A brief descriptive note on types or ‘kinds of relations’ in Yolŋu matha
Burrut’tji by Djambawa Marawili I was thinking about categories of types of people/relations’ the other day, as in English we have family, friends, colleagues, team-mates etc.…
Tag: anthropology
On violence, reality, and the parameters of social existence: A comment on Graeber’s essay.
I’ve been reading David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy lately. Slowly I should say – I’ve been…
On violence, reality, and the parameters of social existence: A comment on Graeber’s essay.
I’ve been reading David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy lately. Slowly I should say – I’ve been…
Documentary: Life After Garbage
Life After Garbage from Lucidstudios on Vimeo. Social Justice/Visual Anthropology Documentary; that talks about Waste Politics and Reuse Culture in the SF Bay Area, or more specifically the…
BRAND WITCHCRAFT: How brand partnerships can be toxic
A successful brand becomes part of the consumer’s culture and values, behaviour, attitudes and social identity. I recently spoke to the CMO of a well known global digital…
19. Freedoms and liberties in anthropological perspective
This is nineteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. Republished from St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. The Centre is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Liberties…
Announcing ethnoGRAPHIC: A New Series
Graphic Adventures in Anthropology This is the final post in a blog series called Graphic Adventures in Anthropology. For several weeks now, guest contributors have been writing about various…
Aligned Anxieties: Rethinking Critiques of the Internet through the Anxieties of Web Professionals
The following is a paper I gave at the 2015 Theorizing the Web Conference on April 18. Below you will find: my presentation with audio, the video of the…
Some more zany anthropology stuff
I've been trying to carry on the discussion over at Savage Minds on the post I highlighted the other day, but they don't like you commenting on…
“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…
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.…