On Racial Profiling and the ‘While…’ Phenomenon
Following inquiries from some of my international readers, I would like to take a few moments to explain the title of this blog. The ‘anthropology while white’ formulation…
Tag: anthropology
Special guest Ben Gebo today on TaL, ‘Altered States’ pt 2
Join This Anthro Life for another mind-bending conversation as we ‘turn on, tune out, and drop in’ the conversation with returning guest Ben Gebo. With Ben’s help we…
Global cities: digital urbanisation in the 21st century
Full details about my panel at IUAES/JASCA Inter-congress 2014 are now available. View the complete list of accepted papers and abstracts here. The conference will take place from…
Gone Dark Project: Preserving the vanishing web
The Oxford Anthropology “Gone Dark” Project on web preservation is now on Facebook. “Like” the page to join us. You can also take part in further discussion at…
Check Out the New Anthropod Podcast on Open Access
I really enjoyed listening to the new Anthropod podcast on open access in anthropology. Focusing on the move of Cultural Anthropology to an open access model, hosts Bascom…
20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching
Despite the rich history of innovative methods and techniques employed by documentary filmmakers across a range of genres, there seems to be little awareness or integration of the…
Introduction to Anthropology – 2014 – Entangling the Biological
Update: See the 2015 Introduction to Anthropology for more thoughts on this course and how the 2014 books worked. For spring 2014, another round of Introduction to Anthropology–another…
List of Predatory Publishers 2014
Jaap Timmer: Here’s an interesting list of allegedly predatory journals, but even more interesting is the troll of comments below the list. While I tend to agree with…
The Culture Concept
The culture concept — which overtime has been contrasted, combined, and entangled with the related concepts of society, personality, identity, symbolism and practice — weaves together the history…
Pedro Oliveira, “People-Centered Innovation: Becoming a Practitioner in Innovation Research”
Pedro Oliveira provides a fascinating glimpse into his transition from academia into consultancy, with a guide for those like minded to boot. People-Centered Innovation: Becoming a Practitioner in…
Being a Curious Potential — #AAA2013 Presentation
This is the presentation I gave at the 2013 American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago. Turn up on your speakers or headphones because audio is included. Enjoy!
AAA 2013 SAC Events
Check out the Soceity for the Anthropology of Consciousness’ Up Coming Panels and Meetings in Chicago this week at the AAA Conference. AAA 2013 SAC Events. Tagged: #AAA2013,…
Ken MacLeish, “Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community”
Ken MacLeish offers an ethnographic look at daily lives and the true costs borne by soldiers, their families, and communities, in his new book Making War at Fort…
Anthropology and the State during Globalization
What’s happening with the anthropology of the state? It seemed that in the 1990s, anthropology was breaking from the ethnographic trilogy of one fieldworker, one village, one year,…
Mobile Health in Context
Mobile Health in Context: How Information is Woven Into Our Lives @SusannahFox @PewResearch Susannah Fox from Pew Review Research put together an excellent presentation of the latest…
full text online publications coming soon
I have started putting up papers, book reviews and some book chapters on http://uq.academia.edu/GerhardHoffstaedter, but not everyone is on the one platform, so I’ll build a repository for…
Pauline Turner Strong, “American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries”
Pauline Turner Strong’s new book American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries (Paradigm Publishers, 2012) traces the representations of Native Americans ac… Visit New Books…
Gender segregation and the campus
This article first appeared in the Australian newspaper, Wednesday 7. August 2013 I am currently revising an article about my work in Malaysia with what can be described…
Public Health Ryan Gosling
…I just can’t help myself. I am cracking up at these! Do you know about the Ryan Gosling meme? (If not, read all about it at Know Your…
Confronting race and racism in anthropology
The latest issue of Anthropologies containing a collection of short pieces on race and racism is now available. Check out the table of contents below for the complete…
Dissertation – an anthropologists dream or nightmare?
I may be alone in actually choosing to do a degree for the sole purpose of being able to do a dissertation – our curriculum and what one…
#Instalife: How Instagram redefines the meaning and practice of photography
Instagram is a social, mobile photography app. They have 100 million monthly active users, and 40 million Instagram photos are posted per day. Purchased by the leviathan of…
The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure, Pt. 3
Please see also Part 1 and Part 2. PART 3: NGOs AND DIGITAL RIGHTS In the last section I considered the roles of business and governments in protecting…
The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure Pt. 2
Please see the first part of this project here. PART 2: NETWORK NEUTRALITY In my last post I described the centralized control of the Internet’s backbone by only…