The American Anthropological Association (AAA) joins same-sex partners across the country in celebrating the Supreme Court’s ruling in the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, a consolidation of…
Alice Marwick’s book Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age is a very important and timely book that deserves widespread attention in development and…
By Gill Conquest When I was a kid, the one thing I wanted more than anything else in the world was a computer-in-a-book, where I could look up…
Educating ‘bilingual’ children in Spain and Denmark: childhood bilingualism as opportunity or constraint by Kenn Nakata Steffensen University College Cork/University of Tokyo See PDF This article exa…
Would you like to get an overview over the most recent anthropology blog posts? The old newsticker did no longer work reliably, so I’ve created a new one.…
Would you like to get an overview over the most recent anthropology blog posts? The old newsticker did no longer work reliably, so I’ve created a new one.…
I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world —Mary…
Commercial giants are playing fast and loose with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. These days it can be a big juicy Ramadan deal, wherever you live, when…
Here are some of the disability news features that I found most interesting from the past week. Please send other suggestions my way! Disability and Race “Claim: Minorities…
Mustafa Abdalla June 2005: It is the annual end of year examination period in Al-Qasr Al-Aini Medical School in Cairo when some students in their clinical years…
(This post forms part of our “book club” discussing Thom Scott-Phillip’s latest book with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) I have read Thom Scott-Philips’ book with great…
Universities have a long history. Buckets even longer. Nevertheless, perhaps not many times in the past have universities and buckets crossed each other’s paths. This is a story…
Social media has changed the way we access and process local news. It empowers individuals to share what they know, which can be both good and bad as…
At this point the debate about Alice Goffman’s book On The Run looks something like this: Goffman writes a successful ethnography. Journalists are peeved that Goffman followed social science …
Photo by Nell Hayes At first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but over the first several months in my fieldsite in northern Chile I…
Robert Frank commented that ‘photography must contain the humanity of the moment.’ What better combination then than photography and anthropology? In their final term year some visual anth…
The The Americanization of Narcissism Harvard University Press, 2014, 384 pages. Historians have not handled psychoanalysis very well. The clumsy reductionism of much of the psychohistory movement is…
The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics. W.L. Bennett and A. Segerberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 240 pp. John Postill RMIT…
By Ira Noveck & Tiffany Morisseau (This post forms part of our “book club” discussing Thom Scott-Phillip’s latest book with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) This book …
Anger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate the human rights…
Savage Minds has long been looking for an archaeologist whose writing would mesh well with our own (predominantly cultural anthropological) sensibility, and so when Uzma Rizvi guest blogged…