New Books in Anthropology Podcast
A few weeks ago, Nivedita Kar interviewed me for the New Books in Anthropology Podcast. The episode just went online yesterday. In our conversation, we discussed some of…
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Margaret’s Mead: C&A’s First Zine
Last week, we printed off the first zine produced by the Culture & Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It’s a collaborative effort with essays, art, and…
The Pop Garden at Ohio State
One of the projects I’ve been really happy to collaborate on here at Ohio State is the “Pop Garden” outside of Smith Laboratory, where my office is located.…
Anthropologists need to address the Google memo on its merits. Again.
When Google engineer James Damore wrote his now-infamous memo about how woman are naturally unsuited to work at Google, anthropologists everywhere groaned inwardly. Our discipline’s lot in life…
TAL + SM: The Stories Bones Tell
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 4 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you…
Let the interviews begin!
It’s finally time…. Tagged: Anthropology, fieldwork, interviews
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…
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…
The dilemma’s of public anthropology. Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
What is the role of the university in the public square? By Matthias Teeuwen On Earth Day last Saturday thousands of scientists in hundreds of cities worldwide took…
Counting and Being Counted: New AAA Tenure and Promotion Guidelines on Public Scholarship
How do we count and value public scholarship in anthropology? — Do we count and value public scholarship in anthropology? — And, how do we do it at the time…
Weaving the World in Conversation with Paul Stoller: From Sensuous Scholarship to Public Anthropology
Hide Press Release (11 Less Words) Kristina Dohrn, Britta Rutert, Judith Schühle, Nasima Selim, Mechthild von Vacano Picture 1: Paul Stoller. 11 February 2017. Image published with permission.…
Kendzior: In Defense of Complaining
This was meant to be a book review. Instead, it’s an essay about the power—and importance—of complaining.[1] The book under consideration here is Sarah Kendzior’s The View from…
Rogue: Scholarly Responsibility in the Time of Trump
What if scholars need to go rogue? If anthropologists need to go rogue? In the USA right now, we are not in normal times, but in a new…
Coding Culture II: Four Hacks to Digitize Your Anthropology Classroom
This is the second post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. Technology is complicated and expensive,…
Editing Wikipedia > Writing Letters to the New York Times
Various bits of social media began vibrating rapidly recently when it was discovered that white supremacists had fooled Google into providing inaccurate information about Boas and cultural relativism…
Coding Culture: Why Anthropology Students (and Their Instructors) Should Learn to Code
This is the first in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. From social media and blogging, to writing…
D+A #2: What Makes a Protest Successful and How do I get involved?
Today’s D+A minisode follows on the heels of last week’s powerful conversation with Jara Connell on protesting and people-powered forms of resistance. In this minisode Jara offers us…
From the Ivory Tower to Open Classrooms to #ModernDayMargaretMeads
Empowering the Next Generation of Digital, Public Anthropologists In Yorkshire, England with a backdrop of bleating sheep and patchwork fields, archaeologists-in-training investigate, explore, and exp…
Progressing the Person and Policy
The English word “person” has a long and convoluted history. Though the word itself likely derives from the Latin, persona, referring to the masks worn in theatre, its…
Artificially Intelligent, Genuinely a Person
It’s difficult to overstate our society’s fascination with Artificial Intelligence (AI). From the millions of people who tuned in every week for the new HBO show WestWorld to…
Medicine, Technology, and the Ever-Changing Human Person
Though we often take for granted that humans are persons, they are not exempt from questions surrounding personhood. Indeed, what it means to be a person is largely…
Postmodernism Comes to America
Fake News and the End of Facts I recently had the pleasure (?) of engaging in a fruitless debate on social media with a friend of a friend.…
Postmortem and Possibilities: Reflections on AAA 2016
After the results of the election, there was a new kind of energy at the AAA’s, a nervousness and a palpable anticipation. There was a sense that this…
Public Anthropology is More Important Than Ever
As The Geek Anthropologist has expanded over the past several years, the editors have had a number of discussions about our identity as an online publication. Though our…