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…
Studying Up: The Ethnography of Technologists
Nick Seaver Editor’s Note: Nick Seaver (@npseaver) kicks off the March-April special edition of Ethnography Matters, which will feature a number of researchers at the Intel Science and Technolog…
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…
On Racial Profiling and the ‘While…’ Phenomenon
Following inquiries from some of my international readers, I would like to take a few moments to explain the title of this blog. The ‘anthropology while white’ formulation…
Altered States, part 2 with Ben Gebo – This Anthro Life
Head on over to our Podcasts page and stream the episode or download it for a mind bending journey through the worlds of psychedelics and hallucinogenics, the effects…
Maschinenstürmer – Technik als Bedrohung?
Der Begriff “Maschinenstürmer” wird bis heute oft verwendet, wenn es darum geht, Skepsis oder Abneigung gegenüber technischen Entwicklungen zu formulieren. Für viele ist “Maschinenstürmer” sogar ein S…
Maschinenstürmer – Technik als Bedrohung?
Der Begriff “Maschinenstürmer” wird bis heute oft verwendet, wenn es darum geht, Skepsis oder Abneigung gegenüber technischen Entwicklungen zu formulieren. Für viele ist “Maschinenstürmer” sogar ein S…
Maschinenstürmer – Technik als Bedrohung?
Der Begriff “Maschinenstürmer” wird bis heute oft verwendet, wenn es darum geht, Skepsis oder Abneigung gegenüber technischen Entwicklungen zu formulieren. Für viele ist “Maschinenstürmer” sogar ein S…
The Moral Domain: Conceptual Issues in Moral Psychology. Vilnius . 9-11 October 2014
The Vilnius Experimental Philosophy Lab, the Departments of General Psychology and of Logic and History of Philosophy organize a conference on: The Moral Domain: Conceptual Issues…
Whiteness Without Complex?
A couple of weeks ago I attended an event called ‘Color Without Complex‘, featuring a public conversation between image activist Michaela Angela Davis and ethnographer and publisher Dr. Ya…
“Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence” Book Review
The documentary world has been talking about Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing for a while now, and the buzz has grown since the film’s recent Oscar nomination,…
Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler, eds., “The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Religious Studies”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] In almost every graduate program in Religious Studies and many undergraduate majors you will find a course on theories and methods in…
Steven Engler and Michael Stausberg, eds., “The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Religious Studies” (Routledge, 2011)
In almost every graduate program in Religious Studies and many undergraduate majors you will find a course on theories and methods in the study of religion. Usually, in…
March-April 2014: Studying Hackers, Makers, and Engineers
This month’s theme – ethnographies of hackers, makers, and engineers – is edited by Morgan G. Ames, who made the transition from being a hacker to studying them…
Special guest Ben Gebo today on TaL, ‘Altered States’ pt 2
Join This Anthro Life for another mind-bending conversation as we ‘turn on, tune out, and drop in’ the conversation with returning guest Ben Gebo. With Ben’s help we…
A ‘White’ Anthropologist’s Manifesto, and a Call for Discussion
I am an English PhD researcher based in Paris, doing fieldwork in the US and Brazil. My research looks closely at current perceptions of identity, paradigms of human…
The Content of Our Cooperation, Not the Color of Our Skin
A new, important article by David Pietraszewski, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby: The Content of Our Cooperation, Not the Color of Our Skin: An Alliance Detection System Regulates Categorization…
Global cities: digital urbanisation in the 21st century
Full details about my panel at IUAES/JASCA Inter-congress 2014 are now available. View the complete list of accepted papers and abstracts here. The conference will take place from…
Marc L. Moskowitz, “Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] In contemporary China, the game of Weiqi (also known as Go) represents many things at the same time: the military…
Marc L. Moskowitz, “Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China” (University of California Press, 2013)
In contemporary China, the game of Weiqi (also known as Go) represents many things at the same time: the military power of the general, the intellect and control…
How a Lack of Space/Flexibility Can Impact Teacher Productivity/Performance
Spatial restrictions and a lack of flexibility can have significant impacts on productivity/performance, as was found during the fieldwork conducted for a Kansas school district’s master planning effo…
How a Lack of Space/Flexibility Can Impact Teacher Productivity/Performance
Spatial restrictions and a lack of flexibility can have significant impacts on productivity/performance, as was found during the fieldwork conducted for a Kansas school district’s master planning effo…