A 5-Step Approach to Reading Scholarly Literature and Making Notes
Reading academic literature is a skill that all college and university students must acquire, but as professors, we don’t always think about how that happens. Equally, making usable…
Preserving Sound: A documentary on the British Library’s Sound Archive
The Wire goes underground into the vaults of the British Library’s Sound Archive. “The 20th century was about audiovisual material, our memory of the 20th century is heavily…
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere
The university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.
Hvordan effektsikrer vi feltarbejdet?
Feltarbejdet. Dette centrale og nærmest hellige antropologiske fænomen er en obligatorisk del af den antropologiske dataindsamling. I de store etnografiske værker støder vi på eventyrere, der kaster s…
Growth vs sustainability: Off to explore one of today’s main contradictions
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is getting ready for fieldwork close to The Great Barrier Reef that may be about to become a victim of Australia’s economic growth.
Anthropology Blogs Update: Additions, Revisions, New Blogs
This material has moved to the updated list of Anthropology Blogs 2017. Thanks!
Some Possible Anthropological Futures: WCAA vs. SSCI
By Gordon Mathews It’s become increasingly recognized that the world has multiple anthropologies—that anthropology is not only a Euro-American endeavor but a global endeavor. One reason…
“Reviews that made me cry”
I’m borrowing this expression from one of Biella Coleman’s tweets, not to emphasise her message, but since it embodies well my feelings regarding a review report on one…
What anthropologists have been talking about for the last four decades?
Find out the answer in one graph: http://backupminds.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/anthropology-co-citation-graph/ Enjoy!
On Korean American students in Illinois
Continuing with my sequence of book reviews, I recently sent LATISS a review of Nancy Abelmann‘s fascinating 2009 book The Intimate University. It should be coming out in…
Also a crisis of learning
Our models for learning are inadequate. To solve humanity’s biggest crises we have to learn how to learn together in new ways, says Fred Steier who will be…
War with Syria Would Fulfill Neoconservative Plan for Middle East Regime Change (Beeman–New America Media)
http://newamericamedia.org/2013/09/war-with-syria-would-fulfill-neoconservative-plan-for-middle-east-regime-change.php# War with Syria Would Fulfill Neoconservative Plan for Middle East Regime Change …
Dream Tobacco: For "Apa" Mariano
It was a brilliant September afternoon on the upper Manu river, at the end of the dry season when strong breezes and gathering clouds announce the coming of…
Dream Tobacco: For "Apa" Mariano
It was a brilliant September afternoon on the upper Manu river, at the end of the dry season when strong breezes and gathering clouds announce the coming of…
Dream Tobacco: For "Apa" Mariano
It was a brilliant September afternoon on the upper Manu river, at the end of the dry season when strong breezes and gathering clouds announce the coming of…
– An exercise in thinking differently
More specific knowledge is not always the most imporant thing. What we really need is to train our mind to think outside the box. That's the aim of…
En padde til besvær
Lesetid: 6 minutterCane Toads er en giftig paddeart som er kunstig introdusert i Australia. Lokalsamfunn, myndigheter og biologer engasjerer seg for å stoppe skadene paddearten medfører. Feltarbeid av…