Sapiens: Good (Maybe Great) But Not Transformational (So Far)
Last week marked the launch of Sapiens, a brand new website bankrolled by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The unveiling is especially welcome to those of us who think about public…
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Freddy’s Hair
Freddy Lim Campaign Photo A week before historic elections which swept Taiwan’s ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) out of power, KMT candidate Lin Yu-fang (林郁方) asked voters not vote…
Around the Web Digest: Week of January 17
Greetings from the heart of a city ravaged by Snowzilla! Send me anything that should be included here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. This Decasia post argues that half-formed, abandoned and…
Analog to Digital and Back Again, Part I
By Kathryn Killackey (Killackey Illustration and Design) Analogue in action. I am an archaeological illustrator and in this post, as part of this month’s analog/digital series, I’d like to…
Farewell, Oona Schmid
No, it’s not the title of a whimsical new Wes Anderson movie, it’s news of changes within the American Anthropological Association’s publishing program. Ed Liebow, the executive dire…
Mixed Exhibits: The best of both worlds?
Post by Laia Pujol-Tost: Archaeology is mostly about materiality. Its epistemological foundation is based on the relationship between humans and the material culture. Some of this objects, will later…
The genie is out of the bottle – it’s foolish to think encryption can now be banned
Politicians have turned their sights on encryption once more following terrorist outrages in Paris and San Bernardino, California. A country that once welcomed encryption, France is now considering…
A Tempest in a Digital Teapot
It was hot, but that was not unusual. We woke up at the first call to prayer to be on site at sunrise. I would trudge through the…
David Bowie, Anthropology, and the Pleasure of Difference
I’m hardly the biggest David Bowie fan in the world, but when I heard he had passed away I knew I the news would make waves in social media.…
Listening to Physical Geology. PART 2: The ecopoetics of data, a few lessons from Björk
More drinks. This time in the midst of a madding crowd, soon after returning from Krakatau, with an Icelandic artist known as Shopflifter. She was wearing a remarkable…
Pixel vs Pigment. The goal of Virtual Reality in Archaeology
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Colleen Morgan. Post by Laia Pujol-Tost. Archaeology has a long tradition of using visual representations to depict the past. For most of its…
Around the Web: Year in Review 2015
It’s been a big year for Savage Minds, so big that the annual blog review didn’t fit in 2015! (Yes, that’s why it was delayed). This year we…
Ephemeral Layers: Coffee, Snapchat, and Violence
For decades, ephemeral layers at archaeological sites have been the bane of my existence. The moment I read, hear, or have to confront it at an excavation, my…
Writing with Community
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Sara Gonzalez as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Sara is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington,…
Around the Web Digest: Week of December 13
Dear readers, this post is late and I apologize for nothing. Send me any links for inclusion here at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. I hope you’ve been enjoying the glow of…
Inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Place and Memory after Disaster
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Pablo Figueroa. Pablo is an assistant professor in the Center for International Education at Waseda University in Tokyo. In this position, he teaches courses on glo…
Frogtopia Revisited, or Anthropology is Art is Frog
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Stuart McLean as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Stuart is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He…
Around the Web Digest: Week of December 6
The blog harvest was rich again this week at the Savage Minds ranch. Help me find more blogs by sending me links at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. HuffPost featured this article…
Writing as Cognition
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Barak Kalir as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Barak is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of…
Writing with Love and Hate
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Bhrigupati Singh as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Bhrigupati is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.…
Thoughts on AAA15, Denver, and a “Rawlsian” Internet.
Like many of you, I am just back (and not nearly caught up) from pop-art obsessed Denver. Another AAA, another 2000-person business meeting. Just finished converting my nametag…
NGO-graphies: On Knowledge Production and Contention
The NGOs and Nonprofits Special Interest Group held its second biennial conference before the AAAs last week. It’s designed to give anthropologists and practitioners working in and with…
What really happened on Thanksgiving
(This is the second annual posting of a short, edited snippet of pages 55-66 of Charles Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. In it Mann describes the history of…
Getting Free in Cleveland
[Savage Minds is pleased to present the last essay in the series “Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and the Movement.” In the past week, events…