I was in the middle of…