Media in Transition
A major international conference focused on the intersection of media art and technological change over time. How is this shifting the way museums operate and how conservation works?…
Around the Web Digest: Week of September 27
This week, a number of online magazines addressed some of the big questions of human history. As always, if you want me to feature anything on the blog,…
anthro in the news 10/5/15
The Vatican, source: Creative Commons An anthropologist meets the Pope The Huffington Post published an article by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, medical anthropologist at the University of California B…
As Usual, The Devil’s in the Details; or, Why Ethnography Matters for Everything
A new study reports that pre-kindergarten programs in Tennessee fail to achieve any long-term gains. Republican lawmakers are already seizing on the news as evidence that pre-K programs…
Final Report: Task Force on AAA Engagement on Israel-Palestine
Read the full report. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Recent years have seen increasing pressure in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and many other professional academic associations to discuss alleg…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on No…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on No…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on November 1st, with next round applications due May 1st. When I…
A Template for the Wenner-Gren, Question 1
The deadline for the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant is coming up on No…
Ambivalentes Verhältnis zur Moderne: Was ist eigentlich die Pfingstbewegung und warum ist sie global so erfolgreich?
Dass es außerhalb Europas eine sehr stark wachsende Pfingstbewegung gibt, ist oftmals unbekannt. REMID stellte den Religionswissenschaftlern Dr. Sebastian Schüler (Leipzig) und Martin Radermacher (Bo…
Encrypting Ethnography: Digital Security for Researchers
(This invited post comes to us from Jonatan Kurzwelly. Jonatan is a a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. You can email him at kurzwelly@mailbox.org .…
The Ocean Conservatory’s Call for Mass Incineration in Asia: Disposability for Profit, Fantasies of Containment, & Colonialism
The Ocean Conservatory would like to burn 80% of the waste in coastal Asia with US-made incinerators. According to a wide range of experts and grassroots organizations from…
Udflytning af arbejdspladser
I går fremlagde Regeringen den længe ventede plan om udflytning af statslige arbejdspladser. 3900 arbejdspladser blev det til. Jeg ved ikke helt hvordan jeg forholder mig til det. Ja, det…
Kulick and Rydström’s “Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement” by Narelle Warren
Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement by Don Kulick and Jens Rydström Duke University Press, 2015, 376 pages Access to opportunities for the…
Sanjay Srivastava, “Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon”
Sanjay Srivastava View on Amazon Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (Oxford University Press, 2015) is the latest book by Sanjay Srivastava. A…
An Anthropological Endeavor
I was very inquisitive about having the opportunity of understanding how two anthropologists, Gretchen Bakke and Marina Peterson, formed their content for an upcoming publication pertaining to anthrop…
Links & Contents I Liked 158
Hi all, Let’s wrap up another week with some food for reading, sharing, discussing and thinking! Did Saudi-Arabia bribe the UK for UN support with just 100K USD?…
Surveying Social Relationships
One of the chapters of our forthcoming book How the World Changed Social Media, which will be published as an Open Access book by UCL Press in February…
H&M and Hijabi Fashion
H&M: Where Pseudo-Sustainability Meets Diversity Porn by Melody Moezzi, MS Blog, September 30, 2015 The world’s second largest fashion retailer recently made a deliberate move to attract members…
On The Importance of Liking Students
Probably the most important trick to being a good teacher is believing that you have something to teach students, and that they are better of learning it then…
Wellbeing and Health
From “No Shame, No Blame: Secrets of Living Well” produced by Vanderbilt Health and Wellness