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…
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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…
Self-imposed discrimination in brazil
When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a good place to do research for a…
Anthropologists in Practice: An Interview with Janne Flisrand, Network Weaver and Owner of Flisrand Consulting
Anthropologists in Practice is an ongoing series of interviews featuring practicing anthropologists who work outside the academy. The goal of the series is to provide a source of…
Creativity, innovation, and the space between cultures
Anthropologists are drawn to places where culture is a little shaky. Normally, culture supplies the meanings and rules with which we understand and navigate the world. And normally,…
JASON ANTROSIO’s 1st response to the Anthropology-Haters
Jason Antrosio, author of the Living Anthropologically blog, wrote a great response to the flurry of neo-liberal detractors who began declaring anthropology as a poor option for university…
Talal Asad – The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist Genealogies
The Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) at the American University of Beirut held an international symposium in honor of Talal Asad “The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist…
Paleo Selbstversuch: Wie (a)sozial ist Ernährung?
Vegetarismus und Veganismus sind für die Meisten keine Fremdwörter. Paleo ist dagegen eher unbekannt. An Hand eines einwöchigen Selbstversuches habe ich untersucht, ob unsere Ernährung Einfluss auf un…
Secrets of digital celebrity: how to get famous the easy way
When Guy Kawasaki was asked how to get internet famous, he had discouraging news. There is no easy answer, he seemed to say. You have to follow thousands…
Local Contexts – Licensing and Labelling Traditional Knowledge
I went to a fascinating lunchtime talk last Thursday given by Dr Jane Anderson, a legal anthropologist at NYU who specialises in investigating the relationship between intellectual…