Role-playing urgency: bridging climate change knowledge and action?
Image: Adam Fleischmann “What does it mean to know climate change?” ask Henderson and Long in a 2015 piece for this site’s Anthropologies #21. Researchers on science education,…
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Feelings in the field: reflections on fieldwork in murk-o
Image: Nick Seaver (https://twitter.com/npseaver/) My lower back is sore. There’s a tension that’s rising from the place where my neck meets my scalp, and my eyes feel baggy.…
All the value that washes into the sea
Failing seawall trying to prevent land (and value) from washing into the sea. Baja California Sur, Mexico, 2012. Photo: Ryan Anderson. In August of this year, the Washington…
Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 1}
It’s been a long time since I wanted to write something on the current political climate in Brazil. But I always faced two main problems: I’m a Brazilian,…
Sequential art for your shopping cart
In the past two years I’ve had the opportunity to read some really fantastic graphic novels, including a few that will be of interest to anthropologists. As we…
Musings from the murky middle ground of climate science and action
Image: NASA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_lakes,_Bhutan.jpg) “There are many reasons why people in our field work remotely,” one data analytics coordinator tells me. We are talking …
1.5ºC: The Future and Present of Anthropology in an Era of Climate Change
Image: Trent Schindler, NASA/Goddard/UMBC (https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html) Anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Adam Fleischmann Early Saturday morning, October 6,…
Listmania: A Few Thoughts on One Page From a 6,500 Cubic Feet Collection
For much of my work, archival records provide important context for interpreting the documents I receive under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This context takes different forms…
Anthropologists in the Archives: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
All anthropologists should consider using archives in their work. When I was in my 20s and working as a contract archaeologist on cultural resource management projects, I used…
gratitude and magic
The job of a blogger is to keep blogging. And in the last few months, I’ve really struggled with coming up with anything meaningful or helpful to say.…
Sokal Squared as Satire
It is a joke. I agree that the Sokal Squared project is ambitious in its scope to the point of being mean-spirited. Their findings are easy fodder for…
FOIA Document: 1980 CIA Recruitment Pitch Claims No Ethical Issues for CIA Anthropologists
While working through document collections in dozens of university and governmental archives, online FOIA document repositories, and through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, I have amassed …
On Using Archives and Freedom of Information Act for Anthropological Research
At some point during the last quarter century I wandered away from doing ethnographic fieldwork and pursued archival and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) anthropological research. There were…
Turning the page
This summer I started a new job. My former position, in museums and special collections, was grant funded. We worked that contract until the money was gone. And…
What hurricanes taught me about the need for disaster anthropology
This past weekend I celebrated my birthday. Like many do, I reflected on where I have come since the last year, and that made me take pause. I…
Love will tear us apart
I can’t believe I’m having to write this, a matter of days after I finished editing and publishing something I felt proud about – my first public anthropology…
All you need is love…
In her two part article Envisioning Theory: An Anthropological Teaching Experiment, Dr Stefanie Mauksch narrates the pedagogical experiments that she and her co-teacher Dr Friederike Eichner. These ex…
Check Your Syllabus 101: Disability Access Statements
The start of the semester is just about upon us, which probably means you are rapidly ditching your best laid plans to lovingly craft your syllabus into a…
Repeat photography & coastal change: From notes and ideas to research method
Image 1: Storm battering the coast of Cabo Pulmo, 10:38 am on September 3, 2012. You never know when or how new research will begin. Let alone how…
The #HiddenCurriculum of Applying to Graduate School (for Anthropology)
A recent conversation on #AcademicTwitter has been about the #HiddenCurriculum, that is, all the things that you’re expected to know but are never formally taught or the hidden…
What the Camera Does – #RoR2018
Two men mount the security grates over what will be the windows of my house. Title: La sécuriser. Photo Credit: Dick Powis. 2018 This series – #ROR2018 –…
On Permissionless Innovation
Many libertarians in Silicon Valley are advocates for permissionless innovation. They eschew waiting around for permission from a nanny state. They are impatient and see themselves above the…
Streamline(d) – “Time Served”
This post is the beginning of an experiment. Recent ethnoGRAPHIC work like Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, as well…