Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
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Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Why I Like Ancient History
It would be fair to say that, of all the things in the world, I am most interested in the human lives that were lived before about…
Educating ‘bilingual’ children in Spain and Denmark
Educating ‘bilingual’ children in Spain and Denmark: childhood bilingualism as opportunity or constraint by Kenn Nakata Steffensen University College Cork/University of Tokyo See PDF This article exa…
White + word Gap = wrong
With Netta Avineri and Eric J. Johnson, I’ve addressed a report in the Washington Post on the many contextual factors affecting children in poverty. The well-intentioned plans to teach…
The Sexual Lives of Others
The sexual lives of others. It may seem a new and tantalizing topic for an ethnography, yet this particular genre has a long history in anthropology. In the…
A brief descriptive note on types or ‘kinds of relations’ in Yolŋu matha
Burrut’tji by Djambawa Marawili I was thinking about categories of types of people/relations’ the other day, as in English we have family, friends, colleagues, team-mates etc.…
A brief descriptive note on types or ‘kinds of relations’ in Yolŋu matha
Burrut’tji by Djambawa Marawili I was thinking about categories of types of people/relations’ the other day, as in English we have family, friends, colleagues, team-mates etc.…
An Anthropology of X
One of the things most guaranteed to raise my considerable ire is the bizarre and frequently incomprehensible jargon of modern social/cultural/socio-cultural anthropology. I'm not a fan of the…
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…
“The Language Gap”: Liberal Guilt Creates Another Not-So-Magic Bullet
Why are people poor? Why do children of the poor not thrive? The latest explanation for why children coming from disadvantaged households do not rise in this land…
Anthropology Blogs 2014
Update 2015: This is the archive page for 2014 Anthropology Blogs. Click Anthropology Blogs 2015 for a current list and see also the Anthropology Blogs 2013 and 2012…
Latin America and Caribbean Anthropology: Book Update
Book orders are due for my anthropology course titled “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America.” I checked back to the May 2013 Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United…
American Anthropological Imperialism? An Overdue Dialogue– Papers Now Available
Anthropologists are proud of their ethos of social justice, egalitarianism and reciprocity. Nevertheless, for historical, geopolitical and economic reasons, the discipline of anthropology is divided i…
Mnemonics of the Universal Break
Djembe teacher Bruce Harding suggests that students use language to help remember rhythmic patterns: Bruce uses the mnemonic phrase “this is a universal break” as a memory aid,…
Mnemonics of the Universal Break
Djembe teacher Bruce Harding suggests that students use language to help remember rhythmic patterns: Bruce uses the mnemonic phrase “this is a universal break” as a memory aid,…
Mnemonics of the Universal Break
Djembe teacher Bruce Harding suggests that students use language to help remember rhythmic patterns: Bruce uses the mnemonic phrase “this is a universal break” as a memory aid,…
Mnemonics of the Universal Break
Djembe teacher Bruce Harding suggests that students use language to help remember rhythmic patterns: Bruce uses the mnemonic phrase “this is a universal break” as a memory aid,…
Déjà Lu
In the coming months, WCAA will launch the on-line journal Déjà Lu (“Already read”). This will be an on-line multilingual e-journal that can represent the diversity of today’s…