“Something like history?… Or about volcanos?”
How often are you asked “Do you study about volcanos?”, when you talk about your profession as a (soon-to-be) anthropologist? While we anthropologists tend to self-reflect a lot…
Tag: media
Salon: "Why we’re obsessed with glamorizing archaeologists"
There's an interesting article on Salon right now on archaeologists and their profession, tied in with a new book, Lives in Ruins, by Marilyn Johnson, about the same…
BBC: "Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art"
Indonesian archaeology briefly made the news this week with a story about rock art from Sulawesi. The art, which includes the oldest known figurative drawing in the world…
Inorganic life and ayahuasca plant spirits
As icons of the difference between nature and culture, there is arguably nothing more opposite than plant life and computers. Such is common sense and is based upon key…
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…
Do Not Keep Quiet: Subverting the Rules of Cinema Viewing in Sunnyside, Pretoria
By Dennis Webster Near to where I live in Sunnyside in Pretoria is a shopping centre called Sterland. The Ster-Kinekor there seems to be the exception to all…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
"Religion in Digital Games": Relaunch of Open Access journal "Online"
“Second Life is their only chance to participate in religious rituals”: This seven year old post about the research by anthropologist Tom Boellstorff on the virtual world Second…
Carpe Diem/”YOLO”
I hang my head in shame over the fact that it has been months since I last posted anything/went back into the world of teenthropology. To be honest…
Reflections on Hurricane Sandy, media and disconnection
Last week, Hurricane Sandy pummeled the east coast of the US. Power outages due to extreme coastal flooding, high winds and fallen trees have caused food and gas…
22/7, språkbruk og “ulmende islamofobi” i Aftenposten
Masterstudent i sosialantropologi Marit Eline Christensen sparer ikke på kruttet når hun kritiserer enda et tvilsomt oppslag i Aftenposten (ikke på nett). “Tre uker etter at Aftenposten forsø…
22/7, språkbruk og “ulmende islamofobi” i Aftenposten
Masterstudent i sosialantropologi Marit Eline Christensen sparer ikke på kruttet når hun kritiserer enda et tvilsomt oppslag i Aftenposten (ikke på nett). “Tre uker etter at Aftenposten forsø…