Open Access and the academic gift economy
No, I’m not arguing that everything should be free. Just academic articles. And I mean really free, in most senses of the word. Last week, the University of…
Tag: ACADEMIA
hope: the first anthropological emotion
During the comments from the Anthropology and Storytelling panel at the #AAA2014 meetings: “The first anthropological emotion is hope” (Carole McGranahan). As McGranahan clarified in a fol…
Transformational Storytelling Anthropology
Modified transcript of discussant comments for panel on Anthropology and Storytelling at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Many thanks to Coralynn Davis, Carole McG…
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
American Anthropological Association #AAA2014 Meetings
The 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association were December 2-7 in Washington D.C. and feature a Searchable Program. I was a discussant for Anthropology and Storytelling,…
“humans just like us” (Michel-Rolph Trouillot 2003:137)
Reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s final chapter in Global Transformations, “Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work” and reflecting on what I’ve been teaching in Cultural Anth…
Graduate Resilience
the culture of post-graduate research at UWI can be described as tough in terms of adequate supervision yet the students themselves demonstrate resilience in this tough working environment…
Bruno Latour: Imperialist?
I recently saw a blogpost that took Bruno Latour and his disciples/fellow travellers to task for being colonialist ('An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’…
Art Connects
The power of art, dance and song in empowering the education and social connection of young Trinidadians… How much do we really know about the youth of Trinidad…
Teaching Cultural Anthropology (via a quote from Tim Ingold, Making, 2013:13)
Fall 2014, teaching Cultural Anthropology. The Hartwick College Anthropology format for teaching cultural anthropology is to begin with a four-fields Introduction to Anthropology, followed by mid-leve…
How do you write an anthropology textbook?
Over at my blog-page which attempts to review and integrate anthropology textbooks, got this question from Christopher DeCorse, anthropologist and archaeologist, and co-author with Raymond Scupin of A…
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
Anthropology Blogs Update – June 2014
It’s been too long since the last entry, and I’ve been notified of some new anthropology blogs–or ones I had not known about. Thank you for the update–the…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
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 informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
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 informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
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 informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
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 informal everyday and policy dynamics in…