Keeping My Doula Mouth Shut
Recently I feel as if everyone around me is getting pregnant. It started a few years ago and was just a trickle on my facebook page. Now it…
Keeping My Doula Mouth Shut
Recently I feel as if everyone around me is getting pregnant. It started a few years ago and was just a trickle on my facebook page. Now it…
A dangerous struggle for land rights and progress in the rainforest
Even deep in the Amazon jungle people feel the consequences of global economic policies. In Peru, Margrethe Steinert is studying how the Asháninka indigenous peopl…
"Money in the Making of World Society" Conference Proceedings
Photo credit: Polina Gioltzoglou
Upward Allegory: Yertle the Turtle
“That plain little turtle below in the stack, That plain little turtle whose name was just Mack That plain little turtle did a plain little thing He burped…
Cora Gäbel – Sambalpur University, Odisha
Der erste Monat meines (leider) nur zweimonatigen Aufenthaltes an der Sambalpur University in Odisha ist nun vergangen. Meine Reise begann in Frankfurt mit einer erfreulichen (und kostenlosen) Umbuchu…
Cora Gäbel – Sambalpur University, Odisha
Der erste Monat meines (leider) nur zweimonatigen Aufenthaltes an der Sambalpur University in Odisha ist nun vergangen. Meine Reise begann in Frankfurt mit einer erfreulichen (und kostenlosen) Umbuchu…
Cora Gäbel – Sambalpur University, Odisha
Der erste Monat meines (leider) nur zweimonatigen Aufenthaltes an der Sambalpur University in Odisha ist nun vergangen. Meine Reise begann in Frankfurt mit einer erfreulichen (und kostenlosen) Umbuchu…
Cora Gäbel – Sambalpur University, Odisha
Der erste Monat meines (leider) nur zweimonatigen Aufenthaltes an der Sambalpur University in Odisha ist nun vergangen. Meine Reise begann in Frankfurt mit einer erfreulichen (und kostenlosen) Umbuchu…
Still Holding Out for a Second Opinion: Carlos’s Story II
Back in March, I started a DNA experiment with five friends. I invited each of them to take a genetic ‘ancestry’ test – something that most of them had barely heard…
Katherine Frank, “Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex”
Dr. Katherine Frank‘s book, Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013), is a fascinating look at the taboo of group…
beyond cyberpunk revisited
Back in August 2006 here at xirdalium I wrote ↵an entry [worthwhile, lots of associations] on Gareth Branwyn’s and Peter Sugarman’s 1991 HyperCard classic ‘↑Beyond cyberpu…
Scotland and Tobago
Scotland’s vote for Independence and its implications for Tobago On Thursday, Scotland goes to the polls in a referendum on Independence from the United Kingdom. At the time…
Ruth Finnegan, “Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Communication”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] The name of the New Books in Language channel might hint at a disciplinary bias towards “language”. So in some sense Ruth Finnegan‘s Communicating: the…
10 years antropologi.info and what about the future?
Although it was ten years ago I started this blog and anthropology portal, I am not sure if there is something to celebrate. The website has been more…
10 years antropologi.info and what about the future?
Although it was ten years ago I started this blog and anthropology portal, I am not sure if there is something to celebrate. The website has been more…
digital china on cyberanthropology
Well, here it is—to my knowledge the first ↑English-language review of my book ‘Cyberanthropology’ (2011) [which is in German]. ↑Annika Pissin of Lunds Universitet’s project ↑Digital…
‘Anti-social networking’ site Pencourage: ‘Antidote’ to polished Facebook profiles?
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
‘Anti-social networking’ site Pencourage: ‘Antidote’ to polished Facebook profiles?
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
‘Anti-social networking’ site Pencourage: ‘Antidote’ to polished Facebook profiles?
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
‘Anti-social networking’ site Pencourage: ‘Antidote’ to polished Facebook profiles?
I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site Pencourage. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the ‘real-life Facebook’…
A Letter From the Underground of The Castle
As another academic year begins The Castle’s shadow is bringing more and more Kafkaesque darkness to university campuses. That shadow continues to transform our places of higher learning…
A Letter From the Underground of The Castle
As another academic year begins The Castle’s shadow is bringing more and more Kafkaesque darkness to university campuses. That shadow continues to transform our places of higher learning…