Visual Turn II: Teaching to Take Stock
Encounters with art and design by an anthropologist and curious non-expert in visual culture. Earlier this year I was reading the Internet and came across Duke University Press’…
How to make a “vulnerable population” by Laura Stark
“They used my ass and took advantage of me.” This was the story of Eddie Flowers, a former drug addict used in LSD experiments during the 1950s. Leaning…
Poignant Pasts and Uncertain Futures in the Greek Crisis: Ethnographic Snippets from ATM Queues
July 2nd 2015, it is 4.30pm and the temperature is touching 40’c. I am standing in a queue of some twenty-five people outside Ethniki Bank in central Trikala,…
Uzbeks: “We are not afraid”
My latest for Foreign Policy is on a group of Uzbeks who are using social media to fight back against a ruthless regime: “Today the main disease of…
The Lost Space of Dissent: Amidst Charleston’s Unity
The Editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Bradley Dunseith with a report from Charleston, South Carolina Knights of Columbus hall in Charleston, South Carolina. June 2015. Photo by Bradley Dunseith…
Clive Hamilton on “The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene”
Over the last two days, Clive Hamilton published a pair of essays that argue ethics in the Anthropocene are moot. The first essay largely lays out the problems…
Notes on the first digital ethnography reading session
by Allister Hill PhD candidate Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Last week, on 9 July 2015, the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) ran its first…
Links & Contents I Liked 150 (!!)
Hi all, Right in the middle of some kind of summer break, aidnography celebrates another link-related benchmark-welcome to link review #150!What I wrote in late 2013 to acknowledge…
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
A state of trance: Inner peace rising from chaos
The experience of getting inside Sound Academy for Armin van Buuren was the low point of the night. After an evening of rain and dancing at the electronic…
Life Goes On. Banalities and Sociabilities of Crisis Greece
“Grecia, prove di un’economia di guerra”. (Corriere della Sera, June 30, 2015) “The Real Story Behind Greece’s Debt Crisis,” MSNBC with Chris Hayes (6/30, 2015) “The decision to…
“…the cultural elements of folktales help both bridge common ground between cultures and bring…”
“…the cultural elements of folktales help both bridge common ground between cultures and bring out cultural differences – developing cultural awareness that is essential if we are to…
“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are….”
“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer…
HTS and the Ethics of Anthropology
The following post was submitted by Hugh Gusterson, a professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. A specialist on nuclear culture, the political economy of…
Teenage views on Culture (Nordplus closing interviews, 2013)
“Learning Skills for Sustainable Development” Date: 26th – 29th November, 2013 Venue: Riga State Gymnasium Nr. 2 Time for opening: on 26th November at 16.00 Closing: on 29th…
If you could recommend 4 to 10 texts for people to read in regards to gender and social theory, which would you suggest?
Toward a Decolonial Feminism by Maria Lugones Undoing Gender by Judith Butler History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Making Mess
Success stories are a powerful trope of international development and conservation work. They structure the way NGOs, governments and companies engage with powerful donors and public opinion. They…
Meet the AAA Summer 2015 Interns
MEET KATELYN SCHOENIKE My AAA and Smithsonian African Art internship has officially begun! This week has been filled with adventure, new experiences, and a general euphoria that words…
NEW! — David Cooney: The Montréal student protests
Vers un Automne Érable?1 Whenever threatened, the first thing power restricts is the ability to linger or assemble in the street. —Henri Lefebvre2 In September of 2014, I…
Pixelization in Crip Time: Disability, Online Sociality, and Self-Making in Russian Apartments by Cassandra Hartblay
Vakas is a Russian man in his 30s with a traumatic brain injury acquired during childhood. He spends most of his days in his room in his family…