Teaching Anthropology of/through Games, Part 1
In part one of this two-part series, Krista Harper (UMass Amherst) provides insight into her successful Fall 2014 course, “Anthropology of/through Games.” There is so much here that is…
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When We Assess Democracy In Egypt, Whose “Democracy” Are We Measuring?
“Bread, freedom, social justice!” What’s your definition of democracy? Yesterday, after a lecture on ethnographic fieldwork, a student came up to me to discuss the anthropological c…
World STI and HIV Congress day 3
A summary of the third day of the World STI and HIV congress in Brisbane, Australia. Read on… Tuesday, 15 September 2015 Plenary Talks today were delivered by Raphael Valdivia, Jane Hocking,…
Drugs are… good? No, that can’t be right. Can it?
Like most academics, I’m obsessive. I spend a lot of my free time doing searches for new research on recreational drug use. I do this partly because there’s…
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
World STI & HIV Congress day 2
A summary of the second day of the World STI and HIV congress in Brisbane, Australia. Read on… Morning Session on Publishing and Grant Writing for early career…
Joint World STI & HIV & ASHM Congress
The World STI and HIV congress and Australasian HIV and AIDS conference are happening back to back this week. Delegates have come from all around the world to attend…
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…
Preliminary Thoughts on Race, Disability, and Health
Despite increasingly widespread attention to disability rights, disability outcomes in the United States remain shockingly divided by race. Few people realize that having a disability today is literal…
Aspiring Politician? Try Facebook to build your personal brand.
Image Courtesy: @mkstalin and image shared on Saravanan’s Facebook profile Personal brand building through social media requires a strategically planned presentation of oneself to a general audi…
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.”…
anthro in the news 9/7/15
Chagos update The Financial Times reported on continuing efforts in the U.K. and elsewhere by displaced Chagos Islanders to return home and receive compensation for their forced…
Reading fiction as therapy
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
If Not Us, Then Who?
A Case for Paying It Forward in Anthropology A few months before starting a new job as president of a residential research institute that primarily supports anthropology and…
Less public knowledge, more private meaning (lessons for politicians and brands)
This is a part of a map of London drawn by Fuller (aka Gareth Wood). Wood says that he created a map to show his relationship with the city over…
Indispensability of medical anthropology
Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development of anthropology itself. The fact that anthrop…
“It all comes alive.” Robbie Baer on Successful Service-Learning Projects with Anthropology of Food Students
Lauren Moore University of Kentucky This month, we hear from Dr. Roberta Baer, Professor at the University of South Florida. She shares what she’s learned from four service-learning…
Frightening Fictions: Lore Podcast Review
By Emma Louise Backe Journalists are widely speculating that we live in the “Golden Age” of podcasts, ushered in by the success of podcasts like Serial or Invisibilia.…
The Plight of Syrian Refugees
This past June, I participated in a CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) International Faculty Development Seminar in Amman, Jordan, and Istanbul, Turkey, focusing on the plight of…
CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict workshop, Vienna, 23-24 Oct 2015
A Media Anthropology Network event European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna, Austria 23-24 October 2015 ** Financial …
#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…