You may have noticed the Anthsisters have been very quiet lately.. spending all our time writing and finishing our Master’s thesis’ hasn’t left much time for blogging! However,…
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
AAA will be co-hosting two panels at the IV Congress on Latin American Anthropology on October 7-10, 2015 in Mexico City, Mexico. The panels are: Public Space Symposium/Simposio…
Hi all, Welcome back from the Easter break that most of you enjoyed in one way or another! There are quite a lot of Development news items this…
As more and more great reviews come in for J.’s latest installment of his aid work(er) romance novel, I am pleased to share some of my reflections on…
Ein Zyklon fegt durch den Pazifik und zerstört die Lebensgrundlage von einigen pazifischen Inselstaaten. Hula-Tänzerinnen besuchen im Gedenken an den hawai’ianischen König Kalakaua Wien und tanzen im …
There's a difference between technologies that seek to augment versus those that seek to replicate or replace human processes. Kārlis Dambrāns I think I have successfully talked my…
There's a difference between technologies that seek to augment versus those that seek to replicate or replace human processes. Kārlis Dambrāns I think I have successfully talked my…
Presenting another installment of a collection of most-highly-recommended articles, websites and ideas that shaped my thinking throughout the past few weeks (recently renamed from “What I’…
Attempting to bring emerging systemic dangers to our attention, Sassen documents the edges of expulsion and extreme cases of devastation through a series of well-researched c…
Whose side are we on? “Whose side are we on?” is a famous and pertinent question asked of social science research by sociologist Harold Becker in a 1967…
In 1994 Dutch TV host Anil Ramdas (1958-2012) interviewed Benedict Anderson who wrote Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London, New York: Verso, 1983,…
As with most things in a narcissistic anthropologists life, our emerging passions become contextual obsessions of sorts. We believe that if we have an affinity for something, then…
I am so sorry to be a day late making this announcement, but I want to share with you the exciting news of my new appointment as the…
Where is here exactly? Here is a tired, eye-roll inducing pseudo-holiday that we endure with a grimace every year. Hopefully you have room for one more article about…
The correct and inevitable guilty verdict in the sad case of the “Atlanta Cheating Scandal” is a reminder that the current system of high-stakes testing drives all particip…
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Alice Waters opened her restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971. Steve Jobs started selling his Apple I computer in 1976. From these beginnings, and in a relatively brief period,…