Memes: The internet’s moral police
On the face of it memes and religion would seem unlikely bedfellows, or even worthy of mention in the same discussion. Religions come to us from centuries of…
Oradour-sur-Glane: Remembering Terror
A Visual Essay. Text and photos by Álvaro Minguito Palomares Oradour-sur-Glane is a symbol of the misfortunes of the Nation. It is important to preserve this memory, so…
Thinking with Bats, Forests and the Cosmos
Thomas Nagel. 2012. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. New York: Oxford University Press. 128 pages. Eduardo Kohn. 2013. How…
Rice and Beans: How Does Culture Become Generic?
About Rice and Beans: Following recent discussions on food here on Anthropology in Practice, this week I’ll feature a four part series that explores the ways immigrant groups…
2015 Photo Contest Starts!
The AAA Photo Contest returns again this year, and submission are open to all active AAA members, submit here! “By the End of a Day” from Ming Xue,…
Anthropological Horizons: An Interview with Series Editor Michael Lambek
In addition to all of the work we do in the Higher Education Division of University of Toronto Press to publish materials for undergraduate anthropology students—especially the Teaching…
Is Weibo on the way out? For some in China, it was never in.
Weibo: share your thoughts with the world (assuming, of course, you actually want to). Photo: bfishadow (CC BY 2.0) I read with interest Celia Hatton’s BBC News article published…
DER MENSCHLICHE MAKEL
Medien schüren Vorurteile. Das wird ihnen zumindest vorgeworfen. Aber stimmt das wirklich? Der Kommunikationswissenschaftler Christian Schemer hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, das Phänomen zu erforsch…
Jilted…
In Zasulauks neighborhood In Lady Baiba’s living room a flimsy photo hangs on the wall of a large companion on Candera street. She never misses the chance to…
Eben Kirksey, “The Multispecies Salon”
Eben Kirksey‘s wonderful new volume is an inspiring introduction to a kind of multispecies ethnography where artists, anthropologists, and others collaborate to create objects and experiences of great……
Motherly Advice from an 82 Year-old Beer Lover
The original post for this article can be found here: http://www.letsgraba.beer/post/118477180588/motherly-advice-from-an-82-year-old-beer-lover, a Tumblr page dedicated to the love of beer. I have …
The payday loan crisis
My latest article for the Guardian is on the explosion of payday lending, which is a huge problem in Missouri and in the U.S. in general: I am…
Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases
A very interesting new article: “Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases” by Brent Strickland, Carl…
Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol, A Dialogue
End of the freight tracks, Connellsville, PA. From left to right: Brendan O’Byrne, Guillermo Cervera, Sebastian Junger and Rudy Valdez. Photo by Mariah Rehmet, courtesy of HBO. War…
The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stockpile of Keystone XL pipes near Buffalo, South Dakota. Photo by David Bond. Politics makes visible that which had no reason to be seen. —Jacques Rancière Whether ultimately…
April 2015
Volume 7 / Issue 1 / April 2015 This issue includes: Features Solidarity and Resistance on the Island of Llingua by Anton Daughters Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol:…
Identity and Meaning in Derby Hats
Last Saturday over 170,000 people descended on Churchill Downs for the 141st Kentucky Derby. The Derby is the first of three races that comprise the American Triple Crown…
The 2015 British election and the UK’s creeping constitutional crisis
In the late 90s I met the US ambassador in Paris. He asked what Tony Blair was going to do with the pound/euro issue. I said the question…
Jeffrey Sachs-The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid (book review)
As the recent long interview of Jeffrey Sachs by Tyler Cowen confirmed, Sachs remains one of the most visible, discussed and engaging thinkers of international development. Japhy Wilson’s…
VOLL ETHNO – MEHR ALS HAREMSHOSEN, FEDERSCHMUCK UND PANFLÖTENMUSIK
Der Begriff „Ethno“ steht ja für vieles. Und zwar für vieles, das die Wissenschaft, die sich dahinter verbirgt, in einem wirklich fragwürdigen Licht erscheinen lässt. Da werden die Studierenden…
Open Access Articles from the American Anthropological Association
The AAA has decided to feature the “most-discussed” articles (as measured by Altmetrics) from Anthrosource by making them temporarily open-access. Among these are several articles that mi…
The Andijon Massacre: Ten years later
May 13, 2015 will mark the ten-year anniversary of the Andijon massacre: the day military troops in Uzbekistan shot and killed over 700 Uzbek citizens gathered at a…
Webinar Wednesday with Larissa Sandy: Sex Work in Cambodia
Hello anthropology enthusiasts! Our next webinar, with Larissa Sandy, will be the last scheduled before we take a break for the summer. In it we’ll be exploring the…