Decolonization as Care
This entry is part 15 of 15 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Uzma Z. Rizvi What happens to our praxis once we start from a place of…
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Dialogical Anthropology in an Age of Controlled Equivocation
I’ve been thinking about Dennis Tedlock and reading Marisol de la Cadena’s Earth Beings at the same time lately. Much of Earth Beings is concerned with intimacy, translation, and understan…
The deviant girl and feel-good feminism: Channeling Margaret Mead in Bangalore
In my field site of Bangalore, south India, I found support among young female professionals for feel-good feminism—that is, messages of female empowerment in pop culture that do…
Seeing Culture Like a State
At this year’s Taiwan’s annual anthropology conference, the Taiwan group anthropology blog Guava Anthropology hosted a public event where blog members were invited to give five minute R…
ArXiv for anthropology: @SocArXiv + #AAA2016 = Open Access Strikes Back
Cliffs Notes version of this post: @SocArXiv is a Green Open Access digital repository that is currently being developed for the social sciences. I think this is a…
Language, Power, and Pot: Speaking of Cannabis as Medicine
By: Elisa (EJ) Sobo The US cannabis landscape is shifting quickly, and so is the way we talk about the plant and its uses. The push to end…
Chicago’s “Trigger Warning” Letter Is very un-Chicago
Jay Ellison’s recent letter on trigger warnings made the rounds of social media late last week, and this week the story continues to circulate. It’s a topic that hits close…
“That” Moment of Clarity
Over dinner at a cozy beachfront restaurant in Florida, my dear friend from Costa Rica sadly talked about the devastating Orlando shooting that killed 49 people and wounded…
We’re Hiring a Social Media Intern!
We’re hiring! Are anthropology blogs and news part of your daily intake of internet media? Are you Twitter/Facebook/Instagram savvy? Then we’re looking for you! Savage Minds is currently…
Anthropology Students of Color
When I was an anthropology graduate student, I often found myself in an ambiguous place as someone who isn’t white. I swallowed my words, one too many times,…
Paul Friedrich, Dennis Tedlock, and Generational Change in Anthropology
It seems like I’ve been writing a lot of obituaries lately. Between Elizabeth Colson, Edie Turner, and Anthony Wallace and Raymond Smith, I’ve spent a lot of my time…
Rethinking Pedagogy of Race in Anthropology, Part 2
[Continuing from Part 1] Thinking about my experience of teaching race, I feel that I fell short when it came to conveying to my students what “race” has…
What does it mean to decolonize anthropology in Canada?
This entry is part 14 of 14 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Zoe Todd I have an ambivalent relationship to Anthropology. And an even more ambivalent relationship…
Anthropology and Organisational Change: Gillian Tett’s The Silo Effect
Classification and world making are the core concerns of anthropology. In- groups and out- groups, borders and boundaries are the frameworks of social and political order. Sorting Things Out,…
Rethinking Pedagogy of Race in Anthropology, Part 1
Every time I see articles/essays about racial issues on media news, I often read through the comments posted from other readers to see what folks out there are…
Anthropology outside Anthropology, Part 2
You can find Part 1 here. My patients sometimes present me with an opportunity to reflect on anthropological literature through our brief and yet candid conversations. By rule,…
Vale Elizabeth Colson
When Elizabeth Colson passed last month at the age of 99, anthropology lost one of its preeminent figures. Colson was a unique figure in many ways: She straddled…
Epistemologies of Equilibrium Must Fall: Thinking beyond the many turns in Anthropology
This entry is part 13 of 13 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Nokuthula Hlabangane “Modernity will never again, up to the present, ask existentially or philosophically for…
Anthropology outside Anthropology, Part 1
“I’m an anthropologist by training and I work as a medical interpreter.” When I tell this to people from anthropology backgrounds, I often receive sympathetic groans from them,…
Journey between Two Languages
By Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher Mehari As a non-native learner and speaker of Amharic, English, and Swahili, I have taken several journeys between these languages and my mother tongue, Tigrinya.…
Ramadan Diaries: Week Three
[Note: Ramadan is long over, but due to some technical difficulties, our weekly entries were interrupted. With this entry on not fasting during Ramadan, we pick up where…
Fractal Kinship: Europe 2016
Political conflict can create deep turmoil within families. Marina lost her only son to fighting in eastern Ukraine. He died while fighting in a Ukrainian airborne division that…
Teaching Decolonizing Methodologies
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Paige West For about a decade I have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology…
Situational Awareness
This morning I was taking notes on my laptop as an officer from the NYPD counter terrorism department’s SHIELD unit gave a room full of academic staff ‘active shooter’…