One explanation to rule them all?
The field of language evolution, it seems to me, is a microcosm of the evolutionary behavioral sciences more generally, in the following sense: you can maintain more or…
Intending to speak our mind, and speaking our mind
(This post forms part of our “book club” discussing Thom Scott-Phillip’s latest book with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) Thom Scott-Phillips’ contribution consists in fur…
Call for papers: The art market in a global perspective
Via Olav Velthuis, University of Amsterdam 28-30 January 2016, University of Amsterdam, Department of Sociology The aim of this multidisciplinary international conference is to bring together theoreti…
Around the Web Digest: Week of June 28
It’s been a rollercoaster week in US politics! Hope that, no matter where you are in the world, something in the news made you happy this week. Send…
New book: Before Boas – The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment
I would like to announce a newly published book exploring why the cradle of our discipline was to be found in ethnographic research in the Russian Arctic. The…
The European game of chicken
A week ago it seemed as if the Greek debt crisis finally had been solved. Suddenly everything is undecided again and no-one can quite say if the Euro…
The European game of chicken
A week ago it seemed as if the Greek debt crisis finally had been solved. Suddenly everything is undecided again and no-one can quite say if the Euro…
Save the date: Public Anthropology Conference (PAC 2015) 12th Annual Conference
SHIFTING CLIMATES Dialogues of the Urgent and Emergent Call For Participation jv6775a@student.american.edu When: October 3-4, 2015 Where: American University, Washington, DC The rapidly transforming …
Anthro in the news 6/29/15
A matter of Pride: There is no neutral An article in the Guardian reports on conflicts related to how a group of queer activists mobilized in solidarity with…
J. Laurence Hare, “Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands”
A recent book review I read began with the line “borderlands are back.” It’s certainly true that more and more historians have used borderland regions as the stage…
J. Laurence Hare, “Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands” (U of Toronto Press, 2015)
A recent book review I read began with the line “borderlands are back.” It’s certainly true that more and more historians have used borderland regions as the stage…
When White Privilege Goes Wrong
What is white privilege and how does it operate… Over the last two weeks, the international news cycle has, without hardly ever naming it, been focussed on some…
When White Privilege Goes Wrong
What is white privilege and how does it operate… Over the last two weeks, the international news cycle has, without hardly ever naming it, been focussed on some…
Commentary Hell
We moderns devour news as if it were a staple food. Gone are the days when one sat down for coffee in the morning with a daily newspaper.…
Gary Wilder, “Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World”
Gary Wilder‘s new book, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015) builds upon the work he began in The French Imperial…
Gary Wilder, “Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World” (Duke UP, 2015)
Gary Wilder‘s new book, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015) builds upon the work he began in The French Imperial…
Three! (anthro-po-etry)
100 words I stood on the edge of the square… a lot of strangers were there… I heard the echos of their grey talking about the weather… You…
Im Innern von Radio Blau_ 1
Zum 20. Geburtstag von Radio Blau lenken wir den Blick nach Innen. Wie funktioniert eine Freies Radio ohne Festangestellte? Lutz erzählt von der Arbeit im Vorstand des Radiovereins…
Freies Radio – Kindern eine Stimme geben
Tom hat in Berlin das Freie Kinder-Radio Radiojojo gegründet, das Kindern an verschiedenen Orten in der ganzen Welt, Kinder und ihre Ideen zu Wort kommen lässt. Tom erzählt,…
Frauenbilder und Medienwelten – Einblicke in eine Lehrfeldforschung in Bhopal, Indien
Über Frauenrollen in Indiens Medienwelten gibt es viele Klischees, wie die Unterdrückung am Arbeitsplatz. In ihrer ersten Feldforschung hinterfragt die damalige Magister-Studentin Stefanie Mauksch die…
Communication, culture, and biology in the evolution of language
Speaking Our Minds is an enjoyable book, providing an excellent survey of some of the perennial and current issues in the field of language evolution, as well as…
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” – Margaret Mead (1901-1978) This is the best explanation I know for…
Kennedy and the Triumph of the Social
While everyone should be celebrating the monumental decision of the Supreme Court to recognize same-sex marriages, there is also something in there that, along with this weeks’ ruling…
“All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are…”
“All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.”…