Thinking in an Emergency Or, Free Tents as a Cautionary Tale
The seduction against thinking in an emergency comes, as we have seen, from two sources: first, from a false opposition between thinking and acting; second, from a plausible…
Resolations 2015
“Film can rescue anthropology and deliver it from its confines.” The introduction from film-maker Hugh Brody to this year’s screening of ethnographic projects made by the…
REDUX: What does Humanity look like? Ethnography of the CIA – with Carole McGranahan
It has been a while since I have last encountered her – I wonder if I will still recognize her. Sure, she could disguise herself, to become instantly…
The Rules that Rachel Broke
If you have spent time on any social networking or news websites over the past week, in all likelihood you will already know that the Rachel referred to…
I Will Not Call Her Name: An Ethno-poem on Racial and Gendered Violence
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this ethno-poem by L. Kaifa Roland who is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Kaifa is the author…
Race and Rachel Dolezal: A Conversation with Patricia Sunderland
Recent news surrounding Rachel Dolezal has led to quite the discussion on race. Our associates at the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) pointed us to an article (‘You May…
Conference Report: Global Policing at Oxford
Conference on Global Policing, Oxford UK (23 and 24 April 2015) Recently several of us here at Anthropoliteia were able to participate in a conference organized by Ian…
Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si
Pope Francis’ encyclical, released today, has been the most anticipated papal encyclical in decades. I’ll return to it soon, but for now I’ve copied an excerpt below. It…
How did we choose our field sites?
Our project field site locations A question we are often asked is how we selected our field sites for the project. Why these nine sites? Why are there…
Pt I, Companion animals (and belonging)
I’ve started pulling together my paper for the Losing Ground – Gaining Ground session at the RGS Conference in Exeter in September, where I’ll be presenting on what…
Who benefits from the ‘internet space race’?
In the film Elysium, the ultra-rich have left an apocalyptic Earth ravaged by global warming and overpopulation. Their utopian colony orbits high above Earth which festers below. Science…
#REVIEW: Food Between the Country and the City
I welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books, Raymond Williams’The Country and the City. Williams…
Field Notes: This data collection is interfering with my dancing.
The following is a selection of some of the more entertaining notes from my first official field research night. (The last post was a preliminary getting-a-feel-for-things outing.) I…
Calling all Anthropology Students!
The cover of Volume 1 Issue 1, the first issue of Anthropozine. Anthropology students, let your voice be heard! Anthropology Now wants to publish your work in its…
Spreading Alerts in Egypt and Elsewhere
When people keep getting warnings but nothing ever happens… they just start ignoring them. One of the interesting things about living as an expatriate in Egypt and India…
Irina Sirotkina’s Shestoe chuvstvo avangarda: Tanets, dvizhenie, kinesteziia v zhizni poetov i khudozhnikov by Michael Gordin
Shestoe chuvstvo avangarda: Tanets, dvizhenie, kinesteziia v zhizni poetov i khudozhnikov By Irina Sirotkina Izd. Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2014, 280 pages There are few topics i…
A book of unfinished theories 2015-06-17 11:24:00
I’m no longer updating this blog. But please look at these new works by me that deal with Egypt in the time of revolution and counter-revolution: – Buy…
A book of unfinished theories 2015-06-17 10:24:00
I’m no longer updating this blog. But please look at these new works by me that deal with Egypt in the time of revolution and counter-revolution: – Buy…
REDUX: Going Native at Home – Explorations in Method- and note-ology #FIELDWORK
I’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the Connecticut River, in the shadow of Mt. Ascutney.…
Defeating Da’ash
Check out the blog post by Eric Davis of Rutgers University on the need to take out Da’ash now.
Thinking about race like a cataloger
In librarian parlance entities, whether books or journal articles or whatever, can be said to have an “aboutness.” And as a cataloger its my job to describe that…
On Cameron Crowe’s Aloha and Indigenous Pacific Films We Actually Recommend
Still from Living Along the Fenceline (2011), directors Lina Hoshino & Gwyn Kirk By Hinemoana of Turtle Island: Lani Teves, Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams, Maile Arvin, Fuifuilupe Niumetol…