New book from Jamie Lorimer: The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life
A great new book from Jamie Lorimer out soon from University of Minnesota Press. From the publisher’s website: Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk…
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New (free!) book on Blue Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on Sustainable, Fair Water Resources Use and Management
This open access book, available in French or English, is pitched at the intersection of policy and ethics. A description below and a link to the site to…
Bioethics as a Mediator in Times of Pandemic
CARLA ALICIA SUÁREZ FÉLIX During the last months, as the world has been marked by the pandemic, there has been much discussion about the role that bioethics could…
Michael Sandel on the Tyranny of Merit: What becomes of the common good? (his new book)
Nice interview with Michael Sandel on his new book out this week (or soon, depending where you are).
Anthropology in the “real world”: A Roundtable Discussion About Applied Anthropology
This week we bring you a very special episode! Last year we collaborated with the Australian Network of Student Anthropologists, or ANSA for short and recorded their roundtable…
Arendt in the Anthropocene, our new paper on Being Earthbound
I’m happy to say that a new paper I co-wrote with Oliver Belcher is now out and open-access with Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The article…
I’m very proud of this special issue on Bernard Narokobi
After many years of work by my co-editor Lise Dobrin and myself (well, really, mostly Lise) as well as our authors, I am very proud to announce that…
#Podcast Round Up: Best of March to August
Summer comes to an end, and some of us will start commuting again. Others will desperately wonder how to fill up the ‘spare’ time from their considerably shorter…
Tillit og trygghet er ingen selvfølge
Tillit og trygghet er mangelvare mange steder i verden. I Norge tar vi det for gitt. I Sør-Afrika er økt bruk private sikkerhetstjenester blitt en millionindustri. Hva vi…
Creativity in a COVID era (Web 2.0 all over again?)
“You can find awesome rhythm in everything. People will hear certain breaks that I make and be like, ‘Where’d that come from?’ I’ll be like, ‘That was the…
Matt Tomlinson on Culture and Theology in the Pacific
I’m very happy to announce that I have a new interview up at New Books Network. This one is with Matt Tomlinson, an anthropologist of the Pacific at…
Maile Arvin on Possessing Polynesians
I announce my publications and interviews and things on social media but I have fallen behind on announcing them on my blog, which is supposed to be a…
Op-Ed written by GPT-3 about whether humans are intelligent
A lot of interesting things coming from GPT-3. Arram Sabeti (via waxy.org) asked GPT-3 to write about human intelligence. The whole piece is worth a read. First, consider…
On Taking Credit: Textile Traditions and Fashion Rip-Offs
Below find a guest post by Carrie Hertz, Curator of Dress and Textiles at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. –Jason Baird…
40: Quarantine & The Origins of Computation
Quarantine is a number. Quarantine was the name given to the strategy of isolating potentially harmful populations for forty days in an effort to impede potential dangers. Deriving…
Remembering Michael Silverstein
Like many people, I was deeply, deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Michael Silverstein, a member of my dissertation committee. Although I knew he was ill,…
Open Call: #AnthroEducate!
Imagine dozens of tables in a huge hall, with 12-15 children sitting at each. They negotiate with each other, squabble, and make up. They need to decide among…
What can we do to help Native peoples?
I have made a career researching the native peoples of western Oregon. For the past 20 years, I have spent thousands of hours each year researching the tribes.…
New Resources
As the United States continues to break single-day records in new coronavirus cases, stay up to date in latest information by reviewing a COVID-19 primer by Dr. Mark…
New Resources
As the United States continues to break single-day records in new coronavirus cases, stay up to date in latest information by reviewing a COVID-19 primer by Dr. Mark…
Mare Nullius is on summer break
Much like the rest of Norway, many of us in the Mare Nullius team are taking our summer break in the month of July. The project will therefore…
JULY 2nd 2020Support Ashaninka to help their region in the COVID crisis
https://www.instagram.com/ashaninka.apiwtxa/ https://www.facebook.com/ashaninka.apiwtxa/ Live Campaign Launch Time on July 2nd: 10h (California, UTC-7) 12h (Acre, Brazil, UTC-5) 13h (New York, UTC-4) …