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foodanthro , March 19th, 2017
Edited by two former SAFN presidents and containing articles by many SAFN members, the new three volume set “Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition” is…
Alma Gottlieb , February 15th, 2017
Yes, I’ve retired from full-time teaching. Yes, I sometimes miss it, and may well return to the classroom from time to time. For now, I was tickled to…
Alma Gottlieb , October 21st, 2016
Kristen Ghodsee’s new book, From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press (in 2016). The discipline of…
Elyse Bailey , July 22nd, 2016
Estimating and Understanding Annual Charcoal Production and Consumption at the National level in Haiti Anthropologists engage subjects at various scales through a plethora of methods. We may solicit…
Elyse Bailey , July 21st, 2016
Author posing next to two doner kebabs, beef and chicken, rotating on vertical rotisseries. Photo courtesy Oguz Alyanak My research in Strasbourg, France, explores how Muslim Turkish men…
Haidy Geismar , May 24th, 2016
Via the Royal Anthropological Institute ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to announce a call for papers and visual submissions for a conference on ‘Photography in Academic…
staeiou , March 23rd, 2016
Stuart Geiger @staeiou continues our edition of ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ with a reflection on his practice of ‘trace ethnography’ that focuses on the trace-makin…
Heather Ford , March 14th, 2016
This edition of EM is jam-packed with methods for doing people-centred digital research and is edited by EM co-founder Heather Ford, newly-appointed Fellow in Digital Methods at the Universi…
Alma Gottlieb , March 12th, 2016
Honored to have an interview I recently did with Dallas Tatman (an MA student in African Studies at the U of Illinois) unexpectedly show up, to my surprise,…
Jason Antrosio , December 28th, 2015
Professor Sidney Wilfred Mintz, affectionately known as “Sid,” passed away on December 26, 2015. In a first and now widely-shared post, Elizabeth Dunn succinctly conveyed the thoughts of…
Susan Falls , November 6th, 2015
“You make use of philosophy to speak about the drawing— do you think that it could make sense/nonsense to make use of the drawing to say something about…
Alma Gottlieb , September 20th, 2015
A new study by economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tells us that Internet searches for “God” are way down. He notes that this is true even in cases of catastrophe:…
amysantee , February 14th, 2015
From designers and information architects to researchers and strategists, user experience practitioners must pay attention to the methods by which they communicate their ideas. As Marshall McLuhan fir…
Gabriele , November 5th, 2014
What the notebook adds to this strategy of alliance with the fetishism of commodities, however, is that the very instrument of research is a fetish. In English we…
Jason Antrosio , February 7th, 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…
Jason Antrosio , January 1st, 2014
It was a great honor and privilege to be invited to deliver the Cultural Anthropology overview for the Five Fields Update sponsored by the Society for Anthropology in…
Jason Antrosio , October 27th, 2013
The 2013 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association are November 20-24 in Chicago. Whether you are going or are just interested in anthropology, take a look at…
Jason Antrosio , October 13th, 2013
I keep all the Anthropology Blogs 2013 in a big Feedly subscription. Got behind and scrolled through over 400 articles in the last few weeks. These are the…