By: Caitlyn Brandt, Allison Dudley, Will Lammons, and Aaron Trumbo The holidays are upon us once again, and soon many of us will engage in those family dynamics…
The 2016 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association — or #AAA2016 #amanth2016 — just concluded in Minneapolis. I’ve been attending these meetings since 1993, and this…
This is the third in a series of guest blogs this November from the AAA Archaeology Division Executive Board detailing ideas generated at retreat at the Amerind Foundation…
Suddenly the night has grown colder. The god of love preparing to depart.* The chill of the 2016 US elections is still in my bones. Glued to any…
For some people, the election that just took place might seem like just another choice between the lesser of two evils. One more election that we all learn…
On Wednesday morning, amid the turbulent mix of feelings that washed across the country and beyond its borders, an anxious existential question took hold of many of us:…
Trump’s victory yesterday was the result of many factors. The politics of academic publishing was hardly an important part of the elections results. Large for-profit publishers like Elsevier and…
This post is the second in our November guest blogging effort reporting on the AAA Archaeology Division meetings at Amerind that explored the relationship between archaeology and anthropology.…
In my past few walks down the history of anthropology, I’ve tended to focus on white guys being cruel to each other. I thought I’d try to widen…
I live in Chicago and the screams of Cubs fans assured me of no sleep for the rest of the night. So here I am bringing you some…
This post is an introduction to the November Guest Blogging Effort by Members of the American Anthropological Association Archaeology Division Executive Board. We are looking forward to having engage…
This entry is part 18 of 18 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By The Black Trowel Collective An anarchist archaeology embraces considerations of social inequity as a critique…
Hello everyone! Last week I started an internship here at Savage Minds for managing SM’s social media accounts. This post is just a self-introduction and a little blurb…
What makes something culturally relevant in a local context? Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between form, aesthetics, and belonging. In my own archaeological…
This entry is part 17 of 17 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Tiatoshi Jamir I was born on a land declared an ‘Excluded Area’: a previously colonized region.…
The people who fill our theory readers are real people who lived vibrant, quirky lives. It is easy to reduce them to a set of ideas or to…
Daniel M. Goldstein I have known the Aliaga family for 24 years, since I first arrived in Bolivia to study Quechua in 1992. My wife and I were…
The alternate title for this post was going to be “Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, and Boas walk into a bar…”. This is a little autobiographical passage from pages 46-48 of History,…
As I continuously wait for the US to abolish Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, here are your readings for the week. All throughout Mexico, indigenous knowledge surrounding…
[Savage Minds welcomes guest bloggers Daniel M. Goldstein and Raúl Rodriguez Arancibia] In the Andes last summer, while traveling to visit family and friends prior to beginning his…
Climate change is the nightmare that keeps me up at night. The consensus seems to be that the world will be significantly different within my children’s lifetimes. Many…
This entry is part 16 of 16 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Leslie J. Sabiston and Didier M. Sylvain … did i see that right? my skull is…
The 2016 MacArthur Fellows were announced yesterday and — unlike some years — there were no anthropologists on the list. Established back in 1981, the grant was intended…
Last month, a New York Post article about video games being like “digital heroine” for kids caused a bit of an uproar. The article describes a young boy losing…