The new AnthroSource is fantastic! Here’s why I won’t be using it.
I haven’t yet seen any official announcement from the AAA about the change,1 but if you now click on the “Login to use AnthroSource now” link from the…
Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria by Darja Djordjevic
AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria. University of Chicago Press, 2014, 208 pages In Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face:…
Anthropology and the Representation of Migrations from Afghanistan
by M. Jamil Hanafi [This is a paper that was originally published under the title of “Anthropology and the Representation of Recent Migrations from Afghanistan,” as it appeared…
Ebola: demanding accountability and mobilizing societies to avoid a deadly relapse
The enduring Ebola epidemic has taught the world some hard lessons over the last 12 months, which we must take to heart. Despite early warnings, and the extraordinary…
The Art of Being IN: Road tripping, photographing and hanging out in post-soviet Russia #INTERVIEW
Yesterday we opened the AVMoFA’s first summer exhibition – Die SommerWende – and today we are very pleased to meet the artist, Axel Schön, in person and talk…
Design Ethnography in the Anthropocene
It’s the second week of winter trimester, and I’m teaching my second-year undergraduate course in Design Ethnography. The theme this year is the Anthropocene, or how design relates…
Vale Jack Goody
Keith Hart recently announced on social media that Jack Goody passed away. He was just a few days before his 96th birthday. Goody had a long and productive life and…
Interview With Reem Abou El-Fadl About “Revolutionary Egypt”
I have a chapter in this new book on the Egyptian revolution. “there is the responsibility that comes with any social science study, particularly in an area fraught…
VISUAL TURN III: Anthropology of/by Design — An Interview with Keith M. Murphy
Encounters with art and design by an anthropologist and curious non-expert in visual culture. Since starting to work alongside an artist and a designer, I’ve become more aware…
Funded MA & PhD positions in Participatory Citizen Science, Marine Plastics, and Action-based Research
We are spearheading an interdisciplinary project that looks at research methodologies and ethics in a permanently polluted world. We will be focusing on developing methodologies for participatory cit…
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…