EP# 80 Reborn Dolls & The Use of Social Sciences: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · EP# 80 Reborn Dolls & The Use of Social Sciences: This Month on TFS This week we’re diving …
Hunger, Religion, and Public Anthropology
Betsy Taylor Is feeding the hungry, a key moral value in religious teachings across cultures? I was recently asked this by a …
Ep#62 Job Fantasies, Working with Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited:This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · #62 Job Fantasies, Working With Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited This week we bring you another zoom …
Guest Series: Embodying Reciprocity: Relationality and Redistribution in the Practice of Anthropology
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest series edited by Schuyler Marquez, who has also authored this introduction. Schuyler Marquez’s work focuses …
What is Anthropology? A Summary Review of the Second Edition by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
I found it helpful when Eriksen drew the line in the sand about the fundamental questions that anthropology concerns itself with. Here’s …
Part Two: Reciprocity and Its Discontents
Patricia G. Lange, California College of the Arts Mary Douglas, a key figure in the field of anthropology, once famously asserted …
Reclaiming Reciprocity in Video Sharing Environments
By Patricia Lange, California College of the Arts in San Francisco [In this new series, part of the Digital World category, we …
Reciprocity in Silicon Valley: The prominent role of gift giving among tech entrepreneurs in the Bay Area
‘Marcel Mauss applied to Silicon Valley’ – by Vivienne Schröder During my three months of fieldwork in the Bay Area on the …
“We will give to you so that you can give to us”: A Tale of Two Manuscripts
I debated for quite a long while as to what kind of second project I thought would be the most useful, given …
Ep. #41: Mediocrity, Confusing Cake, Public Accountability & Gift Reciprocity: This month on TFS
Simon (0:48) kicks off this panel by asking us about mediocrity. He reflects on his fieldwork in Iran, where he observed – …
Paying back or paying forward: What does it mean to give?
I was lucky to have Mexican friends to put me up, ferry me around, shower me with food and attention, without asking …
The Anthropology of Trump: turning an ethnographic lens on Trumpland
Way back in March we posted about The Anthropology of Trump: It’s getting political in here (16 March 2016). In this earlier …
The Anthropology of Trump: turning an ethnographic lens on Trumpland
Way back in March we posted about The Anthropology of Trump: It’s getting political in here (16 March 2016). In this earlier …
Zombies, Zombies, Everywhere
Our love affair with zombies has lasted at least a decade, if not more (28 Days Later came out in 2002!). And …
Ancestral Lines, Second Edition
At the core of the Teaching Culture series of ethnographies is John Barker’s Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and …
A Fictive Birthday with Real Debts
Photo Credit: Erik Bähre By Erik Bähre This week we publish a guest feature by Erik Bähre, Assistant Professor at the Institute …