Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
I can’t imagine that the American people will soon follow the lead of the Afghans and elect an anthropologist to the presidency. But if we continue on the…
Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
The world is a mess. In the Middle East the rapid and powerful rise of ISIS has been a terrifying surprise. It certainly surprised officials in the United…
Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
I can’t imagine that the American people will soon follow the lead of the Afghans and elect an anthropologist to the presidency. But if we continue on the…
Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
I can’t imagine that the American people will soon follow the lead of the Afghans and elect an anthropologist to the presidency. But if we continue on the…
Barley Eaters or Potato Farmers
Are residents of Zumbagua parish barley-eaters or potato farmers? Does it matter? I wondered about this when I saw the difference between what men and women in Quilotoa, a…
Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
I can’t imagine that the American people will soon follow the lead of the Afghans and elect an anthropologist to the presidency. But if we continue on the…
Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
I can’t imagine that the American people will soon follow the lead of the Afghans and elect an anthropologist to the presidency. But if we continue on the…
Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
I can’t imagine that the American people will soon follow the lead of the Afghans and elect an anthropologist to the presidency. But if we continue on the…
Global Politics, Global Health and the Anthropological Moment
I can’t imagine that the American people will soon follow the lead of the Afghans and elect an anthropologist to the presidency. But if we continue on the…
[extended deadline] Berlin Symposium on Reciprocity and Social Cognition
The deadline for submissions to this symposium has been extended to November the 1st. A symposium on ‘Reciprocity and social cognition’ organized by Anna Strasser, Stephen Butterfill, Richard Moor…
Planning and writing a thesis with a table of contents
This is the time of year when our Masters students are starting to think about how they’re going to write their theses. It can be a daunting concept!…
Downsides to Thrift: Germans Saving Too Much Water
Germans need to flush their toilets more often, says Hans-Jürgen Leist, a scientist at the Ecolog Institute in Hanover, as quoted in a Wall Street Journal article. In…
“Fixing Culture”: The Case of Olive Garden
thenarcissisticanthropologist: A classic dilemma that so few corporations ever actually take the time to scope and solve. But there is an anthropologically-based solution possible here—starts wi…
Ferguson and the Founding of Sovereign Violence
The following is a post by one of our members, Mike Roller – a modified version of the talk he will present at the upcoming Public Anthropology Conference.…
Review: Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte.
Budka, P. 2014. Review of Hess, S., Moser, J. & M. Schwertl (eds.). Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2013; 332 pp. Anthropos, 109.2014/2: 694-…
The Visual Imperium
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
Love, Haters and Hipsters: The Irony of Being A Millennial
I have officially decided that I’ve spent too much time commenting on a recent Facebook thread started in the last day by fellow bloggers Eve Kerrigan, Rachel Gall and Anna Akbari,…
Public Anthropology – This Weekend!
This is just a reminder that we will be at the Public Anthropology Conference at American University this weekend to stir up some trouble and crack open the…
Special Episode: Police Militarization, Race, Trust, Violence and Ferguson, MO – This Anthro Life
Join Amy, Ryan, Aneil and Adam and special guest Delande Justinvil for an important episode of This Anthropological Life as we take head-on the complex issues of race…
Art Connects
The power of art, dance and song in empowering the education and social connection of young Trinidadians… How much do we really know about the youth of Trinidad…
Metrics: An Addendum on RAE / REF
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things: We have had overwhelming support from a wide range of academics for our paper on why metrics are inappropriate for assessing…
Neue Publikation
Svan village in the municipality of Tetritskaro (Kvemo Kartli) Voell, Stéphane, Natia Jalabadze, Lavrenti Janiashvili and Elke Kamm 2014. Identity and Traditional Law: Local Legal Conceptions in Svan…
When a sleepy fishing village becomes Brazil’s oil capital
40 years ago it was an insignificant fishing village, now Macaé is Brazil’s bustling oil capital. While the oil rush is widely celebrated, both the favelas of the…
Pentagon Photography and Visual Anthropology
Could it be any more obvious how the Pentagon has learned to mimic certain styles of anthropological photography as shown in the instance above? Resembling any of a…