Visualising Facebook by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan
Today marks the publication of a new book called Visualising Facebook, which I have written with Dr Jolynna Sinanan. It is available as a free download from UCL Press…
Today marks the publication of a new book called Visualising Facebook, which I have written with Dr Jolynna Sinanan. It is available as a free download from UCL Press…
The barriers that are already in place along hundreds of miles of the U.S.-Mexico border have done little to stem the flow of migrants into the United States.…
Marc Flandreau. Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. 421pp., 12 halftones, notes, sources, works cited, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. …
The project would be to assist in research on solutions to the problem of nuclear waste disposal in Japan, and the associated proliferation risks posed by Japan’s reprocessing-only…
We invite proposals for papers examining material culture, technology, the business of food packaging and so on, both in the past and in the present.
Tara Joly, University of Aberdeen § Settler colonial relations construct the Athabasca region as extractive oil sands territory, yet the region remains homeland for Indigenous peoples, including Méti…
Various bits of social media began vibrating rapidly recently when it was discovered that white supremacists had fooled Google into providing inaccurate information about Boas and cultural relativism…
News of the upcoming Richard Bauman Lecture in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University is now circulating on campus. Here are the details about this year’s talk…
The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology Edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon Routledge, 2016, 393 pages. This is not a run-of-the-mill medical anthropology r…
“All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.” — Karl Marx, Critique…
Are “hipsters” on their way out, or have they become so normalized in our popular culture that we don’t really notice them anymore? (And, if the latter, is…
Source: Google Images Commons science education K-12 must include humans The Idaho Statesman published an op-ed by John Ziker, chair of the anthropology department at Boise State University…
Are “hipsters” on their way out, or have they become so normalized in our popular culture that we don’t really notice them anymore? (And, if the latter, is…
Developmental psychology seems to tell us how to best to raise our children into competent and decent adults. However, comparing our theories and practices to those of other…
by Shuto Fukuoka It would not be an overstatement to say that the Japanese youth of today are significantly foreign to the one a couple of decades ago,…
Some of our devoted readers may have caught glimpses of cheerful Allies in the French Alps over the weekend… Indeed, we enjoyed the extraordinary fortune of getting together…
Photo by Ashley van Haeften on Flickr By Younes Saramifar In the following blog, Younes Saramifar responds to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, title…
Although widely culturally variable, it is often an important ritual in death to mark the grave or otherwise physically memorialize the deceased. This is certainly widely practiced in the United State…
Part 2: The New Ayahuasca Churches Yesterday I sat in on a webinar sponsored by ICEERS (the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service) and organized by anthropologist…
Following a paradigm shift from infectious to chronic disease, life expectancy rose for individuals, currently at 78.8 years of age (U.S based). The article linked below addresses how the…
Präsident Xi Jinping in Davos, Außenminister Wang Yi in München – beide propagieren Freihandel sowie Globalisierung und warnen vor Protektionismus. Diese Positionen werden im Westen mit Interesse verf…
Präsident Xi Jinping in Davos, Außenminister Wang Yi in München – beide propagieren Freihandel sowie Globalisierung und warnen vor Protektionismus. Diese Positionen werden im Westen mit Interesse verf…