Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 1
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You…
Last day in Paris (2011)
I’m not sure whether this little descriptive passage from my fieldnotes will ever have much use in academic discourse, but it does remind me quite vividly of urban space in my fieldsite.…
New book – After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jedediah Purdy
Interesting new title from Harvard University Press can be found here: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world…
#Crisis on the opposite shore – Notes from the field on #crisis, revolution, and the possible
This piece is a from-the-field reflection on the ways in which grand events and processes such as global financial crises and revolutionary upheavals come to intersect – often…
Disability and Health Disparities: Some Quick Facts
lizlewisanthro: Refreshing my memory in preparation for Friday’s talk on race, disability, and health. Originally posted on Disability Fieldnotes: The CDC defines health disparities as: A type o…
22. Notes on the second digital ethnography reading session
This is the twenty-second post in the Freedom technologists series. by Victor Lasa PhD candidate RMIT University, Melbourne In this second session of the monthly Digital Ethnography Reading…
Dying For The Revolution: Special Journal Issue
“Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings and continues to haunt them.” So writes Amira Mittermeier in the introduction to a special collection of articles in…
In the Journals – August 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a round-up of recent journal publications on security, crime, law enforcement and the state. After a brief hiatus over the summer, we’re…
A day in the life of St. Louis’s most dangerous neighborhood
Last week my colleague Umar Lee and I spent some time in College Hill, known as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in St. Louis, and talked to…
Ethnographic Field Data 1: Should I Share my Fieldnotes?
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Celia Emmelhainz.] “This will be your office,” Dr. Bernson* says, unlocking the storage room near her office. Tall wooden shelves frame rows of ethnography,…
Stefan Ecks, “Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India”
Drugs exist that are meant to help people feel better. The doctors who prescribe them might believe that they work, while their patients do not. In explaining the…
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo”
Paul A. Christensen‘s new book is a thoughtful ethnography of drinking, drunkenness, and male sociability in modern urban Japan. Focusing on two major alcohol sobriety support groups in…
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Paul A. Christensen‘s new book is a thoughtful ethnography of drinking, drunkenness, and male sociability in modern urban Japan. Focusing on two major alcohol sobriety support groups in…
Uarctic Extractive Industries PhD programme course, Fairbanks, 24-30 September 2015
The next course in our PhD programme with a focus on the social sciences of Arctic The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), (Florian Stammler) extractive industrial development will…
Resource wars and Public Anthropology
The annual conference of the Dutch Anthropological Society (Antropologen Beroepsvereniging, ABv) took place on May 29, in the recently inaugurated Research Center for Material Culture in Leiden. The…
#Crisis, Gender, Time
Economic crises are especially hard on women (Bettio et al. 2013, Manganara 2014, Seguino 2009, UNICRI 2014, Walby 2009) and the Greek crisis is no exception (Athanasiou 2011,…
Collecting Examples of Good & Bad Design
The world around us is full of good and bad design. It’s in the products, services, systems, and policies we interact with every day, though we may not…
anthro in the news 8/18/15
“Blood coming out of her wherever” National Public Radio (U.S.) carried a piece about cross-cultural attitudes toward menstruation, noting that while negative attitudes about menstruating women ar…
Limn issue no. 5: Ebola’s Ecologies by Todd Meyers
We’d like to help spread the word about the recent issue of Limn, edited by Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J. Collier and Christopher Kelty, now in print. From the…
Malinowski’s Legacy: One Hundred Years of Anthropology in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
(Last week a major international conference was held in Alotau, the capital of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, where Bronislaw Malinowski did the research on kula that…
#Crisis in focus
This week we are featuring a series of posts curated by Dimitra Kofta on a very current theme: CRISES. Etymologically deriving from the Greek infinitive κρίνειν (krinin), crisis…
What is More Important in a University, an Assessment Plan for Nebulous Learning Outcomes, or a Climbing Wall?
Does assessment cause actual harm? Probably not in the way unnecessary medical treatment does, but there are opportunity costs associated with it. And most troubling of all is…