Andrea Luka Zimmerman: Estates of being: Thoughts on the place of living and working
“Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense of that life, the…
NEW! — Martin Webb: Contemporary Indian anti-corruption movements and political aesthetics
To appreciate the role of aesthetics in politics, we might look to the recent resurgence of popular anti-corruption movements in India. In 2011 and 2012, mass protests by…
NEW! — Massimiliano Mollona: Ethnographic filmmaking and the political imagination: A review of “Desert People” by Ian Dunlop (1967)
In the opening sequences of Desert People (1967, 49 minutes, Australian National Film Board), we read, “This is a film on two families of the western Australian desert.”…
BRAND WITCHCRAFT: How brand partnerships can be toxic
A successful brand becomes part of the consumer’s culture and values, behaviour, attitudes and social identity. I recently spoke to the CMO of a well known global digital…
In the Journals – April 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. With winter…
Narrative captivity: Losing Orphan Black for want of a half-fan
I am a long standing fan of Orphan Black but this season they lost me. I tuned in for the opening episode of the new season, and it…
19. Freedoms and liberties in anthropological perspective
This is nineteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. Republished from St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. The Centre is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Liberties…
Albinos in Ostafrika
LerserInnenbrief von Heidi Weinhäupl und Anna-Sophie Tomancok an Herrn Obert, Magazin der Süddeutschen Zeitung: Sehr geehrte Redaktion des Süddeutschen-Magazins, Sehr geehrter Herr Michael Obert, Viel…
American Music. Listening with numbers
Thanks to Thomas Ball, I am looking at a wonderful article that uses big data to examine American music over 50 years. Here are a couple of excerpts.…
Re-doing the cycle: menstrual power protests and design
Menstrual art with raspberry syrup. Elizabeth Tunstall Imagine if men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods. Reads one of the sanitary pads Elone Kastrati…
Re-doing the cycle: menstrual power protests and design
Menstrual art with raspberry syrup. Elizabeth Tunstall Imagine if men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods. Reads one of the sanitary pads Elone Kastrati…
Ritu G. Khanduri, “Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World”
Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2014) is a wonderful piece of visual anthropology by Ritu Gairola Khanduri, which uses…
Announcing ethnoGRAPHIC: A New Series
Graphic Adventures in Anthropology This is the final post in a blog series called Graphic Adventures in Anthropology. For several weeks now, guest contributors have been writing about various…
Aligned Anxieties: Rethinking Critiques of the Internet through the Anxieties of Web Professionals
The following is a paper I gave at the 2015 Theorizing the Web Conference on April 18. Below you will find: my presentation with audio, the video of the…
NEW! — Susana Narotzky: Hope for Change: The Problem with Podemos
Podemos is hailed by many as the only hope in a Spanish landscape devastated by austerity. In the elections to the European parliament (2014), Podemos received 7.97 percent…
18. Political technologists and civil society
By Muzammil M. Hussain This is the eighteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. The following are some passages taken (with permission) from chapter 4 of Hussain, M.…
Why Katie Hopkins is so dangerous for development (journalism)
While I checked the #isoj (International Symposium on Online Journalism) and #ijf15 (International Journalism Festival) hashtags from time to time over the weekend for some interesting, inspiring conf…
Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
By Greg Downey. (5000 words) An Italian study in 2012 found that men’s penises were growing smaller over time — two centimetres lost from grandfather to grandson in…
The Corruption Complex
The cultural logics of corruption and how they can be found in T&T Writing about corruption from the petty to the massive in Africa, anthropologist Jean-Pierre Sardan proposed…
A Tale of Two Chins
Cell phones . . . couches . . . gyms and community centers . . . archaeologists of the future will unearth countless artifacts and buildings that will testify…
The Good Life: What Really Matters | Health and Wellness | Vanderbilt University
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE ON WELLCASTSTed Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why…
The Good Life: What Really Matters | Health and Wellness | Vanderbilt University
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE ON WELLCASTSTed Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why…