Back to School
Things have been quiet on the blog front recently. This has mainly been for practical reasons: I moved back to Paris from Washington DC at the beginning of the summer,…
Tag: anthropology
Professor A.R. Vasavi Visits the Human Economy Programme
The Human Economy Programme team is pleased to announce the visit of distinguished guest Professor A.R. Vasavi. She won the Infosys prize for 2013 and was Dean of…
Symposium: Antropoloog zoekt maatschappelijke partner
Antropoloog zoekt maatschappelijke partner – Kennisdeling buiten de muren van de universiteit – 3 september 2014 Aanleiding Er is onder antropologen een toenemende aandacht voor kennisd…
Lessons About Refugees From an Australian Immigration Crisis
This article first appeared in the Huffington Post 18. August 2014. I am an anthropologist, I live in Australia and I work with refugees in Malaysia. None of…
Figures of Fun: Humor and Stereotype in Monty Python’s Depictions of Intercultural Communication
by Jessica McIntyre (MAA student at Macquarie University) Depictions of humorous and often exaggerated cultural stereotypes can be used either constructively or destructively to identify and explore t…
Government Time, Mission Time, and the nature and violence of alienation
Proud to feature in the first issue of the new Upswell Magazine with an archival/ethnographic piece on alienation – GOVERNMENT TIME, MISSION TIME, AND THE NATURE AND VIOLENCE…
The Problem Isn’t Just Facebook: It’s You Too.
Lately, news of the Facebook emotional contagion study and Facebook Messenger’s permissions, have flooded feeds and inboxes. The former was a paper published in the Proceedings of the National A…
Keith Hart Interview in Porto Alegre
Transcription of a video interview with Ruben Oliven and Arlei Damo held at UFRGS postgraduate programme in Social Anthropology, Porto Alegre, Brazil on 27 May 2011. To be…
Tuberculosis: more anthropologists wanted
Nhat preparing a sample to be tested in the GeneXpert system If tuberculosis (TB) is so often described as the quintessential social disease, why aren’t more researchers in the…
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
social/cultural anthropology MOOC in production for edX
I have been busy traveling around the globe to interview several eminent fellow anthropologists about their work and anthropological journeys as well as follow some University of Queensland…
Foaming at the Mouth: World Cup, Ritual and Behaviour Change
Shared feelings and heavily ritualised behaviour commonly define football fans around the world. For decades anthropologists and sociologists have documented beautifully these aspects of fandom. And I…
Creative Intersubjectivity in Performance
Ethnomusicology Forum has just released a special edition on “Creative Intersubjectivity in Performance” with contributions from Elizabeth Betz, Monika Winarnita, Sean Martin-Iverson, Paul…
The field and The Field – Adventures in Multi-sited Ethnography
“Fieldwork is not what it used to be”, to quote the title of Faubion and Marcus’ 2009 edited volume on the changing nature of social/cultural anthropology in the…
PhD Year One
I recently finished my first year of my PhD program in anthropology at Binghamton University. Now, I am course complete and working on bibliographies for my qualifying exams.…
Tuberculosis in Prisons
Last year I wrote a blog post for the TB CRE covering a story about Ravindra Patil who died of tuberculosis after having spent time in Mumbai…
Tweeting Sweden: Complicating Anthropology through the Analysis of the World’s Most Democratic Twitter Account
Here is my presentation from this Spring’s Theorizing the Web Conference. Stream from #TtW14 Did you find this presentation interesting? You should watch the rest of the panel. Great…
Globalization from below: The world’s other economy (New Preface)
1. The great transformation 2. Globalization from above 3. Globalization from below (and above) 4. The informal economy has taken over the world 5. The digital revolution and…
The moral economies of material things
The concept of moral economy is a natural fit to analyses of material culture. In this working paper, I show how the concept has applications to all three research projects…
Reflections and Reports on Open Access Published in the New Issue of Cultural Anthropology (@culanth)
The new, May 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now. It is the second issue of the journal to be made freely available online, which means anyone…
Oh no, forgot about you there..
Wow, Teenthropologist readers, it has been quite a while. I apologise profusely for my lack of posts in the past year. To summarise, work took over my life…
"An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record"?; More Like Diary of a ColonialPhotographer!
In this post, Tayla introduces the three-part takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s Before they Pass Away by looking at colonial photography, and the danger of reading photographs as ‘truth’. It…
"An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record"?; More Like Diary of a ColonialPhotographer!
In this post, Tayla introduces the three-part takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s Before they Pass Away by looking at colonial photography, and the danger of reading photographs as ‘truth’. It…