Images Matter #ThinkingVisually
Though the visual is well established in areas of study like anthropology, many other social science disciplines have been slow to incorporate images into their research. Visual research…
Though the visual is well established in areas of study like anthropology, many other social science disciplines have been slow to incorporate images into their research. Visual research…
With my gaze fixed on the horizon, I stood at the bow of a ferry that carried me across the Strait of Gibraltar. One by one, the peaks…
Last week I visited the small ghost town (“spookstad” in Dutch) of Doel in northwest Belgium. Doel has been at the center of an international controversy for the…
Hostels used to be reliably inexpensive options for backpackers. That is no longer the case. Michelle Jones In May 2014, having recently completed my master’s degree in anthropology,…
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…
Land rights are key in Colombia Indigenous people want land rights. Source: Bluedotpost.com The Washington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist Omaira Bolaños, Latin America program dire…
Travel writer/ editor/ photographer Bani Amor‘s work in Bitch magazine tackles the question of what it means to decolonize travel culture (tourism) as well as our trade relationships with…
this came through today, and is interesting enough to recycle. I hope they will not mind, given a certain promotional tone, I suspect not. Dunno exactly how or…
new book from pavement with chapters by Ffrench, Collier, Launchbury, Gledhill, Fuggle etc.,… \ Edited by Sophie Fuggle and Nicholas Gledhill As a trope, theme, myth and very…
From the vaults, this has been digitised: Calcutta Cipher ‘Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City’ in Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, No. 32…
North American totem pole; source: Erika Wittlieb, Creative Commons Indigenous tourism offers hope CBA Canada reported on a gathering of iIndigenous groups from around the world in…
The Surp Hovhannes Armenian church, in Istanbul’s Samatya neighborhood. Like many of the city’s churches and synagogues, it is heavily fortified. Photo by Mary D’Ambrosio. April …
(Gosh, that was all getting a bit emo there for a minute wasn’t it? Like a fleeting return to my early naughties LiveJournal days. What’s needed here is…
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
Back in August 2012 I spent a day at the Vietnamese floating village at Kampong Chnnang, central Cambodia. Lying at the mouth of the Tonle Sap Lake, much…