Tourism hinders organic farming
Corsica is perfectly suited for organic farming. But the growing tourism industry has turned arable land into housing estates. Young people are unsuccessfully looking for farm…
German Lessons
Not so long ago Germany served as a cautionary example for the Anglo-American economies. After the success of the post-war economic mirac…
Helene Snee, “A Cosmopolitan Journey?: Difference, Distinction and Identity Work in Gap Year Travel”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Critical Theory] Helene Snee, a researcher at the University of Manchester, has written an excellent new book that should be essential reading for anyone…
Helene Snee, “A Cosmopolitan Journey: Difference, Distinction and Identity Work in Gap Year Travel” (Ashgate, 2014)
Helene Snee, a researcher at the University of Manchester, has written an excellent new book that should be essential reading for anyone interested in the modern world. The…
The Unequal Distribution of Inequality: Lessons from South Africa
By Tijo Salverda As I have already pointed out in an earlier piece in this blog, growing inequality has become a major issue of concern around the world.…
Julia Sallabank, “Attitudes to Endangered Languages: Identities and Policies”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Language] As linguists, we’re wont to get protective about languages, whether we see them as data points in a typological analysis or a mass…
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
Ebola Emissions
On August 6, CNN projected a map of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, in which the Republic of Niger, a sparsely populated impoverished nation where there are…
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
The so-called language gap
Thirty million words. That sounds precise….enormous….impressive. That is the estimate by some scholars of the difference in words heard by disadvantaged kids in comparison to kids with advantages….
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
Ebola Emissions
The coverage of the Ebola outbreak is a window into how ill-informed we are about disease, geography and culture. It reinforces stereotypes of Africa as a “country,” in…
Has a decimal point error misled millions into believing that spinach is a good source of iron?
A great cultural epidemiology story by Ole Bjørn Rekdal, “Academic urban legends,” in Social Studies of Science (2014, 44(4)) freely available here Abstract: Many of the me…
School Is War, Prison, Factory, Machine, Business, Game, Life….And Other Metaphors: recommending Permaculture
If metaphors organize our thinking and if there is no genuinely neutral way of speaking about anything, then it is worth looking into the dominant metaphors used. School is a domai…
Brazil’s Middle Class and the Price of Coffee in New York
It looks like Brazil will surpass the U.S. this year as the world’s biggest consumer of coffee. The Wall Street Journal reports that this is driving up global…
Long Haul: The Lives of China’s Truckers w/ Rachel Katz – This Anthro Life
Episode 37, Season 3 Join us for a special episode with guest researcher, consultant, and author Rachel Katz for an intimate look at the lives of Chinese truckers.…
Encounter in Acre: Indigenous group emerges from isolation to seek aid and report massacres
The same group of indigenous warriors famously photographed in 2008 aiming arrows at the passing aircraft now tell their own story: the story of massacre and suffering in…
Encounter in Acre: Indigenous group emerges from isolation to seek aid and report massacres
The same group of indigenous warriors famously photographed in 2008 aiming arrows at the passing aircraft now tell their own story: the story of massacre and suffering in…
Encounter in Acre: Indigenous group emerges from isolation to seek aid and report massacres
The same group of indigenous warriors famously photographed in 2008 aiming arrows at the passing aircraft now tell their own story: the story of massacre and suffering in…
Encounter in Acre: Indigenous group emerges from isolation to seek aid and report massacres
The same group of indigenous warriors famously photographed in 2008 aiming arrows at the passing aircraft now tell their own story: the story of massacre and suffering in…