‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts
(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a “book club” webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan’s latest book with its author. This précis introduced the discussion.) I have to confess that I …
A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
(This week, cognitionandculture.net is hosting a “book club” webinar discussing Ara Norenzayan‘s latest book with its author. This précis introduces the discussion.) On a hilltop in what i…
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 1918-2013.
Heute morgen aufwachen zur Nachricht von Mandelas Tod. Für die Mädchenmannschaft habe ich einen kurzen Nachruf verfasst: Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Narrative and the Future of the Social Sciences
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
Narrative and the Future of the Social Sciences
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
Narrative and the Future of the Social Sciences
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
Narrative and the Future of the Social Sciences
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
Narrative and the Future of the Social Sciences
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
Narrative and the Future of the Social Sciences
The power of anthropology and the social sciences is found, at least for me, in the narratives we put forward about the social conditions of people living in…
A Cultural Epidemiology of Monsters?
A new book by the archeologist David Wengrow: The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Princeton U.P.)The blurb: It has often been …
The Phylogeny of ATU 333 (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood)
An interesting, methodologically innovative paper by Jamie Terhani in PLoS One on the phylogeny of “Little Red Riding Hood.”Abstract: Researchers have long been fascinated by the strong continuit…
David Novak, “Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Thinking about “Noise” in the history and practice of music means thinking in opposites. Noise is both a musical genre, and…
David Novak, “Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation” (Duke UP, 2013)
Thinking about “Noise” in the history and practice of music means thinking in opposites. Noise is both a musical genre, and is not. It both produces a global…
The origins of the spatial segregation of Roma in contemporary Italy
[Qui in Italiano] Why do nomad camps exist? One of this blog’s initial goals was to account for my 2007-2008 ethnography of nomad camps in Florence. In fact,…
The origins of the spatial segregation of Roma in contemporary Italy
[Qui in Italiano] Why do nomad camps exist? One of this blog’s initial goals was to account for my 2007-2008 ethnography of nomad camps in Florence. In fact,…
‘That full complement of riches’
For those who attended the “Why the world needs anthropologists” symposium in Amsterdam yesterday here are the slides. For those that didn’t attend I hope the notes with…
The origins of the spatial segregation of Roma in contemporary Italy
[Qui in Italiano] Why do nomad camps exist? One of this blog’s initial goals was to account for my 2007-2008 ethnography of nomad camps in Florence. In fact,…
The origins of the spatial segregation of Roma in contemporary Italy
[Qui in Italiano] Why do nomad camps exist? One of this blog’s initial goals was to account for my 2007-2008 ethnography of nomad camps in Florence. In fact,…
Seashell Sound: Eerie and Eary Doubles
Mural by Robert Reid in Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building, ca. 1896. At Cabinet Magazine Stefan Helmreich speaks shells and: “puts an ear to popular science and poetry,…