Anthro field gear review: Cocoons OveRx photochromic eyewear
A few months ago, I embarked on a series of posts reviewing online retailers of high index (read: strong) prescription eyeglasses. The result was an unexpectedly detailed 5-part…
Using art and audiovisual methods with migrants in Spain: an interview with Francesco Bondanini
Francesco Bondanini, a University of Kent alumnus, uses participatory visual methods to explore and empower the lives of migrants and detainees in Spain and Germany. In the interview…
EPIC 2013
EPIC 2013, London 15th-18th September EPIC 2013 is coming. The Call is out and can be found here. Tickets will be going on sale in March.
Who Do We Write For?
As anthropologists, who do we write for? Scholarly articles are typically written for one’s fellow academics. But what about books? Book-length ethnographies are the cornerstone of anthropology. These…
Doktorandenstipendium an der University of Aberdeen
The Department of Anthropology is offering one and perhaps two interdisciplinary 3-year PhD studentships to start in September 2013. The studentship will include full UK/Europe fees and a…
Doktorandenstipendium an der University of Aberdeen
The Department of Anthropology is offering one and perhaps two interdisciplinary 3-year PhD studentships to start in September 2013. The studentship will include full UK/Europe fees and a…
Doktorandenstipendium an der University of Aberdeen
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From Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis Expedition
Die Expedition in Long Bagung (Mai 1899) Quer Durch Borneo book written by a colonial era ethologist Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis was noted there has been a scientific…
From Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis Expedition
Die Expedition in Long Bagung (Mai 1899) Quer Durch Borneo book written by a colonial era ethologist Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis was noted there has been a scientific…
From Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis Expedition (Introduction)
Die Expedition in Long Bagung (Mai 1899) Quer Durch Borneo book written by a colonial era ethologist Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis was noted there has been a scientific…
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From Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis Expedition (Introduction)
Die Expedition in Long Bagung (Mai 1899) Quer Durch Borneo book written by a colonial era ethologist Dr. Anton W. Niewenhuis was noted there has been a scientific…
Cultural fundamentalism. A step forward
“cultural fundamentalism/essentialism does not reify culture, but it is in reality about relationships between cultures as understood and bounded, internally homogeneous, integrated and exclusive sets…
Cultural fundamentalism. A step forward
“cultural fundamentalism/essentialism does not reify culture, but it is in reality about relationships between cultures as understood and bounded, internally homogeneous, integrated and exclusive sets…
Cultural fundamentalism. A step forward
“cultural fundamentalism/essentialism does not reify culture, but it is in reality about relationships between cultures as understood and bounded, internally homogeneous, integrated and exclusive sets…
Cultural fundamentalism. A step forward
“cultural fundamentalism/essentialism does not reify culture, but it is in reality about relationships between cultures as understood and bounded, internally homogeneous, integrated and exclusive sets…
Anthropologists to study humanity’s biggest crises
A new research project looks at how some of our world’s most serious crises are interconnected and what can be done about them. “It is about time that…
In the secret capital
“Our village? If the revolution ever reaches our village, then there really is a revolution in Egypt.” These are the words of Mahrus, a supporter of the revolution…
In the secret capital
“Our village? If the revolution ever reaches our village, then there really is a revolution in Egypt.” These are the words of Mahrus, a supporter of the revolution…
Carpe Diem/”YOLO”
I hang my head in shame over the fact that it has been months since I last posted anything/went back into the world of teenthropology. To be honest…
Barbara R. Ambros, “Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] It opens with a parakeet named Homer, and it closes with a dog named Hachiko. In the intervening pages, Barbara Ambros explores…
Barbara R. Ambros, “Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
It opens with a parakeet named Homer, and it closes with a dog named Hachiko. In the intervening pages, Barbara Ambros explores the deaths, afterlives, and necrogeographies of…
Urban camps. A conference session
After having reflected so much on the conditions and the history of camps for Roma in Italy (and France…), I decided to expand my reflections globally and comparatively.…
Urban camps. A conference session
After having reflected so much on the conditions and the history of camps for Roma in Italy (and France…), I decided to expand my reflections globally and comparatively.…
Urban camps. A conference session
After having reflected so much on the conditions and the history of camps for Roma in Italy (and France…), I decided to expand my reflections globally and comparatively.…