The Paris massacre and the Syrian refugee crisis
Two dramatic events, one unfolding over the last several years, the other a sudden shock, currently eclipse all other issues. Syrians desperate to escape their broken country enter…
The Paris massacre and the Syrian refugee crisis
Two dramatic events, one unfolding over the last several years, the other a sudden shock, currently eclipse all other issues. Syrians desperate to escape their broken country enter…
The Paris massacre and the Syrian refugee crisis
Two dramatic events, one unfolding over the last several years, the other a sudden shock, currently eclipse all other issues. Syrians desperate to escape their broken country enter…
The Attack on Paris
By now most people have seen the news that Friday night there was a terror attack in Paris. I can only imagine what the people of France and…
After the Paris attacks; a letter to my daughter.
After the Paris attacks. A letter to my daughter, Lou Hart. Sophie and Constance are shaken, S more moved by all the calls from kin and friends, poring…
Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
BDS, the AAA, and Academic Imperialism
We Disagree to Agree Support for a particular cause can come from numerous sources and points of view, each representing different interests. Similarly, people can arrive at the…
Summer Roundup: The Ethnographic Case, Part 2 by Deanna Day
In June, we debuted an extensive new series on Somatosphere, The Ethnographic Case. Edited by Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski, the series is organized on an expanding, virtual…
Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and the Movement (Introduction Part II)
[Savage Minds is pleased to run the second part to the introduction for the “Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and the Movement” series. Here, Bianca…
Anthropology != Ethnography
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master’s course a few years ago after…
Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt | Nashville Post
Read the Nashville Post’s Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt on Social Entrepreneurship and Mani+Ted Fischer is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies…
Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt | Nashville Post
Read the Nashville Post’s Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt on Social Entrepreneurship and Mani+Ted Fischer is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies…
Anthropology != Ethnography
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master’s course a few years ago after…
Anthropology != Ethnography
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master's course a few years ago after…
SAFN Panels and Events at the 2015 AAA Meeting in Denver
This is a listing of food-related panels, papers, posters, & events at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 2015 (Denver, CO) Current & Future SAFN Members…
Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt | Nashville Post
Read the Nashville Post’s Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt on Social Entrepreneurship and Mani+Ted Fischer is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies…
Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt | Nashville Post
Read the Nashville Post’s Q&A: Ted Fischer of Vanderbilt on Social Entrepreneurship and Mani+Ted Fischer is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies…
Anthropoliteia Sessions @ #AAA2015
Hello, Dear Reader, it is that very special time of year again: The American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting. This year in Denver Colorado. As impassioned followers of this…
A Message Regarding Sponsored Emails
Dear Colleagues, If you registered for the 2015 Annual Meeting, you will have received two emails this week, one from the proponents of Resolution #1, and one from…
#Events: the Wacky, the Bizarre… and the Hairy!
>INSERT BLURB – BLA-BLA-BLAHBLA-BLAH< Fine, this was no editorial omission although the thought is fun, right! Rather it was a carefully deliberated opening intended to capture the cull…
Marco Rubio and the Shallow Pit of American Politics
Politicians like Pat McGrory, Rick Scott and alas, Marco Rubio seem to consider the general pursuit of knowledge not only a waste of time but a waste of…