We live in fearful times. Many people seem to be afraid of almost everything–sharks, contaminated foods, polluted water, heat waves, droughts, floods, tsunamis, rising ocean levels, financial collap…
Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Portland, Oregon for the very first time and take an unexpected “side trip” about 90 minutes north to a…
Perhaps our deepest fears are those associated with illness, contagion, and death. No one embraces illness, especially chronic
Politics rules the news cycle on Islam and the Middle East. Given the colonial history of the region, there have been numerous puppet leaders installed or allowed to…
My soundscape composition Sublime-sound-of-the-one-hand [Ryōan-ji] sounds out the acoustic ecology of the “quintessential … karesansui dry landscape garden” (UNESCO 1993: 41) Or, put another way, to …
Caterina Pasqualino is an anthropologist whose research within the realm of Gypsy flamenco for the past twenty years has culminated in her seminal book Flamenco Gitan. Her interest…
My engagement with the ideas and practices of fieldwork stems from my interest in anthropology and the classification of human “types” through the “science” of anthropometry in the…
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF CA-DDRIG) is coming up on August 17th.* …
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
While conducting ethnographic fieldwork on indigenous political organizing in northwest Guatemala in the mid 2000s, I encountered, quite by accident, an apparent epidemic of Bell’s Palsy—an illness in…
Kia ora! Long time no see. We thought we would kick off a new round of blog posts with one of our most popular features ‘anthropology… what kind…
Happy August readers! Welcome to a month so great they stole a day from another month to make it longer. Let me know about anything cool I should…
Professor Margaret Lock has published an exhaustive ethnography of Alzheimer disease research in her latest book, The Alzheimer Conundrum. I recently reviewed this book for The Australian Journal of…
I was looking in Blackwell's bookshop the other day – the big famous bookshop on Broad Street in Oxford – and I came across The Indo-European Controversy…
My book group (I say with inner pleasure at finally belonging to one) usually decide on books to read for the coming months by asking for suggestions from…
This Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD) consists of a collection of books, journals and maps related broadly to the Himalayas and its outlying attached ranges including…