Happy Earth Day, Babies!
Today I am thinking of all the babies who will come into the world on Earth Day. I am thinking of all of the babies who will grow…
Happy Earth Day, Babies!
Today I am thinking of all the babies who will come into the world on Earth Day. I am thinking of all of the babies who will grow…
Britain is a ‘Christian Country’, apparently
David Cameron has recently claimed that the UK is a 'Christian country' and has said that he will act as a 'giant Dyno-Rod' for Christian organisations here (implicitly…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
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Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Engineering obsolescence
Marisa Cohn Editor’s Note: Marisa Leavitt Cohn writes to us from Stockholm, where she is a postdoctoral scholar studying the politics of software systems and computing work practices. In…
The Brave New World of Campus Life
There are an increasing number of scholars who, like Giroux, stand strongly against the corporate university. Like Giroux
The Brave New World of Campus Life
There are an increasing number of scholars who, like Giroux, stand strongly against the corporate university. Like Giroux
Visual Anthropology Revisited – This Anthro Life
Join us for an ‘enlightening’ trip as we ‘shed some light’ on the world of sight, seeing, and visual anthropology. In this episode we explore the deep impact…
Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs
A new article by Dan Fessler, Anne Pisor,& David Navarrete, highly relevant to cultural epidemiology in PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. doi:10.1371 Abstract: The functions of cultural beliefs are often…
Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely admit that people have…
Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely admit that people have…
Vershawn Young, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy, “Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy”
[Cross-posted from New Book in Language] In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely…
Zareena Grewal, “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] Zareena Grewal‘s monograph Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU Press, 2013), seamlessly interweaves et… Visit New Books…
Zareena Grewal, “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority” (NYU Press, 2013)
Zareena Grewal‘s monograph Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU Press, 2013), seamlessly interweaves ethnographic research with an in-depth histor… Visit New Books…
Do Not Keep Quiet: Subverting the Rules of Cinema Viewing in Sunnyside, Pretoria
By Dennis Webster Near to where I live in Sunnyside in Pretoria is a shopping centre called Sterland. The Ster-Kinekor there seems to be the exception to all…