Free compilation of popular anthropology
Want to read popular anthropology but don’t know where to start? A few of us fans got together and compiled a booklet of short articles by anthropologists from…
Tag: anthropology
New PopAnth launched!
On behalf of PopAnth’s editorial team, I am pleased to announce that today we launched a new version of PopAnth – Hot Buttered Humanity! The new version is…
Neuroanthropology of ethics
Handbook of Neuroethics edited by Jens Clausen and Neil Levy, published by Springer. Springer has just published the Handbook of Neuroethics that features a section dedicated to Neuroanthropology…
Moslims zijn geen marionetten
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier ‘Als moslims naar de letter van de wet leven dan zijn ze niet tegen slavernij. Sterker nog, wie de bronnen goed leest weet dat slavernij…
Measures for the Good Life: Stated Preferences and the Greater Good
The goal of the economy, politics, and social institutions should be to promote wellbeing among people as broadly as possible. Yet, the questions remain: what exactly is wellbeing?…
Measures for the Good Life: Stated Preferences and the Greater Good
The goal of the economy, politics, and social institutions should be to promote wellbeing among people as broadly as possible. Yet, the questions remain: what exactly is wellbeing?…
Measures for the Good Life: Stated Preferences and the Greater Good
The goal of the economy, politics, and social institutions should be to promote wellbeing among people as broadly as possible. Yet, the questions remain: what exactly is wellbeing?…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
Zoe Todd’s "Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism"
Zoe Todd identifies herself as “many things: a blue-eyed and red-haired Metis, an academic, a storyteller, an amateur songwriter, ardent pedestrian, train-lover, adequate bannock-baker, apprentice fis…
Lessons on Branding & Loyalty from the Popcorn Seller
How can a brand give something for free that is helpful to their consumers and also creates brand loyalty? Apple has recently shown that this is not easy…
An Anthropology of X
One of the things most guaranteed to raise my considerable ire is the bizarre and frequently incomprehensible jargon of modern social/cultural/socio-cultural anthropology. I'm not a fan of the…
Unemployment & Poverty in Brazil
Although there is considerable literature on conditions of unemployment and poverty in many modernized countries, there is a penuriously small amount on how these issues are addressed in…
Cash, Credit, or The Good Life
When shopping, we behave differently when we pay in cash versus when we use a card (credit, debit, or gift). This is one of those everyday anomalies that…
Cash, Credit, or The Good Life
When shopping, we behave differently when we pay in cash versus when we use a card (credit, debit, or gift). This is one of those everyday anomalies that…
Cash, Credit, or The Good Life
When shopping, we behave differently when we pay in cash versus when we use a card (credit, debit, or gift). This is one of those everyday anomalies that…
The field and The Field: An Addendum
On Monday, I return to The Field. Now, since this basically involves me moving my books and computer equipment back to an office just over the road from…
Downsides to Thrift: Germans Saving Too Much Water
Germans need to flush their toilets more often, says Hans-Jürgen Leist, a scientist at the Ecolog Institute in Hanover, as quoted in a Wall Street Journal article. In…
Love, Haters and Hipsters: The Irony of Being A Millennial
I have officially decided that I’ve spent too much time commenting on a recent Facebook thread started in the last day by fellow bloggers Eve Kerrigan, Rachel Gall and Anna Akbari,…
Pentagon Photography and Visual Anthropology
Could it be any more obvious how the Pentagon has learned to mimic certain styles of anthropological photography as shown in the instance above? Resembling any of a…
New Book: Methods for the Study of Religious Change – From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies
Methods for the Study of Religious Change – From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies Edited by: André Droogers and Anton van Harskamp 2013 224pp 234 x 156mm pb…
Katherine Frank, “Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex”
Dr. Katherine Frank‘s book, Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013), is a fascinating look at the taboo of group…
digital china on cyberanthropology
Well, here it is—to my knowledge the first ↑English-language review of my book ‘Cyberanthropology’ (2011) [which is in German]. ↑Annika Pissin of Lunds Universitet’s project ↑Digital…