Weekend Movie: From Womb to Womb
Biological Anthropologist Julienne Rutherford has a fascinating talk available online that is a short but nice overview of the effect of epigenetics from womb to womb. Essentially she discusses…
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Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland, “Handbook of Anthropology in Business”
Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland‘s book Handbook of Anthropology in Business (Left Coast Press, 2014) is a groundbreaking collection of essays all related to Business Anthropology. As with all inter……
Recalled to Life: On the Meaning and Power of a Die-In
Die-in at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Photo credit: Aries Dela Cruz I have never died before. In the beginning of December, at the…
About Lice and International Studies
Today’s interview-partner for the series “Why Anthropology Today?!” is Isabelle Kues, a student of Anthropology and Political Science. Find out below why she associates anthropology …
An anonymous soon-to-be anthropologist reveals his thoughts
Unser heutiger Interviewpartner für unsere Reihe über den Sinn von Ethnologie studiert Geschichte und Ethnologie im 7. Semester. Er möchte gerne anonym bleiben, ist aber der Redaktion namentlich…
Transforming Refugees
Transforming Refugees: Bio-politics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects The point of this article is not to argue that bio-medicine has become a mechanism for establishing…
Our Report for 2014
This year has seen an almost frenzied escalation of US intervention around the globe, ranging from the determined provocations and threats against Russia and backing a coup in…
The Real World of Democracy (and Anthropology)
Review essay, Part 2 (see Part 1) Referring to the process by which he studied Cuban democracy, August explicitly refers to it as “ethnographic research” (p. xiii). This…
Democracy in Cuba and at Home
Review essay, Part 1 (see Part 2) Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion. By Arnold August. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing; London: Zed Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1-55266-404-9. 267 pages…
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Anthropology Calling: PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek
PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek begann sein Studium der Ethnologie, Indologie und Religionswissenschaft im Jahre 1981. Am Anfang seiner mittlerweile fast 25 Jahre währenden Lehrtätigkeit, damals noch ohne fest…
Ethnographic films by anthropology students from Heidelberg
Ethnographic film has since long its place in the field of Anthropology. Heidelberg is no exception to this, where every list for a course on ethnographic filmmaking is…
Transformational Storytelling Anthropology
Modified transcript of discussant comments for panel on Anthropology and Storytelling at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Many thanks to Coralynn Davis, Carole McG…
BE MORE ‘BIG-MAN’ THAN ‘CHIEF’ TESCO: THE EROSION OF BRAND PURPOSE & VALUE IN SEARCH OF DOMINATION
The Iron Man films are good portraits of a hunger for domination. The villain is depicted as a extremely wealthy individual where he and his organisation seek…
“Een eiland in een zee van ongeloof”: het activistische verzet van moslims in Nederland, België en Duitsland
“Een eiland in een zee van ongeloof”: het activistische verzet van moslims in Nederland, België en Duitsland Auteurs: Martijn de Koning Ineke Roex Carmen Becker Pim Aarns…
“Something like history?… Or about volcanos?”
How often are you asked “Do you study about volcanos?”, when you talk about your profession as a (soon-to-be) anthropologist? While we anthropologists tend to self-reflect a lot…
Mobilizing concepts across disciplines: An economic analysis
There are many lenses through which we can think about mobility. There is no one correct lens to use; in fact, adopting different lenses at different moments can…
Storify: Accidentally by Design Panel at #AAA2014
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It Knows the World: What the Wolfram Language Can Teach Anthropologists about the Problematic Nature of Ontological Approaches (#AAA2014)
Here is the prezi (with audio) of my presentation from the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting for 2014. It Knows the World: What the Wolfram Language Can Teach Anthropologists…
“Why I signed” (the petition AGAINST academic boycott of Israeli institutions)
I have signed the petition against the academic boycott of Israeli institutions by the American Anthropological Association. After signing, I felt as if I had taken my stand…
A pluralistic approach to the anthropology of morality: Yolŋu reverse role-play
‘The array of distinct assumptions about issues regarding moral variability, the nature of the moral domain, and how individual freedom factors into moral action can all result in…