Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Is an academic boycott effective?
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present this final essay in a series dedicated to the issue of the boycott. Previous essays by…
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good. So it…
Creating In/Abilities for Eating by Dikaios Sakellariou
I am lying in bed. It is 4 am. The TV is flickering. I am listening for it, I am waiting for it. Next to me a gentle…
Unravelling Goliath
The editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Christopher Gaffney with a commentary on the current crisis at FIFA and its implications “Unfair Players” Photo by Christopher Gaffney CC BY-NC-PSA 4….
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
CFP: Dirty business: economies of the used, the used up, and the useless // SES 2015
Our panel for the annual meeting of the Swiss Ethnological Society will be structured around three questions: What paths do discards take? What factors and mechanisms account for…
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.
The limits of naivety for the study of money
What would happen if anthropologists, for some limited purposes, abolished the division between academic writing and journalism that Mauss himself observed and that has prevented us from grasping…
REDUX: 10 Tips for Surviving Fieldwork & Blogging! #Anthroadvice
Today’s post was originally published on June 3rd, 2014, as part of last summer’s fieldwork thread. Next week we’re sharing some of the fruits of our recent call…
Allison Truitt, “Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City”
There’s a lot more to money than its exchange value, as Allison Truitt reveals in her smartly written and lively study, Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh…
Eat, sleep, anth, repeat: It begins
Sunglasses in the darkness. White shorts, no shirt. Perspiration shining on his skin in the wild, flashing lights. A familiar-looking backpack on his shoulders, strapped over his muscular…
Around the Web Digest: Week of June 7
I love when good online content finds me! Keep submitting links to me at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com and I’m happy to feature them on here. The title of this Washington…
Anthro in the news 6/15/15
Obama’s Trans-Pacific trade agreement may be tanking KFOXTV (El Paso, Texas) commented on the defeat in the U.S. House of Representatives of President Barack Obama’s global trade agenda.…
Manufacturing consent
Examples how many of us are complicit in our subordination and domination by neoliberal power… Patricia Hill Collins is a professor of Sociology who many argue has published…
Isabelle Stengers’ Constructivist Reading of Whitehead’s Process & Reality
Originally posted on synthetic zero: http://t3h.hfk-bremen.de/papers/Stengers%20-%20Constructivist%20Reading.pdf and from friend of the blog and source of knowledge-ecology.com View original
Proportional Map of the World’s Largest Languages
Proportional Map of the World’s Largest Languages: anthropologydaily: There are 7 billion people on earth and about 7000 languages, but more than half of the world’s population speaks…
“The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist…”
“The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong.”…