Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment …
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment …
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Mehr als 630 User stimmten gaben online ihre Nominierungen ab, ganz weit vorne in der Ungunst liegen Bahnhöfe – auch ein Selfstorage-Haus …
A House to Make a Home? w/ Guest Mengqi Wang – This Anthro Life
“A House to Make a Home?” Season 3, Episode 27 Aired 5/27/14 We are joined by guest expert Mengqi Wang to delve …
Chinese premier says China will establish environmental institute in Kenya
Among the pledges made by Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the African Union meeting in Addis Abeba on 5 May, increasing the …
Broaching neoliberalism via old civilizational traditions?
Do old civilizational traditions still play a role in economic life today? In a new project, Overheating researcher Chris Hann wants to …
INTER-REFLEXIONS-2014
Reflexion– expression without words; a remark expressing careful consideration; a calm, lengthy, intent consideration. Inter– Between, among; mutually; reciprocally Marlowe …
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at …
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at …
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at …
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at …
The moral economies of material things
The concept of moral economy is a natural fit to analyses of material culture. In this working paper, I show how the concept …
Reflections and Reports on Open Access Published in the New Issue of Cultural Anthropology (@culanth)
The new, May 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now. It is the second issue of the journal to be made …
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different …
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different …
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different …
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different …
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] “[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in …
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan” (Duke University Press, 2013)
“[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man who …
Arbeitsplatz der Zukunft: Büroräume als Spiegel der Unternehmenskultur
Von Dr. Katrin Roppel Globale Beschäftigung und virtuelle Zusammenarbeit sind Trends, die die Arbeitsplätze der Zukunft verändern werden. Firmen beschäftigen zunehmend externe …
Let There Be Light! – This Anthro Life
Season 3, Episode 26 – Aired 5/20/14 Light is all around us, but we don’t often think about it. Light comes to …
News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News A recent study finds that undocumented youth, known as the “Dreamers,” are becoming increasingly disenchanted with political parties in the …
The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report on the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized …