Tag: #HAUtalk
Mascha Gugganig , May 12th, 2020
In discussions on COVID-19, it has become a common trope that disciplines like anthropology are particularly relevant and fitting for writing about the pandemic. Indeed, the pandemic unearths…
Samuel Gerald Collins , January 7th, 2020
From the conclusion to my contribution on “Social Media” in Wiley’s “The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology:” Anthropologists are still coming to terms with social media and its impact…
zoetodd , July 1st, 2019
This weekend, PhD student Taylor Genovese drew attention to the fact that the former Editor in Chief of HAU journal was granted an opportunity to write a final editorial…
thenewethnographer , February 26th, 2019
Introduction When The New Ethnographer launched in 2018, several decades had passed since the reflexive turn of the 1980s, in which anthropologists were asked to reflect thoughtfully…
Ian Pollock , December 2nd, 2018
This first experience of a really big conference makes me want to go to smaller conferences, where it would be easier to find the people who share my…
Samuel Gerald Collins , November 21st, 2018
As I have done over the past few years (2017, 2016), I returned from AAA2018 and ran some Twitter analytics. Here’s the sociograph I came up with (click…
Emma Louise Backe , October 29th, 2018
How does the genre of weird fiction provide the destabilizing framework for the future of HAUtalk? The HAU controversy is a dense teratoma,[1] a complicated intermingling of issues…
Sarah Green , October 16th, 2018
On June 11th 2018, David Graeber published an apology about the amount of time it took him to understand the extent of what was going wrong within HAU…
Proshant Chakraborty , July 13th, 2018
Hautalk is an opportunity to reinvigorate and remake our disciplinary identities. But how can we move this discussion beyond disciplinary boundaries—into spaces where we practice our craft? This…
PrecAnthro , June 21st, 2018
First published on the 21st of June 2018 The HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition…
Footnotes Editor , June 17th, 2018
[The following is a guest post by Proshant Chakraborty. Proshant is an applied anthropologist and research consultant based in Mumbai, India. He obtained his master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropolo…
Emma Louise Backe , June 16th, 2018
Over the past several days, the anthropological community has been forced to confront instances of abuse, exploitation and discrimination latent in the discipline. A tweet from Cultural Anthropology…