Holhot Inner Mongolia
Yesterday, I arrived in Holhot, Inner Mongolia. It is a town of about 2 million in the city and 5 million with the surrounding areas. The place is…
Big Data, Thick Descrption and Political Expediency
President Obama and leaders of large orgnaizations are trapped under ever-increasing piles of Big Data, which means they have little knowledge of what’s happening on the ground. Using…
Big Data, Thick Descrption and Political Expediency
President Obama and leaders of large orgnaizations are trapped under ever-increasing piles of Big Data, which means they have little knowledge of what’s happening on the ground. Using…
Big Data, Thick Descrption and Political Expediency
President Obama and leaders of large orgnaizations are trapped under ever-increasing piles of Big Data, which means they have little knowledge of what’s happening on the ground. Using…
Big Data, Thick Descrption and Political Expediency
President Obama and leaders of large orgnaizations are trapped under ever-increasing piles of Big Data, which means they have little knowledge of what’s happening on the ground. Using…
Big Data, Thick Descrption and Political Expediency
President Obama and leaders of large orgnaizations are trapped under ever-increasing piles of Big Data, which means they have little knowledge of what’s happening on the ground. Using…
Big Data, Thick Descrption and Political Expediency
President Obama and leaders of large orgnaizations are trapped under ever-increasing piles of Big Data, which means they have little knowledge of what’s happening on the ground. Using…
Smile Because it Happened
“Smile Because it Happened” is the latest project to come from our Digital Ethnography class (ANTH 677: Digital Ethnography Field Methods). We have become known for finding “communi…
Kaya-Pop: The brave new world of indigenous music in Brazil
The lead singer crooning catchy pop lyrics, the gyrating chorus-line of girls in mini-skirts, the ecstatic crowd of teenagers swaying and snapping photos with their cell phones, the…
Peopling Places-2013
The screening and exhibition of third year anthropology student visual projects took place over a long afternoon in Marlowe Lecture theatre. The event was attended by a large…
Processing Professors in the Consumer University
It is not a bad thing to measure faculty performance and student outcomes. But in the blinding light of sweeping change are we losing sight of scholarly depth…
Processing Professors in the Consumer University
It is not a bad thing to measure faculty performance and student outcomes. But in the blinding light of sweeping change are we losing sight of scholarly depth…
Processing Professors in the Consumer University
It is not a bad thing to measure faculty performance and student outcomes. But in the blinding light of sweeping change are we losing sight of scholarly depth…
Processing Professors in the Consumer University
It is not a bad thing to measure faculty performance and student outcomes. But in the blinding light of sweeping change are we losing sight of scholarly depth…
Processing Professors in the Consumer University
It is not a bad thing to measure faculty performance and student outcomes. But in the blinding light of sweeping change are we losing sight of scholarly depth…
Processing Professors in the Consumer University
It is not a bad thing to measure faculty performance and student outcomes. But in the blinding light of sweeping change are we losing sight of scholarly depth…
Seize the day
On Saturday evening, I met with a group of men, most of them fishermen and workers, in a café in the village in the Nile Delta which I…
Seize the day
On Saturday evening, I met with a group of men, most of them fishermen and workers, in a café in the village in the Nile Delta which I…
Why don’t they do more to change the world?
Why are so many people who are fully aware of the climate crisis staying silent and inactive? Sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard travelled from the US to a small…
Dominic Pettman, “Human Error: Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines/Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology and Society] “The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse…