Forbud mod sexkøb er ikke løsningen
I sin kronik i Berlingske Tidende d. 13. juli retter Charlott Højgaard (CH) en hård kritik imod mig og 25 andre forskere i køn, prostitution og menneskehandel, fordi…
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying toys and clothes. You know you…
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying toys and clothes. You know you…
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying toys and clothes. You know you…
Choosing Your Pregnancy Care Provider and Birth Location
You’re Pregnant? Congratulations! You’re full of excitement and love, and your family is already planning your nursery and picking names and buying toys and clothes. You know you…
Access Denied: Protests, Urban Green Spaces, and Changing Transportation – This Anthro Life
Episode 35, Season 3. Aired 7/22/14 From Access Denied to Transforming Access, numerous cases of the re-appropriation of space from occupy protesters to Shock Top beer fests, cars…
How do you write an anthropology textbook?
Over at my blog-page which attempts to review and integrate anthropology textbooks, got this question from Christopher DeCorse, anthropologist and archaeologist, and co-author with Raymond Scupin of A…
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Tine Gammeltoft’s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Select… Visit…
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam” (University of California Press, 2014)
Tine Gammeltoft‘s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam (University of Cal… Visit…
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
The Moral Obligations of Corporate Tax Avoidance
Milton Friedman, the free-market economist whose perspective defined the Chicago School, famously held that managers’ absolute ethical obligation is to maximize returns for stockholders. To do otherwi…
Our Brains as Alien Technology
Our brains are alien technology. We don’t understand how they work, and the glimpses we have gotten so far indicate that our brains work quite differently than our…
Random choice among the Kantu, swidden agriculturalists of Kalimantan
An excellent post by Michael Schulson at Aeon magazine entitled “How to choose? When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is a random stab in the…
social/cultural anthropology MOOC in production for edX
I have been busy traveling around the globe to interview several eminent fellow anthropologists about their work and anthropological journeys as well as follow some University of Queensland…
Kevin Schilbrack, “Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] Very often evaluative questions about cultural phenomena are avoided for more descriptive or explanatory goals when approaching religions. Traditionally, this… Visit New Books…
Summer’s Culture of Ignorance
Things often get crazy during an American summer. It was during the summer months, after all, that the Tea Party emerged. Maybe summer gives people more time to…
Lost in Space: From the Universe to the Space Between Atoms – This Anthro Life
Episode 34, Season 3 This week Aneil and Adam tackle Space in all of its complexity and multi forms, from the universe to the space between atoms we will…
Kevin Schilbrack, “Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Very often evaluative questions about cultural phenomena are avoided for more descriptive or explanatory goals when approaching religions. Traditionally, this set of concerns has been left to philosop……