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…
Voltaire on Tolerance
The author of Candide knew that this was not the best of all possible worlds. But Voltaire has sound advice about the importance of tolerance, written over two…
In the Journals, July 2015—Part I by Jason Alley
Here is the first of two postings for this month’s “In the Journals,” featuring a lively collection of summer articles. Happy reading/browsing/downloading! Science, Technolog…
Sorry to bother, but what is the difference between social and cultural anthropology? Is mythology/religion/folklore included in either of them? At what point is something established as a culture?
Hello there. There may be other attitudes to this, but actually the main difference between the two is their origins. Cultural anthropology originated in North America, while Social…
Image + Text – a new series by Juliet McMullin
from Judith Vanistendael, When David Lost His Voice. (London: Self Made Hero Press, 2012). Comics and graphic narratives have grown in popularity over the past few decades, not…
The Many Roles of Popular Culture in Therapy
By Peter Olthoff As many therapists will tell you, if you cannot build rapport with the client, if you cannot establish a solid therapeutic relationship, then you simply…
Grote demonstratie voor het Griekse parlementsgebouw
Van onze correspondent uit Athene Op de avond van de dag dat Griekenland met de overige EU landen een akkoord sloot over nieuwe leningen in ruil voor vergaande…
“42 steps.” SMS poetry from the school corridor
In October 2014 I joined a school project that was about emphasizing the importance of poetry. Different student groups undertook the opportunity to reinterpret traditional poems via videos…
What the German government thinks a “Strategic Partnership for a ‘Digital Africa’” should look like
It was coincidence that the #HackingTeam story broke while I was drafting this post.In one way, these two posts are very much unrelated, but in other ways there…
No Judgments: Fieldwork on the Spectrum by Faye Ginsburg
Spectrum:a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence. (Dictionary.com) The presence of disabili…
State of the art research on social behavior
In Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2015, 3, a really useful open access collection of review papers on state of the art research on social behavior edited by…
Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography (book review)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen. 2015. Fredrick Barth: An Intellectual Biography. London: Pluto Press. Thomas Hylland Eriksen has a well-earned reputation for writing good, short books on large, intractable to…