“The Language Gap”: Liberal Guilt Creates Another Not-So-Magic Bullet
Why are people poor? Why do children of the poor not thrive? The latest explanation for why children coming from disadvantaged households do not rise in this land…
Tag: anthropology
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
“An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record”?; A Takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s ‘Before They Pass Away’.
On the 6th of March 2014 when Tarapuhi and I (Hollie) were getting our morning coffee at one of our fave coffee places (which also happens to be a…
New Book, Intimate Economies of Development, out from Chris Lyttleton
Culture Matters is pleased to announce that Assoc. Prof. Chris Lyttleton’s new book, Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia, has been launched by Routledge Press.…
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Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Are we Neandermans or Neandumans?
Science and Nature have just published research that supports a hypothesis about Neanderthal-human hybridisation that I published with Professor Roger Valentine Short in 2011. The recent popularity o…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Bam! Pow! Join TaL for a discussion on the world Comic Books and Graphic Novels! 1pm wbrs.org
Join your faithful hosts Ryan and Adam for this week’s episode of This Anthropological Life: a journey into the world of comic books and graphic novels. Inspired by…
Why I’m also quite glad I studied social anthropology
I said earlier that I regret studying social anthropology, and this is still true. It wasn't the best choice. But it wasn't a total waste of time either,…
Survey for Anthropologists
The Open Anthropology Cooperative exists because back in 2009, a group of like-minded anthropologists from around the world came together to create something genuinely new using a combination…
Caitlin McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds., “Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity”
When you think about research that contributes to understanding others (or maybe even yourself more), dance is not often the first thought that comes to mind. But the…
‘HBD’
There is a small but rather vocal group of people variously associated with the human sciences who declare that almost everything humans do is related to and primarily…
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…
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…