Privy2
This summer I’ve been working with students and colleagues in the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State to install a demonstration garden, titled “Privy2: Biosolids and You.”…
Tag: art
Show & Tell: Using Sensorial Art to Teach Environmental Anthropology
When I first started teaching an environmental anthropology class several years ago, I wanted students to develop group projects that could potentially address some local environmental problem or…
The ordeal simulation hypothesis
You have probably heard the adagio that “man bites dog”, and not “dog bites man”, makes for a good piece of news: unusual, exceptional, events are better stories…
How the Samoan Tattoo Survived Colonialism
In Samoan communities, men traditionally receive a pe’a tattoo from mid-torso to knees as a marker of maturity. Sandra Mu/Getty Images In the 1800s, a chief in the…
A New Generation is Reviving Indigenous Tattooing
Nahaan, a Tlingit-Inupiaq-Paiute tattoo artist, inks a woman’s face. Nahaan To celebrate her graduation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Native Studies program in 2012, Mar…
Michaela Schäuble: Ecstasy: A review of two recent exhibitions on consciousness-expanding experience
In his classic Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession, I. M. Lewis (1971) contends that ritual, belief, and spiritual experience are the three cornerstones of…
Pockets: Reflections on the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne
Preface: this is the first in a series of posts by scholars who attended the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, an event hosted in September by Deakin University as part…
Book Review: Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism edited by Hermione Spriggs
In Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism, editor Hermione Spriggs brings together visual and verbal documentation of five art-anthropology exchange processes alongside furth…
Hacking the Homeland Hack
Earlier this year I published a post describing how back in 2015 three artists — Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone — were hired to create background graffiti…
What Google Maps Don’t Show You
When I was a boy, my father and I used to plan road trips together. We would go to our local American Automobile Association (AAA) office and get…
Pasar Seni Lukis Indonesia (PSLI) 2018
‘Art is long, life is short’ This extraordinary event is held October 12-21 2018 at the Jatim Expo Surabaya.
Pasar Seni Lukis Indonesia (PSLI) 2018
‘Art is long, life is short’ This extraordinary event is held October 12-21 2018 at the Jatim Expo Surabaya.
Art is a Movement – This Anthro Life
“Money cannot be the reason why you make art. Artwork can be sold and should be sold because artists need to make a living. But they should not,…
Art, neuroscience and ethnography
Neuroscience The brain is a wild and wonderful thing. Even in a damaged, broken, or diseased state, it performs wonders. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and prolific writer, knew this…
Pasar Seni Lukis Indonesia (PSLI) 2017
Syumidjo Est Pasar Seni Lukis Indonesia (PSLI) 2017 still held in JX International Surabaya is certained followed 193 painter. Gusar Suryanto Ganda Dagar Triyoso Yusuf 150 booth that…
What’s Left Behind – A visual essay #livesofobjects
Brook Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist who examines dominant narratives, often relating to colonialism and modernist theories. Through museum and archival interventions, he aims to offer alternat…
The Secret Life of Objects: Strategies for Telling New Stories in Exhibitions #livesofobjects
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet It’s 2013 and I am poring over the Ethnographic Collection of the…
Wizards, Vampires, Klingons, and Other Alternative Cultures
On the last day of my introduction to anthropology class, we watch scenes from the documentary Trekkies. Students grin at the sincere folks dressed as Starfleet officers and…
An Homage to Teotihuacan
Gabriel Vistrain Andrade travels through time at his shop near the ruins of Teotihuacan. Dominic Bracco II The ruins of Teotihuacan, just outside Mexico City, are Mexico’s most…
‘Wasted hours in the field’ as a key to understanding the research topic
By Herbert Ploegman Originally attributed to Winston Churchill, the statement “never waste a good crisis” has become an aforism that, by now, has been appropriated by many voices.…
Funny, Awkward, Tender, Focused: Drawing Bodies by Andrea Ford
Drawings from my research on childbirth in California created an opportunity for sharing reflections on fieldwork and “seeing.” Birth is a highly mediated experience, with ubiquitous images of…
A Radical New Theory About the Origins of Art
Co-author Paul Pettitt inspects ancient paintings on a wall in Spain’s El Castillo Cave. Becky Harrison/Gobierno de Cantabria This article was originally published at The Conversation and…
It’s Official: Neanderthals Created Art
Neanderthal art. P. Saura This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. What makes us human? A lot of people would argue it…