Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
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Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Hartwick Anthropology Courses – Fall 2015
Teaching Hartwick Anthropology courses is what launched and sustains Living Anthropologically. For more information, visit the Hartwick Anthropology webpage and sign up for some great fall 2015 Hartwi…
The real message of advertising?
If the art of advertising (one of them anyhow) is closing the distance between the brand and the consumer, you can’t do much better than this. Do we…
Culture like Relativity
One of the prominent ways to think about culture is as a system of symbols or beliefs. For example, Clifford Geertz wrote in 1973: Believing, with Max Weber,…
Creativity, innovation, and the space between cultures
Anthropologists are drawn to places where culture is a little shaky. Normally, culture supplies the meanings and rules with which we understand and navigate the world. And normally,…
Design: cycles and heroes
Bill O’Connor was kind enough to send me an early comment on my recent blog post on Design and the corporation. He has given me permission to reproduce…
Common Brain Mechanisms in Mental Illness
An important new meta-analysis of brain imaging research came out this week in JAMA Psychiatry, “Identification of a Common Neurobiological Substrate for Mental Illness” which highlights t…
OJT=UWI’s Cepep
The phenomenon of “Bullshit Jobs” in Trinidad… A common complaint I hear informally from some graduates at the UWI concerns the disconnect between what they know and the…
Kindness As Cultural Currency
The other day I was having a chat with a few “fellow travelers” – one of whom is a C suite executive for a pretty big global company.…
Transformational Storytelling Anthropology
Modified transcript of discussant comments for panel on Anthropology and Storytelling at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Many thanks to Coralynn Davis, Carole McG…
Assholes Damage Precious Line in the Nazca Region
I find it hard to believe that anybody would consciously wreck a famous and important archaeological site, but it seems that my incredulity is at odds with reality.…
quantification prescribing interaction
Artist and composer ↑Ben[jamin] Grosser, currently teaching at the School of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two days ago has published his fine article “&da…
Oppression, Mental Health, and the House Science Committee
By Steven Folmar, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Anthropology, Wake Forest University On September 15 of this year, I learned from my Program Officer at the N…
Love, Haters and Hipsters: The Irony of Being A Millennial
I have officially decided that I’ve spent too much time commenting on a recent Facebook thread started in the last day by fellow bloggers Eve Kerrigan, Rachel Gall and Anna Akbari,…
From the Archives: Asifa Majid on language and olfaction
When I first ran across Asifa Majid’s article with Ewelina Wnuk in Cognition, about how speakers of Maniq, a language indigenous to southern Thailand, have a vocabulary for…
Teaching Cultural Anthropology (via a quote from Tim Ingold, Making, 2013:13)
Fall 2014, teaching Cultural Anthropology. The Hartwick College Anthropology format for teaching cultural anthropology is to begin with a four-fields Introduction to Anthropology, followed by mid-leve…
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
Creative Intersubjectivity in Performance
Ethnomusicology Forum has just released a special edition on “Creative Intersubjectivity in Performance” with contributions from Elizabeth Betz, Monika Winarnita, Sean Martin-Iverson, Paul…
Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art
I am looking forward to being in Hamburg, Germany, in August, for this unusually interesting event. My own talk is called Disqualified: Why sex workers suffer social death…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…