State Intervention in Financial Markets: Why Geopolitics Matter
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past …
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 …
“…the cultural elements of folktales help both bridge common ground between cultures and bring…”
“…the cultural elements of folktales help both bridge common ground between cultures and bring out cultural differences – developing cultural awareness that …
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Scott Atran on hope and extremism
By Profs. Pervez Hoodbhoy and Scott Atran After he circulated his address to the UN Security Council on extremism (available here), Prof. …
Scott Atran on Youth, Violent Extremism and Promoting Peace
On 23 April, 2015, Prof. Scott Atran addressed the UN Security Council, to our knowledge the first time an anthropologist has ever …
Living the reaspora: Afropolitans back home
Only recently, debates on global mobility of people consider the movement from economically richer to poorer countries, even though this trend increases …
Culture like Relativity
One of the prominent ways to think about culture is as a system of symbols or beliefs. For example, Clifford Geertz wrote …
Common Brain Mechanisms in Mental Illness
An important new meta-analysis of brain imaging research came out this week in JAMA Psychiatry, “Identification of a Common Neurobiological Substrate for …
Applied Anthropology as Limit
Of late I’ve been saying that the constraints that come with applied work are useful for doing good theoretical and empirical work. …
Chinese queries | 百度一下
屌丝一个: “Seriously speaking, is 100 wan enough to get out of China?” 飞飞: “You Baidu yixia first, see which country is a …
quantification prescribing interaction
Artist and composer ↑Ben[jamin] Grosser, currently teaching at the School of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two days ago …
Oppression, Mental Health, and the House Science Committee
By Steven Folmar, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Anthropology, Wake Forest University On September 15 of this year, I learned from …
berners-lee on snowden
It’s been almost eight years that I ↵last quoted ↑Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, here at xirdalium. On 1st …
Why I’m also quite glad I studied social anthropology
I said earlier that I regret studying social anthropology, and this is still true. It wasn't the best choice. But it wasn't …
Dissertation – an anthropologists dream or nightmare?
I may be alone in actually choosing to do a degree for the sole purpose of being able to do a dissertation …