Dee Thao’s Movie about Hmong Identity in Laos, Thailand, and the United States
At this time of getting ready for Fall classes, just a reminder that Dee Thao’s movie about Hmong identity is an excellent …
Respectable Magic
By Emma Louise Backe Magic has returned to England. This past summer, two shows in particular dealt explicitly with the problem of …
Lincoln Street Art Park: ‘Teaching Reuse Through Art’
I visited the Lincoln Street Art Park south of New Center in Detroit a few times in the last week (as I researched …
New book – Ecological economics for the Anthropocene: an emerging paradigm
Just out from Columbia University Press: Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm Edited by Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman …
Sharing anthropological discoveries on social media: ‘marketing’ or ‘interactive learning’?
Social media and engaging anthropology? (Photo: Pabak Sarkar CC BY 2.0) Over the last year, people have often asked us questions like “Surely you …
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Hi all, After a short break we are getting ready for the new term and the blog activity will continue pretty much …
#Podcast Interview Round Up: New Books in Anthropology – REDUX
After getting all worked up about new publications via last week’s #Reviews, we thought to indulge a bit more – by revisiting …
Did Social Media Cause The Egyptian Revolution?
I was recently asked (by otherwise sensible people), “Dr. Peterson, how would you assess the predominant media narrative that the ‘Arab Spring’ …
Central Asia’s stand against corruption
My latest for Foreign Policy is on how Central Asians are using the internet to document and battle a familiar scourge — …
Du er ekspert – også selvom du er nyuddannet!
Nu tillader jeg mig lige at generalisere…. For det er nu så sjældent, at en antropolog tager sig friheden til det. Den …
Getting Down To Business By Letting The Love In
I originally posted this article on LinkedIn but felt compelled to share here as well, since the Narcissistic Anthropologist in me is …
The Immanent Frame
The Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC)’s academic blog ‘The Immanent Frame’ has today, August 5 2015, published my essay ‘The Public Voice …
“Performing one’s gender wrong initiates a set of punishments both obvious and indirect, and…”
“Performing one’s gender wrong initiates a set of punishments both obvious and indirect, and performing it well provides the reassurance that there …
Best World Anthropology Training (outside the Anglosphere)
This reader question came in from my Living Anthropologically blog, in some ways related to the question there about what to do …
An anthropology beyond nature and culture? Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson’s edited volume, Biosocial Becomings. by Perig Pitrou
Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology Cambridge University Press, 2013, 288 pages. This essay originally appeared in Portuguese in the journal …
Covering Ferguson
I have covered Ferguson since August 9, 2014, tweeting about a then unidentified teenager being killed by police within hours of the …
#Review: Street Corner Secrets. Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
Albertin Sarrazin once wrote, “whether you’re on the lam or whether you’re out hustling, gold is worth nothing compared to silence” (p.149). …
The Insurgent Underground
The people of Gaza have long been punished by the Israeli state for refusing to live in …
The Insurgent Underground
The people of Gaza have long been punished by the Israeli state for refusing to live in …
Book proves culture leads to Asian American success, headlines claim opposite
A strong media push by the Sage Foundation has put Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou’s book The Asian American Achievement Paradox into the public sphere in …
Two evaluations of community Ebola interventions, two different results
This spring, when my team from the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform evaluated Community-Based Ebola Care Centres (CCCs) in Sierra Leone, one thing we constantly heard complaints …
Two evaluations of community Ebola interventions, two different results
This spring, when my team from the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform evaluated Community-Based Ebola Care Centres (CCCs) in Sierra Leone, one thing we constantly heard complaints …
Two evaluations of community Ebola interventions, two different results
This spring, when my team from the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform evaluated Community-Based Ebola Care Centres (CCCs) in Sierra Leone, one thing we constantly heard complaints …