Special ANSA Collaboration: Hanne Worsoe & Romy Listo on Fieldwork Trauma in & Outsider Witnessing
The Familiar Strange · Special ANSA Collaboration: Hanne Worsoe and Romy Listo on Fieldwork Trauma and Outsider Witnessing This week we bring …
Writing Life No. 9: An interview with Danya Fast by Robert Lorway
It is 11 am in Vancouver. Danya sits at a desk beside a large window that looks out onto tree tops and …
Building Collaborative Habits, Establishing Sustaining Relations: What is the Role of a Scholarly Society Today?
For decades, the in-person academic conference has been a core aspect of the scholarly society’s mandate and programming. But the disruption COVID-19 …
Emergent Anthropology: Reimagining U.S. Medical Anthropology in Theory and Practice by Ellen Rubinstein
The American Anthropological Association website identifies four subfields of anthropology (archaeology, biological, cultural, linguistic) and reserves a separate section for “applied and …
Writing Life No. 3: An interview with Janelle Taylor by Anna Harris
Figure 1: Janelle’s chair, with writing and knitting projects underway The conversation began on a summer day in a 13th Century chateau, …
Collaborative Ethnography in the Digital Age: Towards a New Methodological Framework*
Monika Palmberger & Philipp Budka Digital ethnography has become a very vibrant research field, as the growing body of literature indicates (e.g. …
Collaborative Ecologies: Anthropologies of (and for) Survival in the More-Than-Human City
A vacant house in Wilkinsburg, PA, is reclaimed by vines and artists. Photo by Noah Theriault, 2017. Anthro{dendum} welcomes guest contributors Noah …
No Journal is an Island
Libraria is a collective of researchers based in the social sciences who seek to bring about a more open, diverse, community-controlled scholarly …
Invitation to Covidentities 2020
Welcome to this year’s visual anthropology screening and an exciting collection of creative, engaged and always personal projects by our visual …
Feminist Anthropology Is Teamwork
As the launch of Feminist Anthropology was becoming visible in 2019, I found myself working on its editorial board with colleagues with …
Resolutionaries 2019
Matt Rose introduces the event with a poem. Welcome and thank you for coming. Before the films get up and running …
Invitation to Resolutionaries 2019-Rebel-Recreate-Reclaim
Dear students, friends, alumni and supporters of visual anthropology at Kent, In the year when Extinction Rebellion protests caught the public …
Sharing & Communicating User Research
This blog post is a transcript of a podcast / interview I did earlier this year with Zack Naylor, the CEO of …
Out-of-Body Workspaces: Andy Serkis and Motion Capture Technologies
Upper image, production shot of live action actor James Franco (Left) and Andy Serkis, with digital character superimposed (Right). Lower image, the …
Making an academic ‘coven’
Hierarchies persist, which is why factions, such as covens, coalesce in the first place. They emerge from a place of need. A …
A chat with the Advancing Research community
An abbreviated reprise of my UX Camp Chicago keynote, where I field questions from Lou Rosenfeld’s Advancing Research community about tackling interdisciplinary …
Respect, care, and labor in collaborative scholarly projects by Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). …
Q&A: On Illustration, Collaboration, and Anthropology
This month, we launch our first graphic novel and the first book in our new ethnoGRAPHIC series, Lissa: A Story about Medical …
ethnoGRAPHIC: Extending Anthropology’s Reach, One Comic at a Time
Part of my job as an editor is to convince people to write the books I think they should write, not necessarily …
‘Devicing’ fieldwork #Colleex
Collaboration is an epistemic figure resulting from the careful craft of articulating inventive shared modes of doing together with our companions in …
Ethnographic experimentation: Other tales of the field #Colleex
Ethnographic experimentation refers to an ethnographic modality where anthropologists venture into the collaborative production of venues for knowledge creation that turn the …
Book review: Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa by Damien Droney
Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, and Noémi Tousignant, editors …
How Can Making Movies Do Sheep Any Good? #VisualANTH
John Adair and Sol Worth, American anthropologists and filmmakers, found themselves in the sticky situation of answering the above question in 1966. …
City Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with Children
In Egypt, children are subject to a conservative and hierarchical public educational system. Underfunding, overcrowded classrooms and precarious infrastructure make the Egyptian …