Student Debt and Activism in New Zealand
This post was taken from Hollie’s Honours research thesis and has also been posted on the Savage Minds blog. “University students blocked Auckland’s Symonds Street as the…
Student Debt and Activism in New Zealand
This post was taken from Hollie’s Honours research thesis and has also been posted on the Savage Minds blog. “University students blocked Auckland’s Symonds Street as the…
Student Debt and Activism in New Zealand
This post was taken from Hollie’s Honours research thesis and has also been posted on the Savage Minds blog. “University students blocked Auckland’s Symonds Street as the…
Falling in: how ethnography happened to me and what I’ve learned from it
Austin Toombs Editor’s Note: Austin Toombs (@altoombs) brings a background in computer science and a critical sensibility to his ethnographic research on maker cultures. He explores the formati…
Welcome!
Kia ora, We are the anthsisters – welcome to our blog. We are Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown, Tayla Hancock and Hollie Russell and together we make up the Anthsisters. Although…
Welcome!
Kia ora, We are the anthsisters – welcome to our blog. We are Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown, Tayla Hancock and Hollie Russell and together we make up the Anthsisters. Although…
Welcome!
Kia ora, We are the anthsisters – welcome to our blog. We are Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown, Tayla Hancock and Hollie Russell and together we make up the Anthsisters. Although…
Welcome!
Kia ora, We are the anthsisters – welcome to our blog. We are Tarapuhi Bryers-Brown, Tayla Hancock and Hollie Russell and together we make up the Anthsisters. Although…
A joke
Three Mexicans and an Englishwoman walk out of a bar. A guy walks past and asks for a cigarette. He doubles back: ‘No son de aquí ¿verdad?’ ‘De…
Ellen J. Amster, “Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] What is the interplay between the physical human body and the body politic? This question is at the heart of Ellen J. Amster’s Medicine and…
Where do we get our technologies from? (Answer: everybody else)
How much of your success comes from your ability to read? Would you be able to feed and clothe yourself without the help of others? Would you have…
„Gesunde Führung statt Burnout – Vom starren Organigramm zum lebendigen Organismus“ – Buchrezension
Von Dr. Katrin Roppel Ich möchte Ihnen heute ein neues Buch vorstellen, welches mir kürzlich auf den Schreibtisch geflattert ist. Es behandelt Aspekte, die für eine lebendige Unternehmenskultur…
Photography and Activism: Ethnographic Art
This past September, I traveled to Bali, Indonesia, as a still photographer for Elemental Productions, an ethnographic film production studio owned by UCLA anthropology professor Robert Lemelson. The…
‘HBD’
There is a small but rather vocal group of people variously associated with the human sciences who declare that almost everything humans do is related to and primarily…
Leslie Irvine, “My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and their Animals”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Sociology] Homelessness and stigma go hand in hand, and nowhere is this more apparent than pet ownership among the homeless. From nasty looks…
Leslie Irvine, “My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and their Animals” (Lynne Rienner, 2013)
Homelessness and stigma go hand in hand, and nowhere is this more apparent than pet ownership among the homeless. From nasty looks to outright insults – ” you…
Mr. Bones
It was at an Irish bar South of San Francisco one evening in 1978. I had been playing flute for a Step Dancing group, and afterwards started talking…
Mr. Bones
It was at an Irish bar South of San Francisco one evening in 1978. I had been playing flute for a Step Dancing group, and afterwards started talking…
Mr. Bones
It was at an Irish bar South of San Francisco one evening in 1978. I had been playing flute for a Step Dancing group, and afterwards started talking…
Mr. Bones
It was at an Irish bar South of San Francisco one evening in 1978. I had been playing flute for a Step Dancing group, and afterwards started talking…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…
How the oil boom is changing nature and society
What are the side effects of extracting oil in the Canadian tar sands areas? – Before I came to Canada, I thought the environmental crisis was the most…
Kafka on Campus
Overwhelmed by incessant emails, policy changes, assessment exercises, learning outcomes and mission statements, we don’t know where to turn in our search for an education or a meaningful…