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…
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…
#OpenAccess as Famine
The current state of thinking about open access today is a lot like our contemporary understanding of famine. In the early 1980s Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze published the…
Inaugural Issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience by Anna Zogas
There is an exciting new open access journal! The inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience can be found here, and the Editorial Board’s Introduction can be found here. …
Anthropologies #21: ‘Patabea se bariu’–Rethinking environmental change
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Our next essay comes from Elena Burgos-Martínez, who is currently completing her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology…
So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
Seeds of a good Anthropocene website/blog launched
There is a growing rift over what the Anthropocene entails. Will is be a catastrophe or does it present opportunities? One new website looking for the seeds of…
NEW! — Chris Hann: The new Völkerwanderungen: Hungary and Germany, Europe and Eurasia
I spent the last weeks of August and the first days of September in Hungary, close to the European Union’s border with Serbia. Never before had a routine…
Lene Auestad, “Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination”
Lene Auestad View on Amazon Lene Auestad, PhD, is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust…
Orban, Hungary and the walls of Europe
by Remi Piet, al Jazeera, September 10, 2015 Instead of joining Europe in its quest for liberalism, the new EU members are putting up obstacles. For over a…
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what to pay attention to as you gather wood, build a structure,…
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …