Pluto’s Terrain
The fascination with the images of Pluto’s rugged topography recently captured by the New Horizons probe reminds us that terrain is…
Pluto’s Terrain
The fascination with the images of Pluto’s rugged topography recently captured by the New Horizons probe reminds us that terrain is…
Using storytelling to build online courses
The project team filming a video for our online course Recently we have been filming a new online course on the anthropology of social media that will be available…
Intern Updates from the National Museum of African Art
The inner workings of the Smithsonian are hectic and complex. However, it has been very clear to me that through all of the hustle and bustle of the…
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics”
Who were the Indo-Europeans? Were they all-conquering heroes? Aggressive patriarchal Kurgan horsemen, sweeping aside the peaceful civilizations of Old Europe? Weed-smoking drug dealers rolling across … Visit New…
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Who were the Indo-Europeans? Were they all-conquering heroes? Aggressive patriarchal Kurgan horsemen, sweeping aside the peaceful civilizations of Old Europe? Weed-smoking drug dealers rolling across … Visit New…
Goodbye…Hello (2005)
Some thoughtful commentary on job hunting by Amy Santee, a UX researcher based in USA provoked me to dig out this blog post from 2005. I wrote it…
How I survived 4 job searches in 4 years
Since finishing grad school in 2011, I’ve been unemployed (or underemployed) and looking for a job on four separate occasions, including after graduating, moving, quitting, and my latest…
Bimfahrer und Bezeichnungsmacht
Liebe Frau Dusl, bei allem Verständnis für den Wunsch des Lesers, politisch korrekte Bezeichnungen zu verwenden: herzlichen Dank für Ihre erhellenden Gegenfragen in “Bimfahrer und Bezeichnungsma…
Coffee rituals and resistance to domination
Remember resistance to domination? This was a very popular theme in cultural studies in the late ’90s and early ’00s. Eventually it reached a saturation point where, like…
Kinship has consequences: Ben Affleck not so different from British Bangladeshis
By Sean Carey Hollywood star Ben Affleck’s attempt to suppress a story about a slave-owning ancestor of his has caused something of a furore, especially in the U.S.…
Birth, Death, and Fictive Citizenship: Citizenship and Political Agency in War-Torn Ukraine
The Editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome Greta Uehling for the latest in our continuing Forum, What’s Going on in Ukraine? As the war in Eastern Ukraine…
Ahoy! Intern Updates from the Naval History and Heritage Command
Updates from the Naval History and Heritage Command Ahoy! (No one at Naval History and Heritage Command actually says that, but I like to.) This week has been…
The Anger of Athens
The daily life of Greeks in crisis For the past 10 days I have been staying in Athens to contribute to a summer school in Visual Ethnography at…
The Anger of Athens
The daily life of Greeks in crisis For the past 10 days I have been staying in Athens to contribute to a summer school in Visual Ethnography at…
NEW! — Ida Susser: An interview with Vicente Navarro
From the underground resistance under Franco to Podemos Vicente Navarro is a leading analyst of the history and origins of the financial crisis in Spain (and Europe in…
anthro in the news 7/20/15
Trending: #BoycottGermany BBC News carried an article about the social media buzz on boycotting German products in protest of its position on Greece. #BoycottGermany was first mentioned on…
Links & Contents I Liked 151
Hi all, This week’s regular link review (after last week’s ‘anniversary post’) focuses on the core themes of the blog, development, humanitarian and philanthropical topics. We start with a…
Designing for the Future at Giant Mine
How do you communicate permanent pollution and toxicity to future generations? We held workshops with community members in Yellowknife and Dettah to make models about they would communicate…
Article Alert! Place and Defilement Signposts Toward a New Theory of Purity in Sibley’s Geographies of Exclusion
Even if Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger is the keystone text of Discard Studies, there are few scholars who work to extend, nuance, or contest the theory that…
Breaking walls and exploring #borders in the context of #postsocialism
Today we are very excited at Allegra – we continue our experimentation with serving you, dear readers, exotic and delicious slow food for thought. This time we created…
Around the Web Digest: Week of July 12
It was my birthday weekend, so I’ll just say “Here are some blogs. Enjoy!” Send me anything you’ve written or read at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. The blog Sex and Psycholo…