Access Denied: Protests, Urban Green Spaces, and Changing Transportation – This Anthro Life
Episode 35, Season 3. Aired 7/22/14 From Access Denied to Transforming Access, numerous cases of the re-appropriation of space from occupy protesters …
How do you write an anthropology textbook?
Over at my blog-page which attempts to review and integrate anthropology textbooks, got this question from Christopher DeCorse, anthropologist and archaeologist, and …
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Tine Gammeltoft’s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: …
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam” (University of California Press, 2014)
Tine Gammeltoft‘s new book explores the process of reproductive decision making in contemporary Hanoi. Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction …
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex …
The Moral Obligations of Corporate Tax Avoidance
Milton Friedman, the free-market economist whose perspective defined the Chicago School, famously held that managers’ absolute ethical obligation is to maximize returns …
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Our Brains as Alien Technology
Our brains are alien technology. We don’t understand how they work, and the glimpses we have gotten so far indicate that our …
Random choice among the Kantu, swidden agriculturalists of Kalimantan
An excellent post by Michael Schulson at Aeon magazine entitled “How to choose? When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is …
social/cultural anthropology MOOC in production for edX
I have been busy traveling around the globe to interview several eminent fellow anthropologists about their work and anthropological journeys as well …
Kevin Schilbrack, “Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] Very often evaluative questions about cultural phenomena are avoided for more descriptive or explanatory goals when approaching …
Summer’s Culture of Ignorance
Things often get crazy during an American summer. It was during the summer months, after all, that the Tea Party emerged. Maybe …
Lost in Space: From the Universe to the Space Between Atoms – This Anthro Life
Episode 34, Season 3 This week Aneil and Adam tackle Space in all of its complexity and multi forms, from the universe to …
Kevin Schilbrack, “Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Very often evaluative questions about cultural phenomena are avoided for more descriptive or explanatory goals when approaching religions. Traditionally, this set of …
John H. McWhorter, “The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Linguistics] The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think – sometimes referred to as …
Israel/Palæstina-konflikten – fortællinger der forhindrer forsoning
Konflikten mellem Israel og Palæstina fortsætter med at eskalere, mens verden ser på. Men hvordan opleves konflikten i hverdagen, og hvordan er …
The Eighth Egg
“Sudah bangun Gusti?” It was 4 AM and I sent a text message to Gusti Ayu to ask whether she was awake …
The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 2: The “Shortsightedness” of Homo Sapiens
Part 1 of this series focused on how a more deliberate quantification of productivity and health impacts, as well as the larger …
The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 2: The “Shortsightedness” of Homo Sapiens
Part 1 of this series focused on how a more deliberate quantification of productivity and health impacts, as well as the larger …