How to deal with puzzling brokers in ethnographic fieldwork?
When I went to Costa Rica to do the fieldwork that eventually allowed me to pursue my MA degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, I did not…
How Can Making Movies Do Sheep Any Good? #VisualANTH
John Adair and Sol Worth, American anthropologists and filmmakers, found themselves in the sticky situation of answering the above question in 1966. They had just presented the leading…
Kill your darls no. 9 – more cuts and buts…
Yet ‘Epistemological performance is how you construct yourself and the world as an object of knowing’ says Spivak at the University of Kwazulu-Natal 8th Annual Teaching and Learning…
Die andere moslims
© Omair Haq, via Creative Commons Deze blog staat ook op Zaman Vandaag. Thijl Sunier Bij al het mediageweld rond de lange arm van Erdogan,…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 28: Michelle Stewart, Towards Accomplices not Allies—in the Classroom and the Streets
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Coding Culture III: Four More (Advanced) Hacks for the Digital Anthropology Classroom
This is the third post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. The applications for digital technology in…
Eating People Is Wrong—But It’s Also Widespread and Sacred
This 15th-century depiction of cannibalistic practices was inspired by Marco Polo’s writings about traveling through Asia. Bibliothèque Nationale/Wikimedia Commons This article was origin…
Populating the Pacific Northwest
On the Discovery of a 14,000 year old settlement on the west coast of Canada. Mainstream media were quick to pick up on a report of a 14,000…
Media, language, and social relationships
In teaching anthropology, I always find students to be exceptionally interested on the days that we talk about media. Many of my students consider social media to be…
Media, language, and social relationships
In teaching anthropology, I always find students to be exceptionally interested on the days that we talk about media. Many of my students consider social media to be…
Special Issue of Continent: “R3pair Volume”
Repair and waste share many points of convergence from an analytical perspective (as well as a practical one!). Continent has just released a special issue all about repair:
Join us to celebrate 50 years of Anthropology at VUW (May 10-12)
Come join our celebration! You’ll get to hear Dame Joan Metge, Dame Prof Anne Salmond, Prof Michael Jackson, and a host of other anthropologists. All welcome. vicanthropology This…
Filming Future Imaginaries in Kurdistan #VisualANTH
It was during my fieldwork in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, when I started seeing Kobane popping up everywhere in the city. Hair salons, murals, restaurants, travel agencies and even…
Tattoos – Kunst oder versteckte Sprache? – Teil 1
Quelle (Zugriff: 26.03.2017): http://monk.com.ua/images/articles/kriminalnie-tatuirovki-sovetskogo-period_1.jpg Schon als kleines Kind wurde mir eindringlich erklärt, dass tätowierte Menschen, …
Teaching Medical Anthropology by Ari Gandsman
In the decade since becoming a full time professor, medical anthropology has been one of my core courses. I have taught it seven times. Although the basic structure…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Warum Mindfulness, Life Coaching und Self-Help an Popularität gewinnen: Der Workshop „Travelling and Transforming Therapeutics“ nahm therapeutische Praktiken global unter die Lupe
Hide Press Release (12 Less Words) Suvi Salmenniemi, Harley Bergroth, Inna Perheentupa, Johanna Nurmi, Laura Kemppainen, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir Bild 1: © Jutta Reippainen Verschiedene therapeutische Pr…
Photographic engagement: An alternative narrative of urban experiences
In 2014 I started exploring people’s lives in Parisian suburbs (banlieue)[1] through engaged and creative visual practices. Being an independent photographer, I wanted to see how people’s experiences…
#AAA2017 registration sucked. I hope its not a sign of things to come.
Even if you are not attending #AAA2017 in Washington, D.C. you have probably already heard about how much it sucked to try to register for it. The stories…