To Fieldwork, To Write
[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Kim Fortun as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Fortun is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer…
Journeys Within and Between the City, Part Two
In the field, anthropologists are often presented with competing narratives, imaginings juxtaposed with reality, and the collision of facts with opinions and perceptions. The narratives of research pa…
The invention of nature: new book from Andrea Wulf on Alexander von Humboldt
This looks like a fabulous new biography, and it’s already getting rave reviews. Here is a description, and hopefully a video…vimeo is always fussy about this stuff. “The…
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
Normalizing Sexually Violated Bodies: Sexual Assault Adjudication, Medical Evidence, and the Legal Case by Sameena Mulla
What constitutes evidence of sexual assault? I am seated in a courtroom as a sexual assault forensic nurse is asked to explain, by a prosecutor, the basic tenets…
Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán’s xenophobia rejects the country’s multi-ethnic history
By Pál Nyíri My son and I have come to see the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble’s show An Evocation of Subcarpathia. According to the introduction to the venerable…
World STI & HIV Congress day 2
A summary of the second day of the World STI and HIV congress in Brisbane, Australia. Read on… Morning Session on Publishing and Grant Writing for early career…
All good things come to an end – or do they? #Fieldnotes
What do you know: the summer is already gone! It feels like it was only a moment ago when we solicited contributions to our fieldwork thread, and now…
Around the Web Digest: Week of September 6
Aside from a flurry of archaeological excitement, the blogs seem a little less active this week… perhaps it’s early-semester stress. Please send me anything interesting at rebecca.nelson.j…
Racism and the Politics of Culture
How top-down misleading definitions of culture and multiculturalism contribute to racism in T&T… From an anthropological perspective one problem with the outgoing government’s …
Racism and the Politics of Culture
How top-down misleading definitions of culture and multiculturalism contribute to racism in T&T… From an anthropological perspective one problem with the outgoing government’s …
Racism and the Politics of Culture
How top-down misleading definitions of culture and multiculturalism contribute to racism in T&T… From an anthropological perspective one problem with the outgoing government’s …
Joint World STI & HIV & ASHM Congress
The World STI and HIV congress and Australasian HIV and AIDS conference are happening back to back this week. Delegates have come from all around the world to attend…
Anthropologies #21: Why do we need to teach climate change in anthropology?
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Our next installment in the climate change series comes from Katherine J. Johnson, who is currently…
Bruce A. Bradley, Michael B. Collins, and Andrew Hemmings, “Clovis Technology”
View on Amazon 13,000-years ago, the people of the first identifiable culture in North America were hunting mammoth and mastodon, bison, and anything else they could launch their…
Bruce A. Bradley, et al., “Clovis Technology” (International Monographs in Prehistory, 2010)
13,000-years ago, the people of the first identifiable culture in North America were hunting mammoth and mastodon, bison, and anything else they could launch their darts and spears…
Forced displacement in Sweden: When a mine company demolishes and rebuilds an entire city
International media are celebrating the corporate-led relocation of Kiruna. Anthropologist Elisa Maria Lopez thinks it is important to talk about “forced displacement” and “ch…
Forced displacement in Sweden: When a mine company demolishes and rebuilds an entire city
International media are celebrating the corporate-led relocation of Kiruna. Anthropologist Elisa Maria Lopez thinks it is important to talk about “forced displacement” and “ch…
Forced displacement in Sweden: When a mine company demolishes and rebuilds an entire city
International media are celebrating the corporate-led relocation of Kiruna. Anthropologist Elisa Maria Lopez thinks it is important to talk about “forced displacement” and “ch…
Forced displacement in Sweden: When a mine company demolishes and rebuilds an entire city
International media are celebrating the corporate-led relocation of Kiruna. Anthropologist Elisa Maria Lopez thinks it is important to talk about “forced displacement” and “ch…