The limits of naivety for the study of money
What would happen if anthropologists, for some limited purposes, abolished the division between academic writing and journalism that Mauss himself observed and that has prevented us from grasping…
REDUX: 10 Tips for Surviving Fieldwork & Blogging! #Anthroadvice
Today’s post was originally published on June 3rd, 2014, as part of last summer’s fieldwork thread. Next week we’re sharing some of the fruits of our recent call…
Allison Truitt, “Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City”
There’s a lot more to money than its exchange value, as Allison Truitt reveals in her smartly written and lively study, Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh…
Eat, sleep, anth, repeat: It begins
Sunglasses in the darkness. White shorts, no shirt. Perspiration shining on his skin in the wild, flashing lights. A familiar-looking backpack on his shoulders, strapped over his muscular…
Around the Web Digest: Week of June 7
I love when good online content finds me! Keep submitting links to me at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com and I’m happy to feature them on here. The title of this Washington…
Anthro in the news 6/15/15
Obama’s Trans-Pacific trade agreement may be tanking KFOXTV (El Paso, Texas) commented on the defeat in the U.S. House of Representatives of President Barack Obama’s global trade agenda.…
Manufacturing consent
Examples how many of us are complicit in our subordination and domination by neoliberal power… Patricia Hill Collins is a professor of Sociology who many argue has published…
Isabelle Stengers’ Constructivist Reading of Whitehead’s Process & Reality
Originally posted on synthetic zero: http://t3h.hfk-bremen.de/papers/Stengers%20-%20Constructivist%20Reading.pdf and from friend of the blog and source of knowledge-ecology.com View original
Proportional Map of the World’s Largest Languages
Proportional Map of the World’s Largest Languages: anthropologydaily: There are 7 billion people on earth and about 7000 languages, but more than half of the world’s population speaks…
“The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist…”
“The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong.”…
En planlagt samtidsruin?
Utsikt til øya Longva. Fantastiske dager på en fantastisk øy nordvest for Ålesund. Var (tilbake) på seminar om kyr. Og om fjøset, som samtidsruin. Ordet «samtidsruin» er fint,…
Trikk og klima
Jeg liker ikke trikker som kjører på stålhjul i byen. I hvert fall ikke Oslotrikken. Vi hadde hatt det så mye bedre hvis vi hadde satt gummihjul på…
If faith comes from Yemen…
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Ethics (etc) in a box: How a disinfectant spray became my friend and ally by Courtney Addison
Fieldnotes The box is white, and adorned with a rectangular red button about half the size of my palm. White is clean, sterile, new. Red is alarm, is…
New M.A. programme Arctic anthropology! / Магистерская программа Арктическая антропология
Svetlana Zhavoronok. Important resources for Arctic people The European University in St Petersburg launches a new masters programme on northern Anthropology! The Programme is coordinated by Nikolay V…
Call for Reviews: Recent Publications on the #Anthrostate
The last two weeks here at Allegra have been dedicated to all things #Anthrostate. To continue the theme, we have handpicked some of our favourite new releases in the…
“There is no world.” The troubled imagination of a hipster band
In 2013 I moved to Riga, Latvia for an entire year to teach and proceed in a self-constructed ethnographic project. At times dreams came true, yes, they did,…
Foreign Hands Duking It Out Over Democracy In Egypt (and Elsewhere)
Of course “foreign hands” seek to influence Egyptian politics. The question is: are they succeeding? Yes but not always the ways they want to, suggests a series of…
21. Review of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2014. 464 pp. John Postill RMIT University Melbourne, 12 June 2015 forthcoming, Americ…
Context Matters When It Comes to Travel Time
People will often feel that the return trip covering the same geographical distance requires less time to complete. It doesn’t. When all factors are equalized–same distance, traveling… —…
The World as it is and the world as it wants to be #HumanRights
This Thursday, Allegra TV gives you a recent talk by Mark Goodale held at the University of Copenhagen on May 7, 2015. This talk uses insights from the anthropology…
Occasional Paper 5: Mr Coperthwaite – a life in the Maine Woods
Anna Grimshaw, Emory University In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to…
CFP: Envirotechnical Histories of Waste Management — ASEH 2016, Seattle
The papers in this panel will approach and explore solid waste management histories as enviro-technical systems riddled with political, social, economic, and identity questions.