While we now seem to be approaching post-confinement, and after the closure of campuses and improvised conversion to online teaching, there has been much discussion regarding the long-term…
Via The Conversation: Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned,…
At the end of a day of academic work, you may not want to talk to anybody else, and giving yourself that option is a form of self-care.…
Outside the academy, I’m sure the perception remains that academics sit in leather armchairs, gazing out the gilded windows of our ivory towers, thinking all day. That has…
Although I’ve often been heard to sigh and groan that “technology hates me”, just like any other self-respecting anthropologist, in this post I want to consider just what…
Click the image above to read the blog post on Savage Minds What a title! This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a…
With this series, the TGA team had several objectives. One was to share some of our own wisdom and knowledge with those of you who are considering starting to blog.…
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master’s course a few years ago after…
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master’s course a few years ago after…
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master's course a few years ago after…
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…
I’m borrowing this expression from one of Biella Coleman’s tweets, not to emphasise her message, but since it embodies well my feelings regarding a review report on one…
Panel proposal for the Bengal studies panel entered. We will see if it gets accepted! The Bengal studies panel has been a recurrent phenomenon at the EASAS /…
I’m based in Sweden. Sweden is a country with a very small population, something, which of course, also is reflected in the academic setting. A rather limited number…