“The teacher next door”
I was giving history lessons to 10th graders, and once I had managed having a Socratic circle about the qualifications of a good leader. Our key example was…
Tag: anthropology
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Spooky Nonsense on Domestication
I subscribe to an anthropology blog called Savage Minds – you can find it in my sidebar, I've been reading it for years, and I quite like…
Hartwick Anthropology Courses – Fall 2015
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 fall 2015 Hartwi…
Benedict Anderson About Nationalism (In mijn vaders huis, 1994)
In 1994 Dutch TV host Anil Ramdas (1958-2012) interviewed Benedict Anderson who wrote Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London, New York: Verso, 1983,…
Honoring America’s Love of Beer
As with most things in a narcissistic anthropologists life, our emerging passions become contextual obsessions of sorts. We believe that if we have an affinity for something, then…
Notes from the Field: When Breastmilk Isn’t Enough
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Notes from the Field: When Breastmilk Isn’t Enough
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Notes from the Field: When Breastmilk Isn’t Enough
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Notes from the Field: When Breastmilk Isn’t Enough
Veronica and 4 month old Paulo Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Veronica Miranda. Veronica’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the most recent Council on…
Anthropology is Taking Over the World
The first clue that anthropology is taking over the world is in the March 2015 issue of American Anthropologist, where Virginia Dominguez writes that she is Taking Over…
17. Digital rights in Southeast Asia and beyond: a review of RightsCon 2015
Update 1 April 2015: See also PDF version. Last week I was in Manila to attend the 4th meeting of the RightsCon series, held on 24-25 March 2015.…
Vocal fry, and what we can do about it
Many people have remarked on the inclination of some young women in the US to use “up-talk” in everyday speech. You’ve heard this, I know. It’s that rising…
The Cultural Incongruence of Democracy
We live in an epoch when countries throughout the world are struggling to throw off their traditional forms…
World TB Day 2015
World TB Day is here again and across the globe small scale efforts, such as the adoption of a floral emblem for this special occasion, are taking place…
16. A letter from Jakarta
Many years ago, in 1987, I left Madrid and came to Jakarta to become a journalist. For about a year, I was a trainee at Tempo magazine and…
15. Location technologists: the politics of digital media in a ‘special region’ of Indonesia
Chapter proposal to Location Technologies in International Context, Rowan Wilken (Swinburne Uni of Tech), Gerard Goggin (U of Sydney) & Heather Horst (RMIT), eds. John Postill RMIT University…
Anthropology for economists
Do economists read anthropology? Certainly David Graeber’s and Gillian Tett’s books have gained traction. Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” ranks at #19 in Amazon&…
Using Evernote for ethnographic fieldnotes
A while ago I wrote about the fieldnote template I used in MS Word for my PhD research. Now that I’m starting some new projects it’s the perfect…
14. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements
This draft article is the fourteenth post in the freedom technologists series. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements: the case of Spain’s ‘real democracy turn’,…
Is Customer Social Responsibility The New “CSR”?
Sometimes work and life go together. For Narcissistic Anthropologists like me, this phenomenon happens more often than not. For the last several months I have been building momentum…