Egypt and the Puppet Regime
Politics rules the news cycle on Islam and the Middle East. Given the colonial history of the region, there have been numerous …
NEW! — John Levack Drever: Sublime-sound-of-the-one-hand [Ryōan-ji]
My soundscape composition Sublime-sound-of-the-one-hand [Ryōan-ji] sounds out the acoustic ecology of the “quintessential … karesansui dry landscape garden” (UNESCO 1993: 41) Or, …
NEW! — Chiara Ambrosio & Caterina Pasqualino: Tending to the Garden
Caterina Pasqualino is an anthropologist whose research within the realm of Gypsy flamenco for the past twenty years has culminated in her …
NEW! — Dave Lewis: “Field Work”
My engagement with the ideas and practices of fieldwork stems from my interest in anthropology and the classification of human “types” through …
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF CA-DDRIG) is coming up on August 17th.* …
10 Tips for Writing a Winning NSF (DDRIG) Proposal
The deadline for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Impro…
Facial Paralysis: Somaticizing Frustration in Guatemala by Nicholas Copeland
While conducting ethnographic fieldwork on indigenous political organizing in northwest Guatemala in the mid 2000s, I encountered, quite by accident, an apparent …
Anthropology… what kind of job will you get with that? – words of wisdom from Hayley
Kia ora! Long time no see. We thought we would kick off a new round of blog posts with one of our …
Around the Web Digest: Week of July 26
Happy August readers! Welcome to a month so great they stole a day from another month to make it longer. Let me …
A stubborn conundrum
Professor Margaret Lock has published an exhaustive ethnography of Alzheimer disease research in her latest book, The Alzheimer Conundrum. I recently reviewed this …
I’m in a book
I was looking in Blackwell's bookshop the other day – the big famous bookshop on Broad Street in Oxford – and …
A photo fell out of a book…
My book group (I say with inner pleasure at finally belonging to one) usually decide on books to read for the coming …
→The Anxious Anthropologist: culture, health and everyday life
Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
This Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD) consists of a collection of books, journals and maps related broadly to the Himalayas …
Zomerstop
Zoals ieder jaar neemt de redactie van standplaatswereld een paar weken vakantie. Ook het afgelopen academisch jaar werd het wereldnieuws op standplaatswereld …
Black American Men and Brazilian Women
Any attempt to understand black American men and their relationships with Brazilian women must first consider cultural characteristics and the significance …
In the Journals – July 2015 Part II by Michelle Pentecost
Here’s comes the second round of what you’ll find ‘In the Journals’ from July. For the Special Issue on HIV Criminalisation and …
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography: literary-ethnography: This is a podcast from a panel session sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology at …