The Refugee in Anthropological Perspective
Over the past decade, we have witnessed new and ongoing crises around the world that have forced many people to uproot their lives in order to seek refuge…
Tag: media
Hacker and Drone Training as Ethnographic Fieldwork
Recently, I enrolled in two multi-day training workshops in the United Kingdom with the pretense of gathering ethnographic data about emergent cultures of practice surrounding new technologies. The…
The Packaging of Anthropological Knowledge and Its Merits According to Market Research Experts
In a Harvard Business Review article To Get More Out of Social Media, Think Like an Anthropologist authors Susan Fournier, John Quelch, and Bob Rietveld (August 16, 2016) advocate…
Why We Post: Anthropologists take on Social Media
In response to our posts last week about the presence and role of anthropologists and other academics on social media, I stumbled across the Why We Post, Social…
Anthropology in an Age of ‘Dangerous Nonsense’ (Part 1)
In the waning moments of 2016, one man, armed with an AR-15 and “information” about a conspiracy related to Hilary Clinton, walked into a DC pizza parlor hell…
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
Seminar: Indigenous Media 2017
Seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. Course Description “Indigenous media matters because indigenous people d…
Vortrag: Medien und Literalität in der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Budka, P. 2017. Medien und Literalität in der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie: (Digitale) Medienpraktiken aus kulturvergleichender Perspektive. Vortrag im Workshop “Dark Side of Literacy”…
Media, language, and social relationships
In teaching anthropology, I always find students to be exceptionally interested on the days that we talk about media. Many of my students consider social media to be…
Media, language, and social relationships
In teaching anthropology, I always find students to be exceptionally interested on the days that we talk about media. Many of my students consider social media to be…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Security Theatre
This phrase was used on the BBC world service a few times yesterday in reference to the ban on laptops and other devices from some airports on some…
Science, objectivity, race, gender
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Science, objectivity, race, gender
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Google Translate from Photos
Did you know that Google Translate now allows you to translate text from photos using the mobile app? (We’re living in the future!) Recent studies have shown that…
Google Translate from Photos
Did you know that Google Translate now allows you to translate text from photos using the mobile app? (We’re living in the future!) Recent studies have shown that…
CfP: Anthropologies of media and mobility
Anthropologies of Media and Mobility: Theorizing movement and circulations across entangled fields An International Workshop organized by the Anthropology and Mobility Network and the Media Anthropolo…
Web Roundup: If it Ledes, it Bleeds by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
This contemporary moment begs the question: what is a fact? And how do facts circulate? These questions are historical cornerstones in the study of the production of knowledge,…
Anthropology Webinars
Since 2014 the AAA has been hosting regular webinars that are free for anyone to view. You can join in the conversation live, and importantly, catch the lecture/…
Imaginative Ethnography Syllabi (CIE)
The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography has gathered links to a number of syllabi that “attend to some combination of performance, theatre, visual media, writing and ethnography.” This treasure…
Digital visual anthropology
This is a selection of digital visual anthropology resources which were collected via the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Visual Anthropology Network’s (VANEASA) mailing li…
What EM Is Thinking
Frequent FoodAnthropology book reviewer Ellen Messer has sent us this eclectic collection of comments and insights into recent food and nutrition related news. We hope to be able…