Cultural Leaders and Laggards, the problem with beer ads
I love this ad. How quickly bashful behavior gives way to full-on performance. And how this disappears (when the woman enters the store). And …
Indispensability of medical anthropology
Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development of anthropology …
New research on vocationalization in international development studies education
The latest published outcome of my fruitful research and writing partnership with Daniel Esser is a new article in Learning and Teaching …
The “Heirloom” Project
“The “Heirloom” project by poet Shin Yu Pai is a simple idea — using vinyl stickers to imprint letters on fruit — that invites visitors to …
The FENOR school is over – next edition to come
The “nomadic” Ph.D. Summer School “Field Experiences in Northwest Russia” (FENOR) has been a full success After two weeks of extensive travelling …
Call for two post-doctoral researchers in cultural evolution
The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena (Germany) are seeking to employ two full-time postdoctoral researchers in …
End Demand: the B movie
It has all the earmarks of a tearjerker. The billboard erected in Phoenix, Arizona, by anti-prostitutionists looks like artwork for a 1940s …
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time …
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time …
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time …
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time …
Mijn hart brandt
Het Holocaust Monument in Berlijn. © Ilya Boyadin, via Flickr creative commons. Saskia Jenelle is studente van de master Sociale en Culturele …
Anthropologies #21: Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene
To kick off this issue, we begin with Sean Seary’s excellent overview of recent literature about anthropology’s engagement with climate. This review …
Re-Designing the Conference
View from the 2015 Cultures-Based Innovation Symposium at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Elizabeth Tunstall I recently concluded the Ameri…
Around the Web Digest: Week of August 23
Better late than never, I always say, as the semester starts anew and we all either pack our lunchboxes to go back …
Theorising Health Inequalities — A special issue of Social Theory & Health by Aaron Seaman
The current issue of Social Theory & Health is a special double issue on theorizing health inequalities. Comprising eleven articles, the issue …
How Did Anthropology Begin?
In fall 2015, I adopted the new Robert Welsch and Luis Vivanco textbook Cultural Anthropology (see previous discussion of Hartwick Anthropology Courses). …
Web Roundup: Biohacking, BioArt, and other Playful Abominations by Sara M Bergstresser
These days, it is fun to “hack” almost everything. You can hack your life, you can hack your home, and you can …
time to csángó
Time to Csángó, a creative short documentary by Hadas Bar, Ian Cook, Anette Dujisin, explores the popularity of the táncház (dance house) …
Research is not activism: And whose interests are at stake, anyway?
Recently Amnesty International voted to pursue a policy advocating the decriminalisation of sex work (sort of). If you were judging the issues …
ETHNO-NEULIN(K)S IM AUGUST 2015
+++ WER SCHAFFT WISSEN? FIGURATIONEN DES LAIEN ZWISCHEN FORSCHUNG, LEIDENSCHAFT UND POLITISCHER MOBILISIERUNG (TAGUNG) Schon lange wird Wissenschaftsgeschichte als Verwissenschaftlichungsgeschichte ge…