New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
Review of Danny Hoffman’s ‘The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia’, by Jacqueline Knörr (2014)
Hoffman, Danny (2012): The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124 (2014). Hoffman’s…
Review of Danny Hoffman’s ‘The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia’, by Jacqueline Knörr (2014)
Hoffman, Danny (2012): The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124 (2014). Hoffman’s…
AAA Applauds Decision to End Controversial HTS Program
In 2008, the AAA took a leadership position among social science organizations in questioning the ethics and effectiveness of a U.S. Army program known as the Human Terrain…
Dagelijks leven in het vluchtelingenkamp van Kobani in Suruc, Diyarbakir, april 2015
Deel twee van een foto essay door Edien Bartels, Trudie Visser (tekst) en Marije Koudstaal (© foto’s). (Deel één) Zij schreven eerder een blog over de problematiek van de Ezidi…
REDUX: Dimitris Dalakoglou on State, Violence, Infrastructures and Public Spaces in the European periphery
Worried by the current crisis affecting the Eurozone and many other parts of the world, we also sometimes feel disempowered by our lack of deeper understanding of the…
Anthropology Major Jobs: Advice for Undergraduate Majors
Please help a recent high school graduate who desperately wants to be an anthropology major but worries about the anthropology major jobs after graduation: Hi Jason, I’ve recently…
Cats, tacs and kunvenshuns
First of all, thanks to Thom for his excellent book. I agree completely that pragmatics has been under-represented in discussions of the evolution of language (with the notable…
Voting for Our Better Selves; and Rules to Flourish By
Mike Pesca, in one of his artful spiels on The Gist podcast, punctures the conventional wisdom that we Americans want folksy presidential candidates, that we yearn for a…
Voting for Our Better Selves; and Rules to Flourish By
Mike Pesca, in one of his artful spiels on The Gist podcast, punctures the conventional wisdom that we Americans want folksy presidential candidates, that we yearn for a…
Voting for Our Better Selves; and Rules to Flourish By
Mike Pesca, in one of his artful spiels on The Gist podcast, punctures the conventional wisdom that we Americans want folksy presidential candidates, that we yearn for a…
Voting for Our Better Selves; and Rules to Flourish By
Mike Pesca, in one of his artful spiels on The Gist podcast, punctures the conventional wisdom that we Americans want folksy presidential candidates, that we yearn for a…
Charleston: Continuing the Conversation
It has been two weeks since the mass shooting took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Makeshift memorials are still being…
Are Long-term Job Prospects Better for Philosophers than for Engineers?
The machines may not destroy us, but it’s quite probable that they will render our labor obsolete, and without the creation of massive new fields of employment. Of…
Rock Art in Panna – What does it mean to the people who live there?
The mystery of paintings made in blood A goat herder points towards the distant hills of the Panna Tiger Reserve and announces “You will find Khoon se bana…
REDUX: Tim Ingold on the Future of #AcademicPublishing
Tell me in what journal you publish and I will tell you who you are! As social and human scientists we are caught in the midst of conflicting…
Psytrance, a world unto itself
Most of what I knew about psytrance (psychedelic trance) raves before I actually went to one came from this article in Vice: Psytrance really is a counter-culture in…
Jamaica: A Queer Place
An aerial view of the city of Kingston, Jamaica. Photo courtesy of wikimedia commons. The dump in Riverton has started burning again. A stinking heap of tires, plastic,…
Web Roundup: Assorted stories by Lily Shapiro
It’s been a very busy week, and I imagine everyone has been reading a lot about Charleston, SCOTUS, the ISIS attacks, and Greece. This web roundup isn’t going…
Some animals are more equal than others – on net neutrality and roaming charges in the European Union
“Don’t ever let a good crisis go to waste.” While all of Europe is starring at Greece, the European Union has finally come up with new rules for…
Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon: Excerpt from ‘Broad Street’
Never tell a Matsigenka shaman his tobacco snuff is anything but katsi, “extremely painful.” I learned this lesson the way I learned most of my lessons during fieldwork…