Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Officially a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator
It is official – I passed my Lamaze exam and am now a certified childbirth educator! I wrote a couple of months ago about why I did my…
Fabulous Art from Abandoned Flip-flops
Cleaning up beach waste in the form of abandoned rubber flip-flops . . . recycling landfill-able castoffs . . . training low-income men and women in job skills and…
A tale of two signs — and two cities
My latest for the Guardian is on the “Black Lives Matter” and “We Must Stop Killing Each Other” signs that are planted on lawns throughout the St. Louis metropolitan…
Budapest Conference on Cognitive Development
The Cognitive Development Center at the Central European University is pleased to announce the fifth annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development in Budapest, Hungary (J…
Links & Contents I Liked 147
Hi all, As our academic term is approaching its grande finale with 15 MA thesis examinations and a great seminar my link review is a bit shorter and…
Introducing New Team Members
Name Tags by EmDashPaperCo on Etsy By Marie-Pierre Renaud I want to introduce you to some of our team members you may not know yet, but who’s work…
The bookCASE: Introduction by Emily Yates-Doerr
This post is an introduction to our new series, The Ethnographic Case. We launch this series with a question: What is an ethnographic case? As ethnography is a…
Tristes Tropiques: Revisited
When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that time, I spoke absolutely no Portuguese but…
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment…”
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder at that which one would not have been able to guess.” –…
Anthro in the news 6/1/15
Not funny In an article in the Huffington Post, Christa Craven, assistant professor of anthropology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and chair of women’s, gender, and sexualit…
Caribbean military encounters
How the relationship between the Caribbean and foreign military forces in the 20th century had many different incarnations and forms, and left lasting legacies… The Caribbean Studies Ass…
theticklishpear: Remember how I said in this past series (Let’s…
theticklishpear: Remember how I said in this past series (Let’s Talk About: Culture) that everything you write is culture? I was serious.
Open Access to Middle East Journals and Newspapers
For anyone doing research on the Middle East for the past two centuries, there is an incredible archive online. Details below: Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers…
TGA’s 200th Post!
By Marie-Pierre Renaud Just like Stargate SG-1, we’ve finally reached the 200th mark! Of course, we don’t have as much budget as MGM did when there were producing SG-1,…
A Welcome of Tears, and Farewell to Chief Mro’ô
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
A Welcome of Tears, and Farewell to Chief Mro’ô
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
A Welcome of Tears, and Farewell to Chief Mro’ô
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
A Welcome of Tears, and Farewell to Chief Mro’ô
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
“Falling Up” – Genre-busting Digital Ethnography
Every spring my Digital Ethnography students move into the Meadowlark Hills Continuing Care Retirement Community and immerse themselves in the lives and memories of their new neighbors. This…
In the Journals – May 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of journal publications on security, crime, law enforcement and the state. As many are skirting dangerously close to the…
Recordkeeping, Part I: How I got into Anthropology
I am currently drafting a chapter on the purpose of and problems with community studies. It is for a volume being put together by the anthropologists Billie Jean…