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…
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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/…
Thin Description? Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
Dr Paolo Favero giving his AALS lecture at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam By Matthias Teeuwen Last AALS lecture was an inspiring and thought-provoking presentation by Dr. Paolo Favero…
The Revolutionary Genius of Neanderthals
For the last dozen years or so, Geico Insurance has run commercials featuring Neanderthals in modern contexts. The story line varies, but the take-home point does not: Switching…
The Revolutionary Genius of Neanderthals
For the last dozen years or so, Geico Insurance has run commercials featuring Neanderthals in modern contexts. The story line varies, but the take-home point does not: Switching…
Digital ethnography
Digital ethnography – a selection of resources e-Seminars of the EASA Media Anthropology Network: Facebook as research field and research platform: http://www.media-anthropology.net/file/esemin…
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…
Anthropologizing Software and Design
Charles Pearson is an anthropologist working in tech who has written a few great articles for Medium on his experiences. In his recent piece, “Why Every Software Team…
Anthropologizing Software and Design
Charles Pearson is an anthropologist working in tech who has written a few great articles for Medium on his experiences. In his recent piece, “Why Every Software Team…
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…
Blogging for research
There are many reasons why anthropologists and other social scientists choose to blog. For instance, anthro everywhere! began as a way to share resources with instructors, students, and othe…
Blogging for research
There are many reasons why anthropologists and other social scientists choose to blog. For instance, anthro everywhere! began as a way to share resources with instructors, students, and othe…
Free Online Tools for Instructors
This list of free online tools for instructors began from thinking about the kinds of tools that we use in our own teaching and researching — but also…
Free Online Tools for Instructors
This list of free online tools for instructors began from thinking about the kinds of tools that we use in our own teaching and researching — but also…
How Rumors Tap and Fuel Anxieties in the Internet Age
I sometimes like to joke that anthropologists looking for the strangest and most exotic society on earth should do fieldwork in the United States. As if to prove…
#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?
I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about. But it makes me…
#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?
I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about. But it makes me…
#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?
I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about. But it makes me…
The Silk Ribbon of Highways
A thousand years ago, the Silk Road was in its heyday. Caravans hauling tons of commodities and luxury goods crisscrossed Asia and the Middle East from Xi’an, China,…
Bureaucrats and techies leading the pollution resistance against Trump
Some of Trumps efforts are literally to support and intensify environmental pollution, and some are efforts to make certain people disposable. But people are fighting back. A lot…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Mapping the world?
At anthro everywhere! we’ve already written a couple of posts about how maps powerfully represent certain social realities. Today’s post adds a couple of new resources for teaching…
Mapping the world?
At anthro everywhere! we’ve already written a couple of posts about how maps powerfully represent certain social realities. Today’s post adds a couple of new resources for teaching…