Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
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…
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Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
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…
BDS, the AAA, and Academic Imperialism
We Disagree to Agree Support for a particular cause can come from numerous sources and points of view, each representing different interests. Similarly, people can arrive at the…
Anthropology != Ethnography
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…
Anthropology != Ethnography
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…
Anthropology != Ethnography
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…
SAFN Panels and Events at the 2015 AAA Meeting in Denver
This is a listing of food-related panels, papers, posters, & events at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 2015 (Denver, CO) Current & Future SAFN Members…
The Anthropologist- An Interview with Director Seth Kramer
AAA reached out to documentary filmmaker Seth Kramer to discuss his upcoming film The Anthropologist. At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women:…
25. Digital rights activists vs. Trans-Pacific Partnership: a field-theoretical analysis
This is the 25th post in the freedom technologists series Keynote to the conference “Media, culture and change across the Pacific: perspectives from Asia, Oceania and the Americas”…
Two More Views on Anthropologists and Boycotts
Note from the editor: Anthropology News shares here two essays that discuss the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement (BDS) as it relates to current discussions among anthropologists. As a…
How creating your own ritual can bring surprisingly deep meaning
New Year’s Eve of 2007 was grim. My husband and I hosted a party of battered friends, most of whom were under the age of 35. Within the…
Dignity Market
Dignity Market is a place that my friends rented so that disabled people living in different collective homes in and around the city can come there to work,…
Force Multipliers and 21st Century Imperial Warfare: Practice and Propaganda
If the present provides a hint of what it is to come, the nastiest, ugliest, and bloodiest wars to be fought this century will be between states opposed…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now
November 8, 2015—Inspired by the fantastic “Around the Web Digest” series over at Savage Minds, FoodAnthropology will be compiling and sharing what’s piqued our interest in the world of…
Data and the Anthropologist: Could you be using your anthropology skills in a more data centric role?
By Astrid Countee When people think of quantitative analytics, big data, and statistics, they rarely picture an anthropologist. The truth is that although our discipline is well known…
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…
A Very Informative Video on Circumcision
So, I’ve just recently discovered Ryan McAllister, PhD and his videos on birth and circumcision, and I highly recommend you view his video on Child Circumcision (aka genital…
A Very Informative Video on Circumcision
So, I’ve just recently discovered Ryan McAllister, PhD and his videos on birth and circumcision, and I highly recommend you view his video on Child Circumcision (aka genital…
A Very Informative Video on Circumcision
So, I’ve just recently discovered Ryan McAllister, PhD and his videos on birth and circumcision, and I highly recommend you view his video on Child Circumcision (aka genital…
A Very Informative Video on Circumcision
So, I’ve just recently discovered Ryan McAllister, PhD and his videos on birth and circumcision, and I highly recommend you view his video on Child Circumcision (aka genital…
Closed fists of Ebola
I did long term anthropological fieldwork amongst the polio-disabled communities of Freetown between 2008 and 2012. The research fed into my doctoral dissertation: „Where parallel worlds meet: civil…
Fieldwork is haunting me, thanks to WhatsApp
When is the end of fieldwork? (Photo:Merlijn Hoek CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When is it that fieldwork finishes? Thanks to social media, the separation between being in the fieldsite…
Affirmative action in brazil: is it necessary?
Recently, I came across an article in Lasa Forum Spring 2013 edition in which Edward Telles and Marcelo Paixão assessed the significance of Affirmative Action in Brazil.…
Fundraiser Jambalaya
David Beriss University of New Orleans I recently asked my food and culture students to write short essays about foods that remind them of places. The objective was…