
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it?
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it? Well, so glad you asked – I can talk for…
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it? Well, so glad you asked – I can talk for…
Below you may find this month’s “In the Journals” updates. American Anthropologist Toward an Integrated Anthropology of Infant SleepHelen L. Bell, Cecilia Tomori & James J. …
In the world of customer engagement, it is common to hear that companies want to transform their brands into “Love Brands”. A Love Brand is a brand that…
There are three recent (and really good) resources that have come out on Indigenous waters in the past several weeks: a book and two special issues, each below…
A two-day workshop in the framework of Arctic Science Summit Week 2020, Akureyri, Iceland, 29-30(TBC) March 2020 funded by IASC – the International Arctic Science Committee The IASC…
“Ningen” es el equivalente en japonés de “ser humano”, e incluye al varón y la mujer, la especie humana. Esta palabra se compone de “nin”, que significa “ser…
Hi all, Today is #climatestrike day-so enjoy new #globaldev readings & a fresh book review over the weekend! My quotes of the weekEveryone who lived on the hardest-hit…
I dei nye læreplanane for grunnskulen og vidaregåande opplæring vert «Demokrati og medborgarskap» eitt av tre tverrfaglege tema. Som ein del av norskfaget sitt bidrag må sjangeren klasseromsdebatt…
In this short piece, I explore how medical anthropology could be deployed through interdisciplinary collaborations in a way that is both theoretically rich and poised to positively impact…
It may be a bit unusual to start my book review with a link to another review, but it was Duncan Green who sparked my interest in The…
Researchers excavate in Jordan’s Zarqa Valley. Fabio Parenti Giancarlo Scardia was in Jordan in 2013 as the Syrian Civil War ground on. He recalls seeing refugees gathered in…
Ecuador’s Indigenous languages are varied and contested. What can poetry and curing chants tell us about the experience of language change and the people working to reclaim them?…
In Yakutsk, hip hop can be poetic, nostalgic, and even subversive. What can this inventive genre say about language relocalization and maintenance? A crowd gathers at Muus Khaia…
What a froggy mystery in Papua New Guinea can teach us about the pleasure and power of language diversity. Polopuak—frog. Since 2010, I have been working with Kala…
The “Going Native” cartoon for this issue of Anthropology News was an exercise in celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, personal discovery, and reverse linguistic imperialism…
A documentary film shows the challenges faced by Soli children as they learn in a language that is not their own. But does the future have to be…
The United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages is likely to reproduce the colonial logics that underlie dominant narratives of language disappearance and loss. It doesn’t have to…
Thematischer Thread auf dem „boasblog“ zum Thema der DGSKA-Tagung 2019 in Konstanz https://boasblogs.org/endofnegotiations-info/about/
By Allison Kendra, Stanford University § Its leaves burst forth slowly from thin, shrubby branches. Every three months they mature, every three months they are pulled by hard-working…
“I can only work cash-in-hand [načerno] for the rest of my life,” Nina[1] told me as we were sitting in her kitchen drinking black coffee while she was…
Not long ago, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures opened three new early fall exhibitions. I was happy to be the curator for the smallest of these. It…
Twice a day, on my way to and from work at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), I walk through a magnificent, monumental stone gate that…
Kaum ein Satz beschwört das Ende der Aushandlungen ökonomischer Denk- und Handlungsmuster so eingängig wie Margaret Thatchers «there is no alternative». Thatcher behauptet damit die absolute Alternati…
You would have been forgiven for doing a double take if you walked past UCL Anthropology’s Darryl Forde Seminar Room on Monday 10 June, 2019. Breaking with established…