Norsk Rødt Fe og oppdrettslaksen
Ved lanseringen av Marianne Liens nye bok «Becoming Salmon» ble jeg invitert til å si noen ord om Nork Rødt Fe. Det ga meg anledning til å børste…
Gener som hopper – en liten oppsummering
For mindre enn et år siden oppdaget jeg for alvor at organismer — planter, dyr, bakterier — arver gener på tvers av arter. De «bytter gener» seg imellom.…
Douglas Bamforth, “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska”
It’s the ultimate cold case: a mountain of 10,000-year old evidence excavated and stored in hundreds of boxes that sat unopened and nearly forgotten in the basement of…
Douglas B. Bamforth et al., “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska” (U of New Mexico Press, 2015)
The book discussed in this interview is Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Basic Books, 2013) by Edward Frenkel of the University of California at Berkeley. It’s a toss-up which is…
Ethnographic Field Data 2: When Not-Sharing is Caring
In my last post, I recommended that we consider archiving and sharing records from our fieldwork. Yet sharing both raw notes and publications can present challenges, as Rex recently covered with…
“Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive
A search for “anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive results in two hits. Both documents were created and presented by the UK GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group…
Links & Contents I Liked 154
Hi all, New week, new links as the momentum for the start of the new term builds up. Development news features Oxfam latest trends on closing civil society…
REDUX: An educator’s perspective on the academic boycott of Israeli institutions #BDS #palestine
Over the past months, colleagues in anthropology and other fields have laid out strong arguments for why one should support the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Last spring,…
Assigned Readings: Strategies and Ponderings
To mark the beginning of the fall semester at most US colleges and universities, we would like to return to our series of blog postings by the Anthropology…
Taking On debt: Perspectives from across the social sciences (Part 1)
Understanding why households become over-indebted is a crucial step to planning interventions at the level of the consumer or through policy, but it is not a straightforward task.…
Investing without wealth: The financialization of social reproduction #Crisis
A few years ago, even an expert on the risks of subprime lending would have been astounded by the very suggestion: a global crisis triggered by poor people…
The Greek Crisis and the Dangers of Culture
By Cristiano Lanzano
The Greek Crisis and the Dangers of Culture
By Cristiano Lanzano
The Greek Crisis and the Dangers of Culture
By Cristiano Lanzano
Around the Web Digest: Week of August 16
Dear readers, either the blogs have been quiet this week or I’m missing some, which you can rectify by sending me links at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. The most shocking, terrible…
The Greek Crisis and the Dangers of Culture
By Cristiano Lanzano
“Bioculturalism” — An interview with Christopher Lynn by Christopher D. Lynn
This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related others talking seriously, and thinking practically, about how to synergize biological and social scientific approaches to human health and w…
In Defense of Ethnography
In these troubled times in which inhumane global forces threaten our future, we need that ethnographic depth of understanding both to recognize our human fragility and marvel at…
In Defense of Ethnography
In these troubled times in which inhumane global forces threaten our future, we need that ethnographic depth of understanding both to recognize our human fragility and marvel at…
In Defense of Ethnography
In these troubled times in which inhumane global forces threaten our future, we need that ethnographic depth of understanding both to recognize our human fragility and marvel at…
In Defense of Ethnography
In these troubled times in which inhumane global forces threaten our future, we need that ethnographic depth of understanding both to recognize our human fragility and marvel at…
What ordinary Chinese people post on social media after the Tianjin Blast
“For two days, my WeChat news feeds has been awash with all kinds of articles and images about the Tianjin blast. But after merely two days, the routine…