The fragile power of think tanks
Would you like to influence policies on climate change, oil drilling, war, and peace? More and more corporations and foreign governments are convinced that creating a think ta…
The fragile power of think tanks
Would you like to influence policies on climate change, oil drilling, war, and peace? More and more corporations and foreign governments are convinced that creating a think ta…
16. A letter from Jakarta
Many years ago, in 1987, I left Madrid and came to Jakarta to become a journalist. For about a year, I was a trainee at Tempo magazine and…
#TtW15 Abstract Post
I will be presenting at Theorizing the Web again this year! More information on this great conference: Theorizing the Web 2015. If you can’t make it, the conference…
‘Are Religion and Science in Conflict?’
Scientific investigation could have revealed that our universe is full of meaning and purpose. It could have told us that we are at the centre of the…
Ethnographic Practice within Public Health: Hierarchies of Evidence, the Political Economy of Practice and the Possibilities of Transdisciplinarity
Ruari-Santiago McBride The call for greater consideration to be paid to “slow research” in the field of “global health” (Adams et al. 2014) highlights the need for…
Seeing Beyond Prison Bars
One afternoon in 2014, my friend Mawardi and I were combatting the humid heat with cool, sugary, drinks at a cafe situated in a rice field on the…
The real message of advertising?
If the art of advertising (one of them anyhow) is closing the distance between the brand and the consumer, you can’t do much better than this. Do we…
Seeing Beyond Prison Bars
One afternoon in 2014, my friend Mawardi and I were combatting the humid heat with cool, sugary, drinks at a cafe situated in a rice field on the…
Recognizing Indigenous Pacific Struggles in the Lei at Selma
By Hinemoana of Turtle Island: Lani Teves, Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer, Fuifuilupe Niumetolu, Maile Arvin, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams Last week during the 50th year commemoratio…
Mukulika Banerjee, “ Why India Votes? “
Why India Votes? (Routledge, 2014) is the latest book by Mukulika Banerjee and is a deep, engaging and continually surprising account of elections in India. Weaving together ethnographic…
Good Mother Nature: Ayahuasca neoshamanism as cultural critique (conference video)
This paper imports nuances of nature-culture theory in Amazonian anthropology and demonstrates ways in which the reimagining of ayahuasca use in Australian society involves the modern idea of…
It’s True: We’re Probably All a Little Irish—Especially in the Caribbean
In the United States, it’s St. Patrick’s Day. This Irish national holiday celebrates Saint Patrick who is—potentially—the most recognizable of Irish saints, known for… — Re…
First Journey to Gunung Kidul
Gunung Kidul is the name of which means South Hills in Javanese. Gunung Kidul Regency is a regency in the southeast part of the province of Yogyakarta Special…
First Journey to Gunung Kidul
Gunung Kidul is the name of which means South Hills in Javanese. Gunung Kidul Regency is a regency in the southeast part of the province of Yogyakarta Special…
First Journey to Gunung Kidul
Gunung Kidul is the name of which means South Hills in Javanese. Gunung Kidul Regency is a regency in the southeast part of the province of Yogyakarta Special…
First Journey to Gunung Kidul
Gunung Kidul is the name of which means South Hills in Javanese. Gunung Kidul Regency is a regency in the southeast part of the province of Yogyakarta Special…
How many TV sets do you have—and why does it matter?
In the early nineties, researchers predicted that at the current rate of growth, there would be two televisions per US household by 1995. It’s probably safe to say…
Transience and immigration in the Svalbard Archipelago
ArcticAnthropology is proud to present a guest blog from Ben Corwin on life, migration and relation to the environment on one of the Arctic’s northernmost human settlements: Svalbard.…
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Hi all, New week, fresh linkage! ‘Yoga is helping to end poverty in Africa‘-you, I & Jeff Sachs knew it all along! But there are better stories from…
15. Location technologists: the politics of digital media in a ‘special region’ of Indonesia
Chapter proposal to Location Technologies in International Context, Rowan Wilken (Swinburne Uni of Tech), Gerard Goggin (U of Sydney) & Heather Horst (RMIT), eds. John Postill RMIT University…
The Happiness Scam
The happiness industry, positive psychology and dead-end jobs. How happiness became a scam to hide social inequality and a global economy on a road to destruction Whether it’s…
Anthropology for economists
Do economists read anthropology? Certainly David Graeber’s and Gillian Tett’s books have gained traction. Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” ranks at #19 in Amazon&…