The Anthropology of Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
Ever since the pioneering work of Mary Douglas on risk back in 1992, anthropologists have understood that there is a difference between what is actually dangerous and what…
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Hannah Arendt and Martin Luther King Jr.: The Next #AnthReadIn on February 17, 2017
By: JC Salyer and Paige West On January 20, over one thousand anthropologists came together to read Michel Foucault’s lecture eleven in “Society Must Be Defended.” What began…
Welcome Zoe Todd to our Core Blogging Team!
On behalf of the entire core blogging team of this soon-to-be-renamed blog, I am delighted to announce that Zoe S. Todd will be joining us as our newest…
Year of the Mushroom
In the next week or so, many of us will celebrate the year of the rooster. The year of the monkey, which we are just saying good bye…
Population #ReadIn
“Racism” is such an unwieldy concept. Living in a world in which racism is one of the fundamental building blocks that shapes all our relationships, calling someone racist…
Teaching Martin Luther King in Hawai‘i
Every Spring I teach “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in the class immediately following MLK day. Typically I focus on first and second year college students. I do…
Society Must Be Defended: Join us for a Read-In on 20 January 2017
By: Paige West and JC Salyer In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election scholars across the country and internationally have worked to understand the drivers…
Why Anthropologists Failed to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
By: Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar In 2016 the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions for their involvement in the illegal occupation of Palestine both gathered significant steam…
On writing from elsewhere
My childhood imagination enhanced stories told to me by my elders of where we were from, and my history embraced the possibility of exciting seafarers, noble learned men…
Around the Web Digest: 2016 in Review
I cannot say I will be nostalgic this Sunday morning, but Savage Minds and our incredible contributors never stopped writing and confronted every step with a critical eye.…
Faculty work, librarian work, and life balance
Tis the season. As my professor friends hustle to write final exams and grade them, only to press through to letter grade submission and finally revel in winter…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons In what ways do seeds, soils, bees, microbes, and rivers matter when Native,…
Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons In what ways do seeds, soils, bees, microbes, and rivers matter when Native,…
“Just the Tip”
So, since October I’ve been accompanying Savage Minds’ social medias, trying to keep everything updated and making sure we have a continuum of posts on Facebook and Twitter.…
Teaching the Anthropology of Elections in times of Trump
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the #teachingthedisaster series. This is post in the #teachingthedisaster series comes to us from Maria L. Vidart-Delgado. Maria lectures in…
Behold, a timeline of the history of anthropology!
I am extremely happy to announce today that I’m making open access my timeline of the history of anthropological theory. This timeline has over 1,000 entries, beginning with…
Boundaries and Bundles: Further Thoughts on Jigsaw Anthropology
We apologize for the delay in releasing our last November guest blog post on behalf of the AAA AD Executive Board. We had to have a last minute…
Re-Naming the Savage Minds Blog: Your Suggestions, Please
The editorial collective at Savage Minds has decided to change our name. We have several reasons for this, but mostly feel that the name no longer fits or…
We’re in Crisis! Time to Slow Down: Discernment in a Trumpian Age
(This occasional post comes from Edgar Rivera Colón, Ph.D. Dr. Rivera Colón is a medical anthropologist and teaches at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. Dr. Rivera Colón is also Assist…
The good and the bad of #AAA2016 or, THE AAA MUST NEVER USE THAT SCHEDULING APP AGAIN
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association is now over, as is Thanksgiving. Now that we are over the hump and have a bit of perspective, we…
The social role of anthropology’s racist uncle
There’s a certain trope that has been going around for years, and it has hit a peak these days as many people express their collective shock and surprise…
More thoughts from the Archaeology Division of the AAA- Publications, Blogging, and Making Conversations Count
This post is the latest in the November guest blog series by the Archaeology Division of the AAA. This post is by Lynne Goldstein. Lynne Goldstein is a…