I’m Tired
As spring slowly unfolds into summer, I wonder if most Americans feel frustrations similar to mine. Like most people I know, I’m weary of “things as they are.”…
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
Paperphone, a Scholarly Voice Playground
Digital humanist Wendy Hsu and experimental music artist Jonathan Zorn have been hard at work on Paperphone, an audio effects processor designed for scholarly papers exploring the nexus…
Podcast: DNA Ancestry Testing and the Legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
To listen again to my discussion with Bernice Bennett about my current study on the social impact of DNA ancestry testing in the Americas, as well as related research into the…
လႊတ္လပ္မႈ၏ သူရဲေကာင္းမ်ား – ၿမန္မာၿပည္၏ ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ႏွင့္ မန္ဒဲလားအေမြ
A repost of the blog “Heroes of Freedom: Burma’s 88 Generation and the Legacy of Mandela” for our readers in Burma: ၿမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလုိ အလ်င္အၿမန္ ေခတ္မီေၿပာင္းလဲတိုးတက္ေနတဲ့ ႏို…
Heroes of Freedom: Burma’s 88 Generation and the Legacy of Mandela
It is easy when a nation is modernizing as rapidly as Burma is to look only forward, rather than backward. Yet, perhaps one of the most important lessons…
လႊတ္လပ္မႈ၏ သူရဲေကာင္းမ်ား – ၿမန္မာၿပည္၏ ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ႏွင့္ မန္ဒဲလားအေမြ
A repost of the blog “Heroes of Freedom: Burma’s 88 Generation and the Legacy of Mandela” for our readers in Burma: ၿမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလုိ အလ်င္အၿမန္ ေခတ္မီေၿပာင္းလဲတိုးတက္ေနတဲ့ ႏို…
Heroes of Freedom: Burma’s 88 Generation and the Legacy of Mandela
It is easy when a nation is modernizing as rapidly as Burma is to look only forward, rather than backward. Yet, perhaps one of the most important lessons…
Open Access at Indiana University Bloomington
Richard Poynder doesn’t miss a thing. Indiana University: Library Committee of the Bloomington Faculty Council decides not to recommend active OA policy. http://t.co/kmMkWVaX4G — Richard Poynder…
Making! The Other Story: Robot#10, Twins Separated at Birth, and Hacker Mama
Silvia Lindtner Amelia Guimarin Editor’s Note: Silvia Lindtner (@yunnia) and Amelia Guimarin (@femhacktweets) round out the March-April theme on makers, hackers, and engineers with this post tha…
Claude Lévi-Strauss: anthropologist or shaman?
If we are led to believe that what takes place in our mind is something not substantially or fundamentally different from the basic phenomena of life itself,…
The Politics of Difference and Relatedness – This Anthro Life
Episode 39, Season 3 Join us this week for a trip to the ancient…present? This week Ryan, Aneil, and Adam cover the politics of difference through an unlikely…
Non-Human Rights, with new co-host Amy Hanes – This Anthro Life
Episode 23 Non-Human Rights Available now! Join us as we dive into the world of non-human rights centered around recent court cases dealing with the rights of chimpanzees,…
Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria?
Here is a challenge to standard views about the evolution of linguistic generativity: ““Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria: Implications for the Origins of Linguistic Generativity” by Thomas…
From civil war to mining boom
Ten years after the civil war, life has come back to Lunsar in Sierra Leone. Anthropologist Robert Pijpers is talking with CEOs and motortaxi drivers about the curr…
Skaber overvågning mere tryghed?
Overvågning bruges bl.a. til at straffe utryghedsskabende adfærd, men gør overvågning os også mere trygge? ”Stik imod den gængse opfattelse, der også afspejles i loven, kan tryghed og…
Fünf Buchvorsätze – Die afrikanische Autorinnen Edition
Meine Mädchenmannschafts-Kollegin Nadia (of Shehadistan-Fame) hat mir ein Blogstöckchen zugeworfen, welches ich wirklich gern aufnehme. Denn passend zum heutigen Welttag des Buchs geht es um Literatur…
New Book, Intimate Economies of Development, out from Chris Lyttleton
Culture Matters is pleased to announce that Assoc. Prof. Chris Lyttleton’s new book, Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia, has been launched by Routledge Press.…