The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
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The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
Military Capitalism
Security for US Capitalists: The State Department and its Global Partners Very much in line in with the idea of “connected capitalism,” the US State Department created the…
Hartwick Anthropology 2016 Courses – Spring & J Term
Teaching Hartwick Anthropology courses is what launched and sustains Living Anthropologically. For more information, visit the Hartwick Anthropology webpage and sign up for some great Hartwick Anthrop…
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any dialogue about reparatory justice during his…
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any dialogue about reparatory justice during his…
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any dialogue about reparatory justice during his…
Experimental Education in Feminist Anthropology
With students sprawled out on the lawn, a passer-by stopped to listen to the workshop as we sat in a circle under the sun and a participant or two…
Culture and Power
Culture shapes how we see the world, are we reading culture critically enough? Last time out, I suggested there are differences between how anthropologists understand culture and how…
Culture and Power
Culture shapes how we see the world, are we reading culture critically enough? Last time out, I suggested there are differences between how anthropologists understand culture and how…
Culture and Power
Culture shapes how we see the world, are we reading culture critically enough? Last time out, I suggested there are differences between how anthropologists understand culture and how…
Plagiarism Accusation Retraction
I received an email from James Scott (‘Seeing Like a State‘, ‘The Art of Not Being Governed‘) yesterday, asking me to back up an allegation of plagiarism…
Culture, Culture, Everywhere
Just as I was preparing to teach Cultural Anthropology, two posts about culture came out on powerhouse anthropology blogs. On Savage Minds, Alex Golub reviews The Asian American…
Universit(ar)y journeys: an ethnographic play
Last year Mick Taussig gave a short course to doctoral students at the University of Helsinki on the relation between research and writing. Ethnography, he repeated several times…
So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
Embracing Impostor Syndrome
image source It seems a fair amount of academics, especially women, suffer from impostor syndrome, “a constant fear of being discovered to be a fraud and a charlatan.”…
Forget the outrage: Stop signing away your author rights to corporations.
Earlier this summer here at the Savage Minds editorial offices, we had a temporary informational mishap that led some of our staff to believe that the mega-publisher Elsevier…
Savage Minds Reader Survey Results Part 2: Education, Work & Debt
Earlier this year we conducted the Savage Minds Reader Survey. Kerim described some of the demographic results in this post. Here I’ll provide a very brief recap. The…
Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 1
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You…
The Workshop
The traffic was unusually terrible making my arrival at work 40 minutes later than anticipated. On my mind were familial concerns as they always are when you leave…
Change jobs, return to research or enrol in further higher ed?
You get to a point in your life where you start to reflect on your skill set and your current responsibilities and you wonder whether these match up…
Best World Anthropology Training (outside the Anglosphere)
This reader question came in from my Living Anthropologically blog, in some ways related to the question there about what to do with a major in anthropology: I…
I’m in a book
I was looking in Blackwell's bookshop the other day – the big famous bookshop on Broad Street in Oxford – and I came across The Indo-European Controversy…