Trump’s Wall and the Dictator Aesthetic
Well, look, we’re going to have a border. It’s going to be a real border, and we’re going to build a wall and it’s going to be a…
Tag: ethnography
Mess in the Middle East
Many people throughout the Western world do not understand what is happening in the Middle East. Much of the confusion stems from a misunderstanding of the complicated relations…
On the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names; AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus
While some have a deep history (library classifications, for instance), controlled vocabularies of diverse sorts are relatively new and some play an increasingly important role in a range…
Para qué sirve estudiar antropología?
Reunión de la Asociación Canadiense de Antropología 2017 en conjunción con el Congreso de la Unión Internacional de Antropología 2017 en Ottawa, Canadá. Foto G.V.C. “Para nada” Recientemente,…
Roundtable: Comment by Dorothy Noyes #CollaborativeDilemmas
Dorothy Noyes, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, responds to the questions Chiara Bortolotto has recently raised in her virtual roundtable on “‘Col…
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – The video!
“The Bureaucratization of Utopia: International Governance, Audit Cultures and Administrative subjectivities in the 21st Century” was a workshop organized at the Graduate Institute in Ge…
Casting into the Cosmos: Magic and Ritual in Human Spaceflight (Part 2)
In Part 1, I wrote a gonzo ethnography about my experience at a rocket launch in Florida. For Part 2, I will be utilizing historical records, museum didactic…
Casting into the Cosmos: Magic and Ritual in Human Spaceflight (Part 1)
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Taylor R. Genovese. Field Notes – September 8, 2016 (Cape Canaveral, Florida): I see the light and smoke first. The radiant fuel pours…
The Second American Revolution
Well, it only took about two-hundred and forty years but the greatest fear of the writers of the Constitution of the United States has taken place. A rich,…
The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes
Postill, J. 2017. The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes. Moment, Journal of Cultural Studies 4(1): 19-43. PDF Abstract In this article I…
TAL + SM: Anthropology and Science Journalism, A New Genre?
Click here to check out the podcast This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 3 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins This Anthro Life has teamed…
Anthropology + Science Journalism = A New Genre? w/ Daniel Salas of SAPIENS
Click here to check out the TAL + SM blog post This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and…
Virtual roundtable: “Collaborative dilemmas” in the age of uncertainty
“Collaborative dilemmas” was the title of a workshop held last April at EHESS in Paris under the framework of “UNESCO frictions: heritage-making across global governance” in collaboration with…
Roundtable: Answers by Julie Billaud
Are those developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis established academic work? For…
Roundtable: Answers by Simone Toji
As a researcher who was raised in Brazil, my uncertainty and dilemmas may have a different punch compared to other cases. The context of uncertainty in Brazil includes…
Roundtable: Answers by Chiara Bortolotto
For more than ten years I have been exploring UNESCO policies in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). My interest spans from the uses of culture as…
Roundtable: Answers by Giulia Scalettaris
Are these developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis established academic work? In…
Anthropology has Always been Out There w/ Ed Liebow and Leslie Walker of the AAA
This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a special 5-part podcast and blog crossover series. While thinking together as two anthropological productions that…
TAL + SM: Anthropology has Always been Out There
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 2 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins, with Leslie Walker This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds…
#Review: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Let us face it: most anthropologists in Europe and North America, this author included, are leftist-liberal, cosmopolitan people. It regularly escapes my colleagues’ and my comprehension, how people…
#Reviews week, a new call – and a thank you note!
This week we feature new reviews as well as a new call for reviews on the theme of #legalanthro! Tomorrow, our Allie Julie Billaud kicks off the week…
2017: An Ethnographic Renaissance?
I recently read an interview between Smithsonian’s Steven Beschloss and sociologist Matthew Desmond. This article detailed Desmond’s fieldwork in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee…
Religion and Economy – Part Two
We need to understand better how we build the infrastructures of collective existence, money among them. How do meanings come to be shared and memory to transcend the…
Clifford Geertz: Ethnographer?
Why was Clifford Geertz such a popular anthropologist? Because he connected anthropology and the humanities? Because he was a great writer? One answer that often comes up is…